Religious liberty is the building block of a free society. America’s Founders listed it as the first freedom in the first clause of the First Amendment. Why? Because without the freedom to worship and live out our faith, all other liberties—civil, economic and social—come crumbling down. We need that First Freedom to be truly—and fully—free.

The President’s Religious Liberty Commission recently held an important hearing in which it heard testimony about the attacks on religious freedom happening in the military. However, even considering the many challenges that religious service members face, it’s not all bad news. Big things are happening in favor of faith in America’s military.

Is it a tough battle? Absolutely. “It’s always been uphill,” he concedes with the scars of someone who’s been in the battle for decades. “There have always been strong opponents. There’s always been a hundred times more financing on the other side than on ours. And yet, through prayer and persistence, we were able to reverse Roe v. Wade. So don’t get discouraged,” Donovan implored. “

With unrest continuing and local officials refusing to cooperate, President Trump signaled that restoring law and order remains a top priority. “All they have to do is enforce the law and tell the radicals to stand down,” one senior administration official said. “If they won’t, the federal government will.”

Christian advocacy groups urged U.S. President Donald J. Trump not to close America’s doors to Christian refugees from Pakistan, citing cases of bonded labor, abduction, and alleged misuse of blasphemy laws targeting the country’s Christian minority.

A controversial plan to build China’s largest embassy in Europe came under renewed criticism this week after a British paper obtained access to unredacted blueprints that showed a secret, underground room lying only meters from sensitive fiber-optic cables. The revelation came as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to approve the project before a planned visit to China later this month.

A UK petition to cancel a clinical trial testing puberty blockers on children surpassed 100,000 signatures yesterday — a critical milestone which qualifies the petition for debate in parliament.

Concerning the recent ruling, critics are sounding the alarm, as the outcome means the SPLC has managed to avoid facing direct legal consequences for its hate map designations, even as criticism continues over the map’s weaponization of labels to target opponents, silence dissent, and create a climate of hostility.

A thousand miles away, New York Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani declared on X, “This morning, an ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis.” He needed no investigation and no trial. And with that we begin to see what a socialist/communist future looks like. That kind of knee-jerk rush to judgment is fueling the new lynch mob mentality permeating a large portion of American society. 

The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday that it carried out an airstrike in the Zaita area of southern Lebanon, killing a Hezbollah operative involved in drone operations and terror activity along Israel’s northern border.

These four recommendations would prevent federal and state governments from unconstitutionally withholding adoption and foster care licenses from Christians or taking children with sexual identity confusion away from loving, Christian parents. States like Colorado, Massachusetts, Vermont, Oregon, Washington and California require prospective foster parents to affirm a child’s same-sex attraction and sexual identity confusion.

“The impact on China’s Christian community is profound. When a faithful church like Early Rain is repeatedly targeted, the CCP is sending a chilling message to all believers: obedience to God will be punished, and conscience must bow to ideology. Yet history shows that persecution does not extinguish faith — it refines it.”

Those speaking out against these atrocities are concerned over the lack of coverage by prominent news sources and attention from political leaders around the world. Some have attributed the removal of nations, such as Nigeria, from the Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) and lifting of U.S. sanctions on Syria as global measures that would have otherwise kept pressure on entities that severely violate international religious freedom.  

If everyone could just put all the loud propaganda aside and look at these events dispassionately, they could reach no other conclusion that that today’s Democrats have no set principles other than the idea that they should be in power forever, and they’re willing to do ANYTHING to achieve that, even if it means defending the worst criminals on earth and sacrificing some of their own supporters’ lives. This isn’t politics, it’s moral bankruptcy.

Not surprisingly, all the usual suspects lost their minds over this decisive action by the President. Russia, Turkey, Colombia, Qatar, Iran, Panama, Cuba, and other UN states and anti-western countries condemned the extraction. Hamas and Hezbollah threw in their two cents against, as did all the angry liberals in the US and beyond who hate everything that Trump does. Anti-imperialist protests sprang up immediately around America, all part of a coordinated plan of attack by the radical left that began even while the extraction was still taking place. On the flip side, Venezuelans in Venezuela and many other nations are dancing in the streets.