Category: Religious Freedom

After pushback from investors, Microsoft has signed a statement agreeing not to discriminate against religious or conservative nonprofit groups seeking a discount the tech giant offers to other nonprofits.

Austria’s state broadcaster, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), aired a segment on its flagship ZIB1 news program last week that vilified Christian social media influencers—dubbed “Christfluencers”—as dangerous radicals preying on vulnerable youth. The report scrutinized everyday believers sharing their faith online through Bible verses, prayer calls, and testimonies, framing their peaceful outreach as a form of extremism akin to online radicalization. Yet, in a glaring double standard, it made no mention of far more inflammatory Islamist accounts that openly promote hate and jihadist ideology.

Colorado has excluded Catholic preschools from its ‘universal preschool program’ because they uphold Church teaching, and now a group of Catholics is asking the Supreme Court to intervene. A group of Catholic students and parents backed by the Archdiocese of Denver has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene against the state of Colorado’s attempts to exclude them from a universal preschool program on the basis of their faith.

Europe is facing a growing wave of anti-Christian violence, with Germany recording the highest number of arson attacks in 2024. According to the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe), a total of 2,211 anti-Christian offenses were documented across the continent, including 274 personal attacks involving physical violence and threats.

The episode that shook one of the most important voices of the conservative Catholic world in Italy during the summer of 2025—namely the blog Messainlatino.it—remains one of the most eloquent signs of the ethical fragilities afflicting today’s digital ecosystem. The blog was taken offline for twelve days by Google-Blogger under the generic accusation of ‘hate speech.’ It was deprived, without prior notice, of its public space, despite the editors’ attention and care in balancing full conformity of the content with Catholic doctrine and the utmost respect owed to individuals.

According to Judge Jennifer Nofsinger of Maine’s District Court, Emily Bickford isn’t allowed to take her 11-year-old to church on Sunday or any other day of the week.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at shielding faith-based foster care and adoption agencies from discrimination by state governments that mandate participation in LGBT placements. The order, signed on November 14, 2025, directs the Department of Health and Human Services to withhold federal funding from any state that penalizes religious providers for operating according to their sincerely held beliefs that marriage is between one man and one woman and that gender is determined at birth.

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