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If Religious Liberty Becomes Only A Defensive Battle, We Risk Narrowing The Focus Purely To Survival

Here is the question we need to ask: Is hostility toward religious exercise expanding beyond vandalism and threats — and becoming institutional resistance? We have seen increasing pressure on conscience protections in health care. We have seen faith-based adoption and foster care providers forced out of states for adhering to biblical truth. We have watched regulatory agencies treat religious organizations not as partners in civil society, but as obstacles to ideological agendas.

If Religious Liberty Becomes Only A Defensive Battle, We Risk Narrowing The Focus Purely To Survival

Here is the question we need to ask: Is hostility toward religious exercise expanding beyond vandalism and threats — and becoming institutional resistance? We have seen increasing pressure on conscience protections in health care. We have seen faith-based adoption and foster care providers forced out of states for adhering to biblical truth. We have watched regulatory agencies treat religious organizations not as partners in civil society, but as obstacles to ideological agendas.

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If Religious Liberty Becomes Only A Defensive Battle, We Risk Narrowing The Focus Purely To Survival

Here is the question we need to ask: Is hostility toward religious exercise expanding beyond vandalism and threats — and becoming institutional resistance? We have seen increasing pressure on conscience protections in health care. We have seen faith-based adoption and foster care providers forced out of states for adhering to biblical truth. We have watched regulatory agencies treat religious organizations not as partners in civil society, but as obstacles to ideological agendas.

The Unholy Alliance Between Islam And The Radical Left Is More Emboldened Than Ever

The mask is now off completely. As America marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, the unholy alliance between Islam and the radical left is becoming very bold, publicly proclaiming that they intend to take the United States in a new direction—from faith, family, and freedom to socialism, Sharia, and separation.

Turkey Accuses European Parliament Of ‘Interference’ Amid Mounting Scrutiny Over Expulsions Of Christians

“These deportations of Christians in Türkiye for reasons of national security are one more attack on Christians, the most persecuted religious minority around the world. The EU cannot talk of human rights and then remain silent when Christians are facing problems in Africa or persecution in a neighboring country. We must stand up for freedom of religion everywhere without any double standards. Türkiye must put a stop to these deportations of Christians.” 

Our Culture Is Tearing Itself Apart Because It Rejects Authority

For those keeping score at home: to stop violence, it’s okay to commit violence. To prevent discrimination, it’s right to discriminate with force. To oppose authoritarianism, it’s necessary to enact a version of it. This logic is no logic at all. It’s a schoolboy revolution, a lunchroom fight in a ski-mask that’s oh-so chic. Do Christians, who reputedly follow an outdated authority, have any chance to be heard?

U.S. Expands Footprint in Nigeria, Sends 200 Troops for Anti-Terror Training

The U.S. military announced Tuesday that it would send 200 servicemembers to the embattled African nation of Nigeria to help train Nigerian troops to fight Islamist terrorists, who have murdered tens of thousands of Christians and other religious practitioners in the country over the last two decades.

China Named Global ‘Puppet Master’ of Religious Persecution

China’s advanced use of technological surveillance via cameras and internet tracking is used to spy on individuals and state-sanctioned churches. The surveillance can be used to track citizens’ involvement in faith-based activities, drawing unwanted attention and harassment from authorities if an individual is deemed a threat.

Billy Graham Rapid Response Chaplains Deploy After Devastating Tumbler Ridge Shooting

“This incident has sent shockwaves of horror and grief across the globe,” said Josh Holland, vice president of BG-RRT Global. “We mourn with every person affected by this tragedy. The Bible reminds us that the Lord offers compassion and comfort to those facing trouble. That is the message our crisis-trained chaplains carry as they minister and share the hope of Jesus Christ with a brokenhearted community.”

South Dakota Bill Would Make it a Felony to Disrupt a Religious Service

“In recent days, religious freedom came under assault just a few hundred miles from here in the Twin Cities,” said Gov. Rhoden, referencing the incident at a Minnesota church. “That should trouble every single American. It certainly troubled me. So I quickly worked with legislative leadership to announce a plan to fix it. If someone decides to target a house of worship, there will be real consequences.”

Brazilian Veterinary Student Faces Up To 10 Years In Prison For Social Media Comments On Gender Ideology 

“No one should face a decade behind bars for expressing an opinion on a matter of public concern,” said Julio Pohl, Legal Counsel for ADF International, which is providing legal support to Borges. “Weaponising Brazil’s expansive ‘transphobia’ laws to punish peaceful expression is a profound violation of freedom of speech.”

US, Hungarian Governments Launch Partnership To Combat Christian Persecution

“Christians are the most persecuted religious group worldwide, yet atrocities and attacks against them too often go unaddressed,” the State Department said. “Such persecution presents a threat to American security and undermines the values upon which our nation was built. The United States continues to call on our allies to join in providing life-saving assistance to those endangered by religious persecution.

Gradual Dismantling The Christian Moral And Political Framework: Is Religious Liberty Dying In The UK?

The rights now under threat—freedom of conscience, speech and worship—were birthed from the Christian conviction that every person first stands accountable to God, not the state. When the Christian conviction is removed, the secular state, which is never neutral, expands to fill the vacuum. Once Christ is no longer recognized as Lord over national life, political authority becomes absolute, and Christian dissent becomes suspect.

Education Department Adds Protections on School Religious Expression

The Guidance On Constitutionally Protected Prayer And Religious Expression In Public Elementary And Secondary Schools, released Feb. 5, states that under recent Supreme Court rulings that interpreted First Amendment rights in schools, “all members of a public school community have a constitutional right to religious expression in public schools, including a right to engage in prayer.”

Mexican Pastor Arrested, Bound, and Exiled From Community For Refusing To Bow To Catholic Statue

On Jan. 15, the pastor was ordered to pray to an image of St. James during a festival. When he refused, another mayordomo reported him to local authorities, who arrested him. After five days, officials bound him with a rope, led him out before 180 men — among whom were his uncle and cousin — and expelled him from the community. They forced him to sign a document explaining his departure. Without a copy of his own, Martínez fears the story was fabricated to portray him as having left voluntarily.

Top European Court Takes Up Cases of Christians Banned from Turkey

The government’s use of these codes effectively labels individuals as a “threat to public order and security,” a classification normally reserved for terrorism suspects. In practice, however, those targeted have no criminal records and no evidence of unlawful conduct — the only thing that they have in common is openly practicing and sharing their Christian faith.

Board Of Peace: Behind The Language Of Reconstruction And Prosperity Lies A Very Real Danger

Its stated purpose is ambitious: transform Gaza into a modern, high-tech metropolis—an economic engine meant to replace war with development. But behind the language of reconstruction and prosperity lies a critical question prophecy watchers must ask: Is this structure truly protecting Israel—or is it positioning the nations to control Israel through internationalized “peace”?

Shaping Young Minds: UAE Cuts Scholarships To Study In The UK, Citing Radical Islamic Ideologies In British Universities

In January this year, the UAE made a shock announcement. It would no longer fund its young students to study abroad at universities in the United Kingdom. The decision was reported by multiple news outlets, each confirming the shocking reason for the pronouncement. An Emirati expert in strategic and political affairs, Amjad Taha, said, “The UAE will not send its students to become hostages of Islamist jihadist ideology disguised as campus activism” while studying in Britain.

Weaponized For Political Purposes: Students, Encouraged By ‘Educators,’ Stage Nationwide Anti-ICE Protest

From Washington State and Oregon to Texas and Georgia and everywhere in between, young people carried propaganda signs as they shrieked at passersby and demanded that drivers honk. One video from Oregon appeared to show Kindergarten children involved in the protest. Numerous schools pre-emptively cancelled classes so students could protest, according to news reports. 

Florida Church Can Resume Worship Services, Appellate Court Rules

“Being deprived of religious liberty involving worship is an irreparable harm. Coastal Family Church was unconstitutionally forced to choose between cancelling worship services or be in contempt of court. Every Sunday a church is forced to close its doors inflicts irreparable spiritual and constitutional injury on its congregation.” 

What The Left Worships: Democrats Have An Industry Of Making Saints Out Of Violent Criminals

The story that the legacy media would have us believe about Alex Pretti is that he was a peaceful protester, an observer, a caring nurse incapable of hurting a fly. New video now proves that all of what the media has been telling you isn't true. Verified video footage taken eleven days prior to the deadly confrontation with Pretti shows that he was looking for a provocation days before he brought a loaded weapon and obstructed a federal law enforcement operation.

Don Lemon, Other Activists Arrested for Disrupting Church Service in St. Paul

Our First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, assembly, speech and to petition the government. But the First Amendment also protects freedom of religion – our First Freedom, and it does not give activists the right to invade a church and disrupt worshippers exercising that freedom. In fact, federal law (under the FACE Act) prohibits it.

Are Jewish Patients Safe In Australian Hospitals?

Have you ever been in a hospital as a patient? I am sure that most of you have. When being admitted, you are required to provide important details such as your name and your chosen faith. But what if you were taken to a hospital in a democratic Western country and the hospital administrators decided to give you a different name and redact details of your faith without your consent? Would you be upset? If the answer is no, then picture this: what if you were Jewish and the hospital changed your name and redacted your Jewish identity without your consent? Now, you might be thinking that would never happen in a Western nation in the modern day. Well, it just did. In Australia.

Minnesota Is Not An Outlier; It Is A Case Study Of What Happens When Institutions Abondon Moral Restraints

Minnesota is not an outlier; it is a case study of what happens when institutions that once fostered moral restraint abandon that role. The real cause is less obvious because it is far removed from the tragic events we see today in the headlines. It can be traced back decades to what was called the long march through the institutions — a phrase coined in the late 1960s by Marxist student leader Rudi Dutschke. The phrase deliberately echoed Mao Zedong’s Long March, but Dutschke’s was not a military campaign. It was a cultural and ideological one, measured in decades rather than battles.

The Fruit Of Communism And The Epidemic Of Hopelessness In China

This should be taken as a warning to Western nations as well. Communism and socialism are not the answers to the world’s problems. Since those world systems are incompatible with Christianity, they produce hopelessness while at the same time destroying the family. And sadly, there are politicians implementing socialism in the USA! It will be a disaster here as it has been everywhere else it’s been tried. So what is the solution to this epidemic of hopelessness in China?

As Nigeria’s Government ‘Lives In Denial’ About The Genocide Of Christians, America Races to Intervene

The disturbing response only stoked fears that the nation is once again turning its back on the evil stalking Christians in Nigeria’s remotest areas. Kenneth Ononeze, a Kaduna state pastor, was livid. “What’s federal and state government doing to rescue them?” he demanded to know. “Are they still living in denial that Christian genocide is not going on?”

NHS Reinstates UK Christian Nurse Suspended for ‘Misgendering’ Patient

The NHS Trust has dropped a disciplinary case against a U.K. Christian nurse who was suspended after publicly criticizing a warning she had received from the Trust for “misgendering” a biological male who had been convicted of pedophilia and identified as female.

Franklin Graham Shares Hope of Christ With Cambodian Media Ahead of Festival

After years of prayer, thousands of Christians across Northern Cambodia are excited to bring friends and family to hear about the hope of Jesus Christ this weekend. “I’ve come to give the people of Siem Reap a message about God,” Graham said. “I want to speak to them about the God who created the universe—the God who made us, the God who loves us.”

First Arrests Made Following St. Paul Church Attack, ‘More To Come’

“So far, we have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota,” Bondi said on social media. “Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP.”

Christians Can Not Allow The Tiny Flame Of Holocaust Memory To Be Extinguished

In our day and age, our worse enemies like online antisemite Nick Fuentes compare the Jews to cookies going into ovens. Others say the Shoah (the catastrophe) never happened or was just exaggerated as propaganda for the Jews to start the State of Israel. Even within our friends and within the evangelical church, there are people who think that six million was too high a number. I lost my grandfather, murdered in Auschwitz. If you ask me...One was too high a number!

Sunday’s Invasion At Cities Church Shows The Deeply Spiritual Side To The Marxist Movement

Paul warned young Timothy that persecution would come upon those who desired to live godly lives. The godless disruptors in St. Paul entered a holy place, a sanctuary set aside for the worship of Almighty God, to prohibit it from sharing God’s Word on a Sunday morning. This is further evidence that spiritual warfare is growing in these last days. These attention-seeking, Scripture-twisting, self-righteous political activists turned the worship service into a circus, but I wonder if they realize that the forces of darkness fueled their rage.

Compromise Is A Gospel Issue, And We Must Not Back Down

For too long we have allowed Christian truth to be gnawed at until it becomes barely recognisable from the beliefs and expressions of our forefathers. If Christians are free to speak the truth, we must also be free to challenge the invasions—however subtle—which seek to subvert the truth too.

Working To Reshape America’s Worldview: Is Social Media Creating Islamic Terrorists?

Neither of these individuals appeared to have been raised in Muslim households nor were recent immigrants. And yet, they were allegedly drawn into plans to support IS solely through online interactions. As Hankinson emphasized, they echo earlier figures like Zachary Chesser, the suburban Virginia convert who, post-high school, embraced radical Islam via blogs, websites, and eventual real-world ties. And what stands out today is the shift: radicalization increasingly requires no physical community, no visit to a mosque, no face-to-face recruitment… Screens alone suffice.

Is Sharia Law Compatible With The U.S. Constitution Or Biblical Values?

The U.S. Constitution is grounded in the idea that government power must be limited and that individual rights come from God, not the state. The First Amendment protects religious liberty by forbidding the establishment of any religion while guaranteeing free exercise. Sharia law directly contradicts this principle because it is a religious legal code that merges faith and government. Where Sharia is enforced, religious belief is regulated and Islamic law is elevated above civil law. A system that mandates religious obedience cannot coexist with a Constitution that protects freedom of conscience.

Cities Church Responds to Worship Disruption: ‘Jesus Is Real’

Two days after left-wing “agitators jarringly disrupted [their] worship gathering,” the elders of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn. issued a statement addressing the incident. “Jesus is real,” they began. Thus, from the outset, they framed the issue as a clash of worldviews, correctly implying that those who would break up Christian worship do believe the truth that Jesus is God the Son Incarnate, the Savior and Lord of all. That true belief is protected in America, although some extremists choose to act and pretend as if it were not.

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