Top headlines for Saturday, February 11, 2023 It’s been about two weeks since DirecTV canceled conservative news network Newsmax in what the channel’s CEO is calling a “blatant act of political discrimination and censorship.” A former employee at a pediatric gender clinic and an avowed liberal is coming forward as a whistleblower, describing what takes place at her former place of employment as “appalling.” The Church of England voted Thursday to officially endorse plans for priests to offer pra...
Feb 13, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Friday, February 10, 2023 Young adults and adolescents from Generation Z differ significantly from older generations in how they consume the news, according to new research. Shortly before he shot his teacher as she sat at a reading table in his class at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia on Jan. 6, a troubled 6-year-old boy allegedly showed off his mother’s gun to another student and threatened to shoot him if he told anyone according to a notice of claim fil...
Feb 10, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Thursday, February 9, 2023 During his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Joe Biden urged Congress to pass a bill to codify Roe v. Wade into law following the Supreme Court's decision last year, vowing to veto any “national ban” on abortion that Congress might pass. Christians who once identified as homosexual have mixed opinions about recent remarks made by Pastor Andy Stanley, in which the megachurch leader said that LGBT individuals who go to church have “mor...
Feb 09, 2023•8 min
A Chinese spy balloon traversed the United States last week, sparking national security concerns and raising debate over how and when to shoot it down amid questions about the U.S. government's response. The first African American woman to be ordained a priest in The Episcopal Church will be honored as part of the United States Mint’s 2024 American Women Quarters Program. Christian surfer Bethany Hamilton, whose life story was depicted in the 2011 film "Soul Surfer," says she will no longer comp...
Feb 08, 2023•8 min
Over 2,600 people have been killed in southern Turkey and northern Syria as death tolls continue to rise after a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey's Nurdagi town early Monday, one of the strongest to hit the region in more than 100 years, officials say. Christians faced harassment in more countries than any other religious group in 2020, according to a Pew Research study that found an increase in 45 countries since 2012. Pregnancy centers are more likely than abortion facilities to of...
Feb 07, 2023•8 min
Catholic pro-life activist Mark Houck said he will look into pressing charges" related to prosecutorial abuse after he was acquitted of FACE Act charges. A childhood friend of 26-year-old Morgan E. Daub, 26, who was found dead at home along with her missionary parents in York County, Pennsylvania last week, in what authorities say is a suicide pact, suggested she may have been driven insane by her parents strict religious upbringing. The Satanic Temple, an organization that claims abortion bans ...
Feb 06, 2023•7 min
President Joe Biden told those gathered for the National Prayer Breakfast that he viewed the religious diversity found in the newest Congress to be a reflection of the “infinite creativity of God.” A Utah-based Christian K-12 academy fired four top administrators for their alleged involvement in what is potentially a multi-million dollar embezzlement scheme involving tuition funds. An Ontario man experiencing homelessness and frustration over his life circumstances seeks to die through Canada's ...
Feb 03, 2023•7 min
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a new series of proposed reforms Tuesday to the state's higher education system, including eliminating all diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory curriculum. An official body of The United Methodist Church recently announced plans to give a grant to an LGBT advocacy group, even though the denomination’s rules prohibit the funding of groups that promote homosexuality. "19 Kids and Counting" star Jinger Duggar Vuolo opens up about disentangling ...
Feb 02, 2023•8 min
A new poll reveals that the overwhelming majority of Americans see public calls for prayer in a time of tragedy as a force for good, with such a belief extending across all demographic subgroups. Megachurch Pastor Andy Stanley, who has been the center of controversy following public comments he made regarding gay individuals in the Church having more faith in God, is hosting a conference at his church for Christian parents of LGBT-identified children later this year. In his first remarks since h...
Feb 01, 2023•8 min
Prominent Christian leaders from across theological backgrounds have weighed in on the police killing of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols earlier this month, denouncing the incident as inhumane. A new study finds that nonreligious individuals tend to stereotype and hold a bias against Christians working in scientific fields. Legislation in North Dakota aimed at prohibiting schools from providing separate accommodations for trans-identified students is raising eyebrows over a subsection of the bill that ...
Jan 31, 2023•8 min
The National Prayer Breakfast will undergo changes this year to its format, with a Christian ministry no longer being in charge of the annual observance and a smaller group of invitees. A Florida church has offered up space for the teaching of an Advanced Placement African American Studies course banned by the Florida Department of Education. In June 2021, comedian and political commentator Bill Maher slammed college as a “racket” on his political talk show "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO. Do...
Jan 30, 2023•8 min
Authorities in Texas have arrested nearly 50 people, including one high school teacher and a youth pastor, as part of a sting operation aimed at combatting sex trafficking. A 22-year-old spear fisherman from Key West, Florida, who got lost at sea for two hours last Thursday after he was pulled away from the coast by the Gulf Stream is celebrating a “miracle" after he was rescued alive by his own family before authorities could reach him. A three-judge panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals has r...
Jan 27, 2023•7 min
A massive painting of Jesus walking on water will no longer be visible at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in New York after an advocacy group complained about the artwork. Vice President Kamala Harris' omission of the right to “life” when quoting the Declaration of Independence has drawn the ire of pro-life activists. A former NASA astronaut who identifies as Christian shared how he believes the study of nature and science is intertwined with Scripture. The Florida Department of Educat...
Jan 26, 2023•8 min
While mental health concerns top the list of worries for parents today, and studies suggest religion is good for mental health, passing on their religious beliefs to their children is not highly prioritized by U.S. adults with children younger than 18 new data from the Pew Research Center show. Vimeo has removed “Dead Name,” a documentary featuring “three parents whose lives have been shaken and forever altered because their children have declared (or have been given) a transgender identity,” fr...
Jan 25, 2023•7 min
Pro-life and pro-choice advocates held opposing demonstrations outside the U.S. Supreme Court Building Sunday on the 50th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade abortion ruling. The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from the Daystar Television Network, which is suing Vimeo over the website’s decision to remove multiple anti-vaccine videos uploaded by the Christian ministry. More than a quarter million people crossed the United States’ southwest border in December as concerns about a border crisi...
Jan 24, 2023•9 min
The United States is the most permissive country when it comes to pushing gender ideology and prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children, compared to nearly a dozen European countries that have implemented more strenuous barriers for youth seeking to obtain drugs and body-mutilating surgeries to look more like the opposite sex. A group of mothers showed up with their babies at the office of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to demonstrate how pro-life pregnancy centers support...
Jan 23, 2023•7 min
Deaths by drugs, alcohol and suicide, known as “deaths of despair,” dramatically increased among middle-aged white Americans in the late 20th century due to lower participation in organized religion that was preceded by a repeal of blue laws that prohibited commercial activities on Sunday, a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows. Allie Beth Stuckey was blocked on social media by a menstrual-tracking application after criticizing the platform for allowing men who identify ...
Jan 20, 2023•9 min
A street preacher in Minnesota who dared to wear a T-shirt declaring “Jesus Saves” to the Mall of America in Bloomington was recently threatened with eviction from the mall if he didn’t remove the shirt because it was offending people. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin criticized the state's largest school district for spending $450,000 on an "equity" coach as district officials neglected to inform students of the national merit recognition. Organizers of the 2023 Mardi Gras parade have dropped their...
Jan 19, 2023•7 min
Florida has told pharmacies they may not dispense the abortion pill after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it would allow women to obtain chemical abortion drugs over the counter. President Joe Biden said Monday that America faces another "inflection point" in its history, which the president believes will determine how the country looks in the future, calling it a "time for choosing." Activists in Idaho are continuing their push to repeal or amend laws that protect parents from prosec...
Jan 18, 2023•8 min
One of the nation's most historically prestigious universities is offering a course that instructs students how to provide healthcare services to "infants" who "identify" as LGBT. A Pennsylvania school board has implemented a policy requiring teachers to refrain from engaging in political advocacy in the classroom as concerns about the promotion of LGBT ideology and critical race theory in public schools loom large in American politics. The number of abortions in Texas has flatlined following th...
Jan 17, 2023•8 min
Nearly three out of every four teenagers have viewed pornography at some point in their lives, with more than half first seeing sexually explicit material by age 13, according to a new study. A freshman Democratic congresswoman who identifies as Evangelical cited a Bible verse often used by pro-lifers when speaking this week against a Republican-sponsored measure mandating medical care for infants born alive after an abortion. The largest United Methodist Church congregation in South Carolina is...
Jan 16, 2023•8 min
The U.S House of Representatives passed pro-life measures on Wednesday, including one aimed at protecting babies who survive an abortion and one condemning violence against pro-life charities and churches. A regulator in the United Kingdom has banned a poster for Demi Lovato's new album after several complaints on grounds that the banner's display could be offensive to Christians and parents of small children. A stage production of C.S. Lewis’ "The Horse and His Boy" is coming to the Museum of t...
Jan 13, 2023•7 min
The United States House of Representatives adopted a rules package that will govern how the body does business during the 118th U.S. Congress. The approval of the rules package in a 220-213 vote fell along party lines, with all but one Republican supporting the implementation of the rules and all Democrats voting in opposition. Severe winter storms in California have left at least 16 people dead and a child missing after heavy rains and flash flooding across the state. A first grade teacher who ...
Jan 12, 2023•7 min
For months, The Christian Post was precluded from using Twitter after the social media platform accused the news outlet of violating its standards with a tweet about U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, a man who identifies as a woman. Critics of the Biden administration's handling of the immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border say President Joe Biden’s trip to Texas and Mexico amounted to a “photo-op” and expressed concern that the administration’s policies will only exacer...
Jan 11, 2023•8 min
A series of state-level lawsuits argue that the right to religious freedom includes abortion access, however, pro-life atheists assert that the right to practice one's faith does not justify "human rights violations." Jack W. Hayford, a prominent pastor, author, seminary chancellor and the man who wrote the popular contemporary Christian worship song “Majesty,” has died at the age of 88. A Catholic hospital owned by the University of Maryland Medical System broke the law by refusing to conduct a...
Jan 10, 2023•8 min
An overwhelming majority of the incoming United States Congress identify as Christians even as the number of Americans who do so has declined. President Joe Biden has announced that he is traveling to Mexico and the border city of El Paso, Texas next week as the Southwest border grapples with hundreds of thousands of illegal border crossings on a monthly basis. A founding member of the rock band Journey is calling for the removal of televangelit Paula White-Cain as an authorized signatory on the...
Jan 09, 2023•8 min
A pro-life pregnancy center firebombed by pro-abortion terrorists last year has announced a partnership with a noted law firm to conduct an independent investigation searching for the perpetrators of the violence as it continues to characterize the federal government’s response to the attacks as lackluster. The International Churches of Christ, a racially diverse, and theologically conservative non- denominational body of co-operating Christian congregations, along with their affiliated organiza...
Jan 06, 2023•8 min
Statistics reveal that abortion was the leading cause of death worldwide for the fourth year in a row, as the number of abortions nearly quadrupled the number of deaths from communicable diseases in 2022. The United States House of Representatives failed to elect a speaker for the 118th Congress on Tuesday. Bluegrass gospel singer Becky Isaacs Bowman of The Isaacs voiced her confidence in God’s faithfulness after being released from the hospital following a serious auto accident that left one pe...
Jan 05, 2023•8 min
A leading pro-life organization has responded after former President Donald Trump claimed that Republican candidates' positions on abortion led to the party's lackluster performance in the midterm elections. A federal appeals court has upheld a Florida school district's policy that prevented a trans- identified student from using bathrooms based on gender identity rather than biological sex. As the world rings in a new year, a prominent voice in the faith community warned that the world is “impl...
Jan 04, 2023•8 min
The Christian humanitarian organization Open Doors has announced it is changing its name to Global Christian Relief as it seeks to further its mission of creating the world's "most extensive, covert network serving persecuted Christians." The head of the World Boxing Council reportedly said the organization is looking into launching a new category for trans-identified fighters to ensure “safety and inclusion." U.S. forces and their allies killed at least 686 Islamic State suspects in Iraq and Sy...
Jan 03, 2023•9 min
