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February 21, 2024
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| Church Attacks Increase 800% in 6 Years: FRC Report |
| by Ben Johnson |
| If you believe anti-Christian attacks have skyrocketed over the last decade, you're right. Attacks on churches have increased 800% in less than six years - and more than doubled over the last year, according to a new report released today by Family Research Council. Documented acts of anti-church hostility include attempted bombings, shootings, satanic vandalism, and numerous attacks based on anti-Christian bias due to support for abortion or extreme transgender ideology. Some constituted unpunished election interference. |
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| ACLU Sues Virginia Over School Guidelines Supporting 'Rights of Parents' over Trans Agenda |
| by Ben Johnson |
| One of the most notorious liberal legal organizations has sued a Republican administration for "focusing on the rights of parents" instead of the agenda of transgender activists in its restroom, sports, and parental notification policies. In one case, the plaintiffs argue a trans-identifying special education student dissolved into a bout of "shakiness" after a teacher refused to call the male teen by a female first name, because the teacher "objected to [his] very existence." |
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| Woke Investment Managers Pull $15.7 Trillion from Climate Activism Pact |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| BlackRock and other U.S.-based investment management conglomerates have chosen to withdraw from a controversial initiative, Climate Action 100+ (CA100+), that pressured companies to "reduce greenhouse gas emissions" to "net-zero emissions by 2050 [or] sooner," in pursuit of "limiting global average temperature increase" to 1.5 degrees above "pre-industrial levels." The withdrawals follow financial and legal pressure from U.S. state officials, as well a new phase of cooperation for CA100+ that would move "from words to action." |
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| Momentum Builds on Capitol Hill to Free 11 Pastors Imprisoned in Nicaragua |
| by Dan Hart |
| A growing bipartisan cohort of lawmakers on Capitol Hill are demanding that the communist Nicaraguan government release 11 imprisoned evangelical pastors from captivity, who they say were targeted unjustly for their religious beliefs. |
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| Recent Study on Abortion Drug Panned for 'Poor Quality Research' by Expert |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| Nature Medicine recently released a study that claimed "99.8% of abortions were not followed by serious adverse events." But with an abundance of evidence that contradicts such a claim, can the results from this study be trusted? "[A]re these claims truthful, or are the researchers in this study blind to the very real dangers of the drug to the mothers?" asked Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council, on Monday's edition of "Washington Watch." |
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| Nigerian Christians Endure 'Refining, Testing Time' of Intense Persecution |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| A record 8,222 Nigerian Christians were killed in 2023, according to a report published Wednesday by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, extending a genocide that has claimed the lives of roughly 100,000 Christians since 2009. What man intends for evil, God works out for the good of those who love him (Genesis 50:20, Romans 8:28). "Radical Islam is making huge inroads into Nigeria right now," Pastor Carter Conlon, who recently visited Africa's most populous nation, described on "Washington Watch." |
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| 'The Blessing and the Curse': Christian Nationalism and the War for the West |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| Christians have suffered much throughout history: from the massive persecutions wrought by the likes of Nero and Diocletian to the mass murders executed by Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin to the discrimination and harassment governments and corporations level against Christians today - but few things are quite so annoying as non-Christians lecturing informed, educated, faithful Christians on what they think Jesus's words meant. More often than not, the interpretations non-Christians offer of Christ's teachings contradict Christ's teachings, or at least leave out the parts that non-Christians object to. |
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| British Peers Blast Bill to Ban Conversion Therapy |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| A new bill to ban conversion therapy in the U.K. is facing opposition in the House of Lords. House of Lords Bill 5 was hotly contested earlier this month when brought to the floor of the upper chamber of the U.K. parliament, with more peers opposing the legislation than supporting it. |
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| FRC's 'Washington Watch' Show Receives the NRB Television Impact Award |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| Family Research Council's "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins" program received the Television Impact Award at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) annual conference in Nashville on Tuesday. NRB is an independent international association of Christian communicators dedicated to protecting free speech in "governmental, corporate, and media sectors." NRB's mission is "to spread the life-changing truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ through every electronic medium available." |
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