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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has torn down more crosses from Christian churches this month as part of its unrelenting crusade to eradicate the Christian symbol from the Chinese landscape.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has designated India as a “country of particular concern” (CPC) for the first time since 2004, declaring that the government engages in or tolerates “particularly severe” violations of religious freedom.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told the media Wednesday morning that he was sorry if anyone was hurt by the way he called out the Jewish community over a large funeral in Brooklyn Tuesday, but he had “no regrets.”

The progressive National Catholic Reporter (NCR) published an editorial Tuesday trashing New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan for “capitulating” to the Republican Party.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr issued a warning Monday to state and local governments not to infringe on fundamental freedoms and civil rights in their enforcement of coronavirus restrictions, specifically warning against religious discrimination.

Abortion was not the focus of a Supreme Court case decided last week, but for many it was the elephant in the (virtual) living room

Rapper DMX hosted a Bible study on Instagram Live on Friday and urged viewers to accept Jesus as their “Lord and Savior.”

President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he would watch Sunday Mass celebrated online at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

The village church of Saint-Remy in northern France was found vandalized on Friday despite a coronavirus lockdown confining people to their homes.

Jeff Goldblum is facing left-wing backlash on social media after the actor questioned the “anti-homosexuality and anti-woman” nature of Islam while serving as a guest judge on VH1’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”

A policeman in Boston, Massachusetts, got a huge surprise Friday after weeks of fighting the Chinese coronavirus.

TEL AVIV – In a first, a multi-faith gathering of religious leaders including Chief Rabbis, archbishops, patriarchs, imams, and sheikhs joined together in prayer in Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon, in a united call to God to ease the suffering experienced around the world by the coronavirus pandemic.

TEL AVIV – An Israeli hospital will begin testing COVID-19 patients with medicinal cannabis, which is known to have anti-viral properties, as part of a new experimental treatment.

New York City will provide over 500,000 free halal meals to Muslims during Ramadan, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced this week.

Pakistani imams are reportedly urging worshippers to defy the Islamist government’s coronavirus lockdown and gather for communal prayers during Ramadan, an Islamic holy month which starts April 24 in Pakistan.

Police in Cameroon clashed with Muslims on Friday after they refused to adhere to lockdown measures in response to the Chinese coronavirus to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, Voice of America (VOA) reports.

The human rights website Bitter Winter highlighted on Thursday the growing trend of Chinese Communist persecution against members of the Three-Self Patriotic Church, the legal Protestant church in China. Officials reportedly demolished one of these churches on Easter.

Armenians around the world commemorated the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide on Friday, a remembrance of the more than 1.5 million Armenians who were systematically exterminated between 1915 and 1923 under the Ottoman Empire.

Several prayer videos recorded by two Army chaplains were removed from Facebook recently after a watchdog group complained about them.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has sentenced a 21-year-old Christian woman to 90 days in prison and a public flogging for “disturbing public order,” after she criticized the Iranian military for shooting down a Ukrainian passenger jet.

The Italian bishops have tentatively proposed reopening churches for Sunday worship on May 3 to coincide with the state’s transition to phase two of the national lockdown on May 4.

For Muslims worldwide, today marks the start of Ramadan, an Islamic holy month of fasting and prayer. For ethnic Uyghur Muslims in northwestern China’s Xinjiang province, observance of Ramadan – banned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – could land

A woman in Lisbon, Iowa, is offering help in a unique way to her neighbors during the coronavirus pandemic.

Islamic terrorist groups this year continued to pervert the belief that rewards earned for noble acts are greater during Ramadan, telling their followers and supporters to embrace martyrdom and jihad because the holiest month for Muslims is a good time to kill so-called infidels.

Cuban Christians are using the need to wear sanitary masks in public to spread their faith, printing Bible verses on the front of them, the Christian aid group World Help revealed this week.

Islamic radicals severely beat 23-year-old Lydia Nabirye in Eastern Uganda, after the woman shared her Christian faith with a Muslim woman who subsequently converted to Christianity.

So, for all the evangelical Christians who once vowed “never Trump,” it’s time to come together and bury differences to defend freedom.

Nearly two-thirds of American Jews (63 percent) feel less safe today than a decade ago, according to a survey released by the Anti-Defamation League Tuesday.

Harvard Magazine published an interview with a law professor who released a paper that calls for a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling.

Tuesday marked one year since the bombing of three churches and three hotels serving Easter brunch in Sri Lanka, claimed by Islamic State sympathizers and resulting in hundreds of deaths and severe injuries.

Rap and fashion mogul Kanye West has teamed with fast-food giant Chick-fil-A to provide 300,000 meals since March through the Los Angeles Dream Center to help feed those in need amid the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

Queen Elizabeth II is marking her 94th birthday but without the usual pomp and ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

The Michigan Catholic Conference (MCC) blasted Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s twisted logic in banning gardening under the coronavirus lockdown while allowing abortions to continue unabated.

Labour is facing financial ruin as anti-Semitism whistleblowers and complainants have threatened to sue the party.

BAHTIM, Egypt — Every year during Ramadan, the Light of Muhammad Mosque sets up long tables on the street and dishes up free meals at sunset for the poor to break their daily fast. It’s a charity that many rely on in this impoverished district on the edge of the Egyptian capital.

The Rome-based Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica has announced the launch of a new edition of the magazine in simplified Chinese, Vatican News reported Monday.