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Engraving of a nun at the bedside of a dying patient, morning light through a tall window

Assisted Suicide Becomes Legal in New York This Week. The First Fight Was Over the Nuns.

Start with what the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne actually do. They run a 42 bed home in New York where the dying poor are cared for without charge until natural death. It is the kind of ministry that exists because someone believes every hour of a human life is worth

The rulebook has changed: what the DOJ's new religious liberty guidance means for you

The rulebook has changed: what the DOJ's new religious liberty guidance means for you

On July 23, the Department of Justice quietly replaced one of the most consequential documents in American religious liberty law that most people have never read. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an updated memorandum on federal religious liberty protections, superseding the guidance Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued in October

The parable Jesus told for days like this

The parable Jesus told for days like this

I read the story twice, hoping I had misread it the first time. Amber Nadeem is thirteen. She is a Christian girl from the Faisalabad area of Pakistan. Last year, according to her family and their advocates, a Muslim man named Mohsin Liaqat took her, and what followed was the

They took the pastor and his sons by night. The next day they killed another shepherd.

They took the pastor and his sons by night. The next day they killed another shepherd.

They came to the pastor's house in Heiban after the fighting had already emptied the streets. On the night of July 23, armed men from a breakaway faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Army-North took Rev. Yaqob Ibrahim Tia of the Sudanese Church of Christ

China did not charge them with being Christians. That is the whole point

China did not charge them with being Christians. That is the whole point

Eight Beijing Zion Church leaders face trial for fraud and illegal business operations. The charges are the strategy.

The guards stopped their prayers. Saudi Arabia has started the executions

The guards stopped their prayers. Saudi Arabia has started the executions

Five Ethiopian Christians were executed on nonlethal drug charges after trials of minutes. At least 58 more wait in one Saudi prison.

Eight Hundred Incidents and One Question for India's Supreme Court

Eight Hundred Incidents and One Question for India's Supreme Court

On July 15, two justices of India's Supreme Court sat down with a set of numbers that have been waiting four years for a verdict. The petition in front of Justice P. S. Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe was filed by Rev. Dr. Peter Machado, the Catholic Archbishop