If you’ve heard of the ReAwaken America Tour, it is probably in the context of two of its most explicitly antisemitic participants, Scott McKay and Charlie Ward, being slated to share the stage with Eric Trump at his father’s Doral…
Second Christian Conscientious Objector Given Jail Sentence In Ukraine
Mykhailo Yavorsky, a 40-year-old Christian from the southwestern city of Ivano-Frankivsk, is preparing an appeal against a one-year jail term handed down on April 6 for refusing mobilization on grounds of conscience. If his appeal fails, he will be taken…
North Carolina clergy demonstrate against legislature’s new abortion limits
Led by the Rev. William J. Barber II, a dozen Christian clergy stood in the hallway of the North Carolina General Assembly Friday (May 12) to denounce a bill approved earlier this month that bans abortion after 12 weeks of…
J. K. Rowling’s Witch Hunts Put Us on Trial
Back in the early- to mid-2000s, I would guest-host a Christian talk radio program from time to time, and I learned a lot from the experience.
Florida rejects Holocaust education textbooks in clampdown on ‘woke’ instruction
Florida’s state education department rejected two new Holocaust-focused textbooks for classroom use, while forcing at least one other textbook to alter a passage about the Hebrew Bible in order to meet state approval.
Pope could meet with Ukrainian president Zelenskyy on Saturday at Vatican, officials say
Pope Francis could meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican this weekend, a Vatican official said Thursday.
California bill barring caste discrimination overwhelmingly passes state Senate
The California state Senate on Thursday (May 11) overwhelmingly passed a historic bill that would outlaw caste-based discrimination in the state.
Christian nonprofit punished for feeding homeless people in California city gets federal backing
The U.S. Department of Justice has lent its support to a religious nonprofit that was penalized and threatened with criminal prosecution by the Southern California city of Santa Ana for feeding homeless people.
On its 75th birthday, Israel still can’t agree on what it means to be a Jewish state and a democracy
As Israel celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding, and nearly a century and a half after the first Zionists came to Palestine from Europe, the core tension behind the country’s establishment – whether a Jewish state could be a democratic state,…