religious freedom

Fifty-seven U.S. pastors of color have signed an open letter to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary opposing the Equality Act.

After his church was fined over $100,000 for holding indoor services, one California pastor is urging Governor Gavin Newsom to reopen his church for Easter Sunday.

The wife of a Canadian pastor jailed for holding in-person worship services against COVID-19 restrictions, shared in a recent interview that her husband largely spent his first weeks in jail alone.

A new statewide ethnic studies curriculum under consideration by the California Department of Education encourages teachers to lead their students in chants to Aztec gods in what one critic of the curriculum says is a clear refutation of the “Christian god.”

After Pope Francis recently visited Iraq, it became clear by some of the media coverage just how little the press “gets religion." Still, this visit was full of meetings that mattered, such as the Pope’s meeting with the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the leader of the Shiites in Iraq. This meeting took place in Najaf in what is called the “Plain of Ur”. In a statement issued after the meeting, the Ayatollah affirmed “his concern that Christian citizens [of Iraq] should live like all Iraqis in peace and security, and with their full constitutional rights.”

Senators Tim Scott and James Lankford, this week, introduced a new bill aimed at protecting faith-based adoption agencies.

Promoting religious freedom is not idolatry. “The Word of God is like a lion. You don’t have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself” (C.H. Spurgeon).

A Canadian pastor jailed for holding in-person church services despite COVID-19 restrictions will reportedly stay in jail until his trial in May.

On Friday, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission attorney known for defending religious liberty was fired by President Biden, the same day she sent the White House a letter stating she would not resign.

In his recent State of the Church address, Pastor John MacArthur argued that he could not fight for religious freedom because it encourages idolatry.