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A Pew Research Center poll shows that white Evangelicals are twice as likely as other religious groups to support the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The poll comes after a draft of a United States Supreme Court opinion was leaked. The draft supported a reversal of Roe v. Wade. Last week, Politico published the draft […]
The annual report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom shows that about half of the world’s population lives in countries where religious freedom violations occur. According to the report, released last month, some 27 countries engage in or tolerate attacks on religious freedom. “It’s happening all over the world,” USCIRF commission member James […]
The Revolutionary Court of Tehran has sentenced an Iranian-Armenian Christian man to 10 years in prison for founding a house church and spreading “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam.” According to The Christian Post, Judge Afshari and Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced Anooshavan Avedian to 10 […]
The leak of a Supreme Court draft Monday evening is dominating the news again this morning. Amy Howe, the Supreme Court analyst at SCOTUSblog, tweeted, “It’s impossible to overstate the earthquake this will cause inside the Court, in terms of the destruction of trust among the Justices and staff. This leak is the gravest, […]
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, May 4, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A group of Christians arrested on Dec. 12 received a reduction in their sentence for “unauthorized worship” last week, one of those convicted said. The 11 Christians, including the owner of the site rented for the occasion, had received a suspended sentence of six months in prison […]
This week, a Supreme Court ruling made headlines. I’m not referring to the draft by Justice Samuel Alito of a majority opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. The day before the “leak heard ’round the world,” the court ruled that Boston violated the free speech rights of a person when it refused to […]
ABUJA, Nigeria, May 6, 2022 (Morning Star News) – At least eight people were killed in an attack on Tuesday evening (May 3) by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists on a predominantly Christian village in northeastern Nigeria, sources said. In the latest of several attacks by the Islamic extremists on Christian communities in […]
A youth pastor has been charged with sexual assault after he gained approval to become engaged to a 14-year-old girl when he was 26. In the late 1990s, Robert Fenton, then a youth pastor at Abide in the Vine Church in Owego, New York, reportedly convinced the girl’s parents and church leadership to allow him […]
The Satanic Temple is asking the city of Boston to fly one of its flags outside of City Hall. The request comes after the Supreme Court ruled this week that the city had violated a conservative activist’s free speech when it denied his request to fly a Christian flag outside the building. On Tuesday, the […]
A large majority of Americans say their mother’s faith impacted their own faith, with more than six in 10 saying their own religion is the same as their mom’s religion was when they were a child, according to a new survey. The American Bible Society poll, released Thursday, found that 63 percent of Americans say […]