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Immigration has been a lightning rod for controversy since before Trump ever threw his hat in the ring for the Republican nomination, but the United States’ immigration system has been under increasing scrutiny during Trump’s administration. President Trump ran on a platform that emphasized safe borders and a crackdown on illegal immigration. As part of…

Pastor Andrew Brunson is back in the United States after two years of imprisonment and detention in Turkey according to the Associated Press. President Trump welcomed Pastor Brunson to the White House after helping secure his release from nearly two years of confinement. Pastor Brunson fell to one knee in the Oval Office and placed…

Kim Jong-un, the infamous totalitarian leader of North Korea, has officially invited Pope Francis to make a visit to the dictatorship’s capital of Pyongyang. The invitation is set to be personally delivered to the Vatican by Moon Jae-in, the president of South Korea. Moon Jae-in is a Catholic himself and was already set to be…

Pope Francis believes that the devil is to blame for the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church and the issues dividing the Church. Francis is calling on Catholic around the world to recite a special prayer every day in October to try to beat him back according to Reuters. “[The Church must be] saved…

A school district in Massachusetts will no longer allow prayer at school-sponsored events, including graduations, as a result of complaints from one of the nation’s largest atheist organizations. This decision came after a Christian minister publicly prayed for Canton High School’s 2018 graduating class during the commencement ceremony. Rev. John Tamilio III called on our…

The fight over Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation came to a close this weekend. After the FBI probe failed to uncover corroborating evidence to support Professor Ford’s accusations of sexual assault, the Senate voted to confirm Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, the fight does not seem to be over as Americans remain divided over Kavanaugh’s…

There is a new ceiling set that will cap the number of refugees allowed in the United States at 30,000 people for the 2019 fiscal year. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the lowered ceiling was due to a “massive backlog” of refugee cases that still needed to be addressed. According to Pompeo, the…

The United States might soon be prioritizing the resettlement of Christian refugees, President Trump said in a statement. “They’ve been horribly treated,” Trump said in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network anchor David Brody. “Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough, to get into the…

There is a modern exodus occurring in the Catholic Church. More Americans are leaving the Church behind than any other religion in the U.S. according to a new report. About 13 percent of American adults are former Catholics – people who were raised in the faith but now have no religion, or converted to Protestantism…

Pope Francis said “silence and prayer” were the answer to those “seeking scandal” as the Catholic Church faces countless attacks from ultra-conservative Catholics. To many ultra-conservatives, the Pope is viewed as a dangerous progressive who is more interested in social issues than traditional Church matters. The Pope so far has not yet responded to allegations…
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