June 21, 2026

04a Faith

Dora and Bill

Final Thought: When Do Widowers Remarry?

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Originally published June 12, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Bill Collier, Publisher

This Final Thought is both for the widow and widower struggling with what they might want to do next, as well as for the friends and family of those widows and widowers. We all have different paths, wants, needs, experiences that will calibrate us differently in response to losing our spouse. Those different calibrations are not more or less righteous in their differences.

This is my journey, so far, into widowerhood. – Bill Collier

I’m noticing people who have lost a spouse around or after the time I lost Dora, and most are dating, remarried, or looking. It seems a common feeling is that they miss their spouse, specifically, but someone to share their life with, generally. Many seem to feel a need to rectify this and find love again.

I think maybe that’s a natural feeling.

For me, grieving Dora started years before she died. By the mid-2020s, the Dora I loved was mentally very limited and by the late 2020s she was medically deranged. She would see people who weren’t there and act out in ways she wouldn’t have had she been in her right mind.

This was during the pandemic, so we didn’t get a real diagnosis until March 1, 2021, which was this: late development of early onset Alzheimer’s, which likely began to take effect, to the point Dora couldn’t work, in August 2015, when she appeared to have a stroke.

I say all that to say that for several years I was with Dora, but she was only with me on a limited basis. We could not truly live as husband and wife. So, I was feeling grief but had to focus on her care. My own grief mostly got set aside.

I learned to care for things she used to handle, whether I did them myself or paid for others to do them. While I am still struggling in my effort to replace her work with my own, I keep getting a little better every month, but I have a long way to go to achieve her level of excellence.

I lived daily a semi-solo life. I used to call it a sort of gray widowerhood, because in most aspects I was already a widower. But I couldn’t “move forward” and even think of being with someone else. So, I used special techniques I learned many decades ago, where I trained my brain, using association, to not be attracted to women in general.

I did this intentionally. While it was not easy, I eventually got to where I am now. I can see a woman’s beauty just as I might see a flower or a sunset, but rarely is there ANY sexual stimulation.

I am happy in my own skin. I enjoy my own company. I do feel the very real presence of God in my heart giving me peace and comfort. I genuinely do not normally feel alone, although I have moments, and I still yearn for Dora. It feels like a homesick feeling.

But I just don’t feel, currently, a general need for companionship. I have people, I have my dog, and, most importantly, I have Jesus Christ.

Dora and I used to say that it would be unhealthy for either of us to say, “I could not live without you“, because Jesus Christ is enough for each of us, and for us together.

I now know she was afraid of losing me before she died. I have diaries I’ve not fully gone through because it still feels like a violation of her privacy. Yet I know I need to go through them, and I know she would want me to.

Through her diaries, I expect to find lessons and early signs that can help with early detection and caring for a person with Alzheimer’s. I believe I have already found early signs of Alzheimer’s in her frustrations with memory that could help others get the early help my wife never received.

From what I have read, she was both afraid of having to live without me and worried about me making it without her.

(Well, Dora, I’m pushing forward and sharing your story, per you wishes, and my journey in all of this, also per your wishes. Jesus Christ is still enough for me, even without you, but that doesn’t mean my heart has stopped being homesick for the home you and I made as US.)

For now, I remain open to every possible outcome ordained by God; but for me the key is that, as with the marriage I lost first to Alzheimer’s and permanently through Dora’s passing, that this marriage be ordained by God and not merely by my desires alone.

Now, I’m not saying this is the only approach, nor that wanting to find someone because you are alone is a bad thing. However, for me, I would need to know in my spirit that if I were to engage in romance it is because God ordained it.

I am thankful that I do not seem to feel as lonely as I see many other widows and widowers have become, and I feel for them, and support their choices to seek or find love again.

I am different than them, but not qualitatively or righteously. Sometimes my choice to not actively pursue remarriage is viewed by others, even widowers and widows, as a judgment against those that make that choice.

I miss Dora to the point of aching, though I do not let that become my governor. I pursue many interests and many relationships with family and friends, but I do NOT feel lonely for female companionship.

I do not pray, “God please give me a second marriage.” If that is your hope that prayer is appropriate for you.

My prayer is, “God, lead me and give me courage and wisdom to walk the path you set before me, regardless of where it leads or how it goes, whether to remain a solo traveler or to be with someone chosen by you, but let my love for YOU inspire me rather than my own desire.”

Again, this isn’t a prescription for everyone nor a judgement on anyone who takes a different approach. To find a husband or wife is a good thing, even after you have become a widow or widower, and no one should second-guess you (outside of uncommon exceptional circumstances).

I think there are pitfalls and dangers associated with such loss. But aside from that, I think the fact many widows and widowers I have met seem to want another love or have found another love, shows that it’s natural to want that; and yet a significant minority have remained solo travelers like me for the rest of their lives.

I just met a guy whose father lost his wife, this man’s mom, after a 3-month battle with cancer. He has remained single for 14 years and has never felt the desire to find love again.

For him his marriage was already perfection in his heart, and he has had his fill of love, in a good way. Maybe things will change for him, and maybe they might yet change for me.

I’m only 19 months in but I identity more with that guy than the ones who remarry. Unlike him, I am OPEN to whatever may come. I’m not by any means opposed to such possibilities. But I’m also content where I am and would be for the rest of my life if being solo is God’s path for me.

I cannot and will not call myself single. I am factually “single,” but it feels wrong, like it erases 33 years of marriage. But I’m not married either. I’m a solo widower and I’m content with that, despite the pain of grief that sometimes gets the better of me.

I haven’t changed my Facebook status to single because I don’t want to be approached. I put my ring back on because I was approached by women, and it didn’t feel right to me.

Maybe that will change one day. Like I said, I am open to that possibility. I remember before I was married all I wanted was to find someone and get married, and I enjoyed the journey of “looking“, though God in His humor arranged my marriage supernaturally.

The person He chose was Dora, and she was NOT on my radar. She was way out of my league anyway, so I never entertained romantic thoughts about her.

I remember it was fun and exciting to meet women and think, “could she be the one?” Everyone enjoys the hunt!

But while I remember that with fondness, I do not feel those things at all now. Perhaps 33 years of marriage and the difficult and long “goodbye” have affected me in this way. Having made a strong habit of not allowing myself to indulge in such desires or feelings, they have become dull, rarely surfacing now. Though I cannot say I’m without such desires, they’re just very brief and very infrequent.

Proverbs talks about David who said, “I have made a pact with my heart not to look on a maiden (unmarried adult woman) with lust.”

This is a formula to me, the idea that I can train my heart and mind not to look on a woman with lust. When I see a beautiful woman now, it is like a sunset or a beautiful classic 53’ Buick Riveria convertible, not a potential lover!

I feel kind of liberated because being free of such feelings allows me to interact with women I know and meet without an agenda other than the matter plainly before us. I have met only a few women who I would say I have some attraction to in the abstract, but the desire to be alone is stronger than those desires.

Dora and I used to make sure our “needs” were met for intimacy, but at some point she became non compos mentis, and thus unable to give consent. This was a difficult moment, because my desire did not die with that loss of consent.

I had to restrain myself, which meant suppressing this need and making it a want until it became little more than occasional background noise.

When you train your brain not to allow your desire for your wife to have salience, it has an even more profound effect on how you view women that are not your wife. As of this writing, my desire for my wife is still there, though in the background of my being. My desire for other women has receded even more.

I wonder how people who have lost their spouse to early onset Alzheimer’s feel about these things after finally becoming a full-fledged widow or widower. I suspect some who have had a deep and wonderful marriage before Alzheimer’s may feel more like I do, and some may yet have faith they can experience that same type of deep and wonderful marriage again.

For me, I pray that whatever follows in my life is the manifestation of God’s sovereignty over my life. Let it be that guide that determines if I will be with someone or remain celibate, “married” to God alone.

God’s presence within me is enough. Sexual feelings just don’t enter my thoughts like they used to, and the few times they do it is easy for me at this point to dismiss them. It is not out of a sense of guilt; it is simply that the fruit of my former intentional habit of being has now become my natural habit of being.

It is perfectly good to have and pursue desire, righteously. But for me, I find no satisfaction in such pursuits. For now.

Unless and until God intervenes, I will continue to pursue the solo-widower life.

For the Christian, there is no mandate from God on what to do after your spouse dies, so there is no reason to judge the one who chooses to remarry OR the one who doesn’t.

As a solo widower I get plenty of “encouragement” from people (mostly the ones who do not have a close fellowship with me) to get out there and get married because, to them, it would be “good for you.”

I hope what you take away from this is that, as a widow or widower, embrace your individual path, come what may from your friends and family around you, some of which might want to shame you for remarrying, and some that want to shame you for NOT remarrying.

And for the friends and family of widows and widowers, give us the space to find our way mostly ourselves, with input and council, but not judgment.

Dora and Bill

Final Thought – Witnessing Christ Through Suffering

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Originally published May 15, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Bill Collier, Publisher

“The more your own suffering blots out the suffering of others, the more likely your suffering will overcome you.” – Paul Gordon Collier

“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” – Romans 5:1-5

  1. NOTE: This Final Thought combines two short essays from our publisher, Bill Collier, who also happens to be an Alzheimer’s treatment advocate. His wife, Dora, passed away in 2024 from Alzheimer’s. As she felt herself slipping, she made one request, make sure to utilize her illness to help others and testify to the glory of Christ.

The first essay is about remembering that witness she called Bill to share, and the second one is how to be a good Alzheimer’s healthcare advocate for your loved one.

Sometimes Satan is allowed to inflict suffering on the Elect for reasons that serve the Kingdom but yet we may never be able to understand those reasons in this life. In my case, the worse example is what happened to my precious and most beloved wife, Dora.

Dora suffered the rare affliction of Alzheimer’s starting to steal her mind from her at only 50 years old. On top of this, the medical system I experienced failed her utterly. She was accused of lying about her condition to defraud the government through a disability claim.

This meant that between August 2015 when it appeared she had a stroke, until March of 2021, I had no diagnosis, no treatment or medicines that would help her, and no real coping mechanisms because I was trying to help her recover from a stroke and the sudden onset of “catastrophic anxiety” (her initial diagnosis).

I do not know how this could serve the Kingdom, beyond enabling me to carry out Dora’s wishes that I utilize her sickness and our unwavering faith in Jesus to help others and to show how real our God is, even through such straits.

I have surrendered. I still sometimes want off the altar, but my dream is that my entire existence would be rendered a living sacrifice to God in the service of His Kingdom, regardless of what I may suffer.

Losing Dora like this was not just or necessary; the medical system failed us bigly, and now I get to promote early detection and treatment of Alzheimer’s.

It would be Dora’s wish, and mine, to help others avoid the suffering Dora had to endure.

By the grace of God, this has even reached the ears of people with resources to back such efforts that are reaching millions of people every month.

The message is getting out and policy makers are taking notice, private corporations are reconsidering our approach to cognitive diseases and the quality of life for both the sick person and their loved ones who care for them.

I do not know if this happened so I could reach millions of people and possibly see real changes, I just know it DID happen and our faith remained intact until the end AND it continues within me now.

When I fear losing a bid for a contract or having to deal with smears and attacks on my reputation, or just failing at a project, I consider this: I survived, faith intact, the death of my wife and nothing, not even my own life, was more precious to me, outside of God Himself, than Dora is to me, both when she was present in the flesh and now that she is with the Lord, who Dora deeply loved.

If I suffer as an innocent person, or even if I suffer owing to a mistake but the “consequences” are disproportionate and unfair, I know I have my reward awaiting me.

I have seen some hideous things people of faith have suffered, real damage that some never recover from all their days, suffering they did not deserve.

I consider then what happened to Dora and me, and I realize that if I don’t find my joy and peace in Christ alone, then joy and peace become a weapon designed to force compliance with the world.

Do we want to suffer?

No.

Will we suffer in this life?

Yes. And it may often come in ways that make no sense. It may come in ways that defy explanation. We find ourselves not understanding how this could possibly be good for us. And yet it always is good for us, in terms of eternity.

I am still suffering and yet I still have joy and peace, and I am still engaging and dreaming with my family and friends, still striving for greater things (like our Hope Estates project).

Who I am is between God and me alone; He knows me better than I know myself and He loves me more than I could love anyone, more than I loved Dora, more than I love God. I will never be able to match what He has done for me and what He is doing within me now.

If tomorrow I lost everything, if someone lied about me, if I became sick, if the economy tanked, or any other disaster were to happen, what carried me through the very worst scenario I could have imagined was my relationship with Jesus Christ and His love for me.

I have always known these things as truths, like “the fellowship of His suffering“, and to fall in love more with my eternity than my present.

Yet, after this previously unfathomable trial, it is now known experientially, in a different way, as a feeling, as a fellowship of all who have suffered, as well as with Jesus, who suffered more than all of us together.

It has a different energy and effect within me now, this knowledge of being heavenly minded while still also being used to do good on this earth.

That feeling of being heavenly minded is now more powerful than the actual suffering endured.

I am certain the future will bring me suffering, although the worst kind is an accomplished fact of my story. I am not afraid because that which I feared the worse has already happened and I did survive that.

Dora went to heaven, she is gone from this earth and that will never be OK with me, but that pain exists within love and faith centered on Jesus Christ, and thus He bears it with me and for me and binds my broken heart.

At this point anything else I suffer is less than what has already occurred.

We must endure and strive and understand that we don’t not need to understand, nor can we truly understand why God utilizes us, even through a spectacle of suffering. Yet we always have an unshakeable understanding that God loves us and that this will help us eternally if we remain on the altar, a living sacrifice.

AND NOW, HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP YOURSELF YOUR LOVED ONE RECEIVING ALHEIMER’S MEDICAL CARE.

If your loved one is in a medical, care, nursing, or memory care facility it is important for staff to see engaged family and friends who are always watching how they are being cared for.

A few things I did:

  1. Tell their story. Make sure the staff knows who they were before they got sick or lost cognitive functions. I told Dora’s story and humanized her, showed pictures and told stories about her in her prime
  2. If you can, hire outside help to also monitor their care. I was able to work with a rehabilitation service provider and her doctor who would visit the site, and later our home. Staff would sometimes see these providers multiple times a week.
  3. Be as present as you can be. Sometimes it’s impossible to see them, but make a habit of many appearances. I visited Dora often to take her out into the world as much as possible. I formed new memories from those days.
  4. Try to be thankful and appreciative of the time you have. Once you have a loved one in a care facility, you know time is not your friend.

Enjoy whatever moments you can, work to find ways to have those moments, to show them your love and to receive it from them. My wife only stopped saying, “I love you” on the day before she died.

  1. Do not let guilt haunt you when necessity requires this. It tore me up that Dora would not be living with me in our home. I only ever wanted her to be with me at home. But I knew that memory care was the best way to give her a good quality of life.

Do what is necessary and do not feel guilty about it. If people want to judge you over such an awful necessity, then they aren’t your people.

Losing Dora to this disease, early onset Alzheimer’s, remains the hardest blow I have ever received, and I am still hurting because of it.

But I have no guilt over how I cared for her or when I had no real choice but to send her away to memory care. I did eventually bring her home, and it wasn’t easy, logistically. I felt her being home was the best option for her quality of life as she could no longer do the rehabilitative stuff that could only happen there.

You have to step outside of your feelings and learn to put yourself last and how to be perfectly happy with that.

Anything else just seems crazy-making. When you lose them, it will be harder if you didn’t appreciate them as much as you could every day you had with them. Treasure every “I love you” and every touch, every connection that still exists.

If you learn to appreciate those last connections deeply and focus on that more than the suffering and the problems, you will have something precious when they finally stop.

I have no regrets. I can honestly say I appreciated every day I had with Dora since the day we were married. Even then, I understood that all things are temporary and must be appreciated in the moment. I learned not to take life or people for granted.

If you have a loved one in a care facility and you know that time is ticking, then try to appreciate whatever connections you can maintain with them, even if they forget who you are, even if it is one-sided.

I chose to love Dora regardless of what she could or couldn’t do in return.

I never faced Dora forgetting me, but I had assumed I would eventually, so I reveled in the time I still had, and in my case that never happened.

She passed away giving me a sign that her hands are still holding me, that she still loves me. Her final moment was pure love for me.

But I never assumed it would be like that. I just assumed she would forget who I was long before she could have even had such a powerful moment with me. That I received this gift at all is just an unexpected bonus.

Just focus on the moment you have with them in front of you.

Make decisions around what is best for them and possible for you, knowing you will probably never be able to do all you wish you could do; and that your choices may range only from hard and painful but necessary to very hard and more painful.

That’s the reality of such care. It’s best to accept it honestly and without fear. It’s best to focus on your love for them and to maintain whatever connections you can maintain.

Sex as a Christian Spiritual Fulfilment

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Originally published May 8, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

FINAL THOUGHT – SEX AS CHRISTIAN SPIRITUAL FULFILMENT

By Bill Collier, Publisher

“Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?” – Proverbs 5:18-20

Sex is a spiritual communion between two souls meant to be together for life. Marriage is the place God pre-ordained for this union, because marriage, in its totality, is a shadow and representation of the love between Jesus Christ for the church, the Body of Christ, and between the church, who are the Bride of Christ, and their Lord.

This is so holy and sacrosanct; I can hardly find the words to convey how eternal and sacred this institution is. It does not end but changes from just between two people to the whole Body of Christ and Jesus Himself.

When I die, I will not be my late wife Dora’s husband nor will she be my wife; we are the bride of Christ forever, married to God in a perfect union.

People do not seem to understand marriage and sex from a pure Kingdom perspective. They miss the best God has to offer. We all miss it to some degree, but those who treat intimacy like a short round of sexual pleasure, while they treat marriage like dating with paperwork, are denying THEMSELVES God’s best for their lives.

I’m not here to judge any one person. I will discern and judge between what I see as right and wrong, from the absolute moral standards down to personal preferences, but not individuals.

If you are reading this and feel defensive, because this isn’t something you have lived, understand that I hadn’t lived it myself, I came to live it, but I spent a lot of my youth violating it and didn’t even understand what I was doing.

I invite you to consider God’s way.

You say, “who are you to say what God’s way is?”

Well, I have 66 sacred books and thousands of years of moral and doctrinal orthodoxy behind what I believe. In short, I didn’t just wake up one day and pretend I was hearing the voice of God or that my opinion about things was the utter sacred truth of God’s design.

Nonetheless, you may still think you understand what God wants better. You may reject the very notion of God’s existence. That’s between God and you.

I don’t judge you as a bad person or someone beneath me because you don’t agree that what I’m saying is God’s blueprint for marriage and sex. I just feel that you are missing God’s best, and my desire is for everyone to have God’s best for their lives with excellence.

I can have a viewpoint about God’s design for sex, marriage, and family, without judging you as a bad person or beneath me.

When it comes to God’s righteousness, I have fallen utterly short and throw myself at the foot of the Cross in total obedience and surrender. As St. Paul stated, “The good I would do I do not do and the bad I do not want to do, I do” (Romans 7:19). But thanks be to God for the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus Christ that saves me from this body of sin.

So, I present not a judgement against you but an offer of a better way. I went down my own unrighteous sexual path.

It was 1986, or maybe early 1987, while I was still confusing sex for love and love for sex, when that confusion finally broke me, for the better.

At one moment, after an indulgence that left me empty, I chose to deny myself any sexual gratification until I met the woman I would marry until death did part us.

I was still in denial of Christ. Yet even without Christ, I came to understand the unfruitfulness of sex outside of marriage. I would still do other awful things after I was sexually broken before truly repenting and renewing my covenant with God by faith in Jesus Christ.

After I came back to Christ, the vow became even more meaningful, as my views of healthy sexuality aligned with God’s. It is because of this vow that my wife and I didn’t so much as kiss until after the Pastor declared us married.

We could never bring back our virginity, we could not give that gift to each other; but we had both made a choice years before we met to refrain from sexual gratification until marriage.

The perfection of love is found in marriage and the pinnacle of that love shared is sexual intimacy, which, while gratifying, is about the connection; the gratification being a side effect, not the main show.

Experiencing pleasure is a good thing in marriage and finding ways to bring this type of pleasure to each other is an adventure; at least it can be, and optimally will be.

What do you do now if you have pretty much trashed God’s righteous standards in love, sex, and marriage? You stop. You search God’s Word for His standards. Don’t just read a book that tells you what the Bible says. Use modern tools, like a concordance and a Bible Dictionary, to find every reference, and judge for yourself what it says.

If you are part of a congregation, you should seek council within the parameters of your congregation. Yet continue in the steps that follow, for no institution, no human is infallible.

Next, find authors who have addressed these things, from the ancient to the modern, and judge for yourself, knowing, however, that you should treat this as something vital, holy, and urgent. You want to get it right for your own happiness and completeness. You want to be circumspect.

While people, including me here, may teach on the subject and claim they are teaching the right way, in the end, you alone are responsible for what you choose to believe and do.

This is why I am double careful when I share things to express them as a fallible man, not the arbiter of the meaning of the Word of God, lest I become a stumbling block to others through my own arrogance, or mislead them from God’s path through my own “sincere” error.

I strongly urge against sex outside of marriage, not as a prude, but because sex outside of marriage is, at best, in my considered opinion based on my faith, spiritually vapid and invalidating to your soul in ways that are hard to see in the moment of pleasure.

Many sometimes feel its emptiness but this passes and is forgotten as they seek a new dose of pleasure.

I can testify that sex inside of marriage with Christ as the head of our marital union was something almost mystical and affirming in ways I cannot describe, so much that years after the last time I was intimate with Dora, the blessedness of those encounters still fills me with joy.

I have theorized that IF I end up never remarried and thus never have sex again, it will be because what I had filled me for the rest of my life.

On the other hand, IF I remarried it would be with someone who holds the same view on intimacy and sex within a holy marriage. They would treat sex as a gift to be freely shared, not a chore, nor just a way to get physical pleasure, although it’s a definite benefit to have between you.

I would likely also refrain from any physical intimacy or kissing until marriage, not that I think it is wrong for everyone (you can kiss your boyfriend or girlfriend!), because for me that feels right.

If you are single, and Christian, let God choose your spouse and follow His plans.

I have presented what I have concluded is the best representation of God’s blueprint for marriage and sex that I possibly can.

It is up to you to judge whether I am close or far from the truth. But if you see that I am right or already know the same thing I do yet haven’t lived by it, now is the chance to repent, to re-center yourself in the center of God’s will, and to proceed forward into a new pattern and practices that are truly Kingdom centered and lead to blessings and happiness for all.

NYC Mob Attacks Jewish Synagogue, Minimum Arrests Follow

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A mob of far-left progressive anti-Israel terrorists assaulted Jews as they were coming out of their synagogue. When cops arrived, the mobs attacked the cops. The response from Mamdani’s office has been tepid, with only three arrests announced as a follow-up.

NYC Police Arrest Three After Anti-Israel Mob Ambushes Synagogue– legalinsurrection.com
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New York City police arrested three people after an anti-Israel mob swarmed the Young Israel Senior Services of Midwood in Brooklyn on Monday night.

The synagogue hosted “an event promoting real estate in Israel and the West Bank.”

The anti-Israel group Pal-Awda NY/NJ organized the protest. The group uses “slogans such as ‘No settlers on stolen land’ and ‘Stop the sale of stolen Palestinian land.’”

New York State Sen. Sam Sutton condemned the event.

“Neither of these protests would have happened had these venues not chosen to host illegal sales of stolen Palestinian land,” the group responded. “The people of New York will not stand by while the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people is aided and abetted by institutions in our own city.”

From The New York Post:

The anti-Israel mob chanted “Palestine is ours alone,” and several carried a wide banner that read “Israel is killing children.”

During one fight, a person who concealed their face with a medical mask yanked a girl’s hair — and nearly threw her against a parked car in the process, according to a video obtained by The Post.

Shortly after, another man squared up against a squad of young men carrying a Palestinian flag.

“Let’s go, motherf–kers, c’mon! C’mon, motherf–kers!” the man yelled.

At least two teenage pro-Israel protesters were detained. As the NYPD marched them down the streets, their supporters followed and chanted for the cops to “let them go.”

An anti-Israel protester was also detained, cops said.

All three individuals taken into custody had thrown items during the heated protest, according to the NYPD.

Abortion Pill Mailer Ban Lifted by SCOTUS

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After a lower court issued an injunction temporarily blocking the abortion pill from being delivered through the mail, SCOTUS has lifted the injunction. The abortion pill will continue to be available online until the matter is fully adjudicated in the courts. The ruling could make abortion an issue in the 2026 midterms. This is an issue that favors the Democrats.

Abortion pill rulings bring the issue back to the forefront in a midterm election year – 10TV
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Back-to-back court rulings on abortion pill access are thrusting a contentious political issue back into the spotlight ahead of this year’s midterm elections that will determine control of Congress for the second half of President Donald Trump’s term.

Friday’s ruling from a federal appeals court restricted mail access to mifepristone prescriptions, one of the most common abortion methods around the country, in the biggest shift to federal abortion policy since the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision allowing states to enforce abortion bans.

The Supreme Court then temporarily restored broad access to the drug on Monday while it further considers the case, setting the stage for a potential decision that could have wide-ranging consequences for patients and providers.

Canada to Criminalize Being “Anti-Gay”

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If you read scripture in public that condemns homosexuality, you might soon be jailed in Canada if Canada’s latest Bill C-9 passes. The proposed law would define “harm” as making public statements protected groups would find offensive.

What Canada’s Bill C-9 will do to Christians– www.lifesitenews.com
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She quoted Leviticus. Now she faces prison. Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen did not incite violence. She did not threaten anyone. She simply stated what Christians have believed for 2,000 years: that certain behaviors are sinful according to Scripture. For this, she has been prosecuted, threatened, and targeted — and now watches as Canada races down the same road with Bill C-9.

This is not about one law in one country. It is about a global redefinition of “harm” that criminalizes the very act of holding traditional religious beliefs. Räsänen’s case reveals the new logic: Offense is violence. Disagreement is hate. And the state now decides which doctrines are permissible and which are punishable.

Israel Plans ‘Biggest LGBTQ+ Festival Ever In The Middle East’ Near Site Of Sodom: ‘Can’t Make This Up’– wltreport.com

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For those familiar with the Old Testament narrative surrounding the ancient city of Sodom, a recent announcement from the Israeli government might sound like evidence that history is repeating itself.

Near the site many believe to be where that city was destroyed by God, largely due to the sexual immorality of its citizens, there will soon be a four-day LGBT “pride” event that the Israeli government noted would even include “children’s activities.”

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The promotion of the event by the Israeli government — just one day after the Israel Defense Forces confirmed that one of its soldiers smashed a statue of the crucified Christ outside a church with a sledgehammer — prompted significant backlash among some conservative Christians.

American theologian and pastor Dale Partridge tweeted, “The devil couldn’t have written it better. ‘The lowest place on earth’ ‘The Dead Sea becomes pride land.’”

BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre raised the matter of whether his tax dollars might be subsidizing the event, then asked, “Can anyone very carefully explain to me why American Christians owe anything to this?”

Conservative commentator Michael Knowles insinuated that the Israeli government’s announcement answered the question recently posed by the New York Times about the cause of the recent increase in meteor sightings overhead.

Knowles’ colleague, Matt Walsh, called the planned festival “absolutely evil and disgusting.”

UK Judge Dismisses Charges Against Pro-Life Grandma for Protesting Abortion– www.lifenews.com

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A Scottish judge has dismissed charges against 75-year-old pro-life grandmother Rose Docherty, who was arrested last September for peacefully protesting abortion outside an abortion center in Scotland.

Docherty was merely holding a sign and offering consensual conversation in a so-called buffer zone outside a Glasgow hospital that kills babies.

Sheriff Stuart Reid at Glasgow Sheriff Court ruled that prosecutors “failed to disclose an offence known to the law of Scotland” and dismissed the two charges of “influencing” within the zone pro loco et tempore.

Docherty, a Christian grandmother from Glasgow, had stood silently with a sign reading: “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.” She did not approach anyone, did not discuss abortion and offered conversation only to those who wanted it.

High Court overturns conviction of pro-life campaigner who sent abortion images – Christian Concern– news.google.com

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A High Court judge has overturned the conviction of veteran pro‑life campaigner David Skinner, for sending an email with graphic images opposing abortion and censorship zones around clinics in Bournemouth.

On Friday 24 May Mr Justice Saini ruled that although the offence was technically made out under domestic law, maintaining a criminal conviction would amount to a disproportionate interference with freedom of expression and freedom of religion.

The judgment was handed down on Friday 24 May in Bournemouth, bringing to an end a criminal proceedings that have lasted nearly 3 years, as the court said the case raised fundamental constitutional issues under Articles 9 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Democrat congressional candidate slammed for trying to rationalize her two abortions– www.lifesitenews.com

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(LifeSiteNews) — Pro-life leaders are criticizing a Democratic congressional candidate who recently explained why she killed two innocent preborn babies in the womb.

The interview also highlights the extremism of the environmentalist movement, which puts bees and trees above babies, and the ethical problems with in vitro fertilization (IVF).

California candidate Esther Kim Varet made the comments during a recent episode of a show called “The Happily Never After.” She is running in the 40th Congressional District against Congresswoman Young Kim, a Republican.

The title of the episode, “All About Abortion,” underscores how the direct and intentional killing of innocent preborn babies is important to Varet.

Shots Ring Out at Trump Dinner

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A California teacher and registered Democrat named Cole Allen appears to have attempted to kill members of the Trump administration, including Trump, at a White House Correspondents Dinner. He was injured in the attack, and so were two secret service agents. The fallout from the shooting has only just begun. The shooting happened at the Wahington D.C. Hilton Hotel.

White House Shooter Manifesto: Would-Be Trump Assassin Was a Radical Anti-Christian Leftist– gellerreport.com
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Fox News reporter: The shooters manifesto said he wanted to target administration officials.

A bloodbath was averted. The Democrat party should be designated a terrorist organization.

Investigators also found extensive anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric across his social media accounts.

Pope Promises Nothing More than Informal Blessing for Same-Sex Marriage

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Pope Leo XIV has affirmed he has no plans to go beyond allowing priests to bless gay marriages to formalizing blessings for gay marriages.

Leo declared, “When a priest gives the blessing at the end of Mass, when the Pope gives the blessing at the end of a great celebration like the one we had today, there are blessings for all people. Francis’s famous expression, ‘everyone, everyone, everyone,’ expresses the Church’s conviction that everyone is welcomed, everyone is invited, everyone is invited to follow Jesus, and everyone is invited to seek conversion in their own lives. To go beyond this today, I believe, could cause more disunity than unity, and that we should seek to build our unity on Jesus Christ and on what Jesus Christ teaches.”

Church Will Not ‘Go Beyond’ Blessing of Same-Sex Couples– www.breitbart.com
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Pope Leo XIV said on Thursday that the Catholic Church will not go beyond the precedent set by Pope Francis of offering blessings to same-sex couples, adding that there will be no formalized blessings.

While Pope Leo XIV affirmed the 2023 decision enacted by Pope Francis during his flight back to Rome on Thursday, he emphasized that no further changes will be made.

As noted by Reuters, Pope Francis “allowed pastors to give blessings to same-sex couples informally outside of a ritual service, and on a case-by-case basis.”

Concealing Sin for the Good of the Game

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A Christian Homeschool League in Texas is accused of knowingly hiring a registered sex offender to be a baseball coach without informing anyone of his convicted sex offender past.

A Texas Christian homeschool league had parents sign waivers to let a registered sex offender coach their kids. Nobody mentioned his conviction – Operation Sports
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Tommy Whiteman has resigned from his position as head baseball coach at the Texas Home Educators Sports Association (THESA) after it came to light that he is a registered sex offender. Whiteman is 46 years old, and the fact that he is a sex offender was not mentioned to parents at any point during his time with the organization.

Before his resignation, THESA made every parent sign a waiver agreeing to Whiteman’s leadership if they wanted their child to play on the team. The waiver did not mention his conviction. When THESA Board President Daryn Eudaly announced the resignation to families on April 7, the message said he left due to “operational challenges.”

According to Brobible, the board thanked Whiteman for his dedication and asked families to pray for him, without ever bringing up his legal history. Whiteman is a former professional athlete who played seven seasons in the Minor Leagues after being drafted by the Houston Astros in 2000.

The FBI Thwarts a Potential Terror Plot Directed at a Texas Synagogue – RedState– redstate.com

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On Thursday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced the joint work of regional offices in Charlotte, NC, and Houston, TX to foil an alleged terror plot by a Lexington, NC woman to incite a mass casualty event at a synagogue in Houston.

A Lexington woman is facing charges after allegedly plotting to murder congregants at a Texas synagogue, according to Davidson County warrants.

On Wednesday, the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office arrested Angelina Han Hicks, 18, of Lexington, on two counts of felony conspiracy. According to warrants, the charges are for conspiring to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.

‘Evil and disgusting’: Days-long Israeli LGBT festival planned near Sodom prompts biblical backlash– www.theblaze.com

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The Israeli government announced on Monday that this June, “the Dead Sea becomes Pride Land, the biggest LGBTQ+ festival ever in the Middle East,” adding that “Pride rises at the lowest place on earth.”

This celebration of degeneracy and non-straight lifestyle choices — set to take place near what is believed to be the site of Sodom, the city razed by God because of its brazen sexual corruption — will run 24 hours a day from June 1 to June 4.

‘You won’t see this anywhere else in the region.’

According the Jerusalem Post, the non-straight festival will raise a city in the desert featuring parties, a central performance arena, art complexes, “relaxation” areas, and “family-friendly areas with children’s activities.”

“This is not just another festival; it’s the biggest thing we’ve done here,” Aaron Cohen, the main producer behind “Pride Land,” told the Post. “It’s an experience that lives 24/7, from quiet visits to nights of Pride, with a living envelope of music and people.”

Jesus Restored by Italians in Lebanon

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Italian Peacekeeper Troops in Lebanon delivered a new Jesus statue to a Lebanon village that saw their previous Jesus statue smashed by an Israeli soldier in a now-viral video. The IDF has apologized and punished the solider responsible.

Italian peacekeepers replace Jesus statue wrecked by Israeli soldiers– www.channelnewsasia.com
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ROME: Italian UN peacekeepers have replaced the statue of Jesus Christ vandalised by Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Thursday (Apr 23).

The sculpture of a crucified Jesus was located in the Christian village of Debl in south Lebanon, near the border with Israel.

A photo shared online showed an Israeli soldier using a sledgehammer to strike the head of the statue, sparking international condemnation.

Meloni in a statement thanked the Italian contingent of the UN’s UNIFIL peacekeeping force “for deciding to donate a new crucifix to the Lebanese village of Debl”.

She said the instalment of the new statue was “a powerful message of hope, dialogue and peace”.

SCOTUS Allows Stealth Transitioning Kids

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SCOTUS rejected a petition by parents to challenge a Massachusetts law that allows schools to treat their children as a gender not aligned with their biological sex without parental consent, as well as their awareness.

US Supreme Court rejects Massachusetts school gender-identity policy challenge – WHTC
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by parents to sue a public school district in Massachusetts over actions by teachers and officials to support the gender identity of students by not disclosing name or pronoun changes to parents without the child’s consent.

The justices turned ​away an appeal by the parents of a student who had self-identified as “genderqueer” while attending a middle school in ‌the Massachusetts town of Ludlow after a lower court threw out their lawsuit.

The plaintiffs claimed officials treated their child as nonbinary and hid this information from them in violation of their fundamental parental rights as protected by the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment promise of due process.

After IDF soldier takes sledge hammer to Jesus statue, Israeli and Polish diplomats battle it out on X– rmx.news

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After an image of an Israeli soldier striking a statue of Jesus with a sledgehammer in Lebanon went viral, the Israeli foreign minister has confirmed the image is real and also apologized. However, the attack on the Christian statue has morphed into an international incident, with Poland’s foreign minister wading into the debate, sparking a sharp back-and-forth war of words on X.

After images of the incident went viral, Israel responded. Calling the damage caused by an IDF soldier to the statue in Lebanon “grave and disgraceful,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar added that the “ugly act” was “contrary to our values” and that the soldier responsible would face consequences.

Appeals Court Upholds Texas Ten Commandments Law › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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A federal appeals court has narrowly upheld a Texas law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, delivering a closely divided ruling that reverses earlier lower-court decisions.

In a 9–8 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit concluded that the policy does not violate constitutional limits on government involvement in religion. The court also found that the requirement does not interfere with parents’ authority over their children’s religious upbringing.

The majority opinion stressed that the law does not mandate religious instruction or compel students to adopt any beliefs. According to the ruling, the displays are passive in nature, and educators are not directed to promote or defend the content of the Ten Commandments in classroom discussions.

“Students are neither catechized on the Commandments nor taught to adopt them,” the ruling said. “Nor are teachers commanded to proselytize students who ask about the displays or contradict students who disagree with them.”

Iran’s Doomsday Theology and The Far Deadlier Danger Coming from Sunni Extremists– www.cbn.com

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President Trump says the war with Iran could be over soon. The regime, however, is unlikely to give up its apocalyptic jihad against Israel and the West, and a far greater threat may lie ahead.

One aspect of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran may have backfired in the worst possible way. In taking out the old guard of calculating, pragmatic leaders, they replaced them with a new generation of fiery young Islamic militants.

These are hardcore “Twelver” Shia Muslims, utterly devoted to their radical religion and driven by a singular, apocalyptic belief. They are not interested in negotiation or coexistence.

Instead, they are actively preparing for the ultimate end-times confrontation: a global showdown that would summon the 12th Imam or Mahdi, their long-awaited messianic savior.

“Bottom line is the Mahdi is an eschatological mystical figure who is supposed to be ushered in at the End Times and to bring justice and goodness,” said Middle East historian and author Raymond Ibrahim.

Another medical emergency uncovered at notorious Colorado Planned Parenthood– www.lifesitenews.com

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Yet another medical emergency was spotted this month at a Colorado Planned Parenthood facility with a checkered history on patient safety.

Operation Rescue reported that an ambulance was spotted on April 10 arriving at the Fort Collins Planned Parenthood, where the EMS radio dispatch reveals that a 19-year-old woman came in a day after her abortion complaining of chest pains that could indicate any number of issues. However, EMS’ use of the code “Charlie Medical” indicated fears that the situation was potentially life-threatening.

Planned Parenthood staffers also indicated the woman had “moderate bleeding,” which they claimed was “normal,” according to the dispatch. However, Operation Rescue opined that it “seems more likely Planned Parenthood staff have no idea of what a ‘normal’ amount of bleeding might be, nor how dangerous it is to the patients they continue to injure” based on the location’s history.

In February 2025, Alexis “Lexi” Arguello came to the facility for an abortion at 22 weeks. She suffered an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE), a known potential complication of late-term abortions in which amniotic fluid enters the mother’s bloodstream. She was transported to a hospital, where despite the emergency staff’s best efforts she passed away as her grandparents waited helplessly.

Catholic University of America must allow pro-Israel event or face accreditation complaint: free speech group– www.thecollegefix.com

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A national free speech group is calling on the Catholic University of America to allow pro-Israel speakers on campus – or else face an accreditation complaint.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression sent a second letter to CUA leadership on Friday, asking it to remove its restrictions on Students Supporting Israel.

The intervention follows a proposal earlier this year for the group to host Israeli homeland security expert Dany Tirza as well as Jewish Republican Rep. Randy Fine of Florida, as The College Fix previously reported.

The university is requiring the club to host a pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel speaker.

While the school says this is part of their policy, that is only supposed to apply when an invited speaker takes a view contrary to the Catholic Church, such as if a club invited a pro-abortion speaker. However, the university did not even apply this policy, allowing the campus Democrats club to host a speaker who supports abortion, according to Student Supporting Israel’s leadership.

The Catholic university in Washington, D.C. allowed an event with an anti-Israel speaker, for example, but did not present the pro-Israel side, FIRE also said.

“We again strongly urge CUA to approve SSI’s event requests and assure students that the university will not condition event approval on student’s willingness to arrange for and host speakers opposed to their own viewpoint,” Program Counsel Jessie Appleby wrote to President Peter Kilpatrick.

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The Shadow of Death Becomes Hope in India

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Originally published April 17, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

Final Thought – Friday, April 17, 2026

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from your way; yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever! Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?

For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly clings to the ground. Rise up; come to our help! Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love!” – Psalm 44:18-26

“Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, ‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 8:34-39

“Over 100 million + street children struggle daily in the developing world, with a significant concentration in Asia. Our mission is to change this reality. By supporting well-run orphanages and children’s homes, we provide safe havens where children receive the care and tools they need to transform their lives.” – Asian Pacific Children’s Fund Website

Our founder Don McAlvany is also the founder of the Asian Pacific Children’s Fund, a Christian ministry that rescues neglected and orphaned children in the Asian Pacific, gives them a safe thriving space to grow up in, introduces them to the gospel, and invites them to a disciplined life.

From their website: Our journey began (in 2005) when Don and Molly McAlvany first visited their youngest son volunteering in an Indonesian orphanage. From there, it spread to India, the Philippines, Nepal, and Myanmar, with 600+ children under our care. Through partnerships with well-run orphanages, APCF ensures that children receive the love, education, and support they need to break free from poverty and create self-sufficient futures.

Their work in Myanmar is what brings a story to us that comes from Don’s ministry. This story captures the spirit of adversity overcome with hope. Here we have a story of a dark cloud centering around a former source for light, the Adonai Children’s Home.

Though they walked in the shadows of death, they emerged in a place of hope. Yet that place of hope needs more help to reach its full potential.

We have been following the ongoing developments in Myanmar after the military seized power in February 2021. The military’s ruling party lost in a landslide election in November 2020. That election saw Aung San Suu elected as their new Prime Minister.

While the transition to power was allowed to continue, the military was plotting a coup they would execute just before the new government was set to take power. On February 1, 2021, the military took power, arresting the newly elected Prime Minister (who remains imprisoned today), and triggering a violent, armed civil war.

The Asian Pacific Children’s Fund, co-headed by our former Editor and our founder, Don McAlvany, has long been working in these very lands, rescuing orphans from neglect. Now, the challenge to children in Myanmar was ratcheted up.

Some of the acts of violence the Junta is accused of committing include airstrikes on villages, random rounding up of insurrectionists, kidnapping children and adults to become new soldiers, and even intentional mass murder as a means of terroristic deterrence.

These are only some of the deadliest obstacles children of Myanmar face daily. They are hardly the only ones.

The UN has estimated 17.6 million children in Myanmar require some form of humanitarian aid, 1.6 million have been intentionally displaced, and over 55,000 civilian buildings have been destroyed by Junta forces.

In the midst of such turmoil sat one of the APCF’s children’s homes, the Adonai Home. Around them, children fell victim to rape, torture, and murder, as well as forced soldier conscription. Their sense of safety was long gone. The shadow of death was looming over them. They felt their sense of safety evaporate overnight and turn into extreme distress by the time the final decision had to be made.

At 5:00AM, on February 28, 2024, the sense of impeding death had already made the air seem palpably thick with threats. A fog of trepidation hung over the home. It was time to leave. There was no other choice.

The decision to travel to the Indian border could not have been made lightly. Even where the Junta did not hold the land, surprise checkpoints or air raids made the land unsafe for travel, especially for children, a highly prized spoil of war for the Junta.

Yet traveling in such perilous conditions was far safer than remaining where they were, for it was only a matter of time before the Junta would directly threaten the safety of the children and the staff of the home.

For security reasons, we cannot give you the details of their trip as they traveled to India.

Whether the journey was hours or days, the time spent making it to the Indian border must have felt like death was hanging over them, yet hope was within grasp.

They would reach India, having traveled to the India Gate directly. Fortunately, the Junta’s control of the land is not high on its borders or in rural regions (though its air strikes and other incursions on these lands continue to this day), so our intrepid sojourners were able to safely make it to India.

Once in India, the good work began, free of immediate threat of death or harm, to build a sustainably flourishing space for the children to grow up in.

One of our self-stewardship principles is the idea that whatever the circumstances, whatever the current limitations, we seek opportunity within those parameters to optimize our sustainable flourishing potentials.

Plainly spoken, you do the best with what you are given while you yet seek to improve the circumstances overall. This community has flourished in the first part and now seeks help pursuing the second part of that former statement.

At first, they were received by safe house hosts. There were taken to a safe house where they had time for devotion, prayer, and a shared meal. They then settled into a more permanent situation, a cement storage basement, which itself was located in a remote Indian village.

They would be living in a cement storage basement, though it could not stay like that if they were to be sustained, let alone if they were to flourish.

With the help of the children, the caregivers transformed a cement storage basement into a habitable home for themselves and the children.

In current year, the Junta has held a dubious election which hasn’t swayed the opinions of the people who resisted them before the election.

Their hold on the land has not improved since the winners were announced and the new government took power. While they are no longer “officially” a junta, to many of the people of Myanmar they still are.

The Adonai Home still exists in that remote village in India. They work everyday to improve their circumstances.

The remoteness of the village means the Home must be as self-sustaining as it can or supplied reliably from outside. This is where APCF has stepped in, provided mattresses, warm clothing, blankets, a water purifier, a refrigerator, and a washing machine.

They’ve built and/or repaired ventilation, electricity, and plumbing. They built wardrobes and a front door, and they even constructed a bamboo fence with a locking iron gate “to protect the children from local threats.”

The biggest improvement might be the garden the children have been successfully running, where they grow pumpkin, cucumber, ladyfinger, and corn. From the APCF website, “Daily worship, prayer, and praise became their anchor through the fear and anxiety of displacement.”

While they have come a long way, there’s still much to be done. What they hope for most is to secure land so they can build a new and permanent home base, in buildings that are designed and built for serving neglected and orphaned children

The goal has been (and has been achieved for hundreds of children through APCF) to create for neglected children a sustainably flourishing and God-honoring environment while they become mature men and women. The paraphrasing is mine, but I believe I captured the spirit of their ministry.

What they need now is more support, especially financial, as they seek to transition from a cement storage basement to an intended children’s home. To do that, visit their website at https://www.apcf.world/donate-support-orphanages-asia. If you have cryptocurrency, you can donate as well. You can also donate stocks and DAFs.

Barring unforeseen breaking news, be sure to read your MIA next week, April 24, 2026, as we will provide a Bellwether DeepDive on the current geopolitical context of the Iran War up to April 23, 2026.

 

Charlie Kirk Honored with 1A Protecting Laws

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Kansas joins a growing list of states which passed laws honoring the late assassinated American activist Charlie Kirk. The laws have one thing in common, they both protect rights enumerated in the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. These rights are the right to religious liberty and the right to freedom of speech.

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A new Kansas law will allow college students to sue their schools for free-speech violations. In Tennessee, a new law will encourage teachers and professors to include “the positive impacts of religion” in American history courses.

The common factor: Both are being done in the name of Charlie Kirk.

The laws are among the first of what could become multiple state tributes to the conservative activist who was killed while speaking at a Utah university last year. More than 60 Kirk-themed bills have been proposed in over 20 states seeking to promote his ideology, establish official days of remembrance or affix his name to roads and public places, according to an Associated Press analysis using the bill-tracking software Plural.

Oklahoma Couple Escapes Possible Tornado ‘by the Grace of God’– www.breitbart.com

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An Oklahoma couple and their pets got to safety in the nick of time on Friday when a possible tornado hit their community.

Shari and Dwain Short live in Ponca City, where video footage recorded outside their home shows the tense moments as the sky darkened and the wind whipped around their property, Fox Weather reported Saturday.

The clip shows Shari opening the door to what appears to be an underground storm shelter. The trees sway back and forth in the wind and the grey sky looks ominous as the couple prepares for the worst.

Moments later, Dwain is seen carrying a dog as he climbs into the shelter behind his wife. The second he tries to shut the door, the wind picks up. Dwain emerges from the shelter for a moment, then goes back inside as the storm hits.

Debris flies through the air, the camera shakes violently, and outside lights flash as gust after gust of wind hits their property and the surrounding community. A flash is seen in the sky seconds before the video ends:

In a social media post Sunday, Shari recalled how intensely frightening the experience was for them before acknowledging God’s hand in it.

Vance ‘grateful’ to Pope Leo for downplaying Trump rift, says media ‘gins up conflict’ | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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President Trump had criticized the pope on April 12 following remarks Leo made about ongoing global conflicts.

Vice President JD Vance responded to Pope Leo XIV’s comments downplaying the divide between him and President Donald Trump, after the pontiff called the reporting of the situation inaccurate.

Leo addressed the issue Saturday while speaking to reporters aboard the papal plane during a trip from Cameroon to Angola as part of an 11-day tour of Africa.

“There’s been a certain narrative that has not been accurate in all of its aspects, but because of the political situation created when, on the first day of the trip, the president of the United States made some comments about myself,” Leo said. “Much of what has been written since then has been more commentary on commentary, trying to interpret what has been said.”

Israel says image of soldier striking Jesus statue in Lebanon is authentic– www.channelnewsasia.com

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JERUSALEM: The Israeli army said on Monday (Apr 20) that it had determined an image circulating on social media that shows a soldier in south Lebanon hitting a statue of Jesus Christ is authentic and depicts one of its troops.

The image appears to show an Israeli soldier using a sledgehammer to strike the head of a statue of a crucified Jesus that had fallen off a cross.

Arab media reports indicated that the statue was in the Christian village of Debl in south Lebanon, near the border with Israel.

The Debl municipality told AFP that the statue was located in the village, but could not confirm whether it had been damaged.