Bashar and Asma al-Assad, President and first-wife of Syria. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Last year with the coming of the ‘Arab Spring,’ the popular notion projected and supported by the Western media was that oppressed people in the Middle East were rising up against their long-time ruthless dictators seeking Western-style democracy. Since that time, in every [...]

                                             (Image via Wikipedia) A new proposal by the Obama administration for an expanded religious exemption was reportedly contained within Friday’s 32-page document dump on the birth-control mandate. The first reports on the administration document emphasized that the HHS contraceptive mandate was now going to be expanded to include coverage for all students including those [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 16, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com): In a move that is likely to reignite the ire of religious leaders, late Friday afternoon the Obama administration announced a proposal that would require universities, including religious universities, to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs to their students, as well as their employees, without a co-pay. This appears [...]

                                            (Image via Wikipedia) The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, recently called for the destruction of all Christian churches in the region. This declaration came in response to an inquiry by a delegation from Kuwait. Raymond Ibrahim reports: According to several Arabic news sources, last Monday, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin [...]

Franklin Graham says that he would ‘break the law’ if the government passed a mandate that would force his ministry to hire employees who did not share his Christian faith and outlook. This came in an interview with NewsMax senior editor David Patten: “What I’m concerned about as a faith-based organization is that I’m going [...]

                                                (Image via Wikipedia) President Obama has apologized and a joint investigation by Afghan and American military leaders concluded that mistakes were made but there was no intent to burn the copies of the Quran at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. Meanwhile,  Afghani authorities are still demanding that the American personnel involved be publicly identified [...]

TACOMA, WASHINGTON, February 22, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com): In a decision that could impact the unfolding debate over the HHS mandate, today a federal court in Washington state upheld the First Amendment rights of pharmacists to refuse to distribute potentially abortifacient contraception and abortion-inducing drugs, such as Plan B and Ella, if doing so would violate their [...]