Category: Religious Freedom
Highlights from ‘Rededicate 250’ Day of Worship and Prayer at the National Mall
Hundreds of thousands gathered on the National Mall on Sunday, May 17, for Rededicate 250, a day-long event to worship and pray for America ahead of our nation’s 250th birthday celebration. Millions more watched online, as speakers read Scripture and rededicated our country as “One Nation to God.”
Pastors, Christian leaders and politicians took part in the rededication, which marked the 250th anniversary of the Second Continental Congress’ call “for the colonies to pause, repent, and seek God’s guidance as war with Britain loomed.” Here are some highlights from the worship and prayer gathering.
Read MoreWhite House official promotes faith-based drug abuse prevention and recovery programs
A new Office of National Drug Control Policy report emphasizes the important role of faith-based partnerships.
Read MoreCliffe Knechtle, son Stuart reveal why anxiety is causing Gen Z to ask harder questions about faith
On college campuses across America, from Dartmouth College to Harvard University, Cliffe Knechtle has spent decades fielding difficult questions of the faith: Why does God allow suffering? Is Christianity anti-science? Isn’t morality subjective? And increasingly, in the age of therapy culture and TikTok spirituality: Can God coexist with anxiety and mental health struggles?
Read MoreBritish Pop Star Raye Says It’s the Bible, Not Instagram, That Has Life’s Answers
English-born pop star Raye says it’s the Bible — not Instagram — that guides her in life. “I look for answers in a Bible app, not cruising Instagram,” she said during a recent interview with The Times, a British newspaper.
Read MoreAnalysis: Harvard Global Flourishing study compares Latter-day Saints with people of other faith and no faith
In addition to highest rates of weekly church attendance and feeling loved by a mother and father, Latter-day Saints are among the highest in being ‘highly happy’ and ‘feeling comfort from their faith’
Read MoreReligious freedom division restored at U.S. health agency’s civil rights office
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is set to reestablish a civil rights division focused on religious liberty and conscience protections that was initially created during President Donald Trump’s first administration.
Read More4 Reasons Hollywood Has Trouble Getting a Box Office Hit
When we remove the basic components of a good story – faith, love, heroism, and class differences – because they no longer fit with a politically correct view of the world, we’re left with boredom and apathy.
Read MoreGhanaian bishop calls out Western sexual ethics
Bishop John Opoku-Agyemang of Ghana’s Catholic Diocese of Konongo-Mampong delivered a pointed homily this week at a joint ecumenical service in Accra, warning that Western sexual ethics are eroding Christian moral standards across Ghana — and drawing a direct line between sexual permissiveness, abortion, materialism, and corruption.
Read MoreOregon fines Catholic counselor $90,000 for declining to personally affirm same-sex relationship
The Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists has fined licensed counselor Frank Canepa $89,636 for declining — once, after 44 sessions in which he never raised the subject — to personally bless a client’s same-sex relationship when she demanded it.
Read MoreTrump signs new national counterterrorism strategy — transgender ideology-motivated violence named as top threat
President Trump has signed the first new National Counterterrorism Strategy of his second term, identifying three priority threat categories: narcoterrorists and transnational gangs, legacy Islamist terrorists, and — in a significant departure from prior administrations — violent left-wing extremists, including those motivated by radically pro-transgender ideology.
Read MoreFrench court convicts gay couple who burglarized Catholic churches
A French court has convicted two homosexual men of burglarizing 29 Catholic churches over three months last summer, stealing sacred vessels, consecrated hosts, and liturgical items from rural parishes across northern France.
Read MoreDOJ’s Report on Anti-Christian Bias Mistakes Policy for Persecution
When the U.S. Department of Justice released its report on “eradicating anti-Christian bias” last week, the argument it sought to settle had long hardened along familiar fault lines. For some, the document confirmed what they see as a years-long sidelining of Christian voices in public life. For others, it read less like a civil rights diagnosis and more like a reframing of political grievances as religious persecution.
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