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Alveda King said Planned Parenthood’s removal of Margaret Sanger’s name from its abortion clinic in New York City is “just window dressing.”

One Metropolitan Police Services officer suffered a head injury when he tried to break up a fight at an illegal mass gathering for the Muslim celebration of Eid in East London.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” host Chris Cuomo criticized Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for his questioning of White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci about protests and religious gatherings during the pandemic by saying that it’s

Pro-life activists will join together Saturday morning to paint the words “Black Pre-Born Lives Matter’ in front of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in the nation’s capital.

Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, leader of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, memorialized the late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) during Thursday’s funeral service by inserting the civil rights figure into a Bible verse which Christians almost universally consider a reference to Jesus Christ.

An American Muslim man on trial for blasphemy in northwestern Pakistan was shot dead in a courtroom Wednesday.

Sam Brownback, U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, said China’s hacking of Vatican computers should warn Church leaders the nation’s communist government is not to be trusted.

Saudi authorities arrested 936 people Thursday for allegedly trying to enter Islamic holy sites during the hajj pilgrimage “without prior authorization,” Saudi news outlet al-Arabiya reported.

On Monday, Twitter placed a “sensitive content” warning on a religious-based motivational video posted by pro-baseball player Tim Tebow.

The Hajj, Islam’s annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, began Wednesday with strict government imposed social distancing measures severely limiting attendance of the event — 1,000 pilgrims participated compared to last year’s 2.5 million.

Unidentified vandals desecrated a Christian church in Goleszów, southern Poland, last weekend, painting Satanic symbols on the main doors of the building.

The bishop of Tyler, Texas, is pushing Catholics to vote in upcoming elections and specifically to vote for those who support basic rights and freedoms, especially the right to life.

The Catholic News Agency (CNA) has published an analysis of the names on Joe Biden’s short list for running mate and found that all the candidates are — unsurprisingly — staunch supporters of abortion on demand.

Religious Jews around the world will observe the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av (“The Ninth of Av”) on Thursday, mourning the destruction of the two Temples.

Thousands of Christians in California are continuing to worship in public in defiance of Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus executive order banning public worship during the pandemic.

CLAIM: Joe Biden claimed President Trump held a Bible upside-down when he walked to St. John’s Episcopal Church in June. VERDICT: FALSE.

A group of youths attacked a Roman Catholic church in the Swedish town of Ystad, throwing rocks at church-goers during an evening mass.

“Socialism is dangerous, and we have a party and many politicians who are flirting with all-out socialism,” writes the celebrated Evangelical pastor Franklin Graham Monday.

The progressive National Catholic Reporter (NCR) has declared Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be “the future of the Catholic Church” noting her frequent references to “Catholic values” and her “passion for justice.”

Lin Wood, a lawyer representing Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann, accused CNN’s Brian Stelter on Monday of breaching a confidentiality agreement with respect to the settlement reached between Sandmann and the Washington Post.

Community members gathered Sunday to remove graffiti from the stone wall outside a historic church in Staten Island, New York.

India welcomed 11 members of Afghanistan’s Sikh and Hindu minority community on Sunday, including one Sikh “recently released from captivity after a month of torture,” the Times of India (TOI) reported Monday.

The archbishop of Barcelona celebrated a funeral Mass Sunday evening for the victims of the coronavirus pandemic, in open defiance of an official 10-person cap for religious assemblies.

Monday on ABC’s “The View,” former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) compared athletes kneeling during the national anthem in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement to congregants kneeling at religious services.

The National Director of Priests for Life, Father Frank Pavone, said Monday that he will now dedicate himself “fulltime” to see President Trump reelected in November.

The Vatican wants Spain to initiate a “mass regularization” of its illegal immigrants, according to the Holy See’s undersecretary for migrants and refugees.

LONDON (AP) – London’s police are investigating after a stream of anti-Semitic comments were posted on British grime artist Wiley’s social media accounts. Twitter banned the rapper for seven days after rants on Friday and Saturday. He was also dropped

Pope Francis appealed to young people Sunday to reach out to the elderly, telling them that “they are your roots!”

Friday, July 24th marked the first Islamic Friday prayers in the Hagia Sophia since Turkey recently converted the former museum into a mosque and has been described as like a “rock concert” by Swedish media. Sanna Drysén, who works for

France’s new Prime Minister Jean Castex has marked the fourth anniversary of the murder of Father Jacques Hamel, whose throat was slit by jihadists in 2016 as he celebrated Mass in his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.

The founder of Priests for Life, Fr. Frank Pavone, has resigned from advisory positions in the reelection campaign of President Donald Trump in obedience to instructions from “competent ecclesiastical authority.”

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote a blistering one-paragraph dissent to the 5-4 majority upholding Nevada’s restrictions on church services Friday, noting that the Constitution did not put “Caesars Palace over Calvary Chapel.”

SCOTUS said on Friday it would not block the state of Nevada from limiting the number of worshippers allowed in churches.

Barclays bank has reportedly informed a Christian charity in Northern Ireland that it will have its banking facilities revoked following an online pressure campaign mounted by LGBT activists, who claimed that the organisation engaged in so-called gay “conversion therapy”. The

Two churches in California are defying Gov. Gavin Newsom’s orders to keep their doors closed to worshipers because of the coronavirus.

The Vatican’s foreign minister said that Christians have grown “too complacent” in the face of widespread Christian persecution and need a greater commitment to oppose it.