Pray for Armenia: Refugees from Artsakh Find a New Home

By Dede Laugesen | STPC | Jul 31, 2025 I’m in the Sunik region of Armenia touring a border village site being developed for voluntary resettlement of refugee families from the ancient Armenian Christian lands of Nagorno-Karabakh, known to Armenians as Artsakh, following the September 19, 2023 ethnic cleansing of the region. We met with…

Update: Human Rights Abuses Committed Against Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh

By Charmaine Hedding | Shai Fund | Jul 31, 2025 Update: Human Rights Abuses Committed Against Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh Caught between two totalitarian regimes and facing systematic erasure, Armenian Christians seek to rebuild their lives with the help of Shai Fund after the abuses inflicted on them because of their faith. Learn more at https://www.theshaifund.org/projects/restore-hope-and-dignity-for-displaced-armenian-christians…

Lara Logan Slams Media Silence on Nigeria’s Christian Genocide

Lara Logan on X (formerly Twitter): “”They’re burning women and children alive – and the media covers it up.” While Western journalists repeat government talking points without even stepping foot in the villages, Nigerian reporters risk their lives to document Christian genocide. @TruthNigeria123 Lara Logan calls… pic.twitter.com/42UnMoXVBI / X” “They’re burning women and children alive…

Christian Armenia vs. Azerbaijan: A Crisis the World Ignores

One struggling country that is often forgotten is Christian Armenia. In recent years, the country has been in conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan. Nadine Maenza of the International Religious Freedom Roundtable discusses the relationship between Azerbaijan & Armenian Christians. EWTN News Nightly on X (formerly Twitter): “One struggling country that is often forgotten is Christian Armenia.…

Reflections Eleven Years From the Yezidi Genocide

By Charmaine Hedding | The Epoch Times | 8/2/2025 Over 2,500 Yezidi women and children remain missing to this day following ethnic cleansing in 2014. It was Aug. 3, 2014, and I remember sitting in front of the television, watching in horror as the so-called Islamic State swept across Iraq and Syria ethnically cleansing Yezidis…

RELEASE | Will The Security Of America’s Western Frontier Perish With Northern Marianas Governor Palacios?

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release August 1, 2025 CONTACTS: Dede Laugesen, [email protected] Will The Security Of America’s Western Frontier Perish With Northern Marianas Governor Palacios? CPDC Webinar to Examine CCP Inroads in the Central Pacific at 1:00-2:15 p.m. ET Today WASHINGTON, D.C.—The recent passing of Arnold Palacios, the Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, has…

Secure Freedom Minute: Israel Must Finish the Job in Gaza Now

The admonition that “If you are going through hell, keep going” applies to Israel amidst the blood libel that it is starving the people of Gaza and renewed efforts to secure a ceasefire there.  The Israelis must instead finish the job with Hamas. Only by decisively defeating that terrorist regime is there any prospect of…

Secure Freedom Minute: A Must-See Movie – “The Unrestricted War”

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  This afternoon, an excellent movie the Chinese Communist Party wants no American to see will be screened on Capitol Hill following a panel discussion in which I am proud to participate.  The reason the CCP is trying to suppress “The Unrestricted War” quickly emerges: It dramatically…

Secure Freedom Minute: Stop UN Taxation Without Representation

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Next year, we’ll celebrate the 250th birthday of a nation founded to ensure there’s “no taxation without representation.”  Unfortunately, the United Nations is poised to start levying taxes our representatives can’t prevent, putting its pursuit of world government on steroids.  It begins with the International Maritime…

Secure Freedom Minute: Wall Street Must Delist – and Stop Trading – CCP Stocks

The claxons are sounding on Wall Street. Finally, analysts are beginning to take seriously the prospect that the U.S. financial sector’s longstanding practice of underwriting our mortal enemy, the Chinese Communist Party, is becoming untenable. Praise the Lord. For example, one insider newsletter recently put it this way: “We continue to believe the de-listing of…

Secure Freedom Minute: A Promise Made to Our Military – and Kept

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Donald Trump takes rightful pride in his record of “Promises made, promises kept.” He delivered on another important pledge with the restoration to the U.S. Air Force of one its most formidable leaders, my colleague Matthew Lohmeier.  Lieutenant Colonel Lohmeier’s installation last week as that service’s…

RELEASE | Chairman Moolenaar Subpoenas Two Of China’s “Old Friends” – JPMorgan’s Dimon And Bank Of America’s Moynihan

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release July 23, 2025 CONTACTS: Dede Laugesen [email protected] CHAIRMAN MOOLENAAR SUBPOENAS TWO OF CHINA’S “OLD FRIENDS” – JPMORGAN’S DIMON AND BANK OF AMERICA’S MOYNIHAN CPDC Webinar to Applaud this Accountability Initiative from 1:00-2:15 p.m. ET Today WASHINGTON, D.C.—From its inception in 2019, the Committee on the Present Dangers: China has relentlessly…

Secure Freedom Minute: A Palestinian State? Fuggedaboutit!

Nearly one hundred years ago, the French government proposed a treaty to ban war. The resulting Kellogg-Briand Pact proved to be an exercise in futility, notably with the outbreak of World War II, history’s worst conflict.  Next week, the French will sponsor another act of delusional diplomacy at a UN conference in New York to…

Webinar | WANTED: For Underwriting the Enemy – Congress Subpoenas Two of the CCP’s ‘Old Friends’ on Wall Street                

A CPDC WEBINAR WANTED: For Underwriting the Enemy Congress Subpoenas Two of the CCP’s ‘Old Friends’ on Wall Street Friday, July 25, 2025 1:00-2:15 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 translation. Please refer…

The truth about Armenia and the campaign to erase Christianity

By Dede Laugesen | The Christian Post | Thursday, July 24, 2025 Later this month, I will travel to Armenia as part of a delegation of American Christian leaders. We are going to visit an ancient Christian civilization that is, right now, under assault. It is a shame that so many Christians in the United…

Secure Freedom Minute: Concerned About Chinese AI? Stop Underwriting It

Yesterday, President Trump signed a slew of executive orders intended to assure U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence.  In the interest of competing with Communist China’s aggressive pursuit of AI superiority, however, safeguards and oversight aimed at preventing “FrankenAI” from transforming us into a CCP-like“digital gulag” are being given short shrift.  Another, less fraught way to…

Ten members of church falsely accused of “fraud”, sentenced to harsh prison terms

Assist News The Golden Lampstand Church in Linfen City, Shanxi Province, was handed a harsh sentence June 20. Ten church members were each sentenced to multiple years in prison on charges of “fraud.” Among them, core member Brother Li Shuangping was sentenced to nine years and two months in prison, fined 100,000 yuan — the…

Secure Freedom Minute: Trump Dares Call It Treason

 President Trump weighed in yesterday on “Obamagate” – the nation’s most serious political scandal, ever. Citing evidence released last week by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Mr. Trump declared that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had personally led an effort to “rig the 2016 election,” then did rig the 2020 one and was guilty of…

Secure Freedom Minute: “Obamagate:”

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Welcome to “Obamagate.”  Last week, the former Democratic Member of Congress who is now the Director of National Intelligence released copious documentary proof that in early December 2016, shortly after Donald Trump was elected to succeed him, then-President Barack Obama personally participated in the launch of…