cnsnews, By Fr. Frank Pavone – The following commentary is excerpted from Priests for Life National Director Fr. Frank Pavone’s Thursday letter to the Catholic hierarchy: The public dialogue I am urgently inviting you to engage in at this time is based…

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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CNSNews.com, by Charles Snow: I come from a family filled with public school teachers. From an early age, I saw that teachers rarely only taught students. They served the school in any way they could, often in ways above and…

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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…

News Channel 9, by Sinclair Broadcast Group: President Donald Trump spoke at the Value Voters Summit Saturday evening and lashed out at his political opponents who he painted as trying to “tear down” Christians and other religious believers. “They’re trying…

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CNSNews.com, by Susan Jones: “Yes,” Beto O’Rourke told a CNN town hall on LGBTQ equality Thursday night. He would use the government tax code to crimp the free exercise of religion. CNN’s Don Lemon pointed to O’Rourke’s LGBTQ plan: “This…

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…

Crux: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Pope Francis and the Catholic Church have a “central role” in promoting religious liberty. Pompeo was speaking to Vatican News—the official news service of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication—ahead of the first Ministerial…