DNYUZ: The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause prohibits the government from making any law “respecting an establishment of religion.” This has long been thought to prohibit direct government support for religion. The contours of that idea have been contested, and they…

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The Epoch Times, by Janita Kan: The Justice Department (DOJ) has weighed in on a dispute between an individual’s right to exercise religious freedom with local and state officials’ efforts to contain the spread of the CCP virus. The tension…

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The Christian Post, by Samuel Smith: President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence joined over 700 pastors on a conference call Friday to pray for strength and stamina amid the novel coronavirus outbreak. In a one-hour call organized by…

Faithwire, by Will Maule: With the Chinese forced to devote huge resources to containing the spread of COVID-19; you would think that the communist government might temporarily lay off persecuting the nation’s hard-pressed Christian community. Sadly not. Instead, the shuttering…

Prophecy News Watch: The leader of a confessional Lutheran denomination in Finland was questioned by the police on 12 February about his responsibility in the distribution of “Male and Female He Created Them”, a 24-page booklet published back in 2004….

America, by Gerard O’Connell: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence met Pope Francis in the Vatican at noon on Jan. 24, and the two spoke together in private for an hour, a surprisingly long time for an audience with someone who…

Reuters, by Andrew Osborn: A Russian court jailed a Jehovah’s Witness adherent for six years on Friday after finding him guilty of extremist activity, part of a crackdown on the group that human rights activists say violates religious freedom. A…

Faithwire, by Will Maule: Algerian government officials continued their brutal crackdown on a number of Christian communities, shuttering the doors to the largest protestant church in the country. The 700-member-strong Church of the Full Gospel in Tizi-Ouzou was told by…

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Reuters, by Philip Pullella: Pope Francis and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo agreed on Thursday on the need to protect the rights of Christian minorities in the Middle East during a meeting at the Vatican, the U.S. State Department…