Former teacher and Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D), a “Presbyterian seminarian studying to become a pastor,” doubled down on his opposition to displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools during a CNN interview, drawing a sharp rebuke from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is seeking the same Senate seat and currently competing in the Republican primary runoff.
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On a return flight from Africa Thursday, Pope Leo XIV responded to a question about the Church in Germany issuing formalized “blessings” for homosexual “couples,” saying that the Vatican has objected. He made it clear, however, that the impromptu “blessings” of homosexual “couples” and those in adulterous unions was still permitted, as the Vatican document Fiducia Supplicans teaches, contrary to the Tradition of the Church.
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A recent study has examined the rise in Christianity among young men in Finland, naming crises of meaning as a key factor for the trend.
A qualitative, interview-based study published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion attempted to explain the increasing interest young men in a very secular country like Finland have shown in Christianity. The authors conducted 30 individual and small-group interviews with men, most of them under age 30.
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India launched a year-long census this week, an exercise aimed at collecting detailed information on its roughly 1.4 billion citizens. Since the last census in 2011, India has surpassed China as the world’s most populous country.
Originally scheduled for 2021, the census was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Importantly, it is the first census in nearly a century to collect detailed caste data. This development is particularly significant for the country’s religious minority populations, including Christians, and could pose serious risks to their livelihoods, freedom, and even citizenship.
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A federal appeals court held that Texas can require its public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
On April 21, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Texas Senate Bill 10 does not violate separation of church and state. The law, enacted last June, requires every public school classroom or open-enrollment charter school classroom to display a “conspicuous” copy of the Ten Commandments.
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Bread of Life Community Church in Essex has been issued with a Community Protection Notice (CPN) that could criminalise its pastor and members for preaching the Christian gospel in Colchester city centre.
This is believed to be an unprecedented use of public‑order powers against a whole church, rather than individual Christian street preachers and further seeking to criminalise the content of the message rather than just the manner of preaching.
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Thursday on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) declared the U.S. strikes against the Iranian regime to be an “unprecedented military defeat” for the Iranians.
He noted the amount of time it had taken Iran to build up its military, and the 39 days it took to “destroy it.”
“Do you think that these are people that get it?” host Jesse Watters asked. “Are they pragmatic? Can they do a deal? Are they capable of it? Or do you have a bunch of just suicidal fanatics in a bunker that might just want to go down swinging?
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President Donald Trump said Friday that Iran “agreed to everything” in negotiations with the United States following a news-packed morning that included the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump made the comments to NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer, who called the president after he announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, declaring that the United States will retrieve enriched uranium from sites bombed in Operation Midnight Hammer last June.
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A self-admitted shoplifter in Portland is suing a grocery store after an employee stopped him mid-theft, setting up a case that underscores the growing tension between crime, order, and liability in one of America’s most leftist cities.
Joshua Merkel, 45, filed a $10,000 lawsuit against Albertsons and a store employee after attempting to steal a cart full of groceries in March 2024. Merkel openly admitted in court that he had no intention of paying for the items, telling jurors, “I understand I was committing a crime.”
Read more at: dailywire.com
A new study was just released this month looking at adolescents in Finland from 1996–2019 who “contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services.” The results are no surprise to those who understand God’s very good design of male and female: Children who “transition” to the opposite gender suffer terrible mental health outcomes (not to mention the physical problems associated with these hormones and surgeries!).
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