Pope Leo XIV received in audience some representatives of the Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need. Photo: Vatican Media

WHO Continues Attack on Conscience Rights

According to the authors of the review, in the eleven countries they surveyed, they were unable to “identify any country or setting where conscientious objection was regulated in a way that was effective in ensuring the availability and accessibility of abortion in practice.”

Little Sisters of the Poor initiate process to bring ruling against them by progressive judge to Supreme Court

The ruling, issued on August 13 by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, sided with the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. At issue was whether the Trump administration had properly followed federal procedure when granting broad religious and moral exemptions from the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage mandate

A Bishop Denounces The Persecution of Catholics in Russian-Occupied Ukraine

Russia’s actions in Ukraine increasingly resemble the Soviet Communist dictatorship’s practices against religious freedom. Furthermore, Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship has as allies some of the regimes that most fiercely persecute Christians in the world, such as the Islamist dictatorship of Iran and the Communist dictatorships of China, Cuba, and North Korea.

7th Circuit: Indiana music teacher can take his case to a jury

Indiana music and orchestra teacher John Kluge is challenging the legality of Brownsburg Community School Corporation’s decision to revoke his religious accommodation over students’ pronoun usage. When the school district mandated that teachers call students by their preferred gender pronouns and names, Kluge requested a religious accommodation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to call all his students by their last names only—like a coach—instead of referring to female students with male names and pronouns and vice versa. The school district granted Kluge’s request based on his religious beliefs, and Kluge successfully continued teaching under the religious accommodation for an entire school year. But in response to the grumblings of a few students and faculty, the school district revoked the religious accommodation and forced Kluge to resign, ending his teaching career.