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Which States Are the Best and Worst at Protecting Religious Liberty?
By Family Research Council That’s the question at the heart of the recently released annual “Religious Liberty in the States” report, produced by the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy at the First Liberty Institute, a prominent conservative legal organization. Co-authored by Mark David Hall and Paul D. Mueller, the report examined the number of […]
Catholics Are Becoming the New Mainline
By The Daily Signal On my way back from Mass recently, I walked past Alex Padilla, the uber left-wing California senator, coming out of St. Joseph’s on Capitol Hill. The incident was just the latest reminder for me that the Catholic Church is increasingly functioning as the new mainline church in American politics where left, right, […]
When the Machines Get Smarter Than the Saints
By Majority Report The silent rise of soulless intelligence—and why Christian patriots must pay attention before it’s too late. While most Americans are distracted by headlines, heatwaves, and Hollywood, something much bigger is happening beneath the surface. A new kind of intelligence is emerging. It doesn’t pray. It doesn’t believe in God. It doesn’t believe […]
Dismantling Judeo-Christian Values, One Case at a Time?
By Jerry Newcombe, D. Min. Did the founders of America intend for God to be banished from the public arena? The idea occurs so regularly in modern times that we tend to think it’s what the founders wanted. For example, recently, a law allowing the posting of the Ten Commandments in Louisiana schools has been […]
The Spiritual Leader Of The Syrian Druze, Hikmat Al-Hijri, Calls On Trump, Netanyahu, Bin Salman And Abdullah II To Save The Druze Of The Al-Suwayda Governorate From The Syrian Government
By Middle East Media Research Institute Syria | Special Dispatch No. 12080 On July 13, 2025, clashes broke out in Al-Suwayda Governorate in southern Syria between Druze factions and Bedouin tribes following several mutual kidnapping incidents. The new Syrian government headed by Ahmed Al-Sharaa (aka Abu Mohammad Al-Joulani) quickly seized this escalation as an opportunity to intervene militarily […]
Spanish Set Barcelona Mosque alight
By Vlad Tepes Blog This is an interesting and potentially a sea change event. SPAIN: Scenes of the Piera Mosque in Barcelona being burnt down. Just for balance, I have it on good authority that over SIX HUNDRED Churches have been burned to the ground since Trudeau became PM in Canada. Links to follow on […]
Socialism and Jihadism United Against Traditional American and Israeli Values
By Beverly Newman, Ed. D. What do socialists and jihadists share? Although the religion of socialism is socialism and the religion of jidadism is Islam, these groups strategically align against their shared enemies, traditional America and Israel – staging violent protests, riots, and burnings of buildings and American and Israeli flags. Their goals are to […]
Arab Clan Leader in Gaza Declares Open War on Hamas
By Jihad Watch Yasser Abu Shabab is the leader of one of the largest clans in Gaza, and is fighting against Hamas. More on him can be found here: “‘No stopping a civil war against Hamas,’ Gaza militia chief Abu Shabab tells KAN,” Jerusalem Post, July 7, 2025: Yasser Abu Shabab, leader of the allegedly Israel-backed, […]
Netanyahu Surprises Trump With Hand-Delivered Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
By The Daily Caller Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday that he had nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Netanyahu and Trump met at the White House to discuss key developments in the Middle East. Netanyahu expressed his appreciation for Trump’s leadership and said he nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize award, […]
VIDEO: Founded as a Christian Nation, the U.S.A Answers to Only One King: Jesus Christ
By Graham Ledger Don’t let the ignorant masses and the Marxists re-write U.S. history: The United States of America was founded as a Christian nation, rooted in the New Testament. Our nation is founded on individual liberty which is an outgrowth of individual salvation, a core tenant of Christianity. Graham Ledger offers the facts and […]
God and the Declaration of Independence
By Jerry Newcombe, D. Min. Soon, another Fourth of July will be upon us. What do we celebrate on the Fourth of July? Of course, it’s America’s birthday—dating back to 1776. That’s when 56 men agreed by voice vote for the final wording of our nation’s birth certificate….the Declaration of Independence. A month later they […]
VIDEO: Sharia, Israel, and the Clash of Civilizations
By The United West/ Defend The Border Pastor Dave welcomes Christian apologist and counter-terrorism expert Tom Trento for a sobering conversation on Israel, Sharia law, Islam in America, and the spiritual and geopolitical battles shaping the modern world. Trento shares his personal testimony, discusses his trips to Israel and Greece, and exposes how radical Islam […]
Milstein: Israel Paves a Path
By Jamie Glazov The diaspora should follow. On June 21, 2025, the United States and Israel deepened their historic partnership, as American warplanes struck Iran’s nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan in a decisive blow against barbarism. For the first time, the U.S. allowed an ally to lead: Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, using F-35 […]
Two Polls Reveal Public Support Is Growing for Prayer, Chaplains in Schools
By Family Research Council As some states struggle to display the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, recent surveys indicate that a majority of Americans support teachers leading students in prayer, specifically referencing Jesus Christ. Conducted from July 17, 2023, to March 4, 2024, the Pew Research Center surveyed 36,908 American adults about these key issues. The findings, released […]
VIDEO: In 2016, The Czech Republic was able to have this debate in Parliament about Islam and how it should be handled
By Vlad Tepes Blog Imagine anything like this, approaching this degree of reality, and daring to give solutions that would actually work being spoken allowed, even by any of us on social media, let alone aithoritative voices in an actual parliament. By 2021, just look at what happened to politicians who dared to say that […]
There is No Debate with the Almighty — His Word is Eternal, Everlasting — Never to be Put Assunder by Man
By Beverly Newman, Ed. D. “Israel’s land is Covenant land. Dividing it has consistently led to instability.” — Genesis 15:18; Joel 3:2. THE HOLY LAND IS UNDER DIVINE ETERNAL CONTRACT WITH THE ALMIGHTY AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO PERPETUITY. LET NO MAN PUT IT ASUNDER. “What G-d has joined together, let no man put asunder” […]
Should Jews Get Out of New York?
By Majority Report New York Is Dying. Maybe Jews Shouldn’t Wait Around for Their Own Funeral. “Intifada! Intifada!” That’s the chant echoing through the streets of New York City. Now imagine it echoing from inside City Hall. It’s not far-fetched anymore. In fact, it’s getting frighteningly close to reality. Socialist State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani — a man […]
A Call For International Action
By Amil Imani A Call to New Resolve in Battle against the Iranian Mullahs The recent ceasefire in the conflict between Iran and Israel has not brought peace to the Iranian people. Instead, it has unleashed a brutal campaign by the Islamic Republic’s theocratic regime to tighten its grip on power. The mullahs, sensing their […]
Democrat Mayoral Jihadi Zoran Mamdani Defended UK Muslim Terrorist Who Beheaded Lee Rigby On London Public Street in Broad Daylight
By The Geller Report Two Muslim terrorists mowed down Fusilier Le Rigby in a car before hacking him to death in the street in front of horrified onlookers near Woolwich Barracks in south-east London in May 2013. They both said that they were ‘soldiers of Allah.” Democrat Mayoral Candidate Zoran Mamdani shared an article by […]
Iran — State Disintegration, Not Regime Change
By Dr. Martin Sherman Israel cannot rely on regime change to ensure its security. It must aim at dismantling Iran into separate ethnic entities to ensure that, in the future, it will not become the grave menace that it was in the past. Despite the uneasy and artificial “peace” agreement, imposed recently (and arguably prematurely) […]
Christians Attacked during Sunday Worship in Michigan and Syria
By Family Research Council Christians were attacked in their places of worship on Sunday in two assaults thousands of miles apart in Michigan and in Damascus, Syria. Experts say the attacks are reminders that Christian churches continue to be prime targets for terrorism both domestically and across the globe, and that churches should take appropriate […]
Iran strikes U.S. base in Qatar to ‘symbolically’ hit U.S.
By Jihad Watch A symbolic strike may be all they can muster at this point, but we shall soon see. WATCH: BREAKING: Iran attack on the U.S. air base in Qatar to “symbolically” strike the U.S. Iran FIRES on U.S. Military Base in Qatar as Conflict ESCALATES “Iran launches missile attacks on US base […]
Unfit to Print: MORAL RELATIVISM
By The Daily Caller MORAL RELATIVISM If you’ve watched any of my commentary, particularly at Reason’s Free Media and The Hill’s Rising, over the past week, you know I am deeply skeptical of military intervention with Iran. President Donald Trump has said two things consistently: 1. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and, 2. No […]
Political Antisemitism Exposed by Operation Rising Lion
By Matthew Hausman, J.D. There are two possible reasons for the persistence of shrill, reflexive denunciations of Israel by progressive politicians: naiveté or malice. Israel initiated Operation Rising Lion because there was absolutely no doubt regarding Iran’s intention to attack the Jewish State with nuclear weapons. And the timing was critical because the Islamic Republic […]
An Iranian in Exile: Military Defeat Not Enough, Regime Change Must Follow
By Jihad Watch Iranians in exile are wishing and hoping, and hoping and wishing, that Israel will succeed in its demolition derby, taking apart bit by bit every aspect of the Islamic Republic’s military machine, so weakening it that the rulers can only with great difficulty suppress their domestic enemies should those enemies begin to […]
Prince Reza Pahlavi: Iran’s New Cyrus
By Amil Imani Some 2,500 years ago, a farsighted and benevolent king, Cyrus the Great, issued a historic proclamation to the varied peoples of his vast empire. He granted every people their rights to dignity, independence, beliefs, and way of life. This trailblazing king considered the first author of the Charter of Human Rights, showed […]
Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi Says a Transition Plan is in Place if Khamenei Falls
By Jihad Watch The Iranian regime is a scourge to its own people, Israel and to the West, so to see it fall would be an occasion of celebration. According to Trump: Iran was “a few weeks away” from developing a nuclear weapon before Israel launched strikes last week…adding that he now seeks “total and complete victory,” […]
In the Darkest Tunnels, Hamas Survivors Found God
By Family Research Council The worst pain for the hostage families is not knowing. To the 58 pairs of mothers and fathers who crossed into the 600-day threshold of this nightmare last month, the flickers of hope feel fewer and farther between. “Time is running out,” survivor Yocheved Lifshitz said emotionally. Others, looking at pictures of the […]
Syrian Journalists And Activists Celebrate Israel’s Attack On Iran: This Is One Of Our Most Joyous Days
By Middle East Media Research Institute Iran, Syria | Special Dispatch No. 12030 he war between Israel and Iran has generated widespread media and political discourse throughout the Middle East, including in Syria, where many are celebrating the Israeli strikes in Iran and the elimination of numerous senior members of Iran’s security establishment. Many Syrians regard this as historical […]
Iranian Military Officers Reach Out to Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, Declaring Their Intent to Defect and Pledge Allegiance
By The Geller Report Military officers of the Islamic regime in Iran have now begun seeking contact with Iran’s exiled Shah and National Leader, His Majesty Reza Shah II Pahlavi, expressing their intent to defect and pledge allegiance to His Majesty. The future of Iran is in the hands of the people of Iran. Incoming […]