Contact: Jeff Field, Director of Communications, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, 212-371-3191, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   NEW YORK, Feb. 6, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- In an article titled "Our Rule Respects Religion," Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius writes in today's USA Today that "we specifically carved out from the [healthcare] policy religious organizations that primarily employ people of their own faith."   Catholi Source: Catholic League

Contact: Lyn Perez, Reformed Theological Seminary, 407-366-9493, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 7, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- The following commentary is submitted by Dr. Michael A. Milton.  A sinister wave of crime is sweeping American university campuses. Even the most prestigious universities like Vanderbilt University in Nashville are not exempt. Indeed, these types of criminal activity have spread like a hideous contagion to state universities, SUNY Buffalo being the most r Source: Reformed Theological Seminary

Contact: Megan Morris, 913-426-0002; www.StGiannaPhysicians.org SAN DIEGO, Feb. 6, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Cardinal Raymond Burke, Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, sent a written message of support to St. Gianna Physician's Guild over the weekend encouraging Catholics to sign the organization's online petition (www.StopTheBirthControlMandate.org) to protest the assault on religious liberty that is happening under ObamaCare. Source: St. Gianna Physician's Guild

Contact: Emily Fuentes, Open Doors USA, 949-413-6721, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 8, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Sen. Rick Santorum issued a press release on Friday, February 3, noting he was the first and only candidate to sign the Presidential Pledge for Religious Freedom. The Presidential Pledge for Religious Freedom was drafted by Open Doors USA and Professor Tom Farr of Georgetown University, an esteemed international religious freedom expert. It has been co-signed by Source: Open Doors USA

Contact: Christine Valentine-Owsik, 215-230-8095, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   HUNTINGTON, Ind., Feb. 8, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- It's not enough to be an active Catholic citizen -- voting, staying reasonably informed, or even running for public office. The current culture -- with its growing indifference to God -- challenges Catholics to examine how they live their lives and defend their beliefs, argues the head of the Catholic Church in the nation's capital, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, in a new book Source: Valentine Communications

"Are coercive government control and subsidized sexual freedom more important than religious freedom?" -- Mark Tooley, IRD President Contact: Jeff Walton, Institute on Religion and Democracy, 202-682-4131, 202-413-5639 cell, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- The United Methodist General Board of Church and Society, along with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, which includes the Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church (USA) and United Church Source: Institute on Religion & Democracy

Created Equal releases new film: "Representing the Victims" Contact: Mark Harrington, 614-419-9000, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 6, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- On Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 Created Equal debuted our NEW film on a Jumbo TV in Washington, DC (photo). The film met with an overwhelmingly positive response. Many marchers came face to face for the first time with the victims they are representing. Eyes teared up and jaws dropped as young people streamed past th Source: Created Equal

Contact: Joni Sullivan Baker, Buoyancy Public Relations, 513-319-3231 CINCINNATI, Feb. 6, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Standard Publishing again received top honors for the best Vacation Bible School in the nation with the recent announcement from About the Children's Department that Adventures on Promise Island: Where Kids Discover God's Lifesaving Love has been selected as the popular blog's Top Pick for VBS 2012. The award marks the fourth year in a row Standard's VBS has receiv Source: Buoyancy PR