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Accusations of “Christian nationalism” often mask a double standard — where progressive ideas are welcomed in politics, but Christian voices are exiled.

Two Spanish priests facing jail time for free speech deemed offensive to Muslims were acquitted last week. A Spanish court ruled that articles written by the pair for Alerta Digital did not amount to a hate crime.

What has been achieved in the Middle East is nothing short of a miracle. Now, the question on everyone’s mind is: Will there be lasting peace in this region?

Leadership changes don't just shift political party rooms – they shape a nation's direction. Australia deserves leaders who are steady, truthful, and free – men and women unafraid to stand for what's right even when their opponents jeer.

Turkey’s government is labelling Christian foreigners “national security threats” in order to deport them and block them from returning to the country.

In Yangon, Myanmar, 27-year-old Nandar was doing what she always did — serving her church with quiet faithfulness — when evil walked through the door.

The Islamophobia report is being sold as a roadmap to a more harmonious Australia when in reality, it seems like a Trojan horse: a vast catalogue of demands that, if accepted, would privilege one group’s sensitivities, weaken our defences against extremism, and embed grievance politics into the heart of government.

After twenty years of working for Queensland Health, I spoke out because I saw kids, as young as 12, distressed about their gender, thinking they are trans, being fast-tracked to dangerous and irreversible medication. The system is set up to instantly agree with the child, affirm the child's claimed gender identity, and medicate the child.

Freedom rarely disappears overnight. More often, it's chipped away – one "common-sense reform" at a time. That's exactly what we're seeing in Britain, where the Labour Government's latest push for digital identification has triggered a storm of public anger and accelerated its collapse in the polls.

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials on Friday evening arrested more than two dozen pastors across at least seven provinces who are part of the underground Zion Church network, extending what China Aid called “the most extensive and coordinated wave of persecution against urban independent house churches in China in over four decades.”

For fifty years, the national broadcaster has fought to bury a Lateline radio interview celebrating the sexual abuse of minors. Now the ABC's secret pedophile tape is public, and The Daily Declaration has spoken with the whistleblower who exposed it.

Egypt’s Islamic hate speech laws have claimed yet another victim. Christian author and apologist, Dr Augustine Samaan, was detained in early October. His only crime? Criticising Islam.

How two millennia of exile taught the Jewish people to stand, and why Israel — shielded by memory and might — will not be bullied into silence. Jews do not seek permission to survive. We do not need lectures when our children’s lives are on the line.

Australia just crossed a dangerous line. A line that marks the difference between a free nation and a surveillance state. Between a democracy and a regime that decides what thoughts you’re allowed to think.

Let's pray that a lasting peace breaks out in the Middle East, something not guaranteed despite the incredible diplomatic achievements of the past days. For Australia, let's pray and work for social cohesion, as most of us have had enough of this foreign conflict dominating our public discourse.

Julia Gillard's government removed the definitions of male and female in the Sex Discrimination Act in 2013, making way for gender identity to take precedence over reality in law. At that moment, women's sex-based rights were erased with the stroke of a pen.

"A National Response to Islamophobia" goes beyond the vital task of addressing discrimination. It also attempts to shape the terms of public conversation, introducing a tendency to equate dissent with hostility.

Yesterday proved there is no genocide in Gaza. There never was. All Hamas ever had to do in order to end the suffering of the Palestinian people was to release the hostages.

Melbourne teacher Myka Sanders is suing his Catholic school after it declined to use his preferred pronouns. The case could establish a nationwide precedent for religious freedom in faith-based education.

Various groups have declared similar intentions to commemorate Charlie Kirk, with rationales focussed on the promotion of free speech. But is it really that valuable?