Religion

DURHAM - A North Carolina priest defended his decision Monday to cancel a lesbian city councilwoman’s speech at a Catholic high school, saying it was his duty. Immaculate Conception Church pastor Rev. Chris VanHaight faced public…

WASHINGTON - Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib in 2006 wrote an op-ed column for Final Call, a Nation of Islam publication founded by Louis Farrakhan, in the latest tie to emerge between the congresswoman and anti-Semitic figures.…

EUROPE - Pope Francis will visit a Moroccan training center for imams at the end of March to promote moderate Islam and efforts to combat Islamic extremism. The pontiff will visit Morocco March 30 to 31 in the wake of his visit…

NEW YORK - When individuals kill themselves, we look for answers in their DNA, their environments, their personal reactions to feelings of impotent rage, rejection, disappointment, heartbreak. But how to explain group suicide?…

WASHINGTON - Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee condemned the Senate Judiciary Democrats on Thursday for questioning judicial nominees’ religious beliefs before the committee. Democratic Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono denied ever instituting a…

NEW YORK, NY - GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming called late term abortion “pure evil,” on “Fox & Friends” Thursday and said the issue shouldn’t even be put up for debate. “It should be an absolutely bipartisan issue that we…

ITALY - Pope Francis acknowledged Tuesday for the first time that Bishops and priests had sexually abused nuns, in some cases using them as sexual slaves. Francis confirmed to reporters that certain orders of nuns have and in some…

RUSSIA - A Russian court sentenced Dennis Christensen, the first Jehovah’s Witness arrested after Russia deemed the religion “extremist,” to six years in prison Wednesday. Russian authorities arrested Christensen, a native of…

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump blasted late-term abortion legislation and slammed Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam in his Tuesday night address to the nation, as he vowed to protect the lives of unborn children. “There…

MIDDLE EAST - Pope Francis conducted the first ever papal mass on the Arabian peninsula during his trip to the United Arab Emirates to foster peaceful inter-religious dialogue. The pontiff conducted the service Tuesday…

WASHINGTON - Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar dodged a question about anti-Semitism Tuesday morning and did not mention anything about Jewish people or her offensive comments regarding Israel. Omar was asked during a panel at…

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to connect with religious college leaders at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities conference Wednesday by sharing her favorite Bible verse – except there was one problem. The…

WASHINGTON - Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse plans on putting senators on the record over their stance on infanticide, or the intentional killing of newborn children, on the Senate floor Monday evening. Sasse wants to pass the…

ITALY - A group of prominent German Catholics called Sunday for the ordination of women and ending mandatory priestly celibacy among other changes to Catholic sexual morality. The group of nine, including prominent German priests…

ENGLAND - Archaeologists in the U.K. hope to discover the remains of a 13th-century Carmelite monastery buried beneath a bus station in Gloucester, England. The lost monastery is known as Whitefriars, also called The College of…

Texas Catholic dioceses released a list of 286 clerics “credibly accused” of sexual abuse in fulfillment of their October pledge to name the accused by January’s end. The list is comprised of data from 14 dioceses across Texas whose…

PENNSYLVANIA - Cumberland County High School students filed a lawsuit against their Pennsylvania school district over what they call an unconstitutional ban on distributing the Bible on campus. The students, leaders of…

PROVIDENCE - Rhode Island is considering a bill that would allow the abortion of post-viable babies for reasons extending beyond the preservation of the mother’s life. The state’s Reproductive Health Care Act, H5127, bars the state…

NEW YORK, NY - The movie makers of the abortion film “Unplanned” published the film’s trailer Thursday, and the preview portrays abortion in a light that could make advocates reconsider their support for abortion. The…

NEW YORK, NY - Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed on Monday that comments she made in July regarding the Israeli “occupation of Palestine” were doctored and circulated in the media. “The ‘Firing Line’…

WASHINGTON - Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse blasted Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam for a second time Thursday after Northam tried to walk back statements condoning infanticide by defending his own character instead. …

WASHINGTON - Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib has declined to address the fact that one of her top campaign allies repeatedly promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. A key fundraiser for Tlaib, Maher Abdel-qader, repeatedly…

The Little Sisters of the Poor, who were forced to go to court to maintain their religious rights. NEW YORK, NY - Jews have long suffered from the bigotry of the Democrat Party going way back to the WWII Roosevelt years when he coldly…

WASHINGTON - A Catholic bishop apologized Thursday to students the Diocese of Covington prematurely condemned over a video of their confrontation with Nathan Phillips and black supremacists. The Most Rev. Roger Foys, who…