Freedom of religion
William Barr is right: Secularists are imposing their own religion
Attorney General William Barr gave a powerful speech last week on religious liberty in America at Notre Dame Law School. If you missed it, it’s well worth reading. Barr traced the central role of religious liberty in our nation’s history and the importance of a morally disciplined and virtuous citizenry for maintaining a ...
Kentucky school removes ‘prayer locker’ after receiving complaint from a national organization
A high school in Eastern Kentucky is removing a tradition allowing students to submit anonymous prayer requests so someone can pray for them. Now, Pike Central High School students have to find a new way to pray after receiving a complaint letter from Americans United for Separation of Church and State ...
Trump announces new protections for religious liberty, conscience on National Day of Prayer
President Donald Trump spoke out on religious freedom Thursday, as he vowed to protect conscience rights and to combat anti-Semitism. “Just today, we finalized new protections of conscience rights for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, teachers, students, and faith-based charities,” Trump said at a White House Rose Garden event with faith leaders from ...
James Lankford: Defending religious freedom means living your faith
Not living one’s faith can become a threat to religious liberty, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said while speaking on a panel Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “One of the greatest challenges we have to religious liberty in this modern day is people that actually claim a faith and don’t ...
Pro-religion Trump administration will counter China’s crackdown on believers
“There has never been a president who has been tougher (but fair) on China or Russia,” President Donald Trump tweeted on Dec. 21, 2018. There has never been a president who has been tougher (but fair) on China or Russia - Never, just look at the facts. The Fake News tries ...
Faith-based shelter fights to keep out transgender women
A conservative Christian law firm that has pushed religious issues in multiple states will urge a U.S. judge on Friday to block Alaska's largest city from requiring a faith-based women's shelter to accept transgender women. Alliance Defending Freedom has sued the city of Anchorage to stop it from applying a gender ...
Envoy says Trump willing to ‘stand up and push’ for global religious freedom
President Donald Trump is committed to pushing for greater tolerance of different faiths by governments around the world and dismantling an “iron curtain of religious persecution,” his envoy for religious freedom said in an interview with The Daily Signal. “Most people in the world move by what their faith tells them,” ...
Ukraine’s leader: Orthodox faithful to get religious freedom
Ukraine's president has promised Orthodox parishioners that they will be free to choose their affiliation after the creation of the new autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church.A view of the 1000-year old Monastery of Caves in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. The Ukrainian intelligence agency is searching the home of the ...
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