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China has the highest level of government restrictions on religion, and Nigeria has the highest level of social hostilities toward religion.

The French Bishops’ Conference (CEF) called for prayer and fasting Monday in opposition to efforts by the government of President Emmanuel Macron to enshrine abortion rights in the French Constitution.

Pope Francis said Sunday that military disarmament is not optional but constitutes a “moral obligation” for all nations.

Pope Francis warned against the evil of “gender ideology” Friday and its tendency to obliterate the real differences between men and women.

The Irish Catholic bishops have voiced united opposition to a proposed amendment that would eliminate all references to motherhood in the Constitution.

ROME — Pope Francis has sent a telegram to the victims of Sunday’s slaughter of 15 Christians during worship services in Burkina Faso, expressing his sorrow over the assault.

Armed jihadists killed at least 15 Christians during Sunday morning worship in a Burkina Faso village church, Vatican News reported.

Mongolia’s current winter extremes are fueled by climate change and put the country at “high risk,” the Huffington Post reported Sunday.

Pope Francis has blamed Mongolia’s current cold spell on global warming, insisting that the overheating environment is a “global social problem.”

A prominent U.S. Catholic bishop has blasted a Politico reporter’s commentary on Christian nationalism, calling it “one of the most disturbing and frankly dangerous things I’ve ever seen in a political conversation.”

Climate change alarmists are urging Big Tech to censor accounts of those who question the real dangers that global warming poses to humanity.

The once venerable Lancet medical journal has become ever more fixated on race and gender, abandoning its earlier commitment to medicine.

The once-reputable Lancet medical journal warned that “Black women in the diaspora are at risk of experiencing obstetric racism” in its latest issue released Saturday.

Cardinal Robert McElroy, the progressive archbishop of San Diego, has slammed conservative Catholics who oppose blessing gay couples, suggesting they are anti-gay.

St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York celebrated a “Mass of Reparation” this weekend in atonement for a “scandalous” and “sacrilegious” event honoring deceased trans-activist Cecilia Gentili.

The Christian season of Lent always triggers the anti-God squad, and 2024 is no different, with limelight-seeking atheists trotting out the tired “Jesus never existed” thesis in preparation for Holy Week.

“The Economist” magazine warns this week of the “growing peril” of a national conservatism that is spreading like wildfire around the planet.

Israel’s Embassy to the Holy See has lambasted Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin for his “deplorable” criticism of Israeli policy in Gaza.

ROME — Robin DiAngelo, the woke white author of White Fragility, has called Michelangelo’s painting of the creation of man in the Sistine Chapel an icon of “white supremacy.”

Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office, has slammed the Vatican’s opening to blessing gay couples as “relativizing the truth and cheapening grace.”

ROME — Pope Francis received Argentina’s populist president Javier Milei for an hourlong meeting Monday in the Vatican.

Joe Biden has made the astonishing claim that the only existential threat in the world is climate change, which is worse than nuclear war.

Pope Francis has doubled down in his support of blessing gay couples, calling those who oppose the practice “hypocrites.”

Human rights champion Reggie Littlejohn has denounced the W.H.O.’s proposed Global Pandemic Treaty as “the greatest threat to freedom the world has ever faced.”

Climate change alarmists have praised ChatGPT as a reliable purveyor of global warming groupthink, fruit of instructions from woke programmers.

Pope Francis has written to his “Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel,” exhorting them to break the “incessant cycles” of war and hatred in the Holy Land.

The University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, has launched a segregated pool activity called “Black Folx Swim,” which expressly excludes participation by non-black swimmers.

Long before the industrial revolution and fossil fuels, “climate change” was wreaking havoc on the health of ancient Romans, Smithsonian magazine contends.

ROME — Pope Francis received Italian American director Martin Scorsese for a private meeting in the Vatican on Wednesday.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has highlighted the uniqueness of the Trump political movement, which will dominate the national conversation for the next 285 days.

Pope Francis warned of the dangers of “Big Data” Wednesday, noting that “algorithms are not neutral” and be used to spread fake news and create groupthink.

U.S. President Joe Biden has doubled down on positions antithetical to his Catholic faith as he prepares to run for reelection.

The Dutch bishops, once known for their progressive leanings, have collectively rejected the Vatican’s recent opening to the blessing of same-sex couples.

ROME, Italy — Pope Francis once again voiced his concern for Europe’s demographic winter on Saturday, urging Italians to have more children.

The global persecution of Christians rose sharply in 2023, according to the 2024 World Watch List (WWL) published Wednesday by Open Doors Christian charity.

Donald Trump’s decisive victory in Iowa was a victory for the American people and for democracy, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich declares.