The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property—TFP categorically condemns the Sept 11, 2010 advertised burning of the Koran by the pastor of a Gainesville, Florida church and its congregation. The act is wrong for several reasons. However, we call the public’s attention to a perspective we believe has … Read more
If on December 7, 1944, three years after “a date which will live in infamy,” local government officials in Hawaii had allowed a group of Japanese to erect a Shinto shrine at Pearl Harbor, how would Americans nationwide have reacted? Yet are we not seeing in Lower Manhattan an analogous situation, with … Read more
The Luxembourg Parliament will soon be voting on a new bill that would essentially legalize abortion on demand, suppress parental authorization for minors and shorten the reflection period after an abortion consultation to just three days. The American TFP is inviting its friends and supporters to send their protest against this blatant … Read more
In the final analysis, the military is all about blood. Wars are waged in the field of blood. We ask our soldiers to be disposed at any time to shed their blood for our country. So impressive is this great sacrifice that we can figuratively say that in the young soldiers’ veins, flows … Read more
Times are not too kind to global warming advocates. Besieged by reports of data falsification and shoddy academic work, they are facing a crisis of credibility which, to use their rhetoric, might well be of “apocalyptic” proportions. One case in point is Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) housed … Read more
Communism’s Brutal Face Is Very Visible Once again communism reared its ugly head dashing the false hopes of naïve optimists who keep clinging to the idea that communism is dead. Recent events in Vietnam reported in Catholic news media reveal that a brutal crackdown and campaign of violence and intimidation by hardliners … Read more
The Portuguese parliament’s approval of same-sex “marriage” on January 8 is shocking for many reasons. A Challenge to Our Lady of Fatima First, the fact itself legalizes a practice aberrant to nature and also discredits marriage. Then, this law was passed in the land of Our Lady of Fatima, as if defying … Read more
As we witness the unfolding of events in Haiti, we cannot help but be moved to have compassion on and pray for the victims of the recent earthquake in the capital of Port-Au-Prince. The country’s infrastructure is all but destroyed. Food, water, electricity and housing are scarce and chaos reigns in some … Read more
In July 2008 a severe persecution of Christians broke out in the Indian state of Orissa. A 22 year old nun was burnt to death when angry mobs burnt down an orphanage in Khuntpali village in Barhgarh district, another nun was gang raped in Kandhamal, mobs attacked churches, torched vehicles, houses of … Read more
Among the measures used by the Left to attack the sovereignty of modern nations are legislative bills which carve out vast land areas for native and indigenous governments and homelands. One of three such bills sponsored this year by Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI) is already well advanced in the U.S. Congress. This … Read more