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In a sign of the continuing breakdown of religious freedom in Europe, Finnish parliament member Päivi Räsänen was banned by the U.K. from traveling to Heathrow Airport for a planned layover due to her Finnish Supreme Court conviction in March for authoring a pamphlet containing supposed “hate speech” toward those who identify as LGBT.

Questions on the environment produced the most lopsided results of any category tested, with every single model favouring climate concerns over growth. Removing one model’s “safety” layer moved its religion score from secular-leaning to neutral.

The Greens are pushing an "anti-conversion practices" bill that goes further than anything we've seen in other states — and it should alarm every Australian Christian, parent, and, actually, everyone — not just Tasmanians. Please pray for Tasmania.

Pastor Ezra Jin’s unexpected release from a Chinese prison reunites his family after years apart and renews hope for persecuted Christians still imprisoned under the CCP.

A major review published on 4 July has found gender ideology exhibits, explicit content aimed at children, and the Pilgrims framed as “colonisers” inside a taxpayer-funded museum built to teach American history.

As America marks 250 years, the Founding Fathers’ timeless virtues of courage, duty, justice and faithfulness offer a powerful blueprint for raising strong, principled men today.

The ABC has at long last published a legal critique of the Giggle v Tickle ruling after years of biased coverage that included calling Roxanne Tickle a “transgender woman”.

In a recent annual report from Buckingham Palace, the title “Defender of the Faith” has been replaced with a multi-faith alternative in describing King Charles III’s duties.

Michelle Pearce has two urgent messages for Australian Christians: first, the erosion of religious freedom isn't perception — it's measurable fact. Second, staying silent isn't survival; it's surrender, and it's making things worse.

Seventy-four Acts passed by of parliaments. Twenty-five years. Almost half enacted in the last five years. This isn't coincidence — it's a pattern. And it's eroding Christian freedom in Australia.

Australia still has a blasphemy law architecture that goes by a new name — namely, our vilification and anti-discrimination framework. These laws have striking parallels to Australia’s old blasphemy laws, with the exception that they serve a new god and are more readily enforced than the old ones.

Hon Maryka Groenewald asked the Cook Government to commit to protecting Christians’ right to express their faith freely. The Attorney General’s office dodged the question, instead pledging “balance” for WA’s “diverse” population.

Hanson accused Labor, the Liberals and the Greens of each refusing to “articulate the biological truth” about sex and gender, and named ACON as “the leading advocate of transgenderism in Australia”.

Family First’s National Director Lyle Shelton described Sarah Game as “one of the strongest and most courageous advocates for families in any Australian parliament”.

Egypt’s June 15 “terrorism” trial of Said Mansour Rezk was adjourned until September 6. His Australian fiancée Sophie says “our prayers pulled through a miracle.”

Last Thursday, we witnessed something truly remarkable. The Australian Christian Freedom Index (ACFI) launch at Parliament House exceeded even our highest hopes — and God's generosity was unmistakable.

The Henry Nowak case exposes declining trust in British policing. Ideological influences risk undermining impartial justice, public confidence, and equal treatment under the law.

The freedom to attend church or sing hymns was never the point. Christianity has always sought to shape culture, transform lives and speak into every aspect of civic life. And that’s precisely the freedom we’re losing in Australia.

Before the atomic age obliterated it in seconds, Japan's Catholic community had already survived centuries of persecution, martyrdom, and forced secrecy — a story history has largely forgotten.

Australia's Christian freedoms are under quiet but measurable threat — and a landmark new index is sounding the alarm with evidence, urgency, and a 42-point blueprint for action.