The following statement regarding “Guidance on Constitutionally Protected Prayer and Religious Expression in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools” issued by the Trump Administration may be attributed to Kelly Shackelford, President, CEO, and Chief Counsel for First Liberty Institute: We thank President Trump for his strong efforts to protect America’s first freedom—religious freedom. These revisions to the Guidelines on Prayer and...

The following statement regarding “Guidance on Constitutionally Protected Prayer and Religious Expression in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools” issued by the Trump Administration may be attributed to Kelly Shackelford, President, CEO, and Chief Counsel for First Liberty Institute: We thank President Trump for his strong efforts to protect America’s first freedom—religious freedom. These revisions to the Guidelines on Prayer and Religious...

The Vatican Apostolic Library, long seen as the center of Catholic scholarship and biblical study, now echoes with the alien cadence of the Islamic call to prayer. Father Don Giacomo Cardinali, vice prefect of the library, casually announced a recent decision that chills the soul of every faithful Christian. The Vatican has opened a dedicated prayer room for Muslims within...

U.S. Supreme Declines Review of Decision Barring Christian School From Praying Over the Loudspeaker at Football Game The Court won’t review precedent that has sharply divided courts for many years. Washington, D.C.—The Supreme Court of the United States […]

By: Ralph Reed – wsj.com – November 7, 2025 Tucker Carlson calls it a ‘heresy,’ but it’s rooted in a belief that freedom and faith are inseparable. The Pew Research Center reported in 2022 that more than twice as many white evangelical Protestants (70%) as Jews (32%) believe God gave Israel to the Jewish people. White evangelicals are far more...

A fire has been ignited in the hearts and minds of people who are fighting desperately to make sense of a fallen world.

By: Luther Ray Abel – nationalreview.com– September 10, 2025 Schoolchildren slaughtered in pews, a refugee stabbed through the neck and left to bleed, and now a leading political activist shot in the neck and confirmed dead — twice now we’ve seen the faces of men contorted by our oldest foe. Evil has been a constant in this world since Eden’s...

More than 20 Friend-of-the-Court Briefs Urge Supreme Court to Overturn Santa Fe v. Doe In a show of overwhelming support at the Supreme Court of the United States, First Liberty Institute’s petition in Cambridge Christian School v. FHSAA, filed alongside attorneys from Bois Schiller Flexner LLP, Winston and Strawn, and Jones Day, received more than twenty friend-of-the-court briefs.  The briefs,...

First Liberty represents Cambridge Christian School (CCS) against the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA). Government Refuses to Allow Christian Students to Pray Before Championship Football Game. The case is now on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.