Last month, the Duke Student Government Senate unanimously voted against giving official recognition to the school’s Young Life chapter, claiming that it’s leadership standards were discriminatory.

For the third consecutive year, the United Soccer Coaches organization is sponsoring a “Play with Pride” week. During the week of September 16-22, club, high school and college teams across the United States are encouraged to wear rainbow laces in their cleats to show support for athletes and coaches of all sexual orientations and gender identities.

Pastor Raju Prassad recently gave details to International Christian Concern, a persecution watchdog charity, of an attack on his congregation that happened in July. Pastor Prassad was leading a prayer meeting at his small house-church in Kanshiram Colony in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. 

Recently, at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting in Alaska, a Satanic Temple member was allowed to open the government meeting with the phrase “hail Satan”, which led to a walkout by several residents and officials.

On June 21st, the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom released its latest report on International Religious Freedom across the globe, which contained both positive examples of lessening of religious persecution but also focused on many of the world’s largest nations in religious persecution.

Wang Yi, the imprisoned pastor of Early Rain Covenant Church in China, is now facing an additional charge of “illegal business activity.” According to Radio Free Asia, Wang has been detained by police in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan since December 14, 2018. At that time, he was arrested with his wife, Jiang Rong, and about 100 members of Early Rain.

In a stunning victory for pro-life advocates everywhere, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notified abortion facilities on Tuesday that new pro-life rules will take effect. These rules stipulate that any facility receiving federal Title X tax dollars cannot provide abortions or abortion referrals.

For 75 years, InterVarsity has had a student chapter at Wayne State. In 2017, the university’s administration revoked their status, claiming the chapter’s constitution violated the school’s nondiscrimination policy because it requires their leaders to be Christians. 

In a 7-2 decision, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of 40-foot memorial cross in Bladensburg, Maryland. Known as the Bladensburg Peace Cross, this monument was erected in 1925 to honor 49 local men who died in WWI. Funds for this tribute were raised by the families, local businesses and the American Legion.

In a triumphant victory for life, last week President Donald Trump’s administration stated that it would no longer fund research that uses the body parts of aborted babies.

In a follow-up to an article we brought to you earlier this year, the debate continues to rage around a Chinese scientist who changed the DNA of twin girls. There has been no report as to how the twins are doing, but their existence has been confirmed by investigators in the Guangdong province

The Archbishop of Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, is warning the Western world that Iraq’s Christian community has shrunk from around 1.5 million to only 250,000 since 2003. After 1,400 years of persecution, Iraqi Christians now face extinction.

In yet another disturbing example of the ongoing violence inherent with Islam, the government of Saudi Arabia recently held a mass execution in which 37 people were beheaded and one person was crucified! The Saudi government even went so far as to pin the body and severed head of one individual to a post as a public warning to others.