KTF News – Thomas Reese, S J Appointed as Chair of Religious Liberty CommissionWatch this video on YouTube Source References Jesuit appointed head of US religious freedom commission

KTF News – Russia Restricts Religious FreedomWatch this video on YouTube Source References Russia’s new ‘big brother law’ has Christians, Muslims and Jews fearing for their religious freedom

Germany is changing. In spite of its Nazi past, which has kept right-wing populist movements out on the fringes of German politics, the anti-migrant AfD (Alternative for Germany) may have muscled its way in. Because of discontent with Chancellor Angela…

KTF News – LGBT Activists Blame Christians for Pulse AttackWatch this video on YouTube Source References LGBT activists blame Christians for Orlando attack

James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, said a Republican (Trump) White House might restore some religious freedoms that had been taken from Christians over the years. Dobson who is on Trump’s Evangelical Executive Advisory Board said a Trump…

KTF News – Iowa Civil Rights Commission Thinks it can Control ChurchesWatch this video on YouTube Source References Government claims power to control content of sermons

Sunday is “special to me because it’s a day when we are not forced to worship the market,” wrote Giles Fraser, a London Priest, a regular columnist for the Guardian. The Tories may dismiss the Keep Sunday Special campaign as…

Arguing that we have created a “negative rat race, with limited ability or potential for good interactions with one another,” the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran an opinion article on Christmas day, 2015 suggesting that it’s time to protect Sunday as a…

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an anti-terrorism bill into law that severely restricts religious freedom in Russia. The new law, known as the “Yarovaya law” after Irina Yarovaya who authored the text was drafted in the aftermath of the deadly…

KTF News – Norwegian Child Protective Services Relents and Returns Seized ChildrenWatch this video on YouTube

The Iowa Civil Rights Commission claims it has the right to control content of church services that are “open to the public.” “Where qualifications are not related to a bona fide religious purpose,” the commission said in response to a…

U.S. President Barack Obama has appointed a Jesuit priest as chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. This is the first time the position will be held by a Catholic priest. He was first appointed to the Commission…