(KTLA via CNN Wire) — While you can still attend in-person church services in California, you can’t sing. The state, to curb a rapidly worsening pandemic, has temporarily banned singing and chanting in places of worship. “Practices and performances present an increased likelihood for transmission of COVID-19 through contaminated exhaled droplets and should occur through […]

AUSTIN, Texas (Austin American-Statesman) — For the first time in two decades, the Texas State Board of Education is slated to make changes to its sex education curriculum, triggering a likely showdown between conservative and liberal state activists. The last revisions to the health education standards were in 1997, and much of the debate is expected […]

(Voice of the Martyrs) — Voice of the Martyrs Korea, an NGO which ministers to persecuted Christians worldwide, held a press conference today to unveil a plaque on its Martyrs Timeline commemorating “The Unknown Martyrs of Communism” and to officially release its new booklet, “Communism Is Not Dead”, an educational resource for Christians and churches. “Since […]

KHUNTI, Jharkhand (Church in Chains) — On June 7, a group of armed religious extremists attacked and murdered 27-year-old Christian Kande Mudu in Bari village, Khunti District in Jharkhand state. The murder took place only three days after Hindu extremists in Odisha state murdered Christian teenager Samaru Madkami. At approximately 8 p.m., Kande (also known […]

(Voice of the Martyrs) — Authorities in China’s Fujian province destroyed more than a dozen Christian homes on June 11. At around 9 a.m., more than 100 officials from various government departments arrived at the homes of Xingguang Church members. They moved furniture from the homes into the hallway. They yelled, “What are you recording!” […]

(Voice of the Martyrs Australia) — A doctor living in Australia has had a formal complaint made against him for praying with a patient. The patient, a Christian teenager who suffers from anxiety, went to the emergency room following a severe panic attack. The patient’s father asked the doctor if he would talk to her […]

The 22-year-old daughter of the late Michael Jackson, Paris Jackson, will play a gender-bending Jesus Christ in the upcoming blasphemous film “Habit.” In the film, Jackson will portray Christ as a lesbian wearing a traditional robe and nose ring, who involves herself in a series of carnal acts with another woman. Jackson will star in […]

(ABC News) — A 19-year-old man is dead and another person has been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after an overnight shooting inside the [so-called] Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone in Seattle, police said. The shooting occurred early Saturday, around 2:30 a.m. local time, inside the zone, which is also referred to as CHOP, according to […]

WARWICK, R.I. (WJAR) — As fall school plans remain uncertain, local homeschooling organizations are reporting a growing number of new, interested families. “We have seen quite an uptick,” said Bill Heuer, executive director of the Massachusetts Home Learning Association. The latest available data shows around 7,600 students are homeschooled in Massachusetts and 1,800 students in […]

 EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — Distance learning was the new normal this past spring semester because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but learning from home has pushed more parents to keep their kids at home. Schooling during the quarantine looked a lot different: Papers, books, and technology spread across a kitchen table, mingled with the ins and […]