Algerian authorities have set a court date to try five Christians who have been accused of “inciting a Muslim to change his religion,” a criminal offence, and “performing religious worship in an unauthorized place.”
The Christian couple that recently won a Supreme Court free speech victory in the “gay cake” controversy are urging their fellow Christians to “take their stand for the word of God.”
A number of religious freedom advocates have stepped forward to criticize the Vatican’s new “provisional agreement” with China on the appointment of bishops, arguing that it betrays naïveté concerning “the evil of communism.”
Critics of a new accord between China and the Vatican on the naming of bishop are nothing but a “loud minority” trying to cause trouble, a top Vatican bishop told the Global Times.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday that under President Donald Trump, American foreign policy would not mimic former President Barack Obama’s infamous “lead from behind” strategy, but America would now be leading “from the front.”
China’s state-run Global Times boasted on Wednesday of a dramatically improved security situation in the province of Xinjiang, where the brutally oppressed Muslim Uighurs dwell. Apparently, the proliferation of re-education camps is making Xinjiang safe for tourism again.
The Chinese government’s campaign to “Sinicize” organized religion – in other words, make religion completely subordinate to the Communist Party – grew more aggressive this year and featured the destruction of Bibles, crosses, and entire churches. Religious freedom activists call it the worst crackdown on Christianity since religious freedom was nominally granted by the 1982 Chinese constitution.
During his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh stated that as a general matter, it’s good to think of the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause “working together for the concept of freedom of religion in
Beijing on Thursday blamed “reckless” local officials for sparking a massive protest against the demolition of a large mosque in the city of Weizhou. Communist officials insisted the situation is “under control” and local Muslims are now in a “good mood,” but they never quite got around to clarifying whether the mosque will indeed be demolished.
Fulani Muslim militants launched raids on eight villages in central Nigeria this week, burning alive a Christian pastor along with his wife and three of their children.
Actress Ellen Page lashed out at Ivanka Trump over her posing for a photo with evangelical pastor Jim Garlow, accusing the first daughter of “perpetuating horrible suffering and preventing equality from being realized.”
The Communist Party will retain absolute control over religious activities in China, wrote Beijing’s religion czar in a Communist Party journal this week, in the midst of talks with the Vatican to reestablish diplomatic relations.
China continued its crackdown against the Quannengshen cult, better known as “The Church of Almighty God” or “Eastern Lightning” in the West, with an unspecified number of arrests and trials in August. According to Chinese media, movement leaders and key senior followers were targeted in the latest arrests.
Communist officials have replaced two underground Gansu province parish priests who were accused of holding a summer camp for a youth group at their church.
Chinese Christians have denounced recent destruction of their churches and shrines by government authorities, comparing the actions to crushing their ancestors’ bones into ash.
Chinese government agents have demolished a Catholic church in Jinan province, bulldozing it to the ground, despite a government permit to operate legally.
Turkey’s currency, the lira, plunged to a record low on Wednesday and continued to fall Thursday following the imposition of sanctions by the United States on two Turkish officials for their roles in the detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson.
Catholic leaders in India have forcefully denounced a proposed government ban on the sacrament of confession, saying it is unconstitutional and a violation of religious freedom.
Standing up for global religious freedom is a cause that every American can participate in and the fear of a problem being “too big to solve” is “the biggest danger to freedom” generally, Kristina Arriaga, a vice chair on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), told Breitbart News.
80 percent of the world’s population lives in a country where their government represses religious rights, making advocacy for religious freedom more important than ever, Nadine Maenza, a commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), told Breitbart News in an interview.
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, has denounced the “targeting” of Christian Care Providers that subscribe to a traditional understanding of marriage in a speech at a conference on religious liberty at the Justice Department Monday .
Christian watchdog groups have voiced concern over last week’s election of former cricket star and Islamist Imran Khan as Pakistani Premier, noting Khan’s public supported the nation’s harsh blasphemy laws.
Protecting religious freedom is as important as protecting other human rights, but is seen as less important, experts said.
Ambassador Sam Brownback commended the commitments made by leaders around the world to do more to protect religious freedom.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence excoriated North Korea’s record of human rights violations Thursday, asserting that the nation’s persecution of Christians is the worst on the planet.
President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court appointee Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been a staunch defender of the rights of Americans, particularly religious freedom, said two prominent Republican representatives.
Delegations from around the globe were in Washington this week for the U.S.-led, first Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, including two representatives from the world headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses in New York who used the opportunity to highlight the persecution of followers in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
The following post is sponsored by The Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy (CRFP). Religious liberty advocates from across the country and around the globe gathered in Washington, DC, this week for the U.S. State Department’s first-ever ministerial on religious freedom.
Former Congressman Frank Wolf, author of the International Religious Freedom Act, told Breitbart News on Wednesday he believes President Donald Trump has the “right team” in place to advance religious freedom around the globe.
Two members of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said on Wednesday that the news that Turkish authorities have placed American pastor Andrew Brunson in house arrest is a good sign that his almost two-year detention from alleged terrorism charges could be coming to a close.
Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan described civil society as the “first line of defense” for religious freedom on Tuesday during the second day of the Ministerial to Advance to Religious Freedom at the State Department in Washington, DC.
The State Department is bringing together Christian and other religious leaders from all corners of the world this week for a ministerial advocating religious freedom around the world, including Muslim-majority nations like Pakistan, predominantly Hindu India, and communist China, where both Christians and Muslims face harsh oppression.
The U.S. State Department holds the first-ever Religious Freedom Ministerial this week in Washington, DC — a major accomplishment for President Donald Trump’s administration and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Vatican Radio Monday that President Trump has made religious freedom a “true priority” for his administration, on the eve of the State Department’s first-ever international summit on religious freedom.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. is working to secure the freedom of Pastor Andrew Brunson, who remains in a Turkish jail.
A Scottish university fired its Catholic chaplain this week after the priest held a liturgical service in reparation for the sins of Gay Pride.
Egyptian Muslim men routinely treat Christian women as “whores,” which makes life in Egyptian society a living hell, a female Coptic journalist wrote in a revealing op-ed this week.
“It is incredibly important in President Trump’s administration to make the clarion call for religious freedom all around the world,” Mikw Pompeo told Tony Perkins, a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
The bishops of England and Wales have urged the UK government to begin publishing an annual religious freedom report similar to that produced each year by the U.S. State Department to help “strengthen the UK’s work in this area.”
A medical doctor with 26 years of experience working at the National Health Service (NHS) has been deemed “unfit to work” after insisting on identifying patients by their biological sex.
