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No, Pope Francis Did Not Approve Blessings For Same-Sex Unions

Corporate media outlets are running salacious headlines that Pope Francis is now allowing 'priests to bless same-sex relationships.'

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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Why I Am Now a Christian | The Free Press

    I was born a Muslim in Somalia. Then I became an atheist. But secular tools alone can’t equip us for civilizational war.

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    Declaration of Independence Founded a Theistic Republic | National Review

    Critics of new House Speaker Mike Johnson’s God-centered politics don’t understand the role that religion has played in American life since the Founding.

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      Pope says Church open to everyone, including LGBT people, but has rules

      Pope Francis said on Sunday that the Catholic Church is open to everyone, including the gay community, and that it has a duty to accompany them on a personal path of spirituality but within the framework of its rules.

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      What We Need Now Is Religious Courage | National Review

      If we don’t stand for what we believe, then our society will be swept away, taking all of us along with it.

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      The Groff Supreme Court Keeps Holy the Sabbath Day - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

      And now Sabbath keepers and Sabbath observers have received their day of relief and justice in Groff v. DeJoy.

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      Corporate America Has Launched A Religious War. Pick A Side.

      In this war there are only two sides: the Tao and the Machine, God or Satan. You have to choose, but choose wisely.

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        Ireland’s Failing Faith - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

        As I touched down in Ireland the morning of Easter Sunday, I was saddened to think how sparse the Catholic faith — and with it, conservatism — has become in that once-proud bastion of sainthood. Still sometimes called “the land...

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        Why Students in Kentucky Have Been Praying for 250 Hours

        ‘You need to come back to chapel, something is happening.’ On the ground at the Asbury Revival.

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        Anne Graham Lotz: This Could Be the 'Last Great Awakening' as Asbury Revival Fires Reach New Campuses

        The wave of revival fire shows no signs of stopping as new reports come in from colleges and universities across the nation. As flames from the Asbury University Awakening spread, author and evangelist Anne Graham Lotz raised the idea that this could be t

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          The Sudden Passing of George Neumayr - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

          I not only write for The American Spectator but also am among its most voracious readers. Throughout my years at The American Spectator, I always found George Neumayr to be among the very, very best contributors amid a collection of...

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          The Growing ‘God Gap’ Between Democrats and Republicans - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

          “The biggest story about American religion and politics is that Democrats (specifically white ones) are becoming much, much less religious now.” That’s Ryan Burge, religious pollster par excellence, in a year-in-review Twitter post that summarizes o

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            Candace Cameron Bure Reacts To Haters By Sharing The Gospel

            The Christmas movie queen responded to haters with an unapologetic message about the sacrificial love of Christ, just in time for Christmas.

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            ‘Discrimination’: Biden’s Euphemism for Religious Freedom - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

            In the name of “nondiscrimination,” President Joe Biden advanced last week a proposed final regulation that would force religious doctors...

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            Over 100 Florida Churches File Suit to Leave United Methodist Church

            A schism characterized by documents on “grace through separation” has brought forth a lawsuit. In Florida, 106 churches ...

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            The Ahistorical Secularism of Justice Sotomayor - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

            Justice Sonia Sotomayor has emerged as the Supreme Court’s most outspoken secularist. She subscribes fervently to the left’s myths about...

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            Remembering Reagan’s Great Grace - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

            I recently got an email from Albert, a longtime reader of this fine publication, regarding the “unconditional release” of would-be...

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            The Tyranny of the Atheistic Minority - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

            To hear secularists talk about the First Amendment, one would think the Founding Fathers had established it to prevent Americans...

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            Jesus's Resurrection Is Probably The Best-Documented Historical Event

            Because of their experience with the resurrected Jesus, the apostles were in a unique position to know Jesus was truly the Son of God.

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            A Christian Heroine in Finland - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

            Päivi Räsänen, the Finnish politician who faced criminal charges for merely quoting and defending the Bible’s condemnation of sexual immorality,...

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            The Supreme Court to Hear Important Prayer Case - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

            The propaganda sloshing through public schools grows more toxic with each passing year. Students are increasingly subject to corrupting pressure...

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            The Difference Between Being Happy and Finding Joy - RELEVANT

            I’ve been thinking about joy for quite some time now. Or rather, why we Christians display such a lack of it. If you go to any Christian news publication

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              The Criminalization of Christianity in Finland - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

              In a foreshadowing of America’s future under coercive secularism, a Finnish politician and Finnish bishop will go on criminal trial...

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              Biden Removes State Department Stigma on Anti-Christian Nigeria - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

              In November, Secretary of State Antony Blinken removed Nigeria from the State Department’s list of countries hostile to religious freedom....

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              Biden Judges Will Eviscerate Religious Freedom | The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

              “I think we’re seeing a common DNA run through the Obama [judicial] nominees, and that’s the ACLU chromosome,” observed Jeff...

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              The Death of Religious Freedom by a Thousand Cuts | The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

              The Biden administration’s position on religious freedom grows more and more narrow. In a grim measure of its unwillingness to...

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                Liberals’ Obsession with ‘Christian Nationalism’ | The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

                The chattering class is very preoccupied these days with “Christian nationalism.” The pundits who speak darkly about it don’t bother...

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                  United Methodist Conservatives to Form New Global Church, Will Not Recognize Same-Sex Marriage

                  Conservative leaders within the United Methodist Church (UMC) have unveiled their plans to form a new denomination.

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                  'We Want God': Trump Issues Proclamation Packed with Powerful Quotes on Faith and Freedom

                  This week President Trump issued a proclamation that was filled with some profound quotes about faith and freedom, intended to reaffirm America's mission to end religious persecution worldwide.

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                      Clay Christensen on Religious Freedom (His personal views, not HBS)

                      Clay Christensen on Religious Freedom. The views in this video do not necessarily represent the views of the Harvard Business School.

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                        Michigan Faith-Based Adoption Agencies Win Big in Court, Allowed to Keep Following Their Religion

                        A district judge in Michigan has ruled that a faith-based adoption agency can continue to practice its religious beliefs and still partner with the state in connecting foster children with families who want to adopt them.

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                          Atheists Ordered School Board to Drop Football Prayers, Crowd Erupted When They Did This Instead

                          The Freedom From Religion Foundation asked the Lowndes County, Georgia High School to stop allowing prayer before its Friday night football games. But the school board found a way to keep the prayers going forward by making sure all prayers are both stud

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                            Was America founded as a Christian or a secular nation?

                            Jonathan Morris, Pastor Robert Jeffress and Ravi Zacharias weigh in on whether or not America was founded as a Christian nation.

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                              Good News: Egypt Legalizes 127 Churches in Sweeping Approval

                              A committee set up by the Egyptian government has approved the legalization of 127 churches which were previously being run in an illegal capacity.

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                                Researchers Believe They’ve Uncovered One of the Oldest Christian Churches on the Planet

                                An excavation in Egypt may have uncovered the oldest church ever discovered in the North African nation.

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                                  Texas Lawmakers Look to Stop Discrimination Against Companies Like Chick-fil-A

                                  The "Chick-fil-A bill" was fast-tracked in the Republican-controlled state legislature as a response to the San Antonio City Council stopping Chick-fil-A from opening a location at the airport of the nation's seventh largest city.

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                                    Bible Study Battle Turns into Federal Lawsuit After Apt. Managers Threatened to Evict Christian Couple

                                    A Virginia senior living community is facing a federal lawsuit after threatening to evict residents for leading a Bible study in their own apartment. 

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                                        'Queer and Trans Readings of Biblical Texts': US Universities Awash with Courses Aimed at 'Queering' Students

                                        A new report from Young America's Foundation argues the curriculum at a wide range of American schools, from Harvard University to Columbia University to Swarthmore College, seems to target conservative and Christian values in some shocking ways.

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                                          'Shameful and Demonic': Hillsong NYC Pastor Speaks Out Against New NY Abortion Law

                                          Pastor Carl Lentz of Hillsong NYC has shared his feelings about the abortion law that was passed by the New York state legislature last week.

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                                            Religious Freedom Day Celebrates Vital Founding Principle | National Review

                                            It is increasingly important to articulate what religious freedom is and to explain why protections for religious belief and expression serve the common good.

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                                              Kamala Harris’s Outrageous Assault on the Knights of Columbus | National Review

                                              No longer is the debate over Christianity in the public square. It is over Christians in the public square.

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                                                A Global Religious Shift Underway? What It Means for Christians and Israel

                                                A strong voice for evangelicals around the world says Christians should expect some big changes in the world's religious landscape this year.

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                                                    'Ancient Prophesies Are Being Realized': Netanyahu's Holiday Message to Christians Worldwide

                                                    In a heartfelt Christmas Day address, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his gratitude to Christians around the world, and in the US in particular, for their strong support of the Jewish state.