Category: Religious Freedom

Thousands of prayer gatherings will be held nationwide on Thursday to celebrate the National Day of Prayer

A leader from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has accused the Biden administration of advancing an “ideological view of sex,” condemning a forthcoming rule that could require faith-based healthcare providers to perform or provide surgical or hormonal transgender interventions.

Four Nihang Sikhs, who as members of the traditional warrior group are permitted to carry such weapons, attacked Pastor Gurjeet Singh, alias Gurjeet Rinku, and his younger brother Gurdeep Singh on Thursday (April 18) in Sultanwind village, Amritsar District, a relative said. The assailants first told Gurdeep Singh, and later Pastor Singh, “We have warned you earlier as well to not conduct church and not convert people, but you have not paid heed,” according to Daljit Kaur, the pastor’s wife and an eyewitness.

In what appears to be the 250th attack on a Catholic Church since the Dobbs decision was leaked in early 2022, abortion activists vandalized a church in Oregon with graphic messages. People heading to church services Sunday morning at St. Patrick’s Church in northwest Portland, Oregon arrived to find disturbing pro-abortion messages on the church door and sidewalk. The front door bears a stain from where staff had to have a previous pro-abortion message removed.

Islamist extremists reportedly set fire to several Christian houses and businesses in southern Egypt last week.

Marchers are setting out in the nation’s capital on Saturday to call attention to the plight of persecuted Christians throughout the world.

A Catholic teenager has been suspended from his Ontario public high school for wearing a sweatshirt reading “There are only two genders.” Malachy O’Kane, 16, was suspended on April 18, the second day he decided to wear his gender critical shirt to the Granite Ridge Education Centre in Sharbot Lake, a village near Kingston, Ontario. He was excluded from school for six days, beginning Friday, April 19.

Brandeis University president Ron Liebowitz announced this week that he and the administration had extended the deadline for transfer applications in order to accommodate Jewish students who may wish to leave their current college or university to enroll at Brandeis as anti-Israel encampments spring up across the country.

The non-profit also denounced that “the international community has not exerted sufficient pressure on the warring parties to stop violating the human rights of people caught up in this war”. The conflict in Sudan is causing the worst displacement crisis in the world, worse than those in Ukraine or Gaza, with over seven million people internally displaced and another two million abroad, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).