China watchdog organization Bitter Winter reported on Wednesday that Chinese security forces conducted a massive crackdown against the Church of Almighty God (CAG) in the northern province of Shanxi over the past two weeks. State security officials said over a thousand arrests were made in the interest of “maintaining social order” during the Chinese Communist Party’s centennial celebration.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has denounced recent court decisions in Algeria violating the religious freedom of Christians.
House Democrats blocked consideration of a bill Wednesday that would have codified the Hyde Amendment into federal law and banned taxpayer funding of abortion.
The vast majority of voters believe religious freedom is “very” important to a healthy American society, and half of Americans do not believe that churches and faith-based charities should be required to hire people who oppose their religious beliefs, a Summit.org/Rasmussen Reports survey released this week found.
California has agreed to pay more than $2 million in legal fees to attorneys representing churches placed under severe restrictions during the pandemic.
Emails show Dr. Anthony Fauci recommended canceling religious “services” March 5, 2020, but okayed campaign rallies and cruise ships for the healthy four days afterwards.
The Union of Pentecostal Churches of Lithuania has written an open letter condemning Finland’s prosecution of Christians who hold biblical beliefs concerning marriage and sexuality.
A group of prominent scholars and human rights advocates have written an open letter to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to protest state prosecutions of Christians in Finland over biblical beliefs regarding marriage.
Human rights watchdog group Bitter Winter noted on Wednesday that while China’s hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympics has been roundly criticized over Beijing’s abuse of Uyghur Muslims, a less well-known outrage is China’s decision to hold skiing competitions in the Chahar region, where Catholics were brutally oppressed after World War II.
Barr delivered a speech in which he cautioned the biggest threat to religious liberty today is the militant secular-progressive education in our state-run schools.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has added further restrictions on Christian content on the social media platform WeChat, the Barnabas Fund reported Monday.
FRC’s Tony Perkins said Fox News’ story that faith groups met with GOP Senate staff to craft an Equality Act “compromise” is misleading.
The World Uyghur Congress, an advocacy group for the persecuted ethnic minority, accused the Communist Party of China on Thursday of staging fake celebrations for Eid, the Muslim holiday celebrating the end of the holy month of Ramadan, to disguise its brutal oppression of Muslims.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue warned Wednesday that Christians who live in North America and Europe face an increasingly hostile secularism hidden beneath a cloak of progress and new “rights.”
Chinese authorities have significantly intensified their crackdown on all religious minorities over the past two years, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) revealed Tuesday in a comprehensive report.
Nearly one third of the world’s countries, where two thirds of the world’s population live, violate religious freedom, the pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reported Tuesday.
The Archbishop of Armagh, Eamon Martin, has sharply criticized a ban on public worship, calling the measure “draconian,” “provocative,” and “unnecessary.”
Over a thousand Christian leaders in the UK have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson protesting proposed coronavirus vaccine passports as an illicit “form of coercion.”
Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez warned Thursday that as U.S. politics and culture become more “aggressively secular,” America risks losing its soul.
The Indiana legislature has passed a bill declaring religious service to be “essential” during a state of emergency and prohibiting the imposition of a “substantial burden” on them without a compelling government interest.
Religious freedom champion Nina Shea called out U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken Monday, asserting that his alteration of America’s human-rights policy “does a grave disservice to millions who are persecuted for their faith.”
The leaders of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said Sunday they are “flattered” to be on the list of those the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has sanctioned.
The Archdiocese of Mexico City has published a voting guide to assist Catholics in the upcoming June 6 national elections.
The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision late on Friday that California must lift its coronavirus pandemic restrictions on in-home religious gatherings and prayer meetings.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cracked down hard this week on two local officials in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region for supposedly giving material support to terrorism.
The Irish bishops have sharply criticized the government for continuing to ban public worship, insisting that leaders fail to grasp the importance of religion for the people.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) held a rally outside the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to support the oppressed Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang province. The group promoted the rally under the social media hashtag #CallItGenocide.
The former archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles Chaput, noted in an interview Friday that religious liberty is in peril in the United States due to declining appreciation for the importance of faith.
President Biden’s choice of Linda Thomas-Greenfield as U.N. Ambassador is a disaster for persecuted Christians according to an article Thursday in the Christian Post.
LGBT activists have heaped criticism on South Dakota’s recently passed Religious Freedom Act, which provides protections for the exercise of religious liberty.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki did not respond to a question on Tuesday about whether President Joe Biden would force doctors to perform abortions and transgender surgeries against their faith beliefs.
The U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed on Friday a California county must let five churches hold indoor services, adding to a line of orders that have curbed the power of government officials as they battle the spread of the coronavirus.
The Heritage Foundation exposed 11 of the most revolutionary demands in the Democrats’ so-called Equality Act, which would force Americans to accept the transgender ideology’s far-reaching claim that each person’s legal sex is determined by their inner feelings of “gender identity,” not by their measurable biology.
If enacted, the Equality Act would have a major impact on children and their parents, upending the culture as American families now know it.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) noted Thursday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives that the Equality Act, which would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexuality and gender identity, does not allow for religious exemptions.
Voice of America News (VOA) reported on Wednesday the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is targeting a new Muslim community for persecution, much like the Uyghurs of Xinjiang province: a much smaller group called the Utsuls who live primarily on the tropical resort island of Hainan.
ROME — Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican’s foreign minister, declared this week that efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus must respect basic human rights such as religious freedom.
Joe Biden urged Congress to “swiftly pass” the Equality Act, a bill that would eliminate the legal recognition of male and female sex.
A Christian pastor from Edmonton, Canada, has been jailed for breaking Alberta’s Public Health Act by continuing to hold church services when ordered to stop.
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has denounced the “colossal overstep of governmental authority” evidenced by California’s bans on religious worship.