Legislation has been introduced on Capitol Hill requiring President Barack Obama’s administration to give international religious freedom a higher priority. Congressman Frank Wolf, who authored the 1998 law establishing the office, has proposed an amendment that would give the office’s ambassador-at-large new, direct contact with the Secretary of State as well as greater access to the president’s foreign policy decision-making, reports Stephanie Samuel of…

She’s just one woman working alone — driven by the horror she has seen first hand. She’s Sister Hatune, a nun in a Syrian Orthodox convent in Germany. She is trying to get the word out of the growing number of attacks on Christian little girls in Iraq — children as young as 9 being ruthlessly raped and…

  A religious liberty advocate was heckled by fellow officials when she spoke to a European Union meeting, speaking on behalf of Christians who are being silenced by “hate speech” laws. Dr. Gudrun Kugler was openly jeered by fellow members of the Advisory Panel of the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Platform. She spoke out for…

Watch this video and ask yourself whether this street preacher was a trouble-maker or merely exercising his right to freedom of speech. You’ll watch him being arrested for reading aloud from Romans 1 outside of the Department of Motor Vehicles in Hemet, California. Attorney Jennifer Monk, associate general counsel with a group called Advocates for Faith and…

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