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HHS and DHS proposed rules that would implement Trump’s executive order that protects the religious freedom of faith-based organizations.

CT Attorney General William Tong has joined 22 other Democrat AGs in calling for the continuation of free birth control under Obamacare.

Twenty-seven of America’s state capitols will feature nativity scenes this Christmas as Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus.

The Pew Research Center asserts that the Democrat Party is divided by race, especially where faith and marriage are concerned.

Pope Francis underscored the preeminence of religious liberty Friday, calling this freedom an “incomparable right” that must be respected for the sake of the common good.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said the decision of Chick-fil-A to end its charitable donations to Christian organizations such as the Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes “does not win them friends” but will, instead, “cost them friends.”

The Trump HHS has proposed a rule that would end Obama-era regulations forcing faith-based adoption agencies to compromise their beliefs.

One message resounding loudly and clearly from the latest televised Democrat debate is how hostile the party has become toward people of faith, Catholic League President Bill Donohue said on Friday.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is vowing to fight a court’s ruling that upheld the right of wedding videographers to create videos in keeping with their faith beliefs about marriage.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke at a symposium in the Vatican Wednesday, urging a collaborative effort to end abuses of religious freedom.

Students throughout the United States will be celebrating the event known as Bring Your Bible to School Day on Thursday, October 3.

A judge ruled that Michigan faith-based adoption agencies can place children in homes in accord with their beliefs about marriage.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue praised President Trump’s address on religious liberty delivered at the U.N. Monday, noting that that his administration has produced “a huge improvement over the Obama years” in this area.

The Democratic National Committee unanimously passed a resolution that embraced nonreligious Americans and belittled Americans of faith.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has continued its clampdown on religious activities in the country, banning a number of Christian summer camps organized for children.

China’s systematic crackdown on religion under President Xi Jinping is the worst in forty years, according to a report published Thursday.

The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm Brian C. Buescher as U.S. District Judge in Nebraska after the nominee had been pilloried by pro-choice Democrats from the Senate Judiciary Committee last December for his membership in the Knights of Columbus.

The city of Boston is facing a religious discrimination suit for banning a Christian flag while allowing 284 other flags to fly at an event, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week.

The headteacher of Heavers Farm Primary School in South London suspended two 10-year-old Christian children after one of them asked for permission not to participate in an LGBT lesson during “Gay Pride Month.”

Sen. Ted Cruz said on Thursday at the Road to Majority conference that Americans need to defend freedoms or they could lose them in 2020.

Rep. Norma Torres (D-CA) spoke on the House floor Wednesday and seemingly called her pro-life colleagues “sex-starved” men who should not be voicing opinions on “women’s issues.”

The United States Bishops are calling for prayer and action “in support of religious liberty at home and abroad” during Religious Freedom Week, which will run from June 22 to June 29.

COLDSPRING, Texas — East Texas residents packed their community shelter Wednesday as county leaders addressed a call to remove four crosses from the San Jacinto County courthouse. The complaint came from the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF).

An anti-Christian organization filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Department of Veterans Affairs over a Bible displayed as part of a POW/MIA memorial, calling the Bible’s presence an “outrage.”

The Trump administration announced on the National Day of Prayer Thursday its final rule that protects the conscience rights of healthcare workers and other entities.

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its 2019 report on Monday, which found a steep decline in religious freedom in Cuba.

Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg is no friend to people of faith, warns Catholic League President Bill Donohue, but rather a “loyal soldier in the secularist war on religion.”

Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern, recalled how Chinese Christians were crying upon reception of smuggled bibles.

China has lodged a protest over remarks by the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom criticizing Beijing’s restrictive religion policies.

A jury awarded a Florida hotel dishwasher more than $21 million after determining that the woman’s employer discriminated against her religious beliefs by forcing her to work Sundays and firing her when she did not show up for religious reasons.

A federal trial court in California blocked new Trump administration conscience protections regarding abortion in a rare Sunday decision, reigniting the latest legal battle over part of Obamacare.

President Donald Trump has had as much impact on the third branch of government in two years as most presidents have in two full terms, and the new Senate opens the door for the second half of his first term to be even more significant than the first half.

Lee, a Republican, is blocking confirmation of Chai Feldblum, President Donald Trump’s nominee to the EEOC. Feldblum – a left-wing Democrat – is known as the architect of former President Barack Obama’s LGBT agenda.

A Pakistani court has sentenced two Christians in Punjab to death for the crime of blasphemy, following their arrest in 2015.

The U.S. Commission on International Freedom (USCIRF) has sharply criticized a proposed draft for Cuba’s new constitution for its removal of key references to religious liberty and freedom of conscience.

The persecution of Christians is generally ignored because, unlike Muslims and Jews, Christians have no good word to describe it, said a UK archbishop this weekend.