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July 15, 2021

From Torture to Triumph: Religious Freedom at Work
by Tony Perkins
It was the middle of the night -- the only time of day when girls like Joy could slip into sleep and forget. On a dark April night, that fragile peace was shattered when she was nudged out of her dreams by a friend in her dorm. "Something is wrong," her classmate whispered. Outside, they heard the gunshots, coming from every direction. "Boko Haram is here." Startled awake, the girls looked at each other in silent terror. They all knew what the noises meant. The terrorists, the ones from their worst nightmares, had come.
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Dems' Let's-Make-a-Deal More Trouble Than It's Worth
by Tony Perkins
After months of gridlock in the Senate, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Democrats have reached an agreement to proceed with a $3.5 trillion -- with a T -- spending package. But their achievement may not deserve the headlines. The Democrats' agreement to spend trillions is not with Republicans, but with themselves. And, as Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) pointed out on "Washington Watch," "that's actually the Democrats on just the Senate Budget Committee."
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Vaccine Acts Take a Shot at Parents' Rights
by FRC Staff
It's bad enough that President Biden wants to send the government to your doorstep to pressure your family to vaccinate. Now, his Department of Education -- and several communities around the country -- are trying to force the shots on children without parents ever finding out.
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On today's show: Andy Harris, U.S. Representative for the 1st district of Maryland, member of the House Committee on Appropriations, and co-chair of the GOP Doctors Caucus, discusses the elimination of the Hyde Amendment from this year's Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Bill, the situation in Cuba, and the Surgeon General's advisory warning the American public about the threat of COVID health misinformation; David Curry, President and CEO of Open Doors USA, shares Open Doors' recent report on India detailing the urgent threat for religious minorities there; Grace Gao, Daughter of Gao Zhisheng, shares her story of the Chinese government targeting her father, a human rights lawyer whose exact whereabouts have been unknown for the past four years; Andrew Brunson, FRC's Special Advisor for International Religious Freedom, shares highlights from this week's IRF Summit 2021.

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