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War on Christmas Hits Small Texas Town

The War on Christmas has hit a small East Texas town. Residents of Orange, Texas, are furious that a nativity scene has been taken down after 30 years. The city manager decided to remove it from city property after atheists demanded a display of their own.

<> on November 10, 2015 in Washington, DC.

Trump’s Muslim ‘Ban’ and the Constitution

Every president is sworn to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” so before considering whether Donald Trump’s plan to ban all Muslim immigration into the country is good policy, Americans needs to ask if it’s constitutional.

This picture taken on December 14, 2014 shows a worker installing decorations at a local catholic church for Christmas celebrations in Ho Chi Minh city. Vietnam is a Buddhist-dominated country with only about 7 percent of its 90 million inhabitants being Roman Catholics. AFP PHOTO / HOANG DINH NAM (Photo credit should read

Christians Beaten by Police as Part of New Crackdown in Vietnam

As Vietnam prepares to enact new legislation that will seriously curb religious freedom, police have begun cracking down on Christians, especially those most vocal about their faith. In a period of just ten days, police twice assaulted Christian student activist Chu Manh Son and Catholic journalist Tran Minh Nhat, each of whom had previously served prison terms for denouncing Vietnam’s human rights violations.

Pope Francis (R) greets people of different religions at the end a weekly general audience for interfaith relations at St Peter's square on October 28, 2015 at the Vatican. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Church's 'Nostra Aetate' declaration which challenged religious prejudices and urged bridge building with other faiths. A special papal audience for interfaith relations was celebrated in Saint Peter's Square to remember the moment on October 28, 1965, when Paul VI adopted what was a ground-breaking declaration lambasting anti-Semitism in particular. AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE (Photo credit should read

Islam, Christianity Are Fundamentally the Same, Prof Writes

In the wake of the extraordinarily brutal jihadist attacks perpetrated on innocent civilians in Paris Friday, Yale Professor Miroslav Volf suggests in an article in the Washington Post that we look at religion as a single reality rather than making distinctions between different religions, including Islam and Christianity.

Los Angeles Times (Kevork Djansezian / Associated Press )

L.A. Times: Voters ‘Believed’ They Were for Religious Liberty

The Los Angeles Times, reporting that Houston voters rejected a city ordinance Tuesday that would have expanded transgender access to public restrooms, said that the fight had been between between gay rights advocates and those “who believed they were defending religious liberty” (emphasis added).