The senator’s own faith journey has taken him from the Catholicism of his early childhood to Mormonism, then to a Baptist megachurch, and back to the Catholic faith again.
Religious Freedom
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Canadian court case is a ‘turning point for religious freedom’
“We are standing on an abyss of a revolutionary change on how religions have operated in Canada.”
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Court seems divided over religious right not to sell cake for same-sex wedding
The questions in the Supreme Court oral arguments weighed anti-discrimination laws against freedom of speech and freedom of religious expression.
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These Iraqi Christians returned home after surviving ISIS. Now they face a new threat.
After surviving ISIS, Christian communities in Nineveh face a new threat as Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Iraqi government troops backed by Shiite militias square off across the province.
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Canadian court clears way for ski resort on mountain sacred to indigenous people
The Ktunaxa First Nation says their way of life is threatened by commercial development in Qat’muk, a mountain region in British Columbia inhabited by the Grizzly Bear Spirit.
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D.C. archdiocese sues transit agency over rejection of Christmas season ads
The Washington Metro cited its guidelines against religious ads in preventing the image of a group of shepherds from running on city buses.
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Despite law, State Department misses deadline to name religious freedom violators
The U.S. State Department often misses its deadline to release a list of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom — or doesn’t release a list at all.
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Chinese officials pay poor to swap religious images for portraits of Xi Jinping
Father John, in northern China, said he felt Xi had become “another Mao” Zedong.
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Supreme Court to hear case on free speech, abortion and crisis pregnancy centers
It will be the first abortion-related case heard by the court with Neil Gorsuch on the bench.
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What is the future of religious minorities victimized by ISIS?
“The international community must respond to the outrages systematically committed by Daesh with a rock-solid resolve to prevent similar future abominations from recurring.”