Daily Headlines: Religion Speaker Johnson declines to condemn GOP members who said Muslims “don’t belong” in America, calling their remarks “popular sentiment” about Sharia law during the Iran war. March 11, 2026 View Details Tennessee Rep. Ogles says Muslims “don’t belong in American society,” calls for deporting a naturalized U.S. citizen mayor, as Sharia Free America Caucus escalates anti-Muslim rhetoric during Iran war. March 10, 2026 View Details Tennessee becomes the fourth state advancing a ban on the term “West Bank” in official documents, requiring “Judea and Samaria,” a term used only by the Israeli government. March 7, 2026 View Details House Speaker Johnson calls Islam a “misguided religion” while defending U.S. airstrikes that have killed more than 1,000 Iranian civilians including 165 children in a girls’ school. March 5, 2026 View Details Federal judge blocks DeSantis executive order designating CAIR a terrorist organization, ruling no governor can unilaterally label a Muslim civil rights group. March 5, 2026 View Details Supreme Court orders California schools to tell parents when children change names or pronouns, bypassing oral argument on its emergency docket. March 3, 2026 View Details Pentagon forces Scouting America to roll back DEI programs and launch military service merit badge to keep Defense Department partnership. February 28, 2026 View Details DOJ indicts 30 more people for January anti-ICE protest at St. Paul church where pastor doubled as acting ICE field office director. February 28, 2026 View Details U.S. Ambassador Huckabee tells Carlson “it would be fine” if Israel took territory from the Nile to the Euphrates, then tries to walk it back as “hyperbolic.” February 21, 2026 View Details Fifth Circuit lifts injunction blocking Louisiana’s Ten Commandments classroom law, allowing enforcement despite two prior courts ruling it unconstitutional. February 21, 2026 View Details Hegseth invites Idaho pastor who believes women should not vote to preach at the Pentagon’s monthly prayer service, praising his “willingness to be bold” as service members look on. February 19, 2026 View Details HUD opens investigation into North Texas Muslim community development eight months after the Justice Depaement investigated the same project and closed the case without charges. February 18, 2026 View Details Maryland’s two largest school districts face backlash for designating Eid al-Fitr as a snow makeup day, drawing criticism that Muslim holidays are treated as expendable. February 16, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders ICE to allow Catholic priests into a Chicago-area detention facility for Ash Wednesday, ruling the agency violated religious freedom law by ending a decade of weekly visits. February 14, 2026 View Details Don Lemon, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, and three activists plead not guilty to federal charges for protesting ICE enforcement at a St. Paul church. February 14, 2026 View Details FBI used warrantless “assessment” authority to gather intelligence on over 1,000 journalists, religious organizations, and politicians between 2018 and 2024, watchdog report finds. February 13, 2026 View Details Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission removes member Carrie Prejean Boller after she challenged witnesses on Zionism and Israel’s war in Gaza during an antisemitism hearing. February 12, 2026 View Details U.S. sends 200 troops to Nigeria to train forces fighting Islamist militants, weeks after Trump threatened to go in “guns-a-blazing.” February 11, 2026 View Details Former Minnesota U.S. attorney who resigned over the Renee Good investigation now defends Don Lemon against his former office’s first-ever criminal FACE Act religious freedom charges. February 11, 2026 View Details DC health officials confirm measles cases among attendees of the January March for Life rally, with exposure sites spanning the Basilica, Catholic University, Metro, Reagan National and an Amtrak train. February 8, 2026 View Details Trump tells National Prayer Breakfast he “probably should” get into heaven, says he had to win 2024 “for my own ego,” and calls ICE protesters “like the Gestapo” for entering a Minnesota church. February 6, 2026 View Details U.S. Africa Command deploys military team to Nigeria after Trump threatened the country over alleged Christian persecution, following December airstrikes against Islamic State affiliates. February 4, 2026 View Details Trump demands $1 billion from Harvard over antisemitism claims and calls for criminal charges after a federal judge blocked his $2.2 billion funding freeze in September. February 3, 2026 View Details Don Lemon pleads not guilty after FBI arrest for covering Minnesota church protest, charged under abortion clinic access law in what legal experts call unprecedented use against journalists. January 31, 2026 View Details Appeals court declines to force arrest warrants for Don Lemon, four others over church protest; district chief judge called DOJ demand “unheard of.” January 25, 2026 View Details Vance pledges anti-abortion action at March for Life; administration expands foreign aid ban to cover abortion providers and DEI programs. January 25, 2026 View Details DOJ arrested three organizers of anti-ICE protest at St. Paul church, charging them with conspiracy to deprive rights; White House posted altered photo showing calm arrestee as crying. January 23, 2026 View Details HHS threatens to strip Illinois of federal health funding over 2017 law requiring doctors who oppose abortion to refer patients to providers who offer it. January 22, 2026 View Details University of Pennsylvania refuses federal demand for lists of Jewish faculty, staff and students, calling the request “unconstitutional” and citing history of governmental persecution of Jews. January 21, 2026 View Details Archbishop overseeing U.S. military chaplains says troops would be “morally acceptable” in disobeying orders that conflict with their conscience. January 21, 2026 View Details DOJ threatens to prosecute church protesters in Minnesota while ICE has made arrests at churches in at least a dozen incidents since revoking protections for houses of worship. January 20, 2026 View Details Three Catholic cardinals call U.S. foreign policy immoral, citing Venezuela, Ukraine and Greenland, and renounce war “as an instrument for narrow national interests.” January 20, 2026 View Details Franklin, North Carolina, agrees to transfer 1,000-year-old sacred Noquisiyi Mound to Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians after more than 150 years outside tribal ownership. January 9, 2026 View Details Heritage Foundation calls for “whole-of-government” promotion of heterosexual marriage and two-child families, pitching government-funded marriage bootcamp as “culture-wide Manhattan Project.” January 9, 2026 View Details New reporting reveals cannabis CEO’s 18-month lobbying campaign and seven-figure donations led to Trump’s marijuana rescheduling, overriding Speaker Johnson and 22 senators. December 28, 2025 View Details Six federal departments posted explicitly Christian Christmas messages from official government accounts, with DHS declaring “Christ is Born!” and cabinet officials hailing “our Savior Jesus Christ.” December 27, 2025 View Details US forces bomb ISIS targets in northwestern Nigeria on Christmas Day at Trump’s orders, marking sixth country American military has attacked this year. December 26, 2025 View Details University of Oklahoma removes graduate teaching assistant who failed student’s Bible-based essay responding to gender research article, citing “arbitrary” grading. December 24, 2025 View Details White House rebuffs eight Florida Catholic bishops asking for Christmas pause on immigration enforcement, responding only that Trump is keeping his deportation promise. December 23, 2025 View Details As Venezuela standoff escalates, Hegseth announces overhaul of military chaplain corps, eliminating Army Spiritual Fitness Guide as first step. December 18, 2025 View Details Faith leaders and protesters chain themselves outside San Francisco immigration court, 12 arrested as federal agents cut through links. December 18, 2025 View Details Sixth Circuit rules 2-1 along party lines that Michigan’s conversion therapy ban violates Catholic charity’s free speech rights. December 18, 2025 View Details Trump donor Miriam Adelson offers $250 million for unconstitutional third term bid at White House Hanukkah event where guest Mark Levin called Trump “the greatest president.” December 17, 2025 View Details Oklahoma Supreme Court permanently nullifies social studies standards requiring Bible teaching and 2020 election doubt, finding state board violated open meeting laws. December 17, 2025 View Details South Carolina measles outbreak hits 111 cases with 254 quarantined, as U.S. faces losing elimination status if transmission continues through January. December 10, 2025 View Details DeSantis declares CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organizations in executive order, following Texas move that CAIR is now suing as unconstitutional. December 9, 2025 View Details US restricts visas for Nigerians involved in violence against Christians weeks after Trump ordered Pentagon to plan potential military action over religious persecution claims. December 4, 2025 View Details House Education Committee launches antisemitism probe into Fairfax County Public Schools, one of three districts facing federal inquiry over alleged Title VI violations. November 26, 2025 View Details Trump orders review of Muslim Brotherhood affiliates for terrorist designation week after Texas declared group terrorist and targeted CAIR, drawing lawsuit. November 25, 2025 View Details Trump announces he is ending Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota, claims without evidence that “Somali gangs are terrorizing” the state. November 22, 2025 View Details Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designates Muslim civil rights group CAIR as terrorist organization and orders criminal investigations, prompting federal lawsuit over First Amendment violations. November 21, 2025 View Details Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designates Muslim Brotherhood and Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations. November 19, 2025 View Details Catholic bishops issue first special pastoral message in 12 years opposing mass deportation and dehumanizing rhetoric in rare rebuke of Trump policies. November 13, 2025 View Details Fort Worth church’s Campaign University trains Christians to seek office teaching “no separation between church and state,” expanding to Florida and Hawaii churches as creator Nate Schatzline joins Trump faith board. November 11, 2025 View Details Supreme Court rejects Kim Davis appeal seeking to overturn 2015 same-sex marriage decision after she was ordered to pay $360,000 for denying couple a marriage license. November 11, 2025 View Details Paxton sues Galveston ISD for delaying Ten Commandments display while federal appeals court weighs constitutionality of state law requiring classroom posters. November 8, 2025 View Details Vice President Vance tells Turning Point USA he hopes Hindu wife Usha converts to Christianity, saying he wants her “somehow moved by the church” away from her faith. November 1, 2025 View Details FBI arrests Alabama man with weapons cache and list of religious leaders’ addresses after threatening calls to multiple rabbis and imam saying “I want you to die.” November 1, 2025 View Details Texas Supreme Court amends judicial conduct rules to allow judges to decline same-sex weddings based on religious beliefs without violating state impartiality standards. October 31, 2025 View Details Little Rock School District seeks to intervene in federal lawsuit challenging Arkansas voucher program as unconstitutional, with 51,000 statewide applications (10% of state’s students). October 27, 2025 View Details Oklahoma’s new School Superintendent reverses predecessor’s mandate requiring Bibles in every classroom and biblical instruction, saying he has “no plans to distribute Bibles” and will dismiss lawsuit. October 16, 2025 View Details ICE denies religious leaders’ request to deliver communion to detainees at Broadview facility despite 2008 law granting religious workers reasonable access to immigration detention sites. October 13, 2025 View Details University of Arkansas installs 500 Ten Commandments posters in compliance with state law requiring displays in public institutions, despite federal judge blocking law at five school districts. October 11, 2025 View Details Man arrested with Molotov cocktail and charged with threats to kidnap or injure hours before Supreme Court mass at DC cathedral. October 6, 2025 View Details Justice Department sues pro-Palestinian protesters in first use of abortion clinic access law to prosecute religious worship interference, targeting demonstration against West Bank settlement sales outside New Jersey synagogue. October 1, 2025 View Details Trump and Congress members declare Mormon church shooting ‘targeted attack on Christians’ despite virtually all Christian denominations not recognizing LDS as Christian faith. September 29, 2025 View Details Trump headlines a memorial for activist Charlie Kirk 10 days after his fatal shooting, transforming the service into a MAGA political rally for tens of thousands. September 22, 2025 View Details ICE releases Cincinnati imam Ayman Soliman and reinstates his asylum two months after detaining him based on a disputed terror designation. September 20, 2025 View Details UC Berkeley provided the Trump administration the names of 160 students and staff for a federal investigation into campus antisemitism. September 14, 2025 View Details The Trump administration destroyed nearly $10 million in contraceptives for low-income countries based on the false claim they cause abortions. September 12, 2025 View Details A House moment of silence for Charlie Kirk devolves into shouting after Rep. Lauren Boebert demands an audible prayer, saying “silent prayers get silent results.” September 11, 2025 View Details Trump directs the Education Department to issue new school prayer guidance, claiming students are indoctrinated with anti-religious propaganda. September 9, 2025 View Details Chicago church leaders urge residents to prepare for calm resistance as the Trump administration threatens a federal law enforcement crackdown despite the city’s falling crime rates. September 8, 2025 View Details Texas AG Ken Paxton uses a new school prayer law to endorse the Lord’s Prayer just weeks after a court struck down a Ten Commandments mandate. September 3, 2025 View Details HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pressures West Virginia to weaken its school vaccine mandate, citing civil rights laws to demand a religious exemption. August 28, 2025 View Details Judge strikes down Minnesota law excluding faith-based colleges from high school credit program, ruling it violated religious freedom. August 24, 2025 View Details State Department fires press officer Shahed Ghoreishi after he questioned pro-Israel talking points on Gaza and West Bank terminology. August 21, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Texas Ten Commandments law in 11 districts, citing precedent from Louisiana case August 21, 2025 View Details Trump launches review to purge Smithsonian museums of exhibits on slavery and other “divisive” history, attacking focus on racial injustice as partisan. August 20, 2025 View Details Defense Secretary reposts video by CREC pastors led by Doug Wilson calling to revoke women’s voting rights while praising a Christian nationalist church. August 9, 2025 View Details ICE detains and continues holding Purdue student and Episcopal priest’s daughter after routine visa hearing despite attorneys disputing DHS claim she overstayed religious visa. August 3, 2025 View Details OPM tells federal employees they can proselytize at work and supervisors can invite staff to their churches under new religious freedom guidance. July 29, 2025 View Details The Trump administration is using a $1.5 million grant to pivot the 55-year-old Title X birth control program toward controversial, non-IVF infertility treatments favored by religious conservatives. July 21, 2025 View Details OPM allows religious telework accommodations despite return-to-office mandate following Supreme Court ruling that employers must grant religious requests. July 17, 2025 View Details San Bernardino Bishop Alberto Rojas suspends Mass obligation for 1.5 million Catholics due to immigration fears after ICE raids on two parish properties. July 10, 2025 View Details IRS says pastors can endorse political candidates from pulpit to their congregations without losing tax-exempt status, seeking religious carve-out from Johnson Amendment prohibiting all tax-exempt organizations from political endorsements. July 8, 2025 View Details ADL and Jewish members of Congress criticize Trump for using antisemitic slur “Shylock” at Iowa rally as Trump claims ignorance of term’s meaning. July 4, 2025 View Details Supreme Court’s conservative majority rules parents can remove children from classes with LGBTQ books in 6-3 decision. June 28, 2025 View Details Christian and other faith leaders sue Texas education agency over law requiring Ten Commandments displays in all public school classrooms. June 26, 2025 View Details Abbott signs law mandating Ten Commandments displays in all Texas classrooms one day after federal court ruled identical Louisiana law unconstitutional. June 22, 2025 View Details Conservative Fifth Circuit unanimously blocks Louisiana’s Ten Commandments classroom law after finding lawmakers pursued “sham” legislative purpose driven by religious objectives. June 21, 2025 View Details SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler orders “Appeal to Heaven” flag associated with Christian nationalism and January 6 rioters flown above federal building before quietly removing it. June 18, 2025 View Details Federal judge gives Apache tribes 60 days after environmental review to challenge sacred land transfer to mining company for congressionally authorized copper mine. June 10, 2025 View Details GOP Rep. Mary Miller faces bipartisan fury after misidentifying Sikh prayer leader as Muslim and saying he should never have been allowed to deliver House prayer. June 7, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks enforcement of Biden-era rules requiring Catholic employers and health providers to offer gender-affirming care, citing religious freedom and limiting federal agencies’ reach. June 6, 2025 View Details Supreme Court refuses to hear Apache case, clearing way for copper mine to destroy sacred Oak Flat site. May 28, 2025 View Details Supreme Court deadlocks 4-4 on nation’s first religious charter school in Oklahoma, leaving ban in place after Justice Amy Coney Barrett recuses herself due to ties with Catholic Church’s legal adviser. May 23, 2025 View Details Defense Secretary Hegseth holds Christian prayer service for Pentagon workers during work hours as his pastor declares Trump was chosen by God to bring “moral clarity” to America. May 22, 2025 View Details Episcopal Church quits federal refugee program as presiding bishop condemns Trump for giving white South Africans preferential treatment over millions blocked and still waiting in camps. May 13, 2025 View Details Quakers march 300 miles from New York to Washington to protest Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants supporting faith tradition of activism. May 11, 2025 View Details Justice Dept. investigating proposed Muslim-centric development in Dallas-area following requests from Senator Cornyn. May 10, 2025 View Details Pope Leo XIV, then-cardinal, repeatedly criticized Trump and Vance on immigration and Catholic teachings on love before his election. May 9, 2025 View Details Trump denies role in AI pope image posted late at night to his account as Catholic groups object. May 6, 2025 On day two of backlash, Trump blasted by Catholic bishops including Cardinal Dolan for AI image of himself as pope. May 5, 2025 View Details New York Catholic bishops criticize Trump and White House for AI image showing him as pope days after Francis’s death May 4, 2025 View Details Vance, a recent Catholic convert, defends Trump’s AI pope image in response to backlash. May 4, 2025 View Details Trump posts photo of himself as pope days after Francis’ funeral, sparking ridicule and praise. May 3, 2025 View Details Rev. Amos Brown says Smithsonian notified him it may return his civil rights artifacts during Trump-ordered review of African American museum. May 2, 2025 View Details Trump taps TX Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to lead new Religious Liberty Commission with TV’s “Dr. Phil” and Ben Carson. May 2, 2025 View Details VA launches Christian bias task force to probe Biden-era discrimination and invites employees to report each other. April 24, 2025 View Details EEOC texts Columbia and Barnard employees asking if they are Jewish or Israeli, then probing for antisemitism. April 24, 2025 View Details Trump posts Easter message attacking the nation’s courts, “radical left,” and Biden, repeating immigration lies. April 21, 2025 View Details Vance receives papal audience despite Vatican’s condemnation of Trump administration’s mass deportation policies. April 21, 2025 View Details Breaking overnight: Pope Francis dies at 88, hours after Easter Day popemobile procession and meeting with Vance. April 21, 2025 View Details Vance meets Cardinal Parolin for first Vatican talks of Trump’s second term after pope condemned US immigration crackdown. April 20, 2025 View Details Judge allows Trump’s immigration agents to carry out enforcement in houses of worship after denying religious groups’ challenge. April 12, 2025 View Details Trump funding cuts force U.S. Catholic Church to end century of refugee resettlement in what bishops call a ‘painful’ break with government. April 8, 2025 View Details Texas Senate advances bills mandating Ten Commandments in classrooms and allowing school prayer. March 20, 2025 View Details Trump moves to revoke protections for two California national monuments established by Biden, targeting safeguards for sacred Indigenous lands. March 16, 2025 View Details NEA eliminates fund for underserved communities February 23, 2025 View Details Trump established a task force to “eradicate anti-Christian bias” by the government February 22, 2025 View Details
