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As they did during the first presidential debate, Hollywood’s best and brightest weighed in early and often on social media during Sunday night’s second showdown between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, offering up hot takes, fact checks and plenty of witty jokes.

A Portland, Oregon, elementary school has given permission to a Satanist group to host an after school club for kids, a report says.

A column in the Chinese state-run newspaper the Global Times quotes political experts warning that “religious extremism” — defined as any religious observance from Islam to Christianity to the Falun Gong group — has become a dire threat to Chinese Communism, and regulation of the internet is key to stopping it.

Last month, two Christian pastors and a member of their church were beaten with cricket bats by a mob of up to 60 Hindus, then forcibly dragged to a police station, where the mob filed charges against the trio for allegedly proselytizing.

The new curriculum for the Advanced Placement European History test hides the role of Christianity in European history, and also hides Islam’s violent conquests in Europe and its tradition of jihad.

The Washington National Cathedral has announced it will change a few 63-year-old stained glass windows that depict Confederate flags to help jump-start a conversation about the wrongs of the racist “white church” in America.

A small group of Missouri Republican legislators joined with Democrats to block a religious liberty ballot for November that was opposed by state business groups.

The Chinese Communist Party held its first conference on religious freedom this weekend, in which President Xi Jinping demanded that “unyielding Marxist atheists” impose communism onto the nation’s religious groups. The meeting follows months of growing tensions between the communists in Beijing and blossoming Christian and Muslim underground communities.

American preacher Rafael Cruz, the father of 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, joined Breitbart News Saturday with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon. Cruz described the pitfalls of communist governments that act as the god of the people, and he issued a call to action for principled Americans today.

After coming under fire from atheist groups for the distribution of free Bibles, the Delta County School District (DCSD) has approved the circulation of atheistic, secular and Satanic literature to middle and high school students. Several atheist organizations, including The

For the first time in its recorded history, the number of Norwegians who say they do not believe in God has topped the number of those who do believe, with atheism reaching a national record well up in the double

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

Sudan arrested Czech missionary and filmmaker Petr Jasek in early December on numerous charges stemming from his work exposing Christian persecution in the nation.

The Yazidi all-female battalion group the Sun Ladies continues to grow in Iraq to fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

Indian lawyer Chandan Kumar Singh has attempted to file a lawsuit against the Hindu God Ram over mistreatment of the god’s wife, Sita.

New Hampshire is now the least religious state in the United States, edging out Vermont, according to a new Gallup survey, while Mississippi retains its spot as the nation’s most religious state.

When President Barack Obama visited a fundamentalist mosque in Baltimore on Feb. 3, he flattered his Islamic audience, smiled cheerfully and then rhetorically flattened the constitutional and cultural walls that protect competing religious beliefs from the progressively expanding federal government.

In an interesting media twist, the Daily Beast has suggested that atheists calm down over the motto “In God We Trust” printed on U.S. currency, since in reality it is just one of a plethora of religious symbols of all

In Pune, India, 17-year-old Savan Rathod was able to tell his father that a mob burned him alive after he admitted he was Hindu.

A court in Egypt has allowed Cairo University to ban female professors from wearing the Islamic niqab in the classrooms.

Christians in Cameroon gathered around mosques to protect Muslims near the Nigerian border from Boko Haram attacks.

Long known for its indifference to religion, Britain continues to become less and less religious, with a record 46 per cent of the UK adult population now espousing no religion whatsoever. A new survey by researchers at Lancaster University reveals

In his most biting condemnation yet of the jihadists of the Islamic State, Pope Francis told members of the international diplomatic corps in the Vatican Monday that every true religion promotes peace, and by contrast, religious extremists who kill in God’s name—such as the Islamic Caliphate—are a perversion of real religion.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi celebrated Christmas with Coptic Christians, issuing a speech in which he pledged to rebuild churches torn down by Islamists.

Britain ranks among the least religious nations in the world, with just one in five Brits saying that religion is important in their lives. In Europe, only the French have a lower religious affiliation. The findings come in a Pew

Atheists should not feel left out of Christmas celebrations, according to a prominent Catholic priest, who suggests ten reasons the quintessentially Christian feast should matter to everyone–believer and non-believer alike.

In their search for ever more inventive ways to preach the Gospel, evangelizing entrepreneurs have developed a series of phone and tablet applications (apps) that are taking the Christian world by storm.

Anti-Jewish attacks are spiking to record levels across the U.S., Europe and the world (spurred largely by Islamic Jew-hatred). A “moderate” Muslim country, Algeria, has its army marching in drill chanting: “turn your guns towards the Jews in order to

Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai condemned GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims.

JAFFA, Israel – The Saudi news media continue to spotlight the story of an America employee at Jeddah’s international airport whose conversion to Islam went viral in the Kingdom last week after video of the event was published.

Mar Mattai, also known as Saint Matthew monastery, sits only 12 miles from Mosul, Iraq, but it provides shelter for numerous Christians who fled persecution from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

TEL AVIV – Palestinian terrorist organizations did not take kindly to Donald Trump’s call for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”

Before the smoke from the terror attack in San Bernardino had cleared, the liberal narrative was turned to an effort to make the murders into a means to attack Christians and those Republican candidates who had offered prayers for the victims and their families.

Brad Pitt is an atheist — because his father instilled a “Christian guilt” in him during his upbringing.

A progressive climate change alarmist website has an invaluable voting guide for the presidential election: just pick the candidates it rates least highly – and you’re surely backing a winner.

Saudi Arabia Court Sentences Poet to Death for Renouncing Islam