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Religious Liberty Under Assault
Religious Liberty Under Assault: Reversing the Global War Against Faith is a Sponsored Report prepared by The Washington Times Advocacy Department.
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Religious liberty: Addressing the worldwide crisis of religious freedom
"They are raping and killing children in front of their parents. Then they are killing the parents."
Religious liberty: The church under attack
As Pope Francis arrives for his first-ever visit to the United States, the Catholic Church in America faces uncertain times. For the past several years, the Church has been under a state of constant legal and cultural assault.
Religious liberty: An alarming new era for religious liberty in America
Values Voter Summit, one of the marquee annual events of the conservative movement, starts Friday at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in the District of Columbia. The top issue on the agenda, highlighted in the recent Republican presidential debates, is religious liberty.
Religious liberty: From Cuba to the Land of the Free
The Pope spent several days in Cuba, assuring the Cuban people of God's love for them (which must seem hard to discern sometimes on the Isle of Hopelessness).
Religious liberty: The president's words and deeds
When the pope and the president first met a year and a half ago at the Vatican, a major topic of concern raised by Pope Francis was the need for cooperation between church and state, particularly with regard to the exercise of religious freedom.
Religious liberty: Pressure grows to declare war against Christians a genocide
Human rights activists see it. Foreign leaders see it. And more than 80 members of the U.S. Congress see it. Together, they are pressuring the leader of the free world to declare there is a Christian genocide going on in the Middle East.
Religious liberty: Understanding genocide
It has been over a year since ISIS declared a caliphate in the Middle East and still its brutal onslaught against religious minorities such as Christians, Yezidis, Shia Muslims and others continues.
Religious liberty: Call it genocide
It is widely expected that during this week's visit to the United States, Pope Francis will say what is already clear to the rest of the world, but which too many other leaders are afraid to say themselves: The systematic persecution and murder of Christians, Yezidis, Muslims and other minority groups constitutes genocide.
Religious liberty: The West's complicit silence on genocide
Joseph, a young Syrian man from the mountain village of Maaloula, was very proud of his hometown, one of the most important historical and religious sites in Syria. Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus Christ, is still spoken today in this predominantly Christian town of 5,000 souls.
Religious liberty: Let us not forget the people of the Nuba Mountains
With wars and conflict in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and elsewhere dominating headlines, let us not forget the ongoing war in the Nuba Mountains. Many call it the Silent War because so little of the world's attention is focused on what is going on there.
