Baku’s release of Armenian prisoners framed as progress in peace talks

By Anugrah Kumar | The Christian Post | January 19, 2026 Quick Summary Azerbaijan released four Armenian prisoners amid ongoing peace negotiations. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan confirmed the release on social media. Advocates warn about ‘sham proceedings’ as Azerbaijan continues to hold at least 20 other Armenian prisoners. Azerbaijan has released four Armenian prisoners…

Foreign Aid Bill: Bridge Financing for the Radical Left?

By Max Primorac | The Daily Signal | January 19, 2026 On Thursday night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed its National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act 2026. The bill provides the foreign aid industry $50 billion in taxpayer funding, $20 billion over the president’s budget request. The foreign aid industry praised it “as a long-awaited…

Secure Freedom Minute: MLK’s Dream vs. the Jihadists’

Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream of freedom. The world’s sharia-supremacists have one, too. Theirs  is about submission – specifically, the non-Muslim world’s enslavement pursuant to the toxic, demonic and anti-constitutional Islamic ideology known as sharia. The United States is a prime target for sharia-adherents’ penetration, subversion and conquest since that would inevitably ensure…

Dede Laugesen at the U.S. Capitol: Ransom Camps and Genocide in Nigeria

Nigerian terrorists are operating ransom camps in forested areas—described as an “open-air Auschwitz,” according to Dede Laugesen of Save the Persecuted Christians—who spoke Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol. Laugesen said kidnapping for ransom has become an “industry” that funds terror and disproportionately targets Christians, including children and the elderly. She criticized Nigeria’s president for failing…

Webinar | The C.C.P.’s Invasion of America: The Battle for Barksdale              

A CPDC WEBINAR  The C.C.P.’s Invasion of America: The Battle for Barksdale  1:00–2:15 p.m. ET, January 16, 2026 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER <!– FULL TRANSCRIPT NOTE: This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may contain grammatical and spelling errors incurred during transcription. Please refer to the referenced media to confirm. –> The…

RELEASE | The C.C.P.’s Invasion of America: The Battle for Barksdale

For Immediate Release January 16, 2026 CONTACTS: Oleg Atbashian [email protected]  “The C.C.P.’s Invasion of America: The Battle for Barksdale”  1:00–2:15 p.m. ET, January 16, 2026 WASHINGTON, D.C.— The Chinese Communist Party makes no secret of its determination to destroy the United States of America. Aided by massive – and suicidal – underwriting from Wall Street,…

Secure Freedom Minute: Secure Our Homeland from CCP Enemies “Inside our Wire”

The Chinese Communist Party makes no secret of its determination to destroy the United States of America. So how can we allow the CCP to own land across the country often within striking distance, literally, of sensitive U.S. military and other installations? For example, a longtime official of the CCP’s subversive United Front Work Department…

Secure Freedom Minute: Help the Iranian People Prevail, Not Their Enemies, and Ours

The fate of Iran’s despotic regime appears to be hanging in the balance. The country’s population – after almost five decades of repression, privation and sharia-indoctrination – are in the streets, risking life and limb to demand the mullahs’ overthrow. Thousands have been shot dead where they were demonstrating; others who were wounded, were subsequently…

U.S. Bishops Commend Trump Administration’s DHS for Work Addressing Challenges of Religious Workers in Obtaining Visas – USCCB

Administration’s Regulatory Change is a Truly Significant Step to Support Essential Religious Services in the United States “This targeted change is a truly significant step that will help facilitate essential religious services for Catholics and other people of faith throughout the United States by minimizing disruptions to cherished ministries.” By Catholic News World | January 14, 2026…

The Church’s silence on China’s egregious violations of religious freedom

Is it not time for the Pope to speak out and pray publicly for Jimmy Lai and other persecuted Christians? By UCA News | January 14, 2026 Xi Jinping’s sweeping crackdown on unregistered Christians across China intensified as this year began, with a new wave of arrests and repression. Last week, Li Yingqiang, the leader…

Secure Freedom Minute: We Must Ban the Brotherhood Now!

Yesterday, the U.S. government formally designated three foreign “chapters” of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described them “the opening actions of an ongoing, sustained effort to thwart Muslim Brotherhood chapters’ violence and destabilization wherever it occurs.”  For the moment, though, other chapters and the Brotherhood’s “mother movement,” remain free to…

Secure Freedom Minute: No More Reprieves for the Ayatollahs

Millions of Iranians are publicly demanding the end of the sharia-supremacist regime that has brutalized them and threatened us for nearly fifty years. The mullahs are increasingly responding with murderous violence. President Trump has lately broken with past U.S. practice by explicitly supporting those in the streets. He’s threatened to use force to that end.…

Secure Freedom Minute: An Historic Turning Point in Texas

On Friday night, Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck addressed a “Save Texas” event near Dallas sponsored by Patriot Mobile. It just may prove to be a turning point in U.S. history. Mr. Wilders warned that adherents to Islam’s totalitarian sharia code are extinguishing freedom’s “lights” – and America risks the same…

Secure Freedom Minute: Texas Should Ban Sharia – and so Should the Rest of America

In less than two months, Texan Republican primary voters can help determine the future of our constitutional Republic by countering Islam’s toxic sharia ideology. Its adherents explicitly seek to replace our government with a global theocracy. The ballot measure simply says “Texas should ban sharia law.” It’s been prompted by increasingly aggressive efforts by sharia-supremacists…

Secure Freedom Minute: POTUS is Rolling Up the CCP

An important webinar conducted by our Committee on the Present Danger: China yesterday revealed that President Trump is actually not pursuing the policy of so-called “restraint” towards the CCP – better characterized as “appeasement” –  favored by some of his advisors.  Mr. Trump appears instead to be giving Chinese Communist dictator Xi Jinping a bit…

Belated pardon of Sunday Jackson

By Punch Editorial Board | Punch | January 7, 2026 THE belated pardon granted to a farmer, Sunday Jackson, by the Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, is a plus for justice and fairness. It mitigates the injustice meted out to Jackson by the courts. Fintiri granted him and two other inmates a pardon as part…

Secure Freedom Minute: Greenland Must Be Secured

President Trump is serious about threats to this country emanating from actual or prospective penetrations of our hemisphere by hostile forces. Operation Absolute Resolve in Venezuela was animated in part by Nicholas Maduro’s close ties with Communist China, Cuba, Iran and Russia. The President understands that vast, strategically located, resource-rich and nearly unpopulated Greenland is…

RELEASE | “Is POTUS Rolling Up the CCP?” 

For Immediate Release January 6, 2026 CONTACTS: Oleg Atbashian [email protected]  “Is POTUS Rolling Up the CCP?” 11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. ET, January 7, 2026 WASHINGTON, D.C.— President Trump has repeatedly expressed his admiration for and friendship with Communist China’s emperor Xi Jinping. He has made a “trade truce” that has avoided a complete cut-off of the…

Webinar | Is POTUS Rolling Back the CCP?              

A CPDC WEBINAR Is POTUS Rolling Back the CCP? Wednesday, January 7, 2025 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET CLICK HERE TO REGISTER <!– FULL TRANSCRIPT NOTE: This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may contain grammatical and spelling errors incurred during transcription. Please refer to the referenced media to confirm. –>…