July 26, 2017 “There has never been a more important time for the United States to promote religious freedom as a cornerstone of our foreign policy, given the global instability caused by the severe religious persecution that 77 percent of the world’s population live under. There…
BY DR. GRAZIE POZO CHRISTIE When the matter at stake is an ongoing genocide, response should be swift and decisive. After all, the days and weeks are measured by the worst kinds of human suffering. Indigenous Christians and other religious minorities are the targets of…
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer Rather than taking on complex political or moral issues of the day as he is so skillfully able to do, Austen Ruse, President of the Center for Family and Human Rights, in his new book Littlest Suffering Souls recounts the lives of three saintly children…
By Maureen Ferguson Amnesty International is sounding the alarm bells about the increasing and “terrifying wave of attacks” against Christians in Egypt, just as the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholic Christians, Pope Francis, is headed there in a display of solidarity with these persecuted…
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer The University of Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture and the Religious Freedom Institute just held a day-long symposium on the persecution of Christians world-wide. Government officials, business leaders, academics, human-rights and religious leaders gathered at the National Press Club to…
By Ashley McGuire I have spent today’s “Day Without A Woman” barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, baking cookies for my breadwinner husband and my two children. That may sound like a joke, but it’s not. That’s just my way of protesting a movement that…
By Ashley McGuire If you want to understand why just one-in-five Americans self-identify as a feminist, look no further than today’s “Day Without A Woman” event. The organizers already told about half of America’s women to get lost when they explicitly stated the preceding January’s Women’s March’s “platform is…
As the Christian population dwindles, the Islamic State group is not secretive about what it intends to do. In a U.S. News article, TCA’s Grazi Pozo Christie explains the conscious and systematic attempt by the Islamic State to cleanse the Middle East of its ancient…
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has just released its 2016 Annual Report, which confirms that the persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq and Syria constitutes genocide. The report states, “ISIL’s summary executions, rape, sexual enslavement, abduction of children, destruction of…
We strongly urge Secretary Kerry to listen to the bipartisan voices voting today in support of the Fortenberry-Eshoo resolution (H. Con. Res. 75). Secretary Kerry should heed the calls of a growing international coalition of genocide scholars, The European Parliament, Pope Francis, the previous Secretary…
