The Denver-area Christian website designer seeking to block Colorado from compelling her to design websites with same-sex messages violating her beliefs got some powerful support Friday as supporters — including 45 lawmakers such as Republican Se…
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Activists seek climate ‘Day of Prayer’ for Manchin on All Saints’ Day
An interfaith group in the home state of West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III plans to hold a Day of Prayer on Monday, urging him to support government efforts to slow climate change. The group, West Virginia Interfaith Power and Light, said F…
Global pro-life coalition marks anniversary minus Biden, U.S.
A 36-nation coalition marked the first anniversary Thursday of a document defending women’s health, life and the family — without the official sanction of the United States, where President Biden withdrew U.S. assent to the Geneva Consensus…
Afghans have less religious liberty post-Taliban, U.S. agency says
Members of minority Muslim religious communities in Afghanistan — as well as non-Muslims, atheists and converts to Christianity — are “at grave threat” under the Taliban’s rule, the U.S. Commission on International Religio…
Donald Trump announces social media company, mobile app, merger deal
Former President Donald Trump will helm a social media start-up apparently aimed at supplanting Facebook and Twitter, the new Trump Media & Technology Group announced Wednesday evening. The move could put the 45th president back in the online arena…
Pro-life group says vaccine protest curbs too broad in California
A six-day-old California law banning protests within 100 feet of any facility offering any type of vaccination was challenged in federal court Wednesday by a pro-life group that says the measure blocks its protests at a Fresno abortion facility. The Al…
Politics, religion, race divide Americans, according to Pew report
The United States is one of the most socially conflicted of the world’s advanced economies, the Pew Research Center said Wednesday. “A large majority of Americans say there are strong political and strong racial and ethnic conflicts in the …
Biden taps Joseph Donnelly, former U.S. senator and congressman, as Vatican envoy
President Biden on Friday nominated Joseph Donnelly, a former one-term U.S. senator from Indiana, to be the new U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican. Mr. Donnelly, currently a partner at powerhouse law firm Akin Gump in Washington, D.C., would replace Callis…
Two decades after 9/11, America’s Sikhs on guard over attacks
Two decades after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by Islamic terrorists, a religious group not at all connected to Islam remains on guard for violence against its members. A Sikh living in Mesa, Arizona, Balbir Singh Sodhi, is believed to be the first Ameri…
Cardinal Gregory: Biden ‘not demonstrating Catholic teaching’ on life
President Biden “is not demonstrating Catholic teaching” on life when the chief executive denies that life begins at conception, Archbishop Cardinal Wilton Gregory of the District told a National Press Club audience Wednesday. Mr. Biden, th…