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LAHORE, Pakistan, July 11, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A Christian bicycle mechanic in Lahore, Pakistan was sentenced to death last week on baseless charges of blasphemy, his lawyer said. Attorney Riaz Anjum said that in 2017 Muhammad Irfan had asked Ashfaq Masih not to charge him for a bicycle repair because he was a […]
Last year, a coalition of organizations, including the Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Policy Alliance, Colson Center, and the Heritage Foundation, teamed up to issue a Promise to America’s Children, a commitment to protect their minds, their bodies, and their most important relationships amid this hypersexualized culture. Today, we join again, this time to issue […]
Megachurch Pastor Robert Jeffress told his church this week that he is not a “Christian nationalist,” but the U.S. was founded as a “Christian nation.” Jeffress is the senior pastor of First Baptist Dallas. “When you see these mass shootings in Uvalde, when you see these mass shootings in Buffalo and other places, what’s going […]
Conventional wisdom encourages young people to wait until their 30s to marry, but new research finds that the lowest divorce rates are among religious adults who married in their 20s and did not cohabitate. The research by W. Bradford Wilcox and Lyman Stone for the Institute for Family Studies found that 20-something marriages are “no […]
The Supreme Court ruled six-to-three yesterday that a school district cannot bar a football coach from publicly exercising his faith on the field after the game. Writing for the Court, Justice Neil Gorsuch said coach Joe Kennedy’s prayers were private speech that could not be construed as representing the school district and were thus […]
This term of the U.S. Supreme Court has been consequential, to say the least. In addition to the landmark decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the court has now issued a second ruling that protects religious freedom. The first, issued about a week ago, protects religious institutions from being […]
In a recent interview with Men’s Health, Hollywood actor and professing Christian Chris Pratt shared that he is “not religious” but has a personal relationship with God. Pratt, who recently starred in the movie Jurassic World Dominion, told the publication that he believes the criticism he has received over his Christian beliefs stems from his […]
U.S. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is facing backlash after she allegedly promoted a theocratic government while speaking at Cornerstone Christian Center in Basalt, Colorado, on Sunday. “The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church,” Boebert told the congregation. “That is not how our founding fathers intended it, and […]
Back in 2017, with a 7–2 majority vote, the Supreme Court ruled that denying a church “an otherwise available public benefit on account of its religious status” amounts to violating the Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution. In that case, known as Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer, a Missouri church that operated a […]
As expected, after the recent leak of Justice Alito’s opinion, the Supreme Court has reversed the Roe versus Wade decision. It’s hard to overestimate the significance of this decision, coming after almost fifty long, hard, excruciating years. Contrary to popular opinion, the end of Roe doesn’t mean every unborn life in America is protected, it […]