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Rubio Announces Visa Restrictions on Anyone Carrying Out ‘Violations of Religious Freedom’
The State Department has announced new restrictions on visas for anyone who is seen to be supporting or conducting violations of religious freedom. “The United States is taking decisive action in response to the atrocities and violence against Christians in Nigeria and around the world,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday. The department “will restrict U.S. visas for those… -
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Conservative Leaders Gather to Keep Antisemitism Out of the GOP, Conservative Movement
Christian, Jewish, and other conservative leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to urge the conservative movement and the Republican Party to prevent antisemitism from taking a foothold on the Right. “The conservative movement and the Republican Party cannot flirt with antisemitism,” Pastor Mario Bramnick, president of the Latino Coalition for Israel, declared in remarks Tuesday… -
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Confronting Conservative Antisemitism
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There’s been a lot of controversy recently about antisemitism and the threat that it poses to… -
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Haircut in the High Court: How Justices Respond to Latest Religious Freedom Case
The Supreme Court heard a religious freedom argument Monday out of Louisiana concerning whether individual government officials may be forced to pay legal damages for violations of a primary First Amendment protection. In Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections, the court is considering whether a prisoner can sue a prison official in his personal capacity… -
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Religious Freedom Around the World: Rhetoric vs. Reality
For many countries, rhetoric surrounding religious freedom does not match reality. For example, look no further than Nigeria. There, the country ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 1993, agreeing that everyone has the right to both the expression and exercise of religion. Those same rights are guaranteed in the Nigerian Constitution…. -
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News of Religious Freedom’s Demise Might Be Exaggerated After All
It’s no secret that religion in America has seen better days. The percentage of Americans who say religion is “very important” in their lives is at its lowest point in decades. The percentage who express confidence in the church or organized religion is half what it was in the 1980s. And more than three-quarters say… -
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George Washington University’s ‘Indifference’ to Antisemitism
How many students must be harassed before a university tries to stop the offenses? Jewish students at George Washington University are still counting, but in the meantime, the U.S. Department of Justice is stepping in. If the recent examples of civil rights-related settlements at Brown University, Columbia University, and the University of Pennsylvania are any… -
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Steep New Tariffs on Algeria Give the US Leverage to Press on Religious Freedom
Last week, the United States implemented a new set of reciprocal tariffs on imports from dozens of countries around the world. As part of this broader trade realignment, Algeria will face a 30% tariff on its exports to the U.S., one of the highest rates assigned. While these tariffs are intended to address global trade… -
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Pro-Israel Group Equips Students to Confront Campus Antisemitism
A pro-Israel group hosted an advocacy training program for Christian students on their school campuses last week on how to be allies with the Jewish people. The District of Columbia organization Passages hosted 150 high school and college-age students in the nation’s capital. The students heard from United States Special Envoy to the Middle East… -
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Jewish Community Leader Sounds Alarm on Security Concerns From Antisemitism
A top leader in the Jewish community is sounding the alarm about rising security concerns for Jews and supporters of Israel in the United States. “You cannot have one faith group, one community, that has to be behind barricades, just to go practice our faith,” Eric Fingerhut, the president and CEO of the Jewish Federations… -
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Supreme Court Rules on Parents’ Religious Freedom in LGBTQ School Book Opt-Out Case
The Supreme Court upheld the religious freedom of Maryland parents who challenged a school district policy that prevented them from opting their children out of lessons involving LGBTQ+ books. The court ruled, 6-3, that the Maryland parents were entitled to a preliminary injunction. The case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, involved Maryland parents of various faith backgrounds—Protestant, Catholic, Jewish,… -
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UNMASKED: Leftist Group Cited by the FBI Outs Itself as Anti-Christian
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably not an ostrich. If a leftist group cited by the FBI puts Christian nonprofits on a “hate map” and says Christian moral theology is evidence of “hate,” it’s probably anti-Christian—even if it swears to high heaven that’s not true. The Southern Poverty… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Anti-Christian Group Advised DOJ Prosecutors on ‘Hate Crimes,’ Docs Show
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A left-wing activist group known for putting its political opponents on a "hate map" with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan advised Justice Department prosecutors at a "hate crimes symposium," newly unveiled documents show. America First Legal obtained the documents via a Freedom of Information Act request and provided them first… -
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Museum of Bible Hosts First Meeting of New Religious Liberty Commission
The newly created Religious Liberty Commission held its first meeting on Monday at the Museum of the Bible in Washington. On the agenda for discussion by the commission was the history of religious liberty in the U.S. and the Supreme Court’s role in interpreting the rights to religious expression and exercise. “[I]t’s so vitally important… -
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The Results of Christian Mutual Proxy Voting Analysis Leave Significant Room for Improvement
Proxy voting is a key responsibility of all fiduciaries. Why in particular should conservatives, and especially traditional worshippers, take care with that responsibility? Because in an era of plentiful and typically controversial “shareholder resolutions,” the invested financial assets of individuals and institutions—including religious organizations (dioceses, temples, hospital chains, orders, colleges, etc.)—are quite powerful things. They… -
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The Christian Roots of the NBA – From Naismith to This Year’s 79th NBA Finals
Faith and sports go hand in hand. Quarterbacks quote Bible verses in interviews and today’s top NBA players, from Golden State Warrior standout Stephen Curry (verses of scripture adorn his sneakers) to Indiana Pacer sensation Tyrese Haliburton (he cites church as “a big part of my success and my sanity”), count themselves as two of… -
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House Panel’s Republicans, Democrats Concur on Scourge of Antisemitism, but Not on What to Do About It
Following a number of recent violent attacks in America that appear to have been driven by antisemitism, members of Congress are seeking solutions to the threat of anti-Jewish acts of terrorism. “The Jewish community has long been a vibrant and integral part of the nation’s fabric, yet today, too many Jewish Americans are now… -
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CatholicVote Calls Out Apple TV+ Show for ‘Blasphemous’ Scene
Catholic advocacy organization CatholicVote is challenging Apple CEO Tim Cook on what it called a “Eucharistic desecration” scene in an Apple TV+ program after the group gained about 170,000 signatures on a petition from people saying they “won’t stand for blasphemy.” Fox News first reported on the letter Friday. “As the nation’s largest lay Catholic… -
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Where Is the National Conversation on Antisemitism?
When George Floyd died in 2020, the country—and even the world—erupted in both a figurative and literal explosion, as we were forced by every element of our society to have a nationwide reckoning on the subject of racism. George Floyd, we were told—no, ordered—was a symbol of the conscious, unconscious, implicit, explicit, institutional, systemic and… -
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UTTERLY INEXCUSABLE: Here’s How 1,000 FBI Employees Responded to the Anti-Catholic Memo
This week, we got another glimpse at just how bad things were at the FBI under President Joe Biden, and let me tell you, it's not pretty. You may remember that in February 2023, the FBI rushed to rescind a memo it had issued on “radical traditional Catholics.” The FBI rarely comments on news, but…