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President Donald Trump highlighted the importance of remaining a "nation under God" and protecting religious liberty during a speech delivered at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday.

A sobering interview with the late grandmother of Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has resurfaced in which she discusses the pain she felt over America's refusal to accept Jews fleeing the Holocaust.

Former first daughter Jenna Welch Bush Hager shared her thoughts on President Donald Trump's controversial immigration ban on Tuesday, saying the face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. "That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war."

Mark Rubio has said his Christian faith has caused him to be "uneasy" over President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily banning Syrian refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries and warned that in Heaven, all will be asked to give an account of how they treated the poor and needy.

President Trump's decision to select federal appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill a Supreme Court seat has garnered the praise of Christian and conservative leaders across America, who say it's a major win for religious freedom.

After acting attorney general Sally Yates issued a memo Monday ordering U.S. Justice Department lawyers not to defend President Trump's controversial immigration executive order, he "relieved" her of her duties," according to a White House statement late Monday evening. Yates, 56, a career official with a history of bipartisan support and former U.S. President Barack Obama appointee, said she was "not convinced" Trump's immigration order is "lawful" and that the Justice Department would not defend it in court "until I become convinced that it is appropriate to do so." The Washington Post reported Yates was informed of her dismissal 2 minutes before the statement announcing it was sent to reporters.

After coming under fire for supporting Donald Trump's controversial refugee ban, Franklin Graham has explained that while he believes Christians should care for the poor and needy, the president's job is "not the same as the job of the church".

Russell Moore has penned a letter to Donald Trump stating that Southern Baptists are "deeply concerned" that the refugee travel ban will "cause widespread diplomatic fallout with the Muslim world" and called on the president to affirm his administration's "commitment to religious freedom and the inalienable human dignity of persecuted people."

President Donald Trump defended his controversial executive order that bars the citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the United States, as thousands of protesters chanted outside of the White House and at multiple, major U.S. airports on Sunday in opposition of the president's sudden immigration policy change. Trump denied the ban was religiously-driven, but confused matters by also announcing Christian refugees would get first priority for U.S. entry. Many people now are seeking answers about why Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are not on Trump's immigration ban, which are countries in which Trump companies do business.

One of Scotland's top religious leaders has said he is "horrified" by President Donald Trump's refugee travel ban and said the Bible calls on Christians to "live beyond hatred and fear" and welcome the poor and oppressed - regardless of religion.

President Donald Trump announced on social media Monday he will announce his Supreme Court choice two days earlier than scheduled. "I have made my decision on who I will nominate for The United States Supreme Court," Trump tweeted. "It will be announced live on Tuesday at 8:00 P.M. (W.H.)."

After Steve Bannon was promoted to a role on the National Security Council on Saturday by President Donald Trump, the hashtag #StopPresidentBannon hit the top of Twitter's U.S. trending chart as thousands objected to President Trump's chief strategist. Before his political career, Bannon served as executive chair of Breitbart News, which is considered a far-right news, opinion and commentary website that Bannon described as the platform of the Internet-based alt-right, anti-mainstream movement. Associated Press sources from the White House stated Bannon's addition was "essential to the commander in chief's decision-making process."

Silicon Valley leaders immediately expressed concern and denounced an executive order signed on Friday by U.S. President Donald Trump that temporarily banned immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States, even if they already were approved to do so. However this ban was temporarily overturned on Saturday after American Civil Liberties Union officials won an emergency stay in federal court, meaning those affected with valid visas cannot be deported and sent back to their home countries.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday suspending the entire US refugee resettlement program for at least 120 days while "extreme-vetting" rules are established; U.S. religious leaders are urging the new administration to remember to base the new policies on mercy and compassion while ensuring the security of the nation.

Persecuted Christians from other nations will be given priority over other refugees seeking to enter the United States, said President Donald Trump in an interview Friday. His full remarks to Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody of The Brody File are slated to air Sunday evening on Freeform, as well as Monday on The 700 Club. The United States admitted a record number of 38,901 Muslim refugees in 2016, according to a Pew study, but nearly the same number of Christians, 37,521, also were admitted.

"Life is winning in America," says Vice President Mike Pence. Indeed, with abortion rates at an all-time low since 1974, it is a day worthy of a special commemoration and, well, a march. Pence did just that today in participating at and speaking on behalf of the unborn at the 2017 March for Life in Washington. Beaming with unswerving conviction, Vice-President Pence added: "Be assured: Along with you we will not grow weary, we will not rest, until we restore a culture of life in America for ourselves and our posterity." These actions designated him the first, highest official ranking to address the Washington March.

The power of executive order is, I have noted, often regarded with a suspicious eye---almost as though, it somehow originated from some great transgression or horrendous governmental conspiracy. Despite the sense of notoriety, however, some will be surprised to learn that the executive order is actually backed both by the Constitution as well as by history. Beginning, in fact, with our country's first president, founding father, and general.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday to ban the use of federal funds for abortion, making permanent the Hyde Amendment and removing abortion funds from Obamacare.

Boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, who openly professes faith in Jesus and His finished work on the cross, once more expressed support for the death penalty last week and cited the Bible to justify his stance.

"Banning all Madonna songs at HITS 105 is not a matter of politics, it's a matter of patriotism," Terry told Billboard, "It just feels wrong to us to be playing Madonna songs and paying her royalties when the artist has shown un-American sentiments. If all stations playing Madonna took their lead from us, that would send a powerful economic message to Madonna."

The truth is as I'm sure some of you have surmised by now, this isn't your great-great-great grandmother's suffrage. While it is tempting and even seemingly noble to empower women---and, don't get me wrong, there is an appropriate time and place for it---the very women cited for their movement of suffrage would cringe at the subjects deemed "rights" now.

Franklin Graham has said Madonna should be "ashamed" of herself for using her platform to threaten President Donald Trump and urged United States citizens to "pull it together as a nation" - even if they don't like the country's new leader.

I sat among a rough estimate of 700 people in the World's Fair Park Amphitheater; praise to Jesus, there were definitely increased numbers since the last few years before. In fact, while I couldn't quite put a finger on it, there seemed to be a different spirit in the air altogether. A kind of sense of hope and motivation, as though we had all passed through an invisible storm and passed into the eye, with a sudden recognition of safety and a grasp of something tangible. There was nothing particularly different about the program departing from the usual schedule, and yet the mass seemed unusually strengthened, a marked excitement in the air evidenced by the loud, collective responses and filed seats.

John Piper, one of President Donald Trump's most vocal evangelical critics, has prayed that God would bring America's new leader out of darkness and into light and give him "a spirit of brokenness and humility" - but said that will "not be an easy transition for him."

Televangelist Paula White has opened up about her relationship with President Donald Trump and said he is a leader who truly puts "the values and the voice of God at the forefront."