Christian Persecution
Meloni Party Wants to Save Christmas in Schools
The Brothers of Italy (FdI), the party led by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, has introduced a bill that would ban any school from cancelling Christian celebrations at Christmas or Easter, infuriating the Italian Left.
The bill was presented to the Italian Senate this week just days before Christmas and declares that “it will no longer be possible to cancel the nativity scene, Christmas, and Easter within Italian schools of all levels,” the newspaper Il Giornale reports.
John Robson: Christians are being persecuted worldwide. Why no liberal outcry?
If you’re into Bible verses at Christmas, unlike the craft store clerk who didn’t know what a “nativity scene” was even after I mentioned wise men, Mary, Joseph and the “Christ child,” I suggest Matthew 5:11. Which, for her and her millennial ilk, says “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.” So there’s a lot of blessing worldwide.
‘War on Christmas’: Movement to Cancel Holiday in Canada Seen Before in Communist Regimes
The Canadian Human Rights Commission said in a recent report that having statutory holidays for Christian celebrations such as Christmas is “a form of discrimination … deeply rooted in our identity as a settler colonial state.”
It’s the latest shot across the bow in what’s often called a “war on Christmas,” primarily driven by those seeking to secularize public life, says Christmas expert and historian Gerry Bowler of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
Conservative MP introduces bill to declare December ‘Christian Heritage Month’
A Conservative member of Parliament is introducing a private member’s bill that would designate December as “Christian Heritage Month.”
Marilyn Gladu, the MP for the Ontario riding of Sarnia–Lambton, introduced Bill C-369, the Christian Heritage Month Act, to the House of Commons on Tuesday.
The bill lands as the Conservatives press a petition campaign against a Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) paper that described statutory holidays marking Christian religious dates as discriminatory.
The CBC is happy to report the bill does not stand a snowball’s chance in Hell of passing.
Finnish Politician Cleared of Hate Speech Charges for Second Time
“It isn’t a crime to tweet a Bible verse, or to engage in public discourse with a Christian perspective. The attempts made to prosecute me for expressing my beliefs have resulted in an immensely trying four years, but my hope is that the result will stand as a key precedent to protect the human right to free speech. I sincerely hope other innocent people will be spared the same ordeal for simply voicing their convictions,” added Räsänen, the former Finnish Interior Minister and grandmother of eleven.
Religious persecution in a first-world country
In February, an FBI whistleblower from their Richmond, Virginia field office leaked a report about spying on “radical-traditionalist Catholics,” labeling them as “potential domestic terrorists.”
FBI director Christopher Wray claimed the report was “a single product by a single field office.”
John Robson: Intolerance Is the New Inclusion as We Forsake Our Heritage of Liberty
To the slogans “War is peace,” “Freedom is slavery,” and “Ignorance is strength,” one could now add “Hate is love” judging by how often social justice seems to be delivered via the policeman’s truncheon. Even in famously polite Canada.
Also “Censorship is free speech” and “Dissent is treason,” because a Christian group had to sue after its event permit was cancelled in Quebec City this summer because it was suspected of Thoughtcrime. And because of the brazenness of the rationale.
What My Family’s Bloody History In The Spanish Civil War Teaches About The FBI’s Assault On Catholics
It’s time to revisit the Spanish Civil War — a bloody three-year conflict spanning from 1936 to 1939 in which communists massacred Catholics because the church’s doctrine and its head, Jesus Christ, stood in opposition to their ideology and authority.
Many Americans have never heard of the Spanish Civil War because it’s often ignored by the history books or overshadowed by World War II, but its history is important given the context of our government’s current demonization and targeting of Catholics.
French National Rally Staffers Attacked in Hate Crime
Three staff members of France’s populist National Rally (RN) claim they were attacked in the southern city of Marseille by a group of individuals who asked them if they were Christians before the assault.
Lukas Goslini, who works as an attache in the French Parliament for the National Rally, stated on Wednesday, August 9th, that he and several others had been assaulted last weekend.
Judge orders Southwest lawyers to attend “religious-liberty training”
Three lawyers for Southwest Airlines must attend a “religious-liberty training” course after a judge ruled the company disregarded his order in a religious discrimination case.
The judge sided with a flight attendant in May who said she had been fired for expressing her opposition to abortion.
On Tuesday, the judge said the airline “didn’t come close” to complying with the ruling at the time.
Southwest said it would appeal the latest order.
Paraded Naked and Gang-Raped: The Persecution of Christians in India
“The viral video captures the harrowing ordeal endured by two Christian women from Manipur. On May 4, 2023, the women were paraded naked while a mob of men molested and beat them mercilessly. Tragically, the younger woman, aged only 19, was brutally gang-raped by the enraged mob, which included members of the Meitei [Hindu] tribe. To add to the horror, four police officers reportedly stood by and watched as the frenzied attack unfolded, making no attempt to intervene.
Catholic couple sues Massachusetts after their foster parent application was denied because they do not support procedures to change a child’s ‘God-given sex’ and believe in ‘traditional’ marriage
A Catholic couple are suing Massachusetts after their application to become foster parents was denied over concerns they would not be ‘affirming’ to a child who identified as LGBTQ+.
Court documents filed this week show that Catherine and her husband Michael Burke, who are devout Catholics, applied to be foster parents after experiencing ‘the heartbreak of infertility.’
However, their application was denied by Massachusetts Department of Children and Families in April after staff were concerned over the couple’s responses to questions regarding care for an LGBTQ+ child.
David Krayden: The Million-Person March Against Gender Ideology Is a Force for Uniting People of Faith
Can an Ottawa businessman and Muslim activist successfully organize a million-person march to protest gender ideology in Canadian schools?
Yes, because Kamel El-Cheikh has a Canada-wide network stretching from Vancouver to Halifax and he’s asking not just his fellow Muslims to march in protest but people of all faiths. In doing so, he is shaping a juggernaut of political opposition to the radical LGBTQ policies of federal and provincial governments across Canada that are insisting children be allowed to change their gender without parental consent and be exposed to a perverse cornucopia of sexual fetishism and pornography.
I would love to see this work out for the good of all however I suspect that the schoolboards and politicians will play their usual game of divide and conquer.
Muslims will be granted concessions for their children, Christians will not.
The Opening of a Religious Charter School Is Not Christian Nationalism
“Something deeply un-American is underway in the state of Oklahoma,” writes Rachel Laser, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, in the New York Times. Mourning — and suing to prevent — the opening of a religious charter school in Tulsa, she decries that “Christian nationalist groups see charter schools as fertile ground for their full-on assault on the separation of church and state in public education.”