Top headlines for Saturday, March 25, 2023 The U.S. Department of Justice is being sued over what plaintiffs describe as an inadequate response to violence against churches and pro-life pregnancy centers as pro-abortion vandalism continues across the U.S. A California missionary and a French journalist abducted in Niger by an Islamic terrorist group have been released. The largest United Methodist Church congregation in Michigan has voted to leave the mainline Protestant denomination over the on...
Mar 27, 2023•9 min
Top headlines for Friday, March 24, 2023 A former youth pastor in Texas accused of sexually abusing 14 young girls placed under his care is now free after his sentence was reduced to 25 months for good behavior. Four individuals, including two minors, have been arrested and charged with shooting at a Mennonite church building in Missouri, with authorities considering the act a hate crime. County officials in Northern California are denying a report that they used cell phone data to track members...
Mar 24, 2023•7 min
Top headlines for Thursday, March 23, 2023 The United States Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a traveling evangelist who was barred from preaching at the University of Alabama for failing to obtain a permit. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has implemented an emergency regulation imposing what his office calls "guardrails" on gender transition interventions for minors as the push to ban the controversial practices continues on a state-by-state basis. The United Methodist Church o...
Mar 23, 2023•7 min
Top headlines for Wednesday, March 22, 2023 Perry Noble, the senior pastor of Second Chance Church in Anderson, South Carolina, recently revealed that a lump he found on his abdomen three weeks ago is not malignant. A Christian university in Kentucky has agreed to a $14 million settlement over the death of a student-athlete who died after allegedly begging for water and being denied access to it during on-campus workouts. A Christian goalie for the San Jose Sharks boycotted pregame warmups over ...
Mar 22, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Tuesday, March 21, 2023 When it comes to Jews, mainline Protestants and Catholics, Americans tend to view those groups more favorably than atheists, Muslims and Mormons, according to a recent survey. A health teacher in Oregon has been placed on leave after parents raised concerns about assignments asking students to describe their sexual fantasies and which students in the class they would like to have sexual relations with. Wyoming has passed legislation criminalizing the sal...
Mar 21, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Saturday, March 18, 2023 An American missionary pilot and two other men who were jailed in Mozambique for more than four months on suspicion of supporting insurgents in the war-torn nation have been released from prison. Only half of U.S. pastors are “very satisfied” with their vocation, marking a steep decline in pastoral satisfaction over the past decade, according to a study released by Barna Group. Former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr. has filed a lawsuit a...
Mar 20, 2023•9 min
Top headlines for Friday, March 17, 2023 The University of Notre Dame will host an event titled "Queer Holiness: An Experiential Christian Anthropology" even though Catholic Church teaching labels homosexuality as a sin. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed back on President Joe Biden’s characterization of legislation banning sex-change surgeries for minors as “sinful” by sharing graphic images of bodies maimed by such procedures. A Virginia judge cited a 19th-century law about slave ownership in ru...
Mar 17, 2023•7 min
Exposing the Gender Lie Download our free eBook here Unmasking Gender Ideology Event Top headlines for Thursday, March 16, 2023 As a journalist and Bible-believing Christian, Showalter knew he couldn’t just look away when faced with the horrors of the transgender movement. Over the years, he’s written countless articles and even launched a podcast raising awareness about the topic, and this month, released Exposing the Gender Lie: How to Protect Children and Teens from the Transgender Industry ....
Mar 16, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Wednesday, March 15, 2023 Several Republican-controlled state legislatures have begun to push for expanded protections for pregnant women and mothers in low-income households, particularly in areas where abortion is now illegal or severely restricted after the U.S. Supreme Court determined that the U.S. Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. Hillsong Church has been charging child sponsorship and Christian humanitarian aid organization Compassion International $1 mil...
Mar 15, 2023•7 min
Top headlines for Tuesday, March 14, 2023 A strong majority of American adults believe it's important for schools to teach traditional values of Western civilization, but how well they think schools teach these values varies by age, according to a recent survey. In an update on his ongoing battle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, Christian author and speaker Tim Keller shared that new tumors have developed, requiring him to undergo a repeat of the immunotherapy treatment he received last year. At ...
Mar 14, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Saturday, March 11, 2023 Over half of Christians say they sometimes experience doubts about their religious beliefs, according to a new study from the prominent Evangelical research organization the Barna Group. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the state is withdrawing from a $54 million contract with Walgreens after the corporation revealed that it would not dispense the abortion pill in certain states where it is not legal to do so. Former Saddleback Church pastor ...
Mar 13, 2023•9 min
Top headlines for Friday, March 10, 2023 While many students are on vacation during spring break in Virginia, students at Regent University have been engaging in impromptu worship services that include the sharing of testimonies and exhortations from Scripture. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a sweeping education bill into law Wednesday, becoming the fifth state to enact a universal school choice program and banning certain topics from being taught in public classrooms. A federal cou...
Mar 10, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Thursday, March 9, 2023 As the pro-life movement expresses outrage over the arrest of pro-life activist Mark Houck, attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers and churches continue in the United States nearly four months after the U.S. Supreme Court determined that the U.S. Constitution does not contain the right to an abortion. A judge has ordered USA Powerlifting to allow trans-identified males to compete in the women’s division amid a national debate about the fairness of allowin...
Mar 09, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Wednesday, March 8, 2023 A federal court determined that a network of New York-based pregnancy centers can proceed with challenging a law that the organization said forces pro-life or religious groups to hire employees who have had abortions or hold views contrary to their mission. A man was arrested for allegedly disrupting an anti-racism event hosted by a New Jersey church by throwing smoke bombs into a crowd of people and trying to pepper spray attendees. Another 41 congrega...
Mar 08, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Tuesday, March 7, 2023 Following threats of legal action and pressure from over 20 attorneys general, the major pharmacy retail chain Walgreens confirmed that it will not dispense the abortion pill in certain parts of the country, even in places where abortion remains legal. Churches in Texas have pledged to sponsor the resettlement of about 60 Christians from China’s persecuted “Mayflower Church” who fled to South Korea in 2019 but were denied asylum. A Texas bill that condemn...
Mar 07, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Saturday, March 4, 2023 A women-centered panel at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference focused on defending human dignity and how the panelists believe the culture has lost sight of God’s intended vision for humankind. The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives held its first hearing of a new subcommittee dedicated to investigating the alleged "weaponization" of federal government agencies against conservatives. An 11-year-old boy gained national atten...
Mar 06, 2023•7 min
Top headlines for Friday, March 3, 2023 As many churches have now reopened their doors in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic only a minority of them view in-person worship services as the church model of the future. A majority see a hybrid model utilizing various online technologies as the new normal, according to a new study from Pushpay. Some 43% of British people believe the metaverse will eventually lead them toward the matrix, “a simulated reality created by sentient machines to pacify and s...
Mar 03, 2023•9 min
Top headlines for Thursday, March 2, 2023 Students at a Kentucky college who tried to organize a revival worship service in the wake of the Asbury University revival found themselves at odds with school officials over meeting rules. When does satire about faith become mockery? And should Christians even care? Jen Wilkin, a Bible teacher and author, has addressed criticisms of her views shared during a recent conversation on whether Christian parents should enroll their children in public schools...
Mar 02, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Wednesday, March 1, 2023 A Christian college in Missouri is asking the United States Supreme Court to halt a Biden administration directive that requires schools to allow male students to be housed in women-only dormitories or use the girls' showers. A group of former Project Veritas whistleblowers released a video expressing support for the organization’s founder James O’Keefe after he was forced to leave the company last week following a prolonged conflict with its board of d...
Mar 01, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Tuesday, February 28, 2023 The share of the American population identifying as LGBT has doubled over the past decade as Generation Z is more likely than older Americans to identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or something "other" than heterosexual in new Gallup data. The New York City Council has voted to name a block in Harlem after Elijah Muhammad, the controversial late leader of the Nation of Islam. Homeschooling saw a 30% increase in 2021-2022 while public schoo...
Feb 28, 2023•9 min
Top headlines for Saturday, February 25, 2023 Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy entered the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, joining a field that includes former President Donald Trump, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and other lesser-known candidates. Here are five things to know about the latest entrant into the presidential race. An incarcerated pregnant woman accused of murder is petitioning for her release on the grounds that her unborn child...
Feb 27, 2023•9 min
Top headlines for Friday, February 24, 2023 A parliamentary committee has called for expanding Canada's assisted suicide program so that "mature minors" whose deaths are "reasonably foreseeable" be allowed to hasten their deaths without parental consent. Protestant churchgoers are much more likely than pastors to believe weekly church attendance is necessary to qualify as a regular churchgoer, according to a new poll. A Catholic bookstore is suing a Florida city over its anti-discrimination law,...
Feb 24, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Thursday, February 23, 2023 The Southern Baptist Convention has decided to cut ties with Saddleback Church, one of the largest churches in the United States, and four other churches over their decision to elevate women to the office of pastor. Apologist and author Ray Comfort is releasing a new book this month that explains why a healthy fear of the Lord is a key component of prayer. "Jesus Revolution" director Jon Erwin and Pastor Greg Laurie reflect on God's divine hand over ...
Feb 23, 2023•7 min
Top headlines for Wednesday, February 22, 2023 Another earthquake struck Turkey’s Hatay province near the Syrian border killing at least eight people and injuring hundreds of others on Monday night. A majority of male inmates claiming to be trans-identified have been convicted of violent offenses, and nearly half have a history of sexual offenses, according to a study from the Canadian prison system. Asbury University, which has been the site of continual worship and prayer on campus for weeks a...
Feb 22, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Tuesday, February 21, 2023 Most Americans support laws banning gender transition surgeries for minors as the number of states with such prohibitions continues to increase, a new poll suggests. Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, offered prayers for former President Jimmy Carter during their service on Sunday morning after it was announced that their most famous member and Sunday School teacher had started hospice care. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled...
Feb 21, 2023•9 min
Top headlines for Monday, February 20, 2023 The University of the Cumberlands is among the Christian institutions experiencing spontaneous worship and prayer services in response to the revival event at Asbury University. Congressional Republicans are demanding answers after the FBI's Richmond office circulated a document classifying "radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology" as a potential national security threat. Fred McCoy Gammon Jr., an Oklahoma pastor accused of sending several sexually su...
Feb 20, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Friday, February 17, 2023 A Christian academic institution in Ohio is seeing spontaneous prayer and worship among its student body days after a revival began at Asbury University in Kentucky. A new study examining the correlation between an individual’s level of religiosity and their core values reveals that just 6% of Americans possess a biblical worldview, while an overwhelming majority hold secular views and haven't yet accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior. A federal appeal...
Feb 17, 2023•10 min
Top headlines for Thursday, February 16, 2023 Poor mental health and suicidal ideation and attempts have increased among high school students over the last decade, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and more than half of girls struggle with “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness.” Hundreds of students at a New Hampshire school district staged a walkout following the school board’s decision to restrict bathroom access due to parents’ outrage about a policy allow...
Feb 16, 2023•9 min
Top headlines for Wednesday, February 15, 2023 South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has signed a bill into law that bans sex change surgeries and experimental puberty blockers for children and teens who struggle with their sexual identities and can be influenced into having irreversible procedures, such as chemical castration. An armed man entered the campus of Michigan State University and opened fire, killing at least three students and wounding five others in a mass shooting before dying of a self-i...
Feb 15, 2023•8 min
Top headlines for Tuesday, February 14, 2023 Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., sparked a still raging firestorm of reactions Sunday night when she compared an advertisement about Jesus during the Super Bowl to “fascism.” Only 28% of Generation Z Americans say they're committed to attending religious services at least once a month, as 14% identify as atheist or agnostic, according to a recent poll that suggests the younger generation is also much more likely to identify as LGBT. Birth rates i...
Feb 14, 2023•9 min
