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A California court upheld the right of Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church to remain open and to hold indoor worship services.

The National on Thursday discussed efforts of Lebanese Christians to cope with social, political, and sectarian fallout from the massive explosion in Beirut. To the surprise of few, but the dismay of many, the catastrophe has inflamed religious tensions that are never far from the surface in Lebanon.

The oldest living American will celebrate her 116th birthday on Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a festive parade.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue warned of Sen. Kamala Harris’ ‘Catholic problem’ in an essay this week, insisting that Biden’s running mate will have a hard time winning over Catholic voters due to her “positions on an array of moral issues.”

A self-proclaimed Latter-day Saints for Trump group, which is co-chaired by retired Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch (R), aims to promote the reelection of President Donald Trump among members of its community.

The executive director of a national network of survivors of sexual abuse by priests said in a statement sent to Breitbart News that then-District Attorney Kamala Harris (D-CA) “chose to ignore an opportunity” to investigate priests in San Francisco for abusing children.

A band of armed jihadists stormed the Lion of Judah Christian church in Azikoro, southern Nigeria, last week, shooting four of the faithful dead.

A Catholic leader told Breitbart News that Kamala Harris “has come to be a ringleader of the anti-Catholic bullying that increasingly defines the Democrat party.”

A judge has sentenced a musician in northern Nigeria’s majority-Muslim Kano state to death by hanging for blasphemy against Islam’s Muhammad, Nigeria’s Premium Times reported this week.

Pope Francis said Wednesday that the Chinese coronavirus is “not the only disease to be fought” in the modern world.

Three people were killed in the Indian city of Bengaluru on Tuesday night when riots broke out over a Facebook post that some Muslims denounced as offensive and blasphemous.

As San Francisco’s district attorney, Kamala Harris failed to prosecute sexual abuse claims brought against Catholic priests, despite victims’ pleas.

Thousands of women are trapped in “marital captivity” in the United Kingdom as the government has refused to make the registration of sharia marriages mandatory out of fear of appearing “Islamophobic”, a report has found.

Three statues have been totally or partially destroyed at the Saint-André church in the French commune of Niort after the church saw at least three attacks in the last several weeks.

Joe Biden’s choice of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate makes the 2020 Democrat ticket the “most pro-abortion presidential ticket in history,” American pro-life leaders say.

A Qatari sociologist says “blasphemy” in Lebanon – including an anti-Islamic culture of gays, promiscuous women, and plastic surgery – is to blame for last week’s port explosion in Beirut.

Radical Muslims in Pakistan are praising a teenage boy who allegedly gunned down a U.S. citizen accused of blasphemy in court last month, hailing him as a “holy warrior” for the killing, Reuters reported on Sunday.

Hundreds of people gathered at Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park on Sunday for a “Let Us Worship” rally led by worship leader Sean Feucht.

“If you look at the manifesto that they’ve come up with and if you look at their stance on religion … I don’t think a man of deep religion would be agreeing to the Bernie Sanders plan,” Trump said.

Dozens of worshippers protested in San Diego Sunday against Gov. Newsom’s coronavirus orders prohibiting indoor worship, including gatherings in people’s homes.

Pope Francis marked the 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while calling for a nuclear weapon-free world Sunday.

Google-owned YouTube deleted a pro-life video with 1.8 million views posted by the pro-life organization, Live Action, four years after it was posted. The social media platform later reinstated the video after the organization appealed Google’s censorship.

The free-speech social media platform Parler is encouraging Jewish people to dump Twitter after the Silicon Valley giant shut down some accounts in July for posting the Star of David.

China’s “underground” Catholic Church has faced increasing persecution since the signing of the Sino-Vatican agreement in September 2018, writes China expert Steven W. Mosher in an August 5 op-ed.

President and Chancellor of Liberty University Jerry Falwell has agreed to take an indefinite leave of absence after a request to do so from the Executive Committee of Liberty University’s Board of Trustees.

Pop superstar Justin Bieber took to Instagram on Thursday to share with his 143 million followers a photo of him and his wife Hailey Bieber being baptized. The image of the pair “confessing our love and trust in Jesus” went viral online.

The Catholic diocese of Hong Kong sent a letter to its schools on Friday urging them to teach students about the national security law imposed by Beijing last month and help them develop “the correct values on their national identity, consistent with the Catholic teaching.”

This is just more proof that Democrats are determined to make traditional Americans second-class citizens in their own country.

Joe Biden has been smearing Trump’s faith for months for political gain. His objection is simply that Trump has turned the tables.

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, credited with having made Jewish sacred texts accessible to the general public, died Friday in Jerusalem at the age of 83, to tributes from Israeli leaders.

CatholicVote.org, a national faith-based organization, is calling on Joe Biden to condemn recent attacks by progressives on sacred symbols.

A court in Pakistan ruled on Tuesday that 14-year-old Christian girl Maira Shahbaz voluntarily converted to Islam and is legally married to an older Muslim man named Mohamad Nakash, even though Maira and her family say Nakash kidnapped her at gunpoint with two accomplices during the coronavirus lockdown in April.

President Donald Trump on Thursday unleashed a torrent of criticism toward Joe Biden, reminding voters in Ohio that the former vice president had embraced the radical left.

Greek police have arrested a 38-year-old Algerian migrant after he caused damage to a cathedral twice in less than a week.

A Texas woman is determined to be with her husband and pray for him under his window while he is hospitalized with the coronavirus.

Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church in a Los Angeles suburb have been served a letter from the city threatening to impose a $1,000 daily fine if the church does not comply with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order for some churches in the state to be shuttered because of the coronavirus.