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Americans with no religious affiliation or belief skew heavily toward the Democrat party in their voting, according to a report this weekend from the Associated Press (AP).

The conservative Heritage Foundation is reportedly spending one million dollars on ads opposing the passage of the pro-gay marriage “Respect for Marriage Act.” The ads are set to run during Thanksgiving NFL and college football games.

MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill said Monday on “Deadline” that religious leaders need to be pushed to criticize former President Donald Trump.

Experts testified before Congress on Tuesday that the Communist Party of China has extensively expanded its digital capabilities to censor, and effectively erase, religion on the internet, the latest step in a process of enforcing communism through the eradication of faith that the regime refers to as “Sinicization.”

The atheist leader of Britain’s leftist Labour Party declined to take an oath swearing allegiance before God to King Charles III.

The late Queen Elizabeth II warned against “unthinking people” seeking to throw away “ageless ideals” in an age of rapid change in her first-ever televised Christmas message in 1957.

A senior Tory party official has lashed out at election officials in the UK, saying that they “turned a blind eye to voter fraud for fear of offending woke sensibilities”.

House Republicans are doubling down on their efforts to figure out why President Joe Biden’s State Department is funding atheism abroad.

Teachers in Florida will now learn more American history for civics courses, including the importance of religion in the public square.

An audio transcript of a May 2017 meeting chaired by China’s top Communist Party official in the country’s western Xinjiang territory published on Tuesday reveals the regional chief urged Xinjiang officials to “exercise firm control over the religious community,” referring to the largely Sunni Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang.

A city council in Kansas voted to walk back a measure banning “In God We Trust” decals on police vehicles after citizens voiced displeasure.

Christian Democrat former government minister Päivi Räsänen is being tried over a tweet that included a Bible verse.

Over 400 Anglican churches have been closed in Britain due to a lack of attendance and support from the local community over the past decade.

A proposed ban on conversion therapy in the United Kingdom has been delayed after widespread criticism from religious and medical professionals.

Shmuley Boteach, rabbi and author of Kosher Hate: How To Fight Jew-Hatred, Racism, and Bigotry, described the continuity of Jewish people as proof of the divine hand in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

At least 50 Christian “house churches,” or private Christian worship services held inside a person’s home, were recently forced to halt operations in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state after a local district issued an order banning the gatherings, the Christian Post, an online newspaper, reported Monday.

More never-married people under 35 are not having sex, and this behavior correlates to religious attendance, according to the 2021 General Society Survey.

Matthew Dowd, former ABC News political analyst, lamented that Jesus Christ would be considered “woke” in today’s political climate. 

Pope Francis said Tuesday that the world’s assorted religions are all “different ways of coming to God,” representing a “richness” deserving of respect.

According to the results of a poll conducted from July 19th to July 26th and released earlier this week, 39 per cent of French believe that Islam will become the largest religion in France.

Americans tend to view the role of religion as much more influential during times of chaos and uncertainty.

Uyghur Muslims in China’s western territory of Xinjiang have largely refrained from participating in traditional religious rituals associated with the Islamic holiday of Ramadan such as dawn-to-dusk fasting and increased prayer over the past month due to the Chinese government’s crackdown on Islam in the region.

The International Olympic Committee announced it will keep a rule that forbids any protest at venues, including at the Summer Games in Tokyo.

Hundred of thousands of Hindu pilgrims packed the banks of the Ganges River in northern India on Thursday for a chance to bathe in the sacred waterway as part of the major Kumbh Mela Hindu festival.

ORLANDO, Florida — Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) reacted to the condemnation he received from his Democrat colleagues after pointing to scripture during a debate on the Equality Act, noting that Democrats’ rejection of Judeo-Christian principles remains contrary to the very foundation of the country and, in some instances, their self-professed faith.

Conservatives slammed the New York Times for labeling President Joe Biden “perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief” in 50 years in a story published Saturday.

Local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders inaugurated a new “anti-Cult Disneyland” in eastern China last week as part of a campaign targeting religious minorities, Bitter Winter reported Monday.

The Senate on Wednesday passed the Stop FGM Act to give federal law enforcement more authority to prosecute those who perpetrate the act.

The Russian Investigative Committee on Tuesday organized large scale raids against Jehovah’s Witnesses nationwide, resulting in many arrests, Reuters reports.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Monday declared that she is “sick and tired of Republicans” co-opting faith to “advance bigotry and barbarism” and surmised that many lawmakers would likely eject Jesus from the chamber over his “radical” views.

Secondary schools which fail to teach pupils LGBT lessons will be penalised by inspectors, it has been revealed.

Police in southwestern China this summer sentenced a Christian teenager to three years in prison for practicing her faith, human rights magazine Bitter Winter revealed on Tuesday.

The U.S. Navy will end its provision of Catholic Masses at its bases in San Diego, California, over budgetary restraints — ending its contracts with local Catholic priests who lead the services — while continuing to provide other religious services.

The Democrats’ third convention night was an extended display of the party’s religious-like promise of soulful and economic salvation by politics alone.

Officials in the South Korean city of Daegu have filed an $83 million lawsuit against the Shincheonji religious sect, accusing it of causing “massive damages” to the city’s public health after coronavirus cluster infections emerged among its congregants “triggering an uncontrollable spread” throughout Daegu, South Korean newspaper the Chosun Ilbo reported on Wednesday.

Former President Barack Obama referred to the ongoing unrest around the country, associated with the Black Lives Matter protests, as a “Great Awakening” in his remarks to a fundraiser for former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday.