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The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper of Harvard College, has published a series of essays offering a set of different “perspectives” on antisemitism at the university — a skeptical approach, two writers pointed out, not followed for any other group.

Pope Francis has met with stiff opposition from black Christian leaders after approving the blessing of gay couples.

Catholics are rebelling against their religious leaders’ pro-migration policies, and leadership must set them straight, Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, states.

Nicaraguan police on Thursday detained two senior Catholic priests for the “crime” of praying in public for Bishop Rolando Alvarez, a critic of socialist dictator Daniel Ortega, who in February was sentenced to 26 years in prison for “treason.”

Peter Seewald, close friend and collaborator of Pope Benedict XVI, said Thursday that Benedict was “stabbed in the heart” by Pope Francis’ attacks on the traditional Latin Mass.

The Methodist Church of Great Britain has called on its ministers, deacons, and elders to stop using “hurtful terms” such as “husband” and “wife” to avoid making assumptions that are not “the reality for many people.”

Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) took to X the day after Christmas to bash former President Donald Trump, claiming that Christians who support him “don’t understand” their faith.

There have been hundreds of antisemitic “politically motivated crime” cases in Germany since the Hamas terror attack against Israel.

The governor of Plateau, Nigeria, denounced the long-term occupation of at least 64 Christian communities in his state.

Pope Francis made “peace” the theme of his 2023 Christmas message, urging the world to say “no” to weapons.

Award-winning pianist, journalist, and radio host John Tesh has been battling cancer since 2015 and credits his continued success to two things – prayer and scripture.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach was harassed Monday evening by anti-Israel activists while skating in Manhattan, according to video posted by Boteach online.

At least 140 people were killed by gunmen who attacked remote villages over two days in north-central Nigeria’s Plateau state, survivors and officials said Tuesday.

A rocket fired by the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah from Lebanon hit a church in a Palestinian Christian town and wounded a guard on Tuesday, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and news reports.

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, appeared to try and end 2023 on a conciliatory note by apologizing to the Jewish community after a year of vile antisemitic rants.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) posted on Christmas Eve that the story the birth of Jesus Christ paralleled the plight of Palestinians today, inverting the facts about both Jesus and contemporary Israel.

Pro-Palestinian protesters converged on the homes of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Christmas Day.

Christians in Nigeria will celebrate Christmas this year facing a relentless onslaught of jihadist terrorism seeking to eliminate them from the country, experts told Breitbart News, with little support from their government.

The Hindu nationalist government of India presided over the escalation of Christian persecution in the country at a “record pace” in 2023, religious freedom experts told Breitbart News, and faces little to no pressure to protect their Christian populations from the West.

The sizable Christian population of China — including members of both “legal” Communist Party-controlled churches and illicit “house churches” seeking a private prayer space — faces significant persecution if found to be “too enthusiastic” in celebrating Christmas, David Curry, the president and CEO of Global Christian Relief, told Breitbart News in a recent conversation.

Millions of Nicaraguans will spend Christmas under the growing repression of communist dictator Daniel Ortega, who has arrested and banished members of the Catholic Church, prohibited Catholic festivities, and intimidated Christians into silence.

Ukraine is signaling its difference from Russia in a new way, by departing from the Orthodox tradition of observing the Julian calendar.

Christians across the world celebrate Christmas 2023 this week – the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, a town in Israel about a 45-minute modern drive east of Jerusalem. Christians honor Jesus’ birth, proclaiming as an essential belief of the Christian faith that Jesus was born to a virgin mother, miraculously conceived by the God who created the universe – proclaiming that Jesus is the divine Son of God.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a Christmas message on Sunday, Christmas Eve, thanking Christians around the world for their support for the Jewish state during its war against Hamas terror.

Activists have been doing everything in their power to give North Koreans, ruled by dictator Kim Jong-un, a message of hope for Christmas.

If Die Hard is a Christmas movie, then Miracle on 34th Street (1947) is a Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter movie all rolled into one. Easter? A man who performs miracles is betrayed by those close to him, gets locked up,

American Archbishop Charles Chaput has sharply criticized Pope Francis for sowing confusion and ambiguity as well as for his “unjust” criticism of U.S. Catholics.

A Catholic parish in southern Italy has exhibited a Nativity scene featuring the Virgin Mary together with another woman in place of Saint Joseph.

TV executive and actress Candace Cameron Bure says that faith has become increasingly important as she grows older.

An annual Christmas celebration in Melbourne, Australia, was briefly interrupted Sunday night after pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the stage during the live broadcast and tried to hijack events.

A 13-year-old accused of planning a mass shooting at a synagogue in Ohio has reportedly been ordered to write a book report.

Turkish lawmaker George Aslan caused a controversy by delivering a Christian message to Assyrians in their Syriac language.

Nicaragua arrested 11 Evangelical leaders and launched an investigation into three Americans on Wednesday.

ROME — Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the former head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office, has issued a searing critique of the Vatican’s recent text allowing the blessing of homosexual couples.

The communist Sandinista government of Nicaragua arrested Monsignor Isidro del Carmen Mora Ortega, the bishop of the Diocese of Siuna, on Wednesday shortly after he presided over a Mass in which he prayed for another imprisoned bishop, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, sentenced to 26 years in prison for “treason.”

A California pastor led a group of hundreds Sunday that met outside a venue hosting a show called “A Drag Queen Christmas,” where they prayed against it.