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Al Gore and Yale University are indoctrinating students with a new faith: Climate Change Hysteria. But Al Gore is not alone. The long list of the project’s participants includes the National Association of Evangelicals Vice President Richard Cizak. Read more »

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed all claims against Shirley Dobson, the wife of Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, in a lawsuit challenging the National Day of Prayer. Shirley Dobson is chair of the National Day of Prayer Task Force and was among the names listed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation in a lawsuit filed in October 2008. Read more »

Dr. James Dobson is saying his final farewell to the ministry he founded 33 years ago. His last day at Focus on the Family is Friday. Read more »

New research shows that patients on anti-depressants are more likely to experience improvement if they believe in a “concerned God.” The study, released on Tuesday by Rush University Medical Center, found that patients with strong beliefs in a personal and concerned God were 75 percent more likely to get better with medical treatment for clinical depression that other patients. Read more »

An illustration of Jesus holding a can of beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other has sparked outrage among India’s Christian community. What’s worse is that the image was published in a textbook for primary school children. Read more »

The White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships is not a dispenser of government money, said the office’s director in a speech Thursday. The current office is seeking to portray itself as a community organizer of sorts. Read more »

ome of the American Baptist volunteers faced with charges of child kidnapping may be freed as early as Thursday, sources say. The Haitian judge overseeing the case is expected to rule soon on whether to release the ten Americans who attempted to transport 33 Haitian children to the Dominican Republic without permission. Read more »

President Barack Obama appoints so many bad people to our government, it’s almost impossible to keep up with them all. Harry Knox was appointed early last year to the president’s Faith Based Initiatives board, but most of us are only recently beginning to hear about him. Like the vast majority of President Obama’s appointments, he is about as wrong a choice for the position in which he serves as you can get. Read more »

President Obama’s Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships will mark its first anniversary Friday, but it’s hard to determine whether the office has been successful or not. One member of Obama’s faith advisory council questioned whether in an effort to find common ground council members were expected to water down their faith. Read more »

Religion is being removed from public life in Britain under the guise of tolerance, the Archbishop of York has warned. “This is symptomatic of a trend which has intensified in Britain over the past fifty years in the name of tolerance. That is, an attempt to remove religion from public life,” he pointed out. Read more »

Two prominent leaders of the separation of church and state debate recently argued whether it is “alarming” that a self-described para-church ministry has received millions in government funds for its drug treatment program. Teen Challenge, an evangelical Christian recovery program, is at the center of a “church and state” debate. Read more »

President Obama proclaimed Jan. 16 as Religious Freedom Day in the United States in commemoration of a statute passed by America’s forefathers that declared freedom of religion as a natural right of all humanity. Read more »

Journalist Brit Hume who urged Tiger Woods to “turn to the Christian faith” was right when he drew distinction between Buddhism and Christianity in terms of the concept of forgiveness and redemption, said a prominent evangelical theologian. Albert Mohler, Jr. noted that while other major religions in the world believe in a god or gods, Buddhism is a non-theistic faith. Read more »

An order to remove angels and stars from Christmas trees in all government buildings in one California county has been rescinded following the uproar that ensued over the decision. Acting County Administrator Chris Thomas in Sonoma County informed the heads of all 26 county departments to disregard his previous order, which was made in response to the complaint of a disabled atheist veteran. Read more »

A New York school district is bringing Christmas back to its schools after reversing an earlier decision to ban Christmas programs from school events. In its latest move, the East Syracuse-Minoa School District decided to incorporate both Christian and Jewish songs into a holiday musical and permit teachers to welcome Santa into the classroom. Read more »

New research from the National Center for Social Research paints a bleak picture of declining faith in Britain. The survey of more than 4,000 people across Britain found that the number of people describing themselves as Christian has dropped in the last 25 years from 66 percent to 50 percent. Read more »

A poll by Harris Interactive of over 2,000 adults found that 59 percent of Americans are “absolutely certain” and 15 percent are “somewhat certain” that there is a God. Those over the age of 40, in the South, or who are female are most likely to be absolutely certain compared to 25- to 29-year-olds, those who live in the East and males. Read more »

Chris Wallace from Fox News says the signs of behavior of believers in anthropogenic global warming are pointing toward this theory becoming a religion. What does that do for liberal’s beloved “separation of church and state”? Can AGW-worshippers be forced to leave their religious values at home on this issue? Read more »

Thanks to liberal judges everywhere, virtually everyone has heard of the “separation of church and state.” But what about “separation of mosque and state?” Some question whether Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s killing of U.S. soldiers at Ft. Hood was motivated by his belief in Islam or whether he got a pass from politically correct superiors fearful of accusations of religious bigotry. Read more »

Rev. Carlton Veazy, president and CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, told a small crowd of pro-abortion protesters that women have a “God-given right” to abortion. Read more »

As we have lost our sense of meaning, morality and spirituality, the erosion of our freedoms on virtually every front has accelerated. And, make no mistake about it, freedom in the true sense of the word is always undergirded by a common moral and religious system. As James Adams opined: “Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.” Read more »