Speaking through a translator from his hospital bed in China, blind activist Chen Guangcheng spoke to a Congressional panel about the current status of his extended family and himself. The Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights met to discuss Guangcheng following his daring escape from house arrest…

Mitt Romney’s campaign rushed to correct a statement he made saying he’d oppose the measure.

American voters rank social issues as the least of their concerns, according to a new Gallup poll. Only 38 percent of respondents said that social issues, with gay marriage and abortion provided as examples, were very or extremely important. In contrast, 92 percent of voters ranked the economy as an…

A group of religious college and university officials make their case against the Obama administration’s rule requiring them to provide insurance plans to their employees that cover birth-control.

Is Obamacare being used to suppress religious freedom? That’s what American Catholics are being told in letters read from the pulpit. They’ve angry about the latest government edict, requiring employer-provided health insurance to cover all forms of government-approved contraception, including methods that chemically abort a newly-conceived fetus. Clergy in a…

Sen. Marco Rubio(R-Fla.) is speaking out against the Obama administration’s decision to require faith-based groups to offer insurance plans that cover birth control. In a New York Post Op-Ed, the Senator urged the United States to take advantage of his Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012, a bill he introduced…