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Ohio Serves as Model for Christian Education Network Expansion
The Center for Christian Virtue has announced that its Christian Education Network initiative is expanding with eight state affiliates. In 2024, The Heritage Foundation awarded the center $100,000 to support its Education Restoration Initiative and expand the Ohio Christian Education Network schools model across the country. Aaron Baer, the president of the Center for Christian… -
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Pro-Abortion Agitators May Have Broken the Law by Disrupting Catholic Mass: Attorney
Pro-abortion agitators disrupted a Catholic Mass Saturday, standing between the congregation and the altar with a sign reading, “Pro-life? That’s a lie. You don’t care if people die!” The agitators rushed into Westminster Cathedral at the beginning of a Mass that preceded the March for Life in London. “Catholics had gathered in church to pray… -
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Catholic Nuns Sue Illinois Over Law Forcing Them to Help Terminally Ill Patients Kill Themselves
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Catholic Church in Illinois is challenging the Democrat-led state’s recently passed assisted suicide law in court. Chicago’s archbishop, Cardinal Blase Cupich, joined two orders of Catholic nuns and an Illinois pharmacist in a lawsuit filed Thursday in an effort to block the End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act (EOLOA), the Becket… -
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The Depths of Mother Teresa’s Prayer Life
Mother Teresa (feast day of Sept. 5) is synonymous with love and service. No matter what one’s religious affiliation—or lack thereof—she is known as a sort of blueprint for the human person. She gave everything to serve the most vulnerable. And yet, her smile and joy reverberated around the world. So many people recognize the… -
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France Cracks Down on Abuse of Women With Bold Ads Targeting Muslim Migrant Communities
France has launched an advertising campaign to combat the surge in female genital mutilation, as statistics show that 1 in 10 girls living in districts with large Muslim communities are being coerced into this cruel practice. The three-monthslong campaign, which coincides with the school holiday season when parents are most likely to take their daughters… -
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Vance Sees ‘Really Weird, Dark Spiritual Energy’ Around AI
Vice President JD Vance said he has noticed what he described as spiritual darkness surrounding the artificial intelligence industry. Christian podcaster Bryce Crawford asked the vice president and former venture capitalist if he had ever been in a room where he felt an evil presence. “I think that you know I made a living as… -
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EXCLUSIVE: GOP Congressman to Introduce Resolution Condemning Sharia Law, Wants House Vote Before Midterms
Co-founder of the Sharia Free America Caucus, Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, will introduce a resolution on Thursday condemning Sharia law and aims to get a House vote on the resolution before the November midterms. Titled “Denouncing Sharia Law in the United States,” the resolution obtained by the Daily Signal will reaffirm that the “primary role… -
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Does the First Amendment Give You the Right to Disrupt a Church Service?
The First Amendment protects both freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, but those rights do not give activists carte blanche to invade a church and take over the service. Or so I thought. Now, however, a group of activists who did just that has filed a motion to dismiss federal civil rights charges, arguing… -
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Michigan AG Dana Nessel Invokes Esther, Says Jews May Need to Sacrifice Their Own Future to Save Humanity
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel urged her fellow Jewish Democrats Sunday to place the “needs of the world” above “our own self-interest,” arguing that Jews may need to “sacrifice” even “the very future of our own people” for the sake of humanity. She cited the example of the Persian Queen Esther, who risked her life… -
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On 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks, Many Will Excise the Most Relevant Truth From National Memory: Islamist Ideology Still Motivates Mass Murder
As America prepares to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, expect a bright, glaring omission in the upcoming speeches, editorials, and televised survivor retrospectives about this history, important to tell for its warning that national vigilance remains necessary even now. Left on the cutting room floors will be the all-important, basic “why,”… -
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Biden FBI Cited SPLC in Taking Thousands of Actions Despite Knowing Org’s Deep Flaws
The Justice Department’s new report on the Richmond Catholic memo reveals that the FBI had cited the Southern Poverty Law Center more than 22,000 times, at times without any caveats, even though FBI policies would require any SPLC citation to note potential bias and contested credibility. The Richmond office of the FBI published the notorious… -
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Hasan Piker to Dems: Don’t Quit Me
Hasan Piker, two weeks ago, delivered this message: “Democrats, listen to me, I know we don’t always see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but you have to literally, at some point—I know you don’t want to do this—defend me. Not because you love what I have to say, not because I’m part… -
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Catholic Bishops Sound Alarm Ahead of November Vote
Virginia’s most populous Catholic diocese is planning a coordinated effort in churches next month, urging parishioners to reject constitutional amendments on abortion and marriage that will appear on the ballot this fall. Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington hosted a webinar for priests and asked them to read a message at Masses on… -
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National Media Skip Extreme Pro-Abortion Law in Massachusetts
On Aug. 10, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill allowing abortion at any point in pregnancy. Abortion advocates call it “closing the gaps” in “abortion rights protections.” Abortion foes call it “abortion until birth,” making it legal to dismember fully formed babies, limb from limb. The “mainstream” media called it nothing. You couldn’t find… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Chip Roy Sounds Alarm Over Islamic Development Near Military Base
Rep. Chip Roy has sent a letter to several high-ranking federal officials to voice his concerns about a planned Islamic development being built near a U.S. military training base in San Antonio. Roy, a Republican from Texas, is requesting that members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet look into the Islamic center’s planned community and “examine… -
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Why Young Adults Are Choosing Christianity in an Increasingly Secular Age
We are experiencing an unprecedented surge in conversions, a historic shift that makes me think Christianity in the West is not dying but simply changing form. While it is true that Christianity is disappearing in some areas due to persecution, it is growing in others and changing form, because religion is now experienced in a… -
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‘I Think We’re in a War’: Texas Pastors Gather for Training on Islamification Threat
A group with special operations and intelligence skills and filmmaker Chris Burgard teamed up on Saturday to teach pastors in East Texas how to respond to the rise of Islam in the Lone Star State. The Allied Special Intelligence Group is an organization that uses its knowledge of special operations military skills, counterintelligence, and human… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Records Reveal Planned Parenthood’s 14-Point Post-Dobbs Strategy for State AGs to Target Pro-Lifers
A month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood issued marching orders for state attorneys general to target crisis pregnancy centers and issue abortion-friendly legal opinions. State actions after the July 12, 2022, memo suggest Democrat attorneys general followed much of the 14-point plan pushed by the nation’s largest abortion provider. On… -
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How the Transgender Movement Lost the Power to End Debate
Transgender activists once used maximalist legal arguments to force their worldview on American society, but now they’re arguing defensively. Activists are accusing the government of trying to silence them and take away their health care benefits. To some degree, this strategy represents a legal response to President Donald Trump’s reelection, but it also reveals an… -
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Trump’s New FDA Nominee Draws Early MAHA Praise, Calls for Action on Abortion Pill
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday afternoon that he has selected Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration. “Today I am honored to nominate the wonderful Dr. Heidi Overton, MD, PhD, as our next FDA Commissioner,” Trump wrote in the Truth Social announcement. “Dr. Heidi has been a rockstar in my Administration, where…