June 21, 2026

04a Faith

Sen. Josh Hawley calls on Trump to release pro-lifers imprisoned by Biden admin: ‘They deserve to be free’– www.lifesitenews.com
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In a January 21 post on X, Hawley joined the ranks of several prominent pro-lifers calling on Trump to pardon and release the more than 20 pro-life advocates unfairly convicted under former President Joe Biden, some of whom were elderly and infirm at the time of their sentencing.

“I hope President Trump will shorty pardon the pro-life prisoners unjustly targeted & jailed by the Biden Administration,” he wrote. “They deserve to be free.”

Christian colleges sue over Minnesota’s dual enrollment statement of faith ban– www.thecollegefix.com
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Colleges argue Minnesota’s law excluding faith-based schools from dual enrollment programs violates religious freedoms

An attorney with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, representing two Christian colleges in Minnesota, expressed optimism about their case challenging a state law they claim infringes upon their rights as religious institutions after a December hearing.

The law prevents Crown College and the University of Northwestern, St. Paul from participating in taxpayer-funded high school dual enrollment programs if they require students to sign statements of faith.

“The Supreme Court has ruled three times in the last seven years that, when the government makes funds available to the public generally, you can’t exclude participants based on their religion. That’s exactly what the Minnesota Department of Education has done here,” Attorney Eric Baxter told The College Fix.

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In keeping with the traditions of men in current year, Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, has signaled a greater nudge towards open tolerance of sinfulness, of acting on homosexual temptations, by appointing an openly gay-affirming Cardinal to a U.S. Diocese.

Cardinal Robert McElroy was given the diocese of Washington D.C. having already been given a diocese in San Diego, which he will now have to surrender. The appointment is seen by some as an effort by Francis to put an anti-Trump bulldog in the heart of D.C. McElroy is accused of protecting the pedophilic rapist ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

BREAKING: Pope Francis names pro-LGBT Cardinal McElroy to Washington Archdiocese– www.lifesitenews.com
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Pope Francis has appointed San Diego’s pro-LGBT Cardinal Robert McElroy to lead the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., as Cardinal Wilton Gregory enters retirement.

In a January 6 announcement, the Holy See Press Office confirmed that Pope Francis had accepted Gregory’s resignation from the D.C. metropolitan archdiocese and nominated McElroy to take his place, transferring from his current position presiding over the Diocese of San Diego in California.

Democrat AGs are Trying to Shut Down Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers– www.lifenews.com
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NRL News Today, in our pursuit of keeping pro-lifers up to date on the never-ending pro-abortion offensive against the true and the noble, has written or reposted innumerable stories about the war on pro-life pregnancy centers.

Sometimes Democrats—and they are all Democrats — pretend there is “cause” for suing, defunding, harassing problem pregnancy centers, but almost all of the time the excuses are awfully thin gruel.

Erin Hawley describes herself as a wife, mom of three, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, and a law professor at Regent University School of Law. She is a powerful litigator and a gifted writer. She is married to Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley.

Mrs. Hawley wrote a piece that appeared today in World magazine under the headline, “The harassment of pro-life pregnancy centers must stop.”

Pro-Life Groups Challenge New York Law Forcing Them to Hire Abortion Advocates– www.lifenews.com
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Last week, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled to reinstate a legal challenge brought by several pro-life organizations against a New York law that undermines their First Amendment rights to employ people who agree with their religious beliefs and mission. The Second Circuit reversed a district court’s 2020 dismissal of the case and sent it back to the lower court with instructions to adjudicate the challenge under a more recent 2023 precedent that may give their First Amendment claims merit.

In CompassCare v. Hochul, the case centers around New York Labor Law Section 203-e, which remains effect, and prohibits employers from engaging in “discrimination based on an employee’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making.” CompassCare, a pro-life pregnancy care center, the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA), a nationwide association of pro-life pregnancy care centers, and First Bible Baptist Church brought the case to protect their ability to employ only like-minded people who will not take part in abortion themselves. The organizations seek an injunction to render the law unconstitutional by contending the law infringes on their First Amendment freedoms of expressive association. They argue the law forces them to employ and associate with those who do not share the organizations’ beliefs regarding abortion, contraception, and sexual morality.

Harvest Organs From Euthanasia Victims Before Death– thefederalist.com
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Canadian doctors have suggested killing euthanasia victims by taking their organs, according to multiple reports, whistleblowers, and public talks. Medical freedom advocates are documenting emerging ties between “medical assistance in dying” (MAID) and organ harvesting.

“The best use of my organs, if I’m going to receive a medically assisted death, might be to not first kill me and then retrieve my organs, but to have my mode of death — as we medically consider death now — to be to retrieve my organs,” said Rob Sibbald, an ethicist of the London Health Sciences Centre in Ontario.

Sibbald spoke on “Threats to the Concept of Brain Death: Ethical Reflections” at the Critical Care Canada Forum in November 2018. The event was sponsored by Canadian Blood Services, a tissue and organ donation group; the Trillium Gift of Life Network, which is “responsible for delivering and coordinating organ and tissue donation and transplantation across the province” of Ontario; and the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, which hopes to “increase the availability of transplants.”

Other Canadian doctors have publicly embraced “death by donation,” and a study came out earlier this year exploring euthanasia programs such as MAID as a means of organ harvesting. Canada legalized euthanasia in 2016, and since then the number of Canadians using MAID to kill themselves has significantly increased.

Religious Leaders Experiment with A.I. in Sermons– www.nytimes.com
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To members of his synagogue, the voice that played over the speakers of Congregation Emanu El in Houston sounded just like Rabbi Josh Fixler’s.

In the same steady rhythm his congregation had grown used to, the voice delivered a sermon about what it meant to be a neighbor in the age of artificial intelligence. Then, Rabbi Fixler took to the bimah himself.

“The audio you heard a moment ago may have sounded like my words,” he said. “But they weren’t.”

The recording was created by what Rabbi Fixler called “Rabbi Bot,” an A.I. chatbot trained on his old sermons. The chatbot, created with the help of a data scientist, wrote the sermon, even delivering it in an A.I. version of his voice. During the rest of the service, Rabbi Fixler intermittently asked Rabbi Bot questions aloud, which it would promptly answer.

People Now Hold Suicide Parties to Celebrate Killing Themselves in Assisted Suicides– www.lifenews.com
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Back in 1991 or so, I was invited by an elderly and ill suicidal friend — along with about 20 of her other pals — to gather in her apartment for a suicide party. Frances’ idea was that she would tell us how much we meant to her, we would reciprocate, and she would swallow pills.

Instead, all her friends were appalled and held an intervention. Soon, the suicide was off. (Frances did the deed the next year, after telling her friends she wouldn’t, under the influence of proselytizing literature published by the assisted suicide Hemlock Society, a sad tale recounted in my book Forced Exit.)

Back then, celebrating or otherwise honoring a suicide was unthinkable. Today, thanks to the assisted suicide movement, suicide parties and ceremonies are becoming common (and increasingly reported in the media). From a syndicated story that ran in the Rome (Georgia) News Tribune:

In early August, Christina Werner, a retired operating room nurse, met up with a close friend for a walk through the redwoods in Marin County. It’s a common pastime for many people in the Bay Area, but this walk was different, Reasons to Be Cheerful reports .

Dozens of Christians Slaughtered Christmas Day in Nigeria — and the Horror Doesn’t End There– www.cbn.com
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More than a dozen Christians were reportedly killed by armed men on Dec. 22 after a Christmas carol service in Nigeria.

The horrific event — aimed at the predominately Christian Irigwe tribe — took place at the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), 22 miles from the Nigerian city of Jos.

Tragically, a 1-year-old baby named Sheba Ernest and a pregnant woman were among the 14 slain, according to persecution watchdog International Christian Concern (ICC).

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Wilson Fauber, 70, of Virginia, was cited by the National Association of Realtors for being in violation of the Code of ethics prohibiting realtors from using “harassing speech, hate speech, epithets, or slurs” related to “race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity.”

The reason for the ruling stems from posts Fauber shared in 2020 reflecting his Christian views on marriage, that is between a man and woman. According to this Realtor Association, holding Christian views and sharing them publicly should result in your reputation being tarnished by incendiary charges stemming from a hatred of Christianity, nothing more.

Christian minister, realtor found guilty of ‘hate speech’ for posting Bible verses on social media – The Christian Post
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A Virginia realtor and Christian minister has been found guilty by an ethics panel after he quoted Bible verses on social media.

Wilson Fauber, 70, a longtime realtor with over four decades in the industry, was found in violation of National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Code of Ethics, which prohibits realtors from using “harassing speech, hate speech, epithets, or slurs” related to “race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity.”

The posts in question, which were made years before the NAR’s adoption of the rule in 2020, included Fauber’s views on marriage and human sexuality according to traditional Christian teachings, attorneys said.

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From their own mouths, woke “medical” doctors are “celebrating” the news that the Covid-19 lockdowns helped create an environment that allowed more children to be indoctrinated with the rainbow ideology. The study comes from the British Journal of Developmental Psychology.

A PhD student quoted in the News Medical Life Sciences article said, “The lockdown period of the pandemic gave many people the space and time to figure out who they are and what is important to them, which for many of our participants, included their gender identity.”

Study reveals positive impact of COVID-19 lockdown on gender identity development – News-Medical.Net
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Research published in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown had largely positive impacts on gender identity development in trans and gender diverse youth.

For the study, 295 transgender and gender diverse U.S. youth, ages 13–22 years, were asked the open-ended question “How has the COVID pandemic changed or affected your own understanding of your gender identity?”

Responses revealed several themes. The most prevalent was “time for identity development,” suggesting that the pandemic and lockdown created space and time to explore and resolve their gender identity.

The lockdown period of the pandemic gave many people the space and time to figure out who they are and what is important to them, which for many of our participants, included their gender identity,” said corresponding author Sydney Hainsworth, who was a PhD student at the University of Arizona while conducting this research and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota.

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Senate passes military spending bill, cutting child sex changes, DEI | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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Johnson told reporters about the efforts pushed to improve the military, “We improved housing for our military families and other benefits, and it’s also why we stopped funds from going to CRT in our military academies.”

The Senate passed a defense spending bill that also bans funding for child sex changes as well as goes after DEI in the military. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) will cost $895 billion.

After passing in the House last week and getting passed through the Senate, the NDAA goes to President Joe Biden’s desk for a vote. Although it passed with bipartisan votes, many Democrats were in strong opposition to House Speaker Mike Johnson slipping in provisions to ban military healthcare funds going to sex changes for minors as well as cuts to DEI, the Daily Mail reported.

The package is the most expensive one yet, nearing $900 billion, and is around $10 billion more than the funding that went to the military last year. The military spending vote is usually pretty bipartisan, however, with Johnson’s add-ons, some Democrats were obstinately against the military spending. This comes as there has been heightened conflict around the world, both in the Russia-Ukraine war as well as the warring nations and factions in the Middle East.

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The Chairman of the College of Policing has warned that logging non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) is becoming a “distraction” from real police work.

Lord Herbert of South Downs told The Times Crime and Justice Commission, which will recommend criminal justice reforms next year, that there should be a wholesale review of NCHIs to consider whether they should be scrapped.

According to Freedom of Information responses, British police forces recorded 13,200 NCHIs in the year to June 2024.

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Over 40 percent of young people believe the murder of a prominent healthcare executive justified, according to latest polling.

Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was murdered in cold blood by 26-year-old Luigi Mangioni in New York earlier this month.

While Mangioni’s exact motivations still remain unclear, it appears that the murder was the result of his anger at the American healthcare industry and the refusal of insurance companies to pay for essential care.

A survey conducted by Emerson College found that while the majority of Americans believe that the killing was “unacceptable,” 41 percent of young people believe it was “acceptable.”

The pollster reported:

A majority of voters (68%) think the actions of the killer of the United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, are unacceptable. Seventeen percent find the actions acceptable, while 16% are unsure.

“While 68% of voters overall reject the killer’s actions, younger voters and Democrats are more split — 41% of voters aged 18-29 find the killer’s actions acceptable (24% somewhat acceptable and 17% completely acceptable), while 40% find them unacceptable; 22% of Democrats find them acceptable, while 59% find them unacceptable, this compares to 12% of Republicans and 16% of independents who find the actions acceptable, underscoring shifting societal attitudes among the youngest electorate and within party lines,” Kimball said.

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On December 16, Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow opened fire and killed two people at Abundant Life Christian in Madison, Wisconsin. Six others were injured. The shooting occurred in only one room, and Rupnow was dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound when police arrived on the scene. We know that the two victims were Rubi Patricia Vergara, 14, a student, and Erin M. West, 42, a substitute teacher (via Fox News):

R.I.P. — Teacher killed in Wisconsin school shooting ID’ed as Erin Michelle West, 42 https://t.co/bQ9u0vOpqh pic.twitter.com/pwIlXGbIki

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 19, 2024

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The Canadian government’s official statistics show that the number of citizens killed by euthanasia surged by 16% in 2023.

The alarming figures were revealed in Health Canada’s newly published fifth annual “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID) review.

The report shows that a staggering 15,300 Canadians were euthanized in 2023.

The figure totals 4.7 percent of the roughly 320,000 deaths in the country.

The report stated that the majority of the euthanasia deaths, 95.9 percent, were “Track 1” deaths.

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If you hold to orthodox Christian views regarding sexuality and gender, California will not allow you to become a foster parent after the passage of SB 407. Now that the law is in effect, Christians are already being pushed out of the foster care system, meaning California will have less foster care parents, and none of them will be true believers.

The law canonizes LGBTQ belief and assumes it is now “the new normal,” and any view to the contrary is now considered borderline criminal, but certainly abusive. The law requires that “Each resource family must have the capacity, ability, and willingness to safeguard a child’s or non-minor dependent’s personal rights and respect and honor the child’s identities regardless of their own values and beliefs.”

California Begins Purge of Christian Foster Parents Who Won’t Force Woke Agenda on Kids– www.lifenews.com
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Christian foster parents with traditional, biblical beliefs on gender and sexuality are being systematically excluded from California’s foster care system due to the enforcement of SB 407. This new law, authored by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), mandates that foster parents, irrespective of whether they have an LGBTQ-identified child in their care, must affirm a child’s chosen gender identity or sexual orientation. Neutrality is no longer acceptable under the updated guidelines issued by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS). (Read guidelines here: https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Additional-Resources/Letters-and-Notices/ACLs/2024/24-69.pdf?ver=2024-11-19-154231-617)

According to a letter distributed to all county and state-licensed foster care agencies last month, “Each resource family must have the capacity, ability, and willingness to safeguard a child’s or non-minor dependent’s personal rights and respect and honor the child’s identities regardless of their own values and beliefs.” The letter further asserts that any failure to affirm a child’s self-determined identity constitutes a “risk or threat” to the child’s health and safety. Consequently, this would result in the denial of foster care applications or the revocation of existing approvals.