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The Vatican has extended its controversial 2018 agreement with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regarding the naming of Catholic bishops in the country.

Members of the Marvel universe, including Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo, have defended actor Chris Pratt against attacks from the leftist cancel culture campaigners who pounced after the “Guardians of the Galaxy” star didn’t participate in an Avengers-themed fundraiser for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) said on Wednesday they are investigating reports that the Vatican transferred funds to Australia during the trial of former Vatican treasurer and Archbishop of Melbourne George Pell on sex abuse charges.

Young boys enrolled in Sudan’s state-run Islamic schools face beatings, torture, and sexual abuse at the hands of older students and teachers, according to a report by BBC Arabic published on Monday.

The archbishop of Mosul, Iraq, said Wednesday that he fears more for Europe than for his native Iraq because Europe is naïve about the dangers of radical Islam.

A federal judge ruled late last week in favor of two Colorado churches that challenged Gov. Jared Polis’s (D) pandemic orders requiring indoor occupancy limitations and masks during worship.

Yussef Alwali is set to appear before the Barkingside Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, on charges of religiously aggravated criminal damage after a church was vandalised in London. On Sunday, a cross was torn from the roof of the Chadwell Heath

Pope Francis urged Christians on Tuesday to learn from the example of Jesus Christ dying so that others may live.

A poll released Monday by Catholic network EWTN and RealClear Opinion Research revealed 60 percent of Catholic voters are less inclined to back a political candidate who supports abortion at any time during pregnancy.

This year’s presidential election offers a choice between “two completely different views of America,” contends the National Catholic Register in a recent essay.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone performed the rite of exorcism this weekend outside St. Raphael Catholic Church where protesters had toppled a statue of Saint Junipero Serra.

Members of the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn are outraged at the sudden arrival of media “paparazzi” whom they accuse of trying to blame the community for a rise in coronavirus cases.

U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-IN) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) sent a letter to Pope Francis Monday asking the pontiff to use his moral authority to pressure Beijing to halt abuses of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province.

Former UFC welterweight fighter Zelim Imadaev said on Sunday that the Chechen teen in France who beheaded his teacher is a “hero of Islam.”

China forced hundreds of thousands of children in Xinjiang, where the majority of the population belongs to the ethnic Uyghur minority, into “boarding schools” as they lost their parents to communist concentration camps, Bitter Winter, citing researcher Adrian Zenz, reported on Sunday.

President Donald Trump put an offering in the collection bucket Sunday during his visit to a church in Las Vegas.

Masked rioters burned down two churches and looted several businesses in Santiago, Chile, on Sunday following a rally of tens of thousands of people in support of erasing the nation’s constitution and writing a new one.

Pope Francis said Sunday that Christians must fulfill their obligations to the state but owe an even higher allegiance to God.

The New York Times on Saturday published an op-ed piece glorifying Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March and failed to mention the Nation of Islam’s anti-Semitism, prompting former staffer Bari Weiss to condemn the newspaper for presenting him as a “gentleman” and for ignoring “Jew hate.”

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has weighed in on the viral video of a man ripping down the cross on a London church in broad daylight, warning Britain’s Christian culture is “under assault”.

Claims that most Americans support Roe are not true, since poll questions often fail to tap what Americans really think about abortion.

Christian pastors and conservative activists will host the “NonEssential” event tonight to encourage believers across the nation to vote on November 3.

An Iranian Christian convert received 80 lashes on Thursday for drinking communion wine, considered a crime of apostasy under Islamic law. The U.S. State Department denounced the act, perpetrated by Iranian authorities in the northern town of Rashit, as “unjust”

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has once again brought forward the beginning of the country’s Christmas season by two months as his socialist regime desperately attempts to deflect attention away from the country’s dire economic and humanitarian predicament. 

Looking up at the sky, Trump continued, “I’m not taking any chances!”

Indian media on Wednesday reported the death of Bussa Krishna, an ardent fan of U.S. President Donald Trump who was devastated by news the president contracted the Wuhan coronavirus.

A federal district court struck down a 2015 Tennessee law that required a 48-hour waiting period before women can obtain an abortion.

A top Indian jewelry retailer on Tuesday withdrew an advertisement featuring an interfaith Hindu-Muslim baby shower after a backlash on social media by Hindus who said it glorified “love jihad.”

Public support for abortion does not make a politician a bad Catholic, argued San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy in an online address this week.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett pushed back against an effort by Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) to argue she would decide cases just like her male predecessor.

The Catholic Coalition Against Religious Tests for Office launched a video ad campaign Wednesday pleading with four Democrat senators to stand against religious persecution by their party.

Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan, an Islamist who has called for a global law banning blasphemy, celebrated his nation’s re-election to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday by vowing to use the agency to fight “Islamophobia.”

U.S. senators were sent a letter on behalf of 550 former abortion workers in support of Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.

Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila has called out Planned Parenthood’s well-funded crusade to keep late-term abortion legal in Colorado.

The first woman in the UK to serve as a mayor while wearing a hijab has resigned from the left-wing Labour Party, alleging that there are Islamophobic and racist elements embedded within the ranks of the party.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” host Chris Cuomo stated that Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett is “different than most Catholics. I think that her faith is, by design, more central to her value system and her