“In today’s arguments, the justices were divided along gender lines. If that holds, the businesses would win at some level with a 6-3 vote. Predicting the outcome of a Supreme Court case is folly, as the healthcare decision proved. But in the arguments, the male justices seemed on the side of the businesses’ right to... Continue Reading

“While legal in Texas for more than two decades, Associate Judge Graciela Olvera of Dallas County’s 256th Family District Court removed the children in part because they were not using a state-approved home schooling curriculum, according to court records.”   For five months a family has been separated by a Dallas judge–not for abuse or... Continue Reading

It is no coincidence the increase in attacks on Christians began right after the fall President Mubarak in February 2011 and sharply increased after the Muslim Brotherhood won the Egyptian presidency in June 2012. “I accuse the Muslim Brotherhood and their Islamic groups of abducting the Christian girls in Egypt and forcing them to convert... Continue Reading

“Named after the second caliph, Omar bin al-Khattab (r. 634 to 644), the Conditions was purportedly agreed upon between the caliph and a community of Christians conquered by invading Muslims, ironically in the region of Syria.  It has since been referenced in most major works on the treatment of dhimmis—non-Muslims living under Islamic authority.”   A jihadi... Continue Reading

The Islamists (Muslims who believe in Sharia governance), argue that the system is tolerant because it gives Christians and Jews some rights and technically permits them to practice their faith and have houses of worship. However, the restrictions on them are designed to make their faiths unsustainable so they are ultimately a thing of the... Continue Reading

In one of the most recent attacks, that took place on Friday night, March 14, into the morning hours of Saturday, March 15, the “herdsmen’s” attack was described to the Nigerian newspaper Sunday Vanguard by a survivor from Ugwar Sankwai village, and related by the Barnabas Fund: “They fired into homes. As women and children scampered to escape, they were... Continue Reading

Formerly, pottery dated roughly to the time of Joshua served as the only evidence that Khirbet el-Maqatir was inhabited during that time period. Discovery of the scarab gives irrefutable evidence of the city’s existence at the time of Joshua. The scarab is a rare type that was made only between the years of 1485 and... Continue Reading

Today’s young adults are starting out more unaffiliated than any prior generation of 20-year-olds. So, even if some millennials do find a faith, Jones said, “they will still be the most unaffiliated generation in history.” Jones identified another force in shifting religious demography: “There are fewer white evangelicals among millennials (ages 18 to 33) because younger... Continue Reading

“We hear the thunder of bombs and the rattle of gunfire, but we don’t always know what is happening. It’s hard to describe how chaotic, terrifying and psychologically difficult it is when you have no idea what will happen next, or where the next rocket will fall.”   Today, the first Sunday of Lent, will... Continue Reading

The dustup over a cadet who wrote a Scripture verse on the whiteboard on his dorm room door and later removed it—some say by force, others by choice—has become the U.S. military’s latest religious liberty scandal. As the smoke clears and members of the top brass meet with representatives from both Christian and anti-religious groups,... Continue Reading