(Bitter Winter) — Since the new Regulations on Religious Affairs came into effect in February 2018, the Chinese authorities have been attempting to curb the growth of Christianity by ordering Protestant house churches to join the official Three-Self Church; those who don’t comply are shut down. This February, local authorities raided a house church in […]

(CBS News) — Two Florida teenagers are counting their blessings after they were rescued from a strong ocean current last month. After going out for a swim, high school seniors Tyler Smith and Heather Brown were stranded at sea for more than an hour when they cried out to God for help. Their prayers were […]

(New York Post) — The man who mowed down pedestrians with his car in Sunnyvale, Calif., this week was targeting a family he believed was Muslim, according to a report. Police announced the motivation in a Friday news conference, without discussing the evidence, CNN reported. Cops have not ruled out the possibility of charging the […]

(The Times of Israel) — My story begins with the destruction of my village Taweelah in North Darfur. Like so many villages in Darfur, it was destroyed by the Janjaweed, a group of militants armed up by the Sudanese government and known for riding into a village, killing the men and raping the women, and […]

(Yahoo News/National Review) — Five employees of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) have quit a controversial NHS transgender-therapy clinic, citing fears that children are being misdiagnosed as transgender and given harmful and irreversible hormone treatments. The five former clinicians at the Gender Identity Development Service, which is based in London and Leeds, expressed their concerns […]

(CNN/Fox 59) — The number of children and teens in the United States who visited emergency rooms for suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts doubled between 2007 and 2015, according to a new analysis. Researchers used publicly available data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, administered by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]

(Los Angeles Times) — Wedding cakes and same-sex marriages are back before the Supreme Court, and this time the justices are being asked to rule broadly that the 1st Amendment’s protection of the “free exercise” of religion shields conservative Christians from state civil rights laws. An Oregon couple who were fined $135,000 for refusing to […]

(SFist) — The tragic and confusing tale of the Hart family, who all died last March when their car drove off a cliff in the California coastal town of Fort Bragg, has come to a final if tragic conclusion following a coroner’s inquest. It was the first such inquest in Mendocino County in 52 years, […]

(The Sun) — At least three children were taken into care last year because their mothers and fathers objected to them changing gender. The cases raise fears that parents are powerless to act if they think their child is making a wrong decision. Social workers at one council, Hillingdon in west London, say they placed […]

(The Washington Post/MSN) — Manacled and barefoot, Brenton Harrison Tarrant walked into a courtroom on Saturday and flashed an “okay” sign, a gesture meant as a dark joke to online extremists, as he stood defiantly to face murder charges less than 24 hours after brutal assaults on two mosques in this city left at least […]