Gallup and other polls have shown that over the past several years, more Americans increasingly consider themselves pro-life than pro-abortion Tuesday’s historic elections sent the message that more Americans want their lawmakers to consistently defend vulnerable human life and reject the president’s radical pro-abortion agenda, said the chamber’s most prominent pro-life leader. Widespread discontent with... Continue Reading

“Parents should be able to choose what school their children attend and where their money goes. Just because religious schools can join the program on the same basis as non-religious ones doesn’t make it unconstitutional” Supreme Court justices squabbled Wednesday over whether or not an Arizona tax credit for donations to non-profit scholarship providers oversteps... Continue Reading

Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi said the assault was “very painful” for the stunned nation because “it harbors a sinister plan to empty the region of one of its main components: the Christians.” An Iraqi police commander was detained for questioning Tuesday in connection with the deadly attack on a Catholic church in the capital as... Continue Reading

There have been many attacks on Christians in Iraq since the US-led invasion of 2003. At that time there were estimated to be around one million Christians from several ancient denominations…Their numbers are believed to have dwindled now to 600,000 or less. At least 52 people were killed as security forces stormed a Catholic church... Continue Reading

We live in a representative democracy, where everyone shares in the governing of the nation. That implies a certain set of duties that can’t be escaped. The appropriate response is not for Christians to throw up their hands… Christians’ retreat from American politics would be a mistake, argues Michael Gerson, against those who prefer more... Continue Reading

If the Republicans gain the majority, we have a very good chance of seeing diminished funding, if not eliminated funding, for international abortions. But you don’t hear candidates talking about this…. Dick Armey represented a north Texas district in the House of Representatives from 1985 to 2003 and was House Majority Leader during his last... Continue Reading

“For the government to resolve officially that ‘Catholic doctrine is wrong,’ is as plainly violative of the Establishment Clause as for the government to resolve that ‘Catholic doctrine is right.” The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has shakily allowed to stand a resolution by the city government of San Francisco that lambasted the Vatican... Continue Reading

In law around the world, the decision to have an abortion is entirely, and legally exclusively, the woman’s. No one, neither her parents nor her doctor can, so the logic goes, be allowed to influence her. And that goes triple for the father of the child. What is the first thing that pops into the... Continue Reading

“She can actually, in practice, not rent to a non-Christian. But she can’t make the statement. The statement alone is a violation of the act.” The Fair Housing Center of West Michigan filed a housing discrimination charge against a Grand Rapids woman who advertised for a Christian roommate on her church bulletin board. The 31-year-old... Continue Reading

“Any kind of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal puts the religious liberties of Chaplains at risk..,” The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay on the injunction on “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” allowing the Pentagon to conduct a second study and turning the spotlight to President Obama’s efforts to repeal the military... Continue Reading