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President Donald Trump’s bold decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the U.S. embassy there shows the incredible power of America’s Evangelical Christians.

Poland’s parliament has voted to slowly begin the process of abolishing Sunday shopping to allow workers to spend more time with their families.

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon spoke briefly about his childhood in an interview with the author of a new biography on Bannon’s life.

Catholic organizations are fighting to protect Columbus Day against Antifa and similar groups, pointing out that calls for abolishing the holiday are rooted in the same anti-Catholic bigotry that, in part, gave rise to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Belgian religious congregation is defying Pope Francis’ order to stop allowing euthanasia in its psychiatric hospitals, insisting that its decision to do so is fully consistent with Catholic doctrine.

Cuban state police violently arrested nearly seventy dissidents, most members of the Ladies in White movement, on their way to attend Catholic Mass Sunday in what has become a weekly ritual for the oppressive communist state.

The battle for the southern Philippine city of Marawi continues, and may even be widening, but military officials had one piece of good news to offer on Monday: According to other hostages, the Catholic priest kidnapped by Islamic State militants is still alive.

The Trump White House celebrated the president’s successful foreign trip so far, as a senior administration official visited the press cabin of Air Force One to trumpet their success. “I think this trip was a big success because it was

Catholic News Service reported on Friday that two Catholic leaders in Syria are criticizing the U.S. attack on the Bashar al-Assad regime that took place on Thursday, claiming it will only assure the continuation of the bloody civil war in the country, with Christians perhaps suffering the most.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said to a Catholic lawyer’s group in New Jersey that America’s commitment to religious freedom will be tested by those who are hostile to people who hold traditional values.

A new report from Freedom House entitled The Battle for China’s Spirit: Religious Revival, Repression, and Resistance Under Xi Jinping argues that persecution of Christians and other faiths has intensified under the current Chinese president, Xi Jinping.

Vienna’s Cardinal Schönborn has made headlines after speaking out about the migrant crisis in a special Christmas discussion programme. Speaking in discussion with Protestant Bishop Michael Bünker on a faith issues roundup of 2016 on Austrian television, Cardinal Schönborn — a central European aristocrat

HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas cardinal has been elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

FAIRFAX, Va.—A top admissions officer at George Mason University (GMU) condemns faithful Christians and conservatives as “worthless trash,” a sentiment that could alarm thousands of high school students seeking admission to the university, and raises serious First Amendment problems if it impacts any admission decisions.

A new report from the National Asian American Survey reveals that Asian-Americans are continuing to drift away from the Republican Party after decades of staunch support as the party’s most reliable ethnic minority group.

LYNCHBURG, Virginia — Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence called on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to denounce staff emails critical of evangelicals and Catholics, referring to new Wikileaks revelations, as he spoke to thousands of students at Liberty University Wednesday.

The doors of a Gothic revival church in the 15th Arrondissement of Paris were barricaded with pews this morning in an attempt to prevent the demolition of the building to make way for a car park and apartment building. Protestors

During a rally in Philadelphia, Tim Kaine tells Democrats that he went to a Jesuit High School, which drew cheers from the crowd.

A senior store detective at Macy’s has been fired from his job after he intervened when a female customer reported that a man entered the women’s bathroom. After he was asked to leave the restroom, the man complained saying he believes he is really a female. The woman and her daughter were frightened by the man’s presence.

The four nuns running a nursing home in Aden, Yemen, killed by the Islamic State earlier this month, belonged to the Missionaries of Charity, established by Blessed Mother Teresa.

Indian and Yemeni officials believe the Islamic State kidnapped an Indian priest in an attack that left 16 dead at a nursing home in Yemen.

An influential Catholic bishop will speak on a panel tomorrow in San Diego with a representative of a Muslim organization that has been tied to a secret jihad-funding operation in Texas. Bishop Robert McElroy, Diocese of San Diego, is speaking

The Brazilian Conference of Catholic Bishops has rejected the left’s attempt to promote abortion in areas affected by Zika.

Former Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk came to Washington D.C. for the March for Life – delivering a speech at the rally near the Washington Monument before the march to the Supreme Court.

Catholics in the Las Vegas area say they’ve endured aggressive protesters bolting into church during mass.

The Pilgrims suffered a 60 percent death rate in their first year at Plymouth. The remaining 53 Pilgrims and 90 locals celebrated “Thanksgiving,” because their losses were actually relatively low.

If some Catholics and Christians want to go off the reservation, violate the very First Commandment and put the god of progressivism before God, that is their choice, that is their soul. Legions of Christians have put the false idols

In an appearance on MSNBC following Pope Francis’s address to Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said the government will remain open and Planned Parenthood will remain funded.

Vice President Joe Biden is currently considering a run for president in 2016, but it appears that he is also trying to square his Catholic faith with the Democratic party’s historic support for abortion rights.

Patriarch Louis Sako, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad, is the latest Christian leader to ask Christians in the Middle East not to abandon their homelands despite threats from radical Islamic groups. He also slammed the countries who give preferential treatment to Christian refugees.

Salim Mikdad’s 480-strong congregation turned up for services at his church in Rwanda last Tuesday, only to be informed the church was now a mosque and they were all converting to Islam.

After his traditional Angelus message on Sunday, Pope Francis launched a heartfelt appeal on behalf of persecuted Christians in the Middle East, saying that there are more Christians killed for their faith today than during the brutal persecutions by the Roman Empire.

A hospital in Manchester, UK has dropped a proposal to close a Catholic chapel and turn it into a prayer room for Muslims after thousands signed a petition against the move. Breitbart London reported on Monday that the petition had

Nearly 5,000 people have signed a petition protesting a proposal to turn a Catholic hospital chapel into a Muslim prayer room. The chapel of St Raphael at North Manchester General Hospital has been open for 15 years and is one

A draft of the long-awaited Catholic Encyclical on Climate Change has been leaked four days early by an Italian magazine.

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, reported that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) turned the Catholic cathedral in Mosul into a mosque.