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USCIRF Condemns Pakistan's Blasphemy Convictions of Ahmadis
The Religion Clause - Oct 19, 2017 at 6:20 am The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a press release yesterday condemning Pakistan for sentencing three Ahmadis to death for blasphemy. Voice of America...
Court Dismisses Parents' Complaint of Coerced Baptism of Son
The Religion Clause - Oct 19, 2017 at 6:15 am In Defibaugh v. Big Brothers/ Big Sisters of Northeast Ohio Board of Trustees, (ND OH, Oct. 16, 2017), an Ohio federal district court dismissed a suit by parents of a minor child...
Promotion of Homosexuality: The Defining Image of a Corrosive Pontificate
Rorate Coeli - Oct 19, 2017 at 6:11 am The image above is taken from page 24 of the official Parish Guide created by the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference in preparation for the "World Meeting of Families", which will...
Greek Orthodox clergy ring church bells to protest transgender law
Catholic Herald - Oct 19, 2017 at 6:10 am Church bells have rung “in mourning” across a western Greek diocese to protest the passing of a law making it easier for people to officially change their gender. Under the...
4th Circuit: Latin Cross War Memorial Violates Establishment Clause
The Religion Clause - Oct 19, 2017 at 6:10 am In American Humanist Association v. Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, (4th Cir., Oct. 18, 2017), the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision held...
We won’t live to see Europe’s Christian revival – but it will happen
Catholic Herald - Oct 19, 2017 at 6:10 am The phrase “new evangelisation” gets thrown around a great deal these days. And St John Paul II’s demand for an evangelisation that is “new in its ardour, methods and expression”...
Why Christians could be frozen out on campus
Catholic Herald - Oct 19, 2017 at 6:10 am The 2017 British University Free Speech Rankings, published by spiked-online.com, depressingly show that every one of the 24 leading research universities in the Russell Group is...
St John Paul II was a sublime visionary, but had an achilles heel
Catholic Herald - Oct 19, 2017 at 6:10 am George Weigel’s Witness to Hope was written before its subject was canonised, but that exhaustive biography vibrated with confidence that the day of universal recognition would be...
Church Can Move Ahead With RLUIPA Challenges To Zoning Refusal
The Religion Clause - Oct 19, 2017 at 6:05 am In Hunt Valley Baptist Church, Inc. v. Baltimore County, Maryland, (D MD, Oct. 17, 2017), a Maryland federal district court held that a Baptist church can proceed with challenges...
Live in the good
CatholicMom.com - Oct 19, 2017 at 6:00 am Copyright 2017 Deanna Bartalini. All rights reserved.
Is there ever a day without hiccups?
I think not.
It’s when we dwell on the rough spots that we forget
All the good.
Dwell...
College students who survived the Syrian war help those still hurting in Aleppo
Aleteia - Oct 19, 2017 at 6:00 am "I am learning to love and to give to others what I myself have received,” says one student volunteer.This group of college students volunteering to help impoverished Syrian...
Another Court Enjoins Enforcement of Third Travel Ban
The Religion Clause - Oct 19, 2017 at 6:00 am In International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump, (D MD, Oct. 17, 2017), a Maryland federal district court became the second court (see prior posting) to bar enforcement of...
Isolated Catholic village on Lebanon/Syria border: 'We beg you, help us!' (Crux)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 19, 2017 at 5:10 amChristians, other religious minorities suffer workplace discrimination in Pakistan (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 19, 2017 at 5:10 am ““I left my job with a multinational company in Karachi the day my manager told me not to use the same objects and utensils as my Muslim colleagues,” a Hindu said.
Lebanon: teachers in Catholic schools ready to strike for higher salaries (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 19, 2017 at 5:10 amAnglican Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali defends the voiceless, from the unborn to persecuted Christians (Catholic World Report)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 19, 2017 at 5:10 amIn victory for religious liberty, California governor vetoes labor bill (Religion Clause)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 19, 2017 at 5:10 am The vetoed bill “would have prohibited churches, religious colleges, religious non-profit organizations, and pro-life pregnancy care centers from having faith-based codes of...
The heroic priest who found God’s grace in the gulag
Catholic Herald - Oct 19, 2017 at 4:18 am The late Jesuit priest, Fr Walter J Ciszek, is famous for having endured over 23 years in Russian prisons, then in labour camps. His autobiography of those years, With God in...
Going to the Dogs
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 19, 2017 at 4:18 am The latest in my series on Jesus and the Canaanite Woman for Catholic Weekly. Here’s a taste: Last time we focused on the contention that the story of Jesus and the Canaanite...
Kidnapped Italian priest freed in Nigeria (Catholic Herald)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 19, 2017 at 4:10 am Father Mauizio Pallù was abducted by carjackers over the weekend.
