Napa Legal Institute’s: New Report Finds Religious Freedom Waning Across Most U.S. States

Oct 30, 2025 20:09

Tim Daniels

The results suggest an uneven national landscape. Photo: Napa Legal

Local Church•Religious Freedom

U.S. Army Decision to End Chapel Contracts Sparks Outcry from Military Catholics

The abrupt end of these contracts has left chapel offices dark, choirs silent, and entire faith formation programs without leadership

Oct 21, 2025 12:20

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Religious Freedom

Washington government will no longer imprison priests who refuse to violate the seal of confession

The backlash was immediate and intense. Washington’s Catholic bishops, joined by Orthodox churches, launched parallel lawsuits in both of the state’s federal districts, arguing that the measure struck at the very heart of religious freedom

Oct 13, 2025 11:04

Tim Daniels

Pope Leo XIV•Religious Freedom

Religious freedom explained by Leo XIV

Words of the Pope to a delegation from the Aid to the Church in Need Foundation

Oct 11, 2025 13:34

ZENIT Staff

Holy Land•Religious Freedom

Netanyahu at the UN: Palestinian Christians Denounce a Lie

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Palestinian Authority of causing Christians to flee Palestine, Christians took up arms, convinced that the policies of successive Israeli Governments are driving Christians to emigrate from Palestine, and even from Israel, as the figures show.

Oct 09, 2025 13:01

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Religious Freedom

The Other Global Shortage: A Hundred Million Christians Still Waiting for a Bible

The «Bible Access List» separates two key challenges: restriction and scarcity. The first refers to environments where the Bible is actively banned or censored; the second, to situations where believers are free in principle but deprived by circumstance

Oct 09, 2025 11:18

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Under the agreement with China, Leo XIV appoints a new bishop

Chang Yanfeng, 42, was ordained bishop today under the Sino-Holy See agreement to a diocese that has been without its own pastor for 20 years. Just three weeks ago, the new prelate had to publicly commit the local Church to a controversial law designed to eliminate minorities.

Leo XIV encourages religious to view community life as a source of inspiration and sanctification

Message from Leo XIV to the Conference of Major Superiors of Men’s Religious Orders in the United States

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Napa Legal Institute’s: New Report Finds Religious Freedom Waning Across Most U.S. States

Oregon social worker appeals order forcing him to remove children’s books from desk

World Jewish Congress Welcomes Pope Leo XIV’s Strong Condemnation of Antisemitism

Against religious freedom: Venezuelan government attacks cardinal after country’s first saints are canonized

Türkiye Labels Christians as ‘National Security Threats’ to Justify Mass Expulsions

“They Took Our Children”: Christian Parents Bring Sweden Before European Court of Human Rights After Almost 3 Years’ Separation from Daughters

The Chinese Government and Its Code of Conduct for Internet Evangelization

U.S. Army Decision to End Chapel Contracts Sparks Outcry from Military Catholics

Washington government will no longer imprison priests who refuse to violate the seal of confession

Religious freedom explained by Leo XIV

Netanyahu at the UN: Palestinian Christians Denounce a Lie

The Other Global Shortage: A Hundred Million Christians Still Waiting for a Bible