India has denied visas to a team from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which had requested entry to India to assess religious liberties in the country, Reuters reported on Thursday.
The president of the Southern Baptist Convention called upon members to say, “Black lives matter” and condemn the slogan “all lives matter.”
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s mistreatment of Uyghur Muslims extends beyond China’s borders and into foreign countries, with Beijing ordering Chinese diplomats to “harass and intimidate” members of the ethnic group in Japan, the U.S. State Department’s 2019 Religious Freedom Report on Japan revealed on Wednesday.
Women are worshipping the Chinese coronavirus as a goddess in parts of India, leaving offerings to the supposed deity, local media revealed this week.
The U.S. State Department’s 2019 Report on International Religious Freedom, released this week, revealed that in December, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo placed Russia on a Special Watch List “for having engaged in or tolerated severe violations of religious freedom.”
A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit against a Missouri abortion law filed by a member of the Satanic Temple.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov announced he will donate 10.3 million Russian rubles ($131,500) to men struggling to purchase brides under Chechnya’s Islamic law amid the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Moscow Times reported on Wednesday.
The U.S. State Department concluded in its annual religious freedom report released Wednesday that Venezuela is not a safe place to be a Christian, due to the widespread attacks on churches by the Maduro regime and its paramilitaries.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted China’s egregious violations of religious liberty, telling journalists on Wednesday the Chinese Communist Party has been waging a “decades-long war on faith.”
The State Department accused Indian officials on Wednesday of permitting, and sometimes promoting or participating in, mob violence against Christians, Muslims, and other religious minorities in its annual religious freedom report.
A Baptist church association and two business owners filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the state of Illinois, charging it with religious liberty violations related to a radical law that forces health insurance policies to provide coverage for abortions.
The Vatican’s negotiations with China have not just done little to empower Catholics in the country, but actively imperiled Catholic clergy. The Vatican must do all within its power to save those victims of its mistakes.
Pope Francis has reached out to the people of Brazil, promising his prayers during the trying time of the coronavirus pandemic.
A Jewish security group, Magen Am, is training individuals in California to use firearms as part of a security team in synagogues or other houses of worship.
Former U.S. attorney general Jeff Sessions is calling on the Birmingham City Schools and the Birmingham Housing Authority to reverse its ban on Church of the Highlands, Alabama’s largest church. The Housing Authority’s commissioners recently voted to cancel its relationship with the church because the pastor “followed” and “liked” social media posts by Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is once again exploring ways to convert the Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul into a mosque, Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported on Tuesday.
The Italian bishops have blasted proposed anti-homo/transphobia laws as both unnecessary and stifling of freedom of thought.
ROME — The Vatican Bank issued its annual financial report Monday, revealing a net profit of 38 million euros (U.S.$43 million) for fiscal year 2019.
The Catholic Bishops from Scotland and England & Wales have issued a joint statement criticizing the Immigration Bill before Parliament and urging the elimination of the offense of “illegal working” for migrants.
Texas pastor Steve Wells urged white churches to “take up the work of racial justice” during his tribute speech at George Floyd’s funeral in Houston on Tuesday afternoon.
The Nation of Islam, a radical, racist, antisemitic and homophobic hate group, provided security for the funeral of George Floyd at the Fountain of Praise Church in Houston, Texas on Tuesday, according to Rev. Remus Wright.
The largest church in the state of Alabama has been “canceled” by the Birmingham Housing Authority because Pastor Chris Hodges follows Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk on social media and has “liked” Kirk’s Instagram posts. Donald Trump Jr. commented on the city’s actions, tweeting: “They’re canceling the pastor of the largest (and most racially diverse) church in Alabama just because he liked some of [Charlie Kirk’s] posts. Absolutely insane.”
Vatican Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli said on Italian television this week that a secret agreement with Beijing on the appointment of bishops is likely to be renewed this coming year.
During an interview aired on Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Attorney General William Barr stated that the protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death have raised the question of why people who are exercising their
“Were it not for pastors, there would have been no civil rights movement,” said Robert Jeffress, noting America’s history of faith in politics.
White police officers and members of the community gathered on Saturday to wash the feet of black faith leaders in North Carolina.
A prominent Vatican Cardinal has called on U.S. Catholics to strive to overcome divisions and identity politics in order to reunite the nation.
The Rev. Emmanuel Saba Bileya and his wife, Juliana, were gunned down on their farm in eastern Nigeria by unidentified insurgents last week, local media report.
The Catholic archbishop of Washington, DC, Wilton Gregory, has doubled down on an earlier statement slamming the Saint John Paul II Shrine for allowing President Trump and the First Lady to visit the sanctuary before issuing an Executive Order on International Religious Liberty.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) revealed on Thursday that Chinese officials in Xinjiang have begun proceedings to destroy yet another Uyghur cemetery in the heart of the Uyghur homeland, Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi.
Rev. Bill Owens says racial tensions still exist because the civil rights movement has been “hijacked by manipulative politicians.”
Appearing Thursday on MSNBC, Rep. Maxine Waters (D) argued that Americans should be “thankful” for protests against George Floyd’s death — despite some of them devolving into violence and looting — saying that the demonstrators are attempting to achieve social
Countless American believers in the Bible, myself included, were inspired tremendously on Monday when President Trump stood in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church, across the street from the White House, and held up the Word of God for all to see.
The redoubtable former bishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen, said this week that due to the Vatican’s “foolish” appeasement policy toward Communist China, the Holy See cannot be expected to come to the defense of Hong Kong protesters.
Pope Francis called Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez Wednesday to “express his prayers and closeness to the Church and people of the United States in this moment of unrest,” the archdiocese reported.
A number of prominent Catholics have reacted strongly to a statement by Washington, DC, Archbishop Wilton Gregory denouncing President Trump for visiting a shrine to Pope John Paul II.
President Donald Trump in an interview on Wednesday defended his decision to visit a burned church next to the White House on Monday, despite police forcing protesters out of Lafayette Park.
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) sounded off on President Donald Trump being photographed at St. John’s Church while holding up a Bible.
TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia and Israel are holding secret negotiations to allow Saudi representatives to join the Waqf Islamic council that controls the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, according to a report Monday by the Israel Hayom daily.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on advancing international religious freedom Tuesday, shortly after visiting a Washington D.C. shrine to Pope John Paul II.
