faith - Page 14

More than 20 religious leaders of different faiths assembled Tuesday to bless Planned Parenthood’s new abortion mega-clinic in Washington, DC, praising its “sacred work.”

Michael Wear served in the White House faith-based initiative during Obama’s first term, and then was tapped by the president to direct faith outreach for his successful 2012 re-election campaign, where he led evangelical outreach and helped manage White House engagement on religious issues.

In his homily at Christmas Mass, the Pope said Christ is often met today with the same indifference that greeted his coming 2,000 years ago, whenever Christmas becomes a holiday centered on us rather than Jesus.

British political and religious leaders have invoked the virtues of faith, hope and charity in their Christmas messages, using the season to highlight a range of issues, from war and poverty to homelessness. The Prime Minister struck a positive note

The number of Britons who believe in God has fallen by four percentage points in under two years, a new survey on religious attitudes has found, leaving atheism to pull significantly ahead.

Seth Yonadav swaggered along a dirt path in rural Uganda, pointing toward the new synagogue where young men wearing yarmulkes lingered.

The passing of John Glenn, one of America’s most famous NASA astronauts, marks the end of an era for American exceptionalism. While many will focus on the scientific miracle that allowed Glenn to become the first American to orbit the earth, Glenn himself noted that God was also an inseparable part of that miracle.

PANAMA CITY, Florida — During the first of four announced campaign stops throughout America on Sunday, Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence spoke to a crowd of Floridians, which included several Orthodox Jews who expressed fear over a potential Clinton presidency as it relates to Israel.

Leading conservative intellectual Michael Novak has defined Hillary Clinton as “unvotable” for Catholics in the upcoming presidential elections because she and her party oppose everything that Catholics hold most dear.

Two psychologists in Finland have concluded that religious believers are bad at math and physics, have poor mechanical abilities and don’t have a good sense of the physical and biological world.

Sweden has opened its first “atheist cemetery” devoid of all religious symbols to accommodate the nation’s massive nonbelieving population.

Trump campaign surrogate Pastor Mark Burns told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday, “Hillary Clinton is not the candidate for people of faith.” “I cannot stress this enough for every person of faith,” continued Burns. “It is

President Barack Obama ridiculed Republicans — particularly Christians — who said they forgave Donald Trump after a 2005 video was leaked featuring him making lewd comments about women.

In a groundbreaking new documentary film coming to select theaters on October 7, Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson challenges a modern, post-Christian worldview by proposing a walk through history in the light of faith.

The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist’s storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written inside: the earliest evidence of a biblical text in its standardized form.

Clinton pointed out that she was born and raised as a Methodist, but was married to Bill Clinton, who was a Southern Baptist and had many friends who were Baptists.

Pope Francis has invited sports stars from around the world to the Vatican for the first global conference on faith and athletics this October.

In a speech to pastors, Sen. Marco Rubio urged religious conservatives to love gay people, instead of judging them for their behavior.

“I’m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order,” Indiana Gov. Mike Pence declared to America at the Republication National Convention in Cleveland to the wild applause of the assembled delegates, launching into a speech showcasing his evangelical Christian faith—including hidden Bible verses—thrilling America’s Christian population and giving them a huge reason to be for Donald Trump, in addition to already being against Hillary Clinton.

One man is 101 years old. Others are in their 80s and 90s and arrived in wheelchairs, with a walker, or leaning on children who are themselves past middle age for support .

In a bid to disrupt the historic pan-Orthodox Council that began in Crete Sunday, the Russian Orthodox Church noisily announced its withdrawal from the meeting, taking with it the Antiochian, Bulgarian and Georgian Churches—who together represent more than half of the world’s Orthodox Christians.

Ukraine’s state security service said on Monday a French citizen detained in late May on the Ukrainian-Polish border had been planning attacks in France to coincide with the Euro 2016 football championship it is hosting.

The Supreme Court in Zubik v. Burwell (the official name for the various “Little Sisters of the Poor” cases) punted the latest Supreme Court fight over Obamacare to 2017 or beyond — but did so in a fashion that conservatives can be happy about for now, teeing up yet another issue that will be decided one way or the other by 2016’s presidential election.

The American Christian missionary Kenneth Bae — who spent over 700 days as a captive of the North Korean communist regime — says the Holy Spirit held his hand through an “interrogation” exercise.

An FBI sting operation has thwarted a plan to bomb a synagogue in Miami, Florida.

Franklin Graham greeted thousands who were gathered by the south steps of the Texas Capitol in Austin for this stop on his Decision America Tour 2016. Graham is traveling through every state in the country he says “to challenge Christians to live out their faith at home, in public and at the ballot box.” He is also sharing the Gospel.

NEW YORK CITY – A pastor for the Lutheran Church in Bremen, Germany who boasted that he is an anti-Semite has prompted the Simon Wiesenthal Center to call for his dismissal.

The reason suicides in the United States reached a nearly three decade record is the absence of the right religion, i.e. Islam, Dr. Abdullah Maqat, a former senior lecturer in Islamic religion at Gaza’s Islamic University, contended to Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview.

The United States Department of State has released its official blacklist of countries guilty of egregious violations of religious freedom, and for the 14th consecutive year has left Pakistan off the roster.

Arutz Sheva reports: Soon after actor Morgan Freeman posted a Facebook profile photo in which he was smiling against the background of Jerusalem’s Old City, his Facebook page – which is “liked” by over 18.5 million people worldwide – has

The Independent reports: A Holocaust survivor who was told to move seats on a flight so an Ultra-orthodox Jewish man would not have to sit beside a woman has said the rule is “not in the Torah”. Renee Rabinowitz is now suing Israel’s national airline

The Communist Party’s campaign to eradicate the iconic Christian symbol from China’s landscape continued in full force this past week, with authorities demolishing a dozen church crosses and beating protesters bloody. The religious freedom group China Aid reported that government

The Jerusalem Post reports: Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, has called on Muslims all over the world, especially those living in Jerusalem and Arab Israelis, to make pilgrimage to al-Aksa in order to defend the mosque from

The House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution that puts pressure on the Obama administration to acknowledge that the atrocities perpetrated by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria constitute “genocide.”

Egypt’s parliament has drafted legislation to ban women from wearing the niqab in public places.

Indian and Yemeni officials believe the Islamic State kidnapped an Indian priest in an attack that left 16 dead at a nursing home in Yemen.