A group of Christians living in the midst of an animist village in central India have been ostracized to the point of not being able to collect firewood or pasture their animals for refusing to renounce their faith.
The Catholic Church in Vietnam has inaugurated a new national Catholic university, the first institution of its kind since the country was reunified under communist rule in 1975 following the Vietnam War.
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee for Religious Liberty has blasted the head of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) for his recent attacks on religious liberty, calling him “reckless” for labeling religious people as bigots.
WASHINGTON—Donald Trump and Mike Pence rallied Christian conservatives at the Values Voter Summit (VVS) in the nation’s capital last week, with the Republican nominee warning that when it comes to the Supreme Court, if a president were to “pick the wrong people, you have a country that is no longer your country. It will be a disaster.”
Hobby Lobby founder and CEO David Green authored a USA Today op-ed on Thursday denouncing Hillary Clinton’s militant opposition to traditional Christian beliefs and insisting that her Supreme Court picks would rule against Christians’ rights. He also announced that he is endorsing Donald Trump to ensure a Supreme Court that will uphold Americans’ First Amendment rights under the Constitution.
FORT WORTH, Tex.—A federal judge on Monday ruled in favor of 13 states against President Barack Obama’s directive that public schools must allow students and adults to enter whatever bathrooms or showers they choose, a policy imposing transgenderism on the nation’s schools.
The media is suddenly full of stories on Trump’s “Mormon problem.” According to the mainstream media, Trump’s call for “extreme vetting” of Muslim immigrants in his foreign policy speech kicked open a hornets’ nest of Mormon concerns about “religious tolerance.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued an opinion stating it does not violate the Establishment Clause to open a court session with the statement “God save the State of Texas and this Honorable Court” or to open court with a prayer, or have a volunteer chaplain program to facilitate those prayers. An atheist group from Wisconsin had complained about the practice.
A California lawmaker who is sponsoring a bill that would have allowed the use of taxpayer dollars to punish and publicly shame Christian universities for operating according to their beliefs has removed an offending provision from the legislation.
The State Bar of Texas has dismissed a grievance complaint against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his AG opinion interpreting the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage. Democrat lawyer Steve Fischer led the effort and solicited others on Facebook to join him. A grievance filed by a gay former Democrat state legislator and current Democratic Party of Texas staffer has also not resulted in disciplinary action.
Republican consultant Rick Wilson, the day before he announced an independent presidential candidate more obscure than David French, admitted that President Hillary Clinton would wreak havoc on the issues that conservatives hold dear… but somehow, President Donald Trump would be even worse.
Although Hillary Clinton and the beleaguered Democratic National Committee (DNC) are attempting to paint Donald Trump and Mike Pence as out of step with the country on abortion, recent polling shows that a majority of Americans actually agree with Trump-Pence on this hot-button issue, while Clinton is pushing an abortion agenda that almost 80 percent of Americans oppose.
The Obama administration says it is opposed to a bill that would prevent any federal, state, or local government from punishing or discriminating against pro-life healthcare providers who refuse to perform or participate in abortions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed legislation this week that severely restricts freedom of religion by prohibiting any religious speech or evangelization outside of places of worship.
An Iowa Civil Rights Commission (CRC) brochure titled “A Public Accommodations Provider’s Guide to Iowa Law,” interprets a 2007 state law according to the Obama administration’s recent gender fluid ideology decrees.
“This case is an ominous sign,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in dissent when the Supreme Court refused today to hear an important religious liberty case, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas joining the June 28 statement expressing Alito’s alarm.
In a recent op-ed, writer Matthew Archbold decries the modern tendency to avoid religious language in public, promising “good thoughts” rather than prayers for people, in a bow to a secular environment where Christianity is seen as “the new secondhand smoke.”
When a veteran started offering traditional remarks at a military flag-folding ceremony, several uniformed airmen assaulted him, dragging him out of the room because his remarks mentioned God. Now First Liberty Institute lawyers representing retired Senior Master Sergeant Oscar Rodriguez are demanding that the U.S. Air Force apologize and punish those responsible or face a federal civil-rights lawsuit.
The full U.S. House of Representatives swats down a transgender measure, just hours after 43 Republicans voted for a Democratic amendment that would have forced transgender rules on all 50 states, and disqualify faith-based groups including the Salvation Army from doing business with the federal government.
The planned religious monument dubbed the “Tallest Cross in America” is heading to a Corpus Christi, Texas, court on Tuesday. San Antonio atheist Patrick Greene filed a lawsuit against the Abundant Life Fellowship to stop its planned construction of a 230-foot cross.
After Monday’s big victory for the Little Sisters of the Poor against Obamacare, Pope Francis has made a robust case for religious freedom, arguing that it is absolutely essential for a modern secular state.
Governor Mike Pence earned national praise today for appointing conservative stalwart Geoffrey Slaughter to the Indiana Supreme Court.
China’s Communist government has lodged a formal diplomatic complaint with the U.S. government for what it is calling a biased and distorted “attack” on China’s religious policies, after the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) issued a scathing report on the state of religious liberty in the country.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne, Rainer Maria Woelki, has publicly criticized leaders of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party for their statements against Islam, insisting that “whoever says ‘yes’ to church towers must also say ‘yes’ to minarets.”
As part of its ongoing crusade to eradicate symbols of Christianity throughout China, communist authorities in the coastal Zhejiang province have demolished yet another Christian church building after reportedly claiming that the church’s cross was too high and thus in violation of building codes.
In a move reminiscent of the first plague of Egypt, the city of Rome will dye its most emblematic fountain blood red in commemoration of the many new martyrs killed in our time for their faith in Jesus Christ.
Lawyers from First Liberty Institute representing Dr. Eric Walsh filed a federal lawsuit today, after Georgia’s Department of Public Health (DPH) fired Walsh allegedly because government agents did not like the sermons he preached in his church.
Father Yang Jianwei is the fifth priest from the underground Catholic Church in China to mysteriously go missing in the last month, in what appears to be a concentrated round-up of so-called dissidents by China’s communist party.
“Repression and coercion markedly increased” in Communist China during the year 2015, according to a new U.S. State Department report, which describes organizations and individuals that suffered egregious attacks on their religious, civil, and political rights.
Ted Cruz says same-sex marriage is a policy issue that should be decided by voters in the states and not by “five unelected lawyers in Washington.”
State legislators from across America are fighting back against the LGBT agenda and their activist’s retaliation against states over religious liberty legislation. Forty Texas state legislators joined with over one-hundred legislators nationally in writing to business leaders who are threatening action against states who have passed such bills.
The national director of Priests for Life is responding to Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards’ assertion that the “hypocrisy” of religious groups seeking an exemption from Obamacare’s HHS contraceptive mandate is “profound.”
A new study on textbooks used in Pakistan’s public schools found “deeply troubling content” in the representation of Christians and other minority religions as fundamentally inferior and less trustworthy than Muslims. The comprehensive report, Teaching Intolerance in Pakistan: Religious Bias
From the earliest centuries to our own time, martyrdom is always present in the Christian Church, Pope Francis said Tuesday, in recalling the scores of Pakistani Christians slaughtered in the Easter Day massacre just two weeks ago and the many who suffer for religious liberty under unjust laws.
Texas businesses join forces with LGBT activists to fight potential religious liberty legislation being proposed for the 2017 legislative session. The business leaders seek to avoid retaliation from gay rights activists if such legislation were to be passed.
Republican presidential candidate Ohio Governor John Kasich stated that he’s “a traditional marriage guy” but that “We had a Supreme Court ruling, and you know what, let’s move on” and “What are we going to do, write a law? I
Canadian rocker Bryan Adams canceled a planned concert in Mississippi this week over the state’s recent passage of what he called the “extremely discriminatory, anti-LGBT” Religious Liberty bill.
Texas Pastors who where hit with subpoenas during their fight against the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, dubbed “HERO” by the city’s first openly gay mayor, sent a letter to Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant thanking him for signing a religious liberty
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s governor signed a law Tuesday that allows religious groups and some private businesses to refuse service to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people based on religious beliefs. Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed the bill without
Ted Cruz says Georgia’s Republican governor chose to “side with leftist activists and side against religious liberty.”
