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WASHINGTON – The executive director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit legal advocacy group that has defended key civil rights cases, has been appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Speaker Paul Ryan of the U.S. House of Representatives named Kristina Arriaga de Bucholz,
Abortion
To the surprise of no one who has paid any attention to the litigation, the post-Scalia Supreme Court this week resolved the challenges brought by religious groups to Obamacare's contraceptive mandate without issuing a sweeping decision one way or the other. Instead, the Supreme Court's decision
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Abortion
Compassion — or a skewed definition of it — has become one of the left's most insidious weapons in the ongoing culture war. Like so many other arguments that the left makes these days, the notion of "compassion" has been twisted. And conservatives find themselves completely disarmed when
Faith
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Religious freedom remains under "serious and sustained assault" around the globe, according to a new annual report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. "At best, in most of the countries we cover, religious freedom conditions have failed to improve," commission chairman
Massachusetts
Gordon College is once again under fire for being a self-consciously Christian college. Cultural elites in Massachusetts insist that Gordon should abandon its moral ideals and that members of the college community should conform to the moral sameness that pervades other campuses. If those elites would pay closer attention to
baker
The culture war has only just begun. This is not a conventional battle of two sides, sparring over rights and the merits of tradition within the confines of civil democratic debates. Sadly, we are in the midst of guerrilla warfare where unpredictable alliances are forming and personal feuds are fought
transgender
(CNSNews.com) – GOP presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that there needs to be a balance when it comes to laws like those in Mississippi, which let workers cite religious beliefs to deny services to gays, lesbians, bisexuals,
Fidel Castro
WASHINGTON – "They've taken everything away from me – or almost everything – I still have my smile, the proud sense that I'm a free man, and an eternally flowering garden in my soul," wrote Armando Valladares, a Cuban poet and artist jailed for 22 years after
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