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Liberty Counsel has announced a “historic” $10.3 million settlement for health care workers who were fired for not getting a COVID vaccination. According to CBN News, NorthShore University Health System was sued by more than 500 current and former healthcare workers who say they were unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the hospital’s […]
President Biden declared last week that the US economy is not in a recession. However, the Commerce Department reported on Thursday that the US economy shrank for the second consecutive quarter, meeting the definition for a so-called technical recession. Unsurprisingly, the president’s critics took to the media on Friday to lambast his unwillingness to […]
July 25, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Severe persecution of Hmong Christians is underway in Nghe An Province in Vietnam. In the central Vietnam province, officials vying with each other to create “Christian-free zones” operate “with no conscience or humanity,” as if they were in a different country than the one whose religious freedom measures […]
Did you hear about sharks that can walk on land? Or the “city-killer asteroids” now being discovered in an unexplored region of our solar system? Or the company that wants to pay you $100,000 a year to taste candy? As you might guess, the first two stories are not the threats they appear to […]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is warning that religious liberty is in peril around the world partly because of the waning influence of religion itself. “It is hard to convince people that religious liberty is worth defending if they don’t think that religion is a good thing that deserves protection,” Alito said last week at […]
Recent data shows that the long-held thought that women are more religious than men may be changing. According to Christianity Today, new Gallup survey data showed that among those born in 1980, the religion-gender gap narrows to about two percentage points. Among those born in 1990, that gap disappears, and with those born in 2000 […]
A coalition of more than 80 Christian and faith-based groups is urging senators to oppose a bill affirming same-sex marriage legalization, calling the legislation an “attack” on people of faith. The bill, dubbed the Respect for Marriage Act (H.R. 8404), would ensure that same-sex marriage remains legal if the high court reverses its 2015 Obergefell […]
Pope Francis apologized Monday for the Catholic Church’s involvement with Canada’s past Indigenous residential schools, which forced Native people to assimilate into Christian society. “I am deeply sorry,” Francis said this week at a former residential school in Alberta. “I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples.” […]
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 25, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A Christian in eastern Uganda died on July 10 from head injuries sustained in an attack by Muslim extremists the previous week, sources said. Robert Bwenje had accompanied Assistant Pastor Ambrose Mugisha of Elim Pentecostal Church in Nyamiringa village, Kapeke Sub-County, Kiboga District, to an open-air […]
Meet Valeria Yezhova, a ten-year-old girl in Ukraine now making global headlines. Her mother told reporters, “Valeria asked me how she could help the Ukrainian army. I asked her what she does best, [and] she replied that she is good at checkers.” More than “good,” in fact—Valeria is both the European and world champion […]