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President Trump said Thursday he would like to see the Senate confirm his nominee for the post of Religious Freedom ambassador, Mark Walker.

Venezuelan Cardinal Baltazar Porras on Wednesday denounced that the socialist regime seized his passport and prevented him from traveling out of the country.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) condemned a leftist podcast host’s attack against Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative icon and free speech martyr Charlie Kirk, calling it “gross and dehumanizing.”

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder warned Wednesday that surging antisemitism in the West amounts to a “full-scale assault on the truth, on democracy, and on the safety of the Jewish people,” urging Jews and their Christian allies to confront it on campuses, in classrooms, and across social media.

McDonald’s Netherlands division recently published an AI-generated advertisement labeling Christmas “the most terrible time of the year.” When the fast food giant faced intense backlash for its AI slop insulting the holiday season, it yanked the video down from YouTube.

Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was imprisoned in Turkey for two years before President Donald Trump secured his release back in Trump’s first term, is ratcheting up pressure on Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) to get Trump’s Religious Freedom ambassador confirmed before Christmas.

Tech mogul Elon Musk shared his thoughts about God during an interview with podcaster Katie Miller, the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller.

Comedian and actor David Spade blasted a mall tree-lighting ceremony for refusing to use the word Christmas. “You’re not allowed to slam someone else’s religion,” Spade said, pointing out a stark double standard.

Actors Mark Wahlberg and Mario Lopez, and No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani encouraged their fans to pray this Christmas season, urging them to download the Catholic prayer app Hallow.

A metal detectorist discovered a beautiful religious artifact dating back to 1100 A.D. while walking in a field in Andalsnes, Norway.

In my new book, “The Gen X Handbook for Middle Age: The Pursuit of Health, Success, and Human Fulfillment,” I write about losing 170 pounds, becoming debt free, finding love the good old-fashioned way, and eagerly leaving a blue state (Virginia) and moving to Texas.

Hoosiers QB Fernando Mendoza gave a heart-felt interview to Fox Sports and attributed his win to God after his team’s 13-10 win against Ohio.

The Catholic Diocese of Zaria in Nigeria’s Kaduna state said on Wednesday that a priest named Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Ezema was kidnapped from his church Tuesday night. 

A top official in Nigeria condemned calls from prominent American and other human rights figures for the country to abolish the imposition of sharia, or Islamic law, on citizens regardless of religion, dismissively remarking, “we are not Venezuela.”

A Brazilian Harvard professor who claimed he was “hunting rats” when he fired a pellet gun near a Boston-area synagogue agreed to leave the country after visit with ICE. The shooting event occurred October 2, 2025, which was Yom Kippur.

WASHINGTON, DC–President Donald Trump quoted the Gospel Thursday evening at the National Christmas Tree lighting on the Ellipse, just minutes from the White House.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump hold the national Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the White House on Thursday, December 4.

Podcaster Joe Rogan made a somewhat head-scratching claim this week when he said “AI could absolutely return as Jesus.”

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in Virginia has backed down from one of several legal fights surrounding its embrace of radical gender ideology after a now-former female student challenged the district’s transgender bathroom and preferred pronoun policies.

A 51-year-old Methodist pastor in New York declared himself transgender before his congregation last week, saying he will give up “pretending to be a man.”

A special father-daughter dance became a night to remember on November 22 thanks to a ministry working to heal relationships and bring God into prisons across America. 

Pope Leo XIV departed Lebanon on Tuesday after an emotional day that began with a visit to the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion and Mass attended by over 150,000 people — and concluded with an event in which the Catholic leader heard the testimonies of the nation’s youth, encouraging them to retain hope.

Nigerian Defense Minister Mohammed Badaru Abubakar tendered his resignation on Monday, the office of President Bola Tinubu confirmed, amid a growing wave of jihadist violence against Christians in the country.

Christian communities in the Syrian cities of Latakia and Homs held celebrations this weekend marking the beginning of Advent, the Christmas season, lighting Christmas trees and opening themed markets.

First Lady Melania Trump on Monday shared this year’s White House Christmas decor, as many say the Trump White House is bringing elegance back to Christmas with this year’s theme.

Hollywood star Zachary Levi revealed that Hollywood churned out more faith-based films after realizing they could be profitable.

Opposition to outward displays of devotion to Islam appears be growing among the French people, with a survey finding that seven in ten voters would back a ban on the wearing of veils in public.

Pope Leo XIV held prayers at the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral in Istanbul on Sunday in a gesture of support for Christian unity and Christian minorities in Turkey.

A faceless and “inclusive” Nativity scene put on by the city of Brussels has sparked controversy and calls for it to be removed, with critics branding the installation as an insult to Christian heritage and tradition.

Breaking with his predecessors, Pope Leo XIV declined to pray at the Blue Mosque of Istanbul on Saturday as he continued his first international tour as the Bishop of Rome.

Mrs. Erika Kirk shared a heartfelt Thanksgiving message honoring Turning Point USA founder and free speech martyr Charlie Kirk on Thursday, the family’s first holiday without him. “What remains is sacred,” the widow said.

Pope Leo XIV surprised rave attendees in Košice, Slovakia, earlier this month by blessing the crowd before a performance by a Portuguese Catholic priest, who is also a DJ known for his spiritually-themed electronic dance music.

Pope Leo XIV led a prayer meeting for Catholics in Turkey, highlighting Turkey’s status as a “holy land” critical to early Christianity.

Muslim-majority Turkey is not “a hostile environment” for Christians even as their population has been drastically reduced over the past decades, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople said Friday.

The far-left Nation used the Thanksgiving holiday to recast the Pilgrims and Puritans as “radical Protestant doomsday groups” whose “cultish” ideology, it argues, “became the foundation of American culture,” urging Americans to treat the day as “as good a time as any to begin coming to terms with the country’s radical cultish origins.”

A 15-year-old athlete in Long Beach, California, walked out of the hospital this week after suffering a paralyzing spinal injury.