Religious freedom

A bill that would block federal tax dollars from schools that refuse to allow religious exemptions for vaccinations has been introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who argued that educational institutions “need to learn we don’t all worship Fauci.”

Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom, who the league sidelined after he condemned China’s ongoing genocide in East Turkistan, confirmed to Breitbart News this week that he continues to face persecution from the government of his native Turkey and urged Americans to “speak up and act” against repressors.

Former North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker (R), whom President Donald Trump recently appointed to a newly-created religious liberty role, said the administration is “relentless” in holding the rest of the world “accountable” for protecting human rights in an exclusive interview on Breitbart News Saturday.

Pastor Doug Wilson, the Minister of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, described the Senate not moving to confirm former Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC) as President Donald Trump’s Religious Freedom ambassador as being “inexplicable,” during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday.

Syria has approved the first Jewish organization to be officially recognized since Syria became an independent nation in the 1940s.

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.

The State Department said on Thursday that America is “comprehensively reviewing our relationship with the Government of Tanzania” due to concerns over the “ongoing repression of religious freedom and free speech.”

Chinese officials on Tuesday arrested 18 leaders of the underground Zion Church. Almost thirty pastors and staffers have been detained, without formal arrest, since the middle of October.

Nigeria’s Premium Times newspaper reported on Thursday, in the context of the federal government claiming to release over 500 hostages from “bandit” captivity, that the government has threatened locals plagued by jihadist violence with arrest if they speak publicly on the slaughter.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu said on Tuesday that he regarded President Donald Trump’s expression of concern for oppressed Christians as a “threat,” and that confronting violent extremists will make Nigeria “come out stronger.”

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning expressed support for the government of Nigeria on Tuesday, and claimed President Donald Trump was only interested in the slaughter of Christians as an “excuse” to interfere in Nigerian politics.

The Chinese Communist government launched its biggest crackdown on Christians in years over the weekend, detaining dozens of pastors from “house churches,” including Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, the founder of one of China’s biggest evangelical churches.

Canadian churches are being fined thousands of dollars and harassed by leftist protesters for hosting performances by Christian singer and conservative activist Sean Feucht, who said he has been labeled an “extremist” for his religious beliefs.

Nearly sixty per cent of people in France believe that the general state of freedom has eroded under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, a survey has found.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has introduced legislation to mandate a review of all the religious exemption requests received from military servicemembers who did not want to be forced to receive the coronavirus vaccination and “authorize corrective action” for those whose careers suffered for not getting the jab, Breitbart News has learned.

Phil Sechler discusses the case he argued before the Supreme Court on behalf of a charter school that was denied state funding due to its religious beliefs.

The United States is “concerned about freedom of expression in the United Kingdom”, the State Department warns in a statement.

The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday ordered the dissolution of the Unification Church, the influential cult linked to the 2022 assassination of former prime minister Abe Shinzo.

Chinese officials have reportedly ordered Uyghur Muslims in occupied East Turkistan to file video proof they are not fasting for the Muslim holiday of Ramadan.

A U.S. Veterans Affairs chaplain’s lawyers are taking action after he was allegedly sanctioned for a sermon he delivered in June.

Chinese officials have evicted over a thousand Tibetan monks and nuns from a 45-year-old Buddhist academy, ostensibly because they lacked the necessary residency documentation. 

Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II told the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, DC, last week that Christians remain apprehensive about the new jihadi regime in Damascus, but they hope to play a “vital and pivotal role” in rebuilding their homeland.

President Donald Trump on Thursday told a prayer breakfast in Washington that he will create a task force to “immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, which was absolutely terrible, the IRS, the FBI and other agencies.”

Gay rights activist Father James Martin has renewed his attacks on Catholic Vice President JD Vance, insisting Vance does not understand the purpose of religious freedom.

The jihadi insurgents who overthrew Syrian dictator Bashar Assad in December are using Islamic sharia law to train new police recruits – a troubling development for minorities who doubt the new regime’s promises to protect religious freedom.

Protests broke out in Syria’s coastal cities after a video showing an Alawite shrine attacked by unknown militants appeared on social media.

Hundreds of Christians marched through the streets of Damascus on Tuesday to protest the burning of a Christmas tree in a village in central Syria. Christians have been highly skeptical of promises to protect all religious minorities made by the Islamist rebel leaders who overthrew dictator Bashar Assad.

Syrian insurgent leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani when he was a high-ranking al-Qaeda member, on Sunday repeated his promise that the new Syria would be inclusive and respectful of minority groups.

The Satanic Temple display outside the New Hampshire State House has been vandalized for the second time since it was erected next to a Christian Nativity scene this month.

British soccer player Marc Guehi is speaking out after he was reprimanded for writing “I Love Jesus” on an armband he wore.

Crystal Palace captain Marc Guehi has learned his fate for daring having written “I love Jesus” on the LGBTQ rainbow armband.

ROME — The number of anti-Christian hate crimes in Turkey more than doubled from 2021 to 2023, according to a report from International Christian Concern (ICC).

Hundreds of prominent buildings around the world were illuminated in red on November 20 to mark Red Wednesday, an annual event in support of persecuted Christians.

The Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs has issued a damning report revealing the U.S. State Department’s promotion of atheism abroad in the name of “religious freedom.”