Twenty-five years ago, most Americans did not perceive radical Islam as an existential threat. That changed suddenly on September 11. Suddenly we began to take Islam seriously. Or did we? In the wake of the terrorist bombing, […]
A group of Los Angeles merchants is seeking to join a legal fight to preserve a historic cross and annual Nativity in the El Pueblo district after a resident challenged the religious displays under the First Amendment. […]
A group of parents is suing the Palo Alto Unified School District and Brent Kline, principal of Palo Alto High School, in federal court, alleging the school’s “Social Justice Pathway” turned a class field trip to a Santa Clara mosque […]
Clergy cannot be forced to reveal what they hear during confession, the Arizona Supreme Court recently affirmed. The unanimous ruling deals specifically with a lawsuit against Church of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) officials, but the legal principle extends […]
President Donald Trump reiterated May 11 that he plans to raise the case of imprisoned Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their upcoming summit in Beijing, renewing public pressure on Chinese leaders over one of […]
On Christmas Eve, the U.S. military bombed ISIS targets in Nigeria’s Sokoto State in an action the U.S. leader described as “powerful and deadly,” although the number of casualties is not known. Emeka Umeagbalasi, director of International […]
A Christian church in California that was ordered to pay $1.2 million in fines for refusing to enforce local mask mandates as it continued to hold services in 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 outbreak has asked the U.S. Supreme […]
For nearly 50 years, a 26-foot statue of Franciscan missionary Father (now Saint) Junípero Serra stood along Interstate 280, the 57-mile freeway connecting San Francisco and San Jose. No longer. And the reasons for its removal remain […]
Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane, Washington, said priests would rather go to jail than break the seal of confession, despite a new law. Priests in Washington are willing to go to jail rather than violate the seal […]
By the end of the decade, a cross may stand on the surface of the moon — a bold effort to unite advanced space engineering with a public act of Christian witness. Led by Catholic entrepreneur and […]
