Former National Security Advisor John Bolton claims President Donald Trump told China’s president to go ahead with Muslim concentration camps in June 2019, but the Trump administration had condemned them already in July 2018.
Franklin Graham said the Supreme Court overstepped its authority in a ruling making sexual orientation and gender identity protected classes.
The Catholic Coalition Against Religious Tests for Office is pushing five sitting Democrat senators to stand up to party leadership on behalf of religious liberty and against anti-Catholic bigotry.
A mob incited by Hindu radicals killed a 16-year-old Christian boy in Eastern India last week, stabbing him with knives and smashing in his face with a stone, Morning Star News reported.
A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit against a Missouri abortion law filed by a member of the Satanic Temple.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted China’s egregious violations of religious liberty, telling journalists on Wednesday the Chinese Communist Party has been waging a “decades-long war on faith.”
A Baptist church association and two business owners filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the state of Illinois, charging it with religious liberty violations related to a radical law that forces health insurance policies to provide coverage for abortions.
Countless American believers in the Bible, myself included, were inspired tremendously on Monday when President Trump stood in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church, across the street from the White House, and held up the Word of God for all to see.
A number of prominent Catholics have reacted strongly to a statement by Washington, DC, Archbishop Wilton Gregory denouncing President Trump for visiting a shrine to Pope John Paul II.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on advancing international religious freedom Tuesday, shortly after visiting a Washington D.C. shrine to Pope John Paul II.
A leading conservative national public interest law firm has defended President Trump’s call for the reopening of churches, insisting they provide “essential” services.
The French Council of State has ordered that a ban on public worship be lifted, ruling that it constitutes a “serious and manifestly unlawful attack” on freedom of worship.
The Irish government will not lift its ban on public worship until July 20th, despite reopening restaurants, public libraries, opticians, and numerous other “non-essential activities.
The Italian government permitted churches to reopen for public worship Monday but not without pages of meticulously worded rules, regulations, and restrictions.
The Catholic bishop of Providence, RI, Thomas J. Tobin, has challenged the authority of the state to shut down the religious worship of its citizens.
Churches are filing lawsuits against Democrat governors who do not include them among the “essential” services that may immediately “reopen.”
The 2020 presidential election is not so much a clash of personalities as a “clash of worldviews,” writes Father Frank Pavone, and at the core of the battle is people’s views on the right to life of the unborn.
Two federal courts blocked Democrat Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s ban on “any in-person religious service” during the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
A group of armed men raided a Christian church in Punjab, Pakistan, on Saturday, desecrating a cross and demolishing a gate and a boundary wall, L’Observatoire de la Christianophobie reported Monday.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s plan to reopen his state calls for bans of gatherings of more than 50 people, including worship services, until a vaccine or treatment for the coronavirus is “widely available.”
The United Kingdom’s Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) argued before the High Court that Christian groups should not allow their religious beliefs to influence their professional activities.
In the course of its days-long sputtering tirade against U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for daring to criticize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chinese state media on Tuesday blasted Pompeo’s Christianity and claimed the entire Trump administration has been “kidnapped” by evangelicals.
The Supreme Court appeared divided along the usual conservative-liberal ideological lines during oral arguments Wednesday in the case of Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania.
The Little Sisters of the Poor will return to the Supreme Court Wednesday to ask that Pennsylvania be blocked from removing their religious exemption from Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate.
Two Wisconsin residents sued state and local officials Monday over a stay-at-home order that bans religious gatherings of more than nine people, and all public protests, while allowing larger gatherings in stores and other settings.
Muslim Fulani raiders in northwest Nigeria slaughtered 12 Christians and kidnapped a couple from their church wedding ceremony in recent days, Christian Today reports.
Pakistan’s Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs has called for the beheading of people who commit blasphemy.
The Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is tolerating, or engaging in, the violent and “particularly severe” persecution of Muslim and Christian minorities in India, a bipartisan U.S. watchdog group reported this week, echoing several other assessments.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has designated India as a “country of particular concern” (CPC) for the first time since 2004, declaring that the government engages in or tolerates “particularly severe” violations of religious freedom.
Law professor Maria Lucia Di Bitonto has written a scathing legal analysis of the Italian government’s ban on public worship, saying the state’s actions have been “unacceptable, illegitimate, and unconstitutional” and more closely resemble the measures adopted by Chinese communists than a democratic regime.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr issued a warning Monday to state and local governments not to infringe on fundamental freedoms and civil rights in their enforcement of coronavirus restrictions, specifically warning against religious discrimination.
The Italian Bishops’ Conference has issued a strongly worded rebuke to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte over his “arbitrary” decision to exclude public worship from the activities being opened up under new coronavirus lockdown rules.
Human-rights watchdog Bitter Winter on Saturday criticized the government of China for its long-standing, but increasingly abusive, practice of classifying human rights activists, religious believers, and other dissidents as “mentally ill” and holding them in psychiatric hospitals where they are kept docile with drugs.
Chinese police raided the homes of members of the Early Rain Covenant Church on Easter Sunday, arresting six church leaders for participating in an online religious service.
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Monday reported China’s underground churches used digital resources to commemorate the Easter holiday during a time of coronavirus emergency and heightened government repression.
Jack Phillips, the baker who was sued for refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding because of his religious conscience, was back in court on Thursday, this time for turning down a request for a “gender transition” cake.
Human-rights website Bitter Winter reported on Monday that over 300 Protestant churches were shut down by the Chinese government in 2019 in a war on religious liberty that continues unabated during the coronavirus pandemic.
Italian law enforcement intervened at the end of a Palm Sunday Mass celebrated by Bishop Raffaello Martinelli with some 40 persons in attendance.
Italian Catholics have launched a petition asking bishops to restore Masses and the other sacraments to the faithful during the coronavirus lockdown, joining a similar movement in the United States.
Italy’s Interior Ministry decreed Friday that going to a church to pray does not constitute a valid reason for leaving one’s home during the coronavirus lockdown, and violators are subject to heavy sanctions.