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A newly surfaced video that shows what many describe as abuse of a boy at Agape Boarding School in the late 1990s has renewed calls to close the school. In the footage, a man who former students say is Frank Burton — a long-time pastor at the Cedar County school — can be seen forcing a boy wearing a bathrobe to run alongside him around the perimeter of an outdoor volleyball court, which also served as the school’s boot camp area. It’s been common practice at the school to make boys wear robes if they were on suicide watch or...

Attorney General Merrick Garland urged Harvard University’s graduating class to go into public service to combat the ongoing turmoil in the U.S., saying that “democracy is under threat.” Delivering his commencement address to the university’s graduating class of 2020 and 2021 on Sunday, Garland spoke about how he saw citizens offering to volunteer in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.

In Rome ... President Joe Biden met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, where the pontiff apparently gave the second Catholic U.S. president a subtle political message. “We just talked about the fact he was happy that I was a good Catholic and I should keep receiving Communion," Biden said, referring to the growing rift in the U.S. Catholic Church over whether public officials who publicly advocate for abortion should be denied the sacrament

The executive editor of The Federalist has issued a warning that Joe Biden's proposed $3.5 trillion welfare expansion would set up a deliberate discrimination against Christians across America. Specifically, the "Build Back Better" entitlement bill "would require religious child-care providers to disavow longstanding theology about sex in order to receive federal child-care funds."

A missing link in strategies to contain China is Indonesia the fourth biggest country in the world. It is a very conservative God-fearing young nation with a keen appreciation of freedom. Who agrees?

Violent clashes broke out Saturday afternoon in downtown Portland between right and left wing activists over a Christian prayer event. Members of right-wing group Proud Boys and left wing Antifa demonstrators converged at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park for an event scheduled for noon in downtown Portland by Canadian Protestant Christian preacher Artur Pawlowski. Pawlowski is known for his public opposition to abortions, homosexuality and most recently mask rules, calling police who enforce them 'Nazis' in a YouTube video posted ahead of Easter this year. Around 50 people attended the event, and video shows the black-clad Antifa demonstrators armed with...

Portland Antifa attacked a prayer group Saturday using tear gas, pepper spray, and flashbangs on the group of roughly 50 men, women, and children. The attack, which was caught on film showed the prayer group meeting in Portland area park Saturday afternoon when dozens of black-bloc clad terrorists walked up to the group launching fireworks, smoke bombs, and bottles. Women and children were among the group praying at the park.

No Coexistence: When Crusaders Clash with Satanists at Historic CrossSatan showed his ugly head and was crushed by the Virgin at the Bladensburg Cross Memorial in MarylandFollowers of the Satanic Temple planned a July 10 rally at the Bladensburg cross in Maryland to declare the controversial cross to be a symbol for Satanists. However, Satan received a mighty blow when the temple members found Our Lady nearly 130 prayer warriors already on the scene.On July 10, members of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) hosted a Rosary rally in front of the Bladensburg Cross...

Every once in a while a reader will ask me to issue a response to their questions in my column. On this occasion, a LGBTQ Nation reader asked me, “What should be the mandate for today’s Black Churches?” The question suggests someone — I am hoping maybe a churchgoer or leader, a homophobe having second thoughts, or a LGBTQ Christian struggling to come out — wants a comprehensive response. One of the mandates for today’s Black churches should be addressing its ongoing struggle with accepting the spectrum of human sexuality. In 2021, I am still asking these three questions: Why...

Anti-Christian terrorists have turned their rage on poor First Nation and Canadian communities, accused us all of blood debt, and decided they will burn our sacred buildings to the ground.St. Ann’s Catholic Church was a small church built to serve a small town, but that humble building was a mighty testament to the people who built and nourished it.The people of Chuchuwayha Indian Reserve Number Two traveled more than 40 miles, each way, by horse and wagon, to pick up the lumber they used to build their small church, by hand, outside the town of Hedley, British Columbia. That church...

So is the New York State Thruway.And recent calls by activist politicians for Chick-fil-A to be banned at newly renovated Thruway service plazas are examples of intolerance and bigotry.Because America is a live-and-let-live country, and those who demand respect should be obligated by conscience to give it as well. And if gay activists insist that the world be big enough to accommodate them, they must accept the fact that it is also big enough to accommodate people who are different from them.If we are all brothers and sisters, and we are all free, and we all are free to pursue...

After a year of lockdown, museums, libraries and bookstores across America are reopening. This cultural reawakening’s beginning coincided with both the Juneteenth holiday and the one-year anniversary of the one of the largest protests in American history against racial injustice. As bookstores reopen, many are organizing displays of children's books that celebrate Black history. What you won’t find in even the biggest collections of books is the story of the dark-skinned early people who launched human civilization.

The executive director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA), Harsha Walia, is under fire for commenting on a story about the wave of church arsons sweeping Canada by saying “Burn it all down.” Walia, a Bahrain-born South Asian based in Vancouver and described as “a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, feminist, anti-capitalist, abolitionist, and anti-imperialist movements” in her profile at the left-wing Intercept, made the inflammatory intervention in response to a VICE report on two Roman Catholic churches being burned down in Alberta and Nova Scotia. Many churches have been burned or vandalised in recent days,...

When it comes to government control, there is usually a slippery slope into the depths of authoritarianism. Canadian Minister of Justice and Attorney General David Lametti recently introduced Bill C-36 to Parliament, titled "An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Canadian Human Rights Act and to make related amendments to another Act (hate propaganda, hate crimes and hate speech)." If the name was not obvious enough, this is code for censoring speech the Canadian government does not agree with. The bill, if passed, would allow the government to fine its own citizens for content that violates their definition...

Respect LBGT rights or get out of the EU, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte instructed Hungary’s Viktor Orban at last week’s gathering of the European Union in Brussels. According to Reuters, attendees described it as the “most intense personal clash among the bloc’s leaders in years.” What caused the clash? Hungary just passed a law that bans schools from using materials seen as pro-homosexuality. According to the AP, the new law “prohibits sharing content on homosexuality or sex reassignment to people under 18 in school sex education programs, films or advertisements.” Rutte eagerly related details of his confrontation with Orban:...

In a 6-3 opinion issued Thursday morning, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a California requirement for charitable organizations to turn over information on donors is unconstitutional. The opinion of the Court — authored by Chief Justice John Roberts — in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, Attorney General of California, found that "California’s disclosure requirement is facially invalid because it burdens donors’ First Amendment rights and is not narrowly tailored to an important government interest." The invalidated measure required charities in California to turn over names of their largest donors to the state, something conservatives say...

(SOCOM announced his selection the same week it unveiled a diversity and inclusion plan with a vision to not only recruit more women and people of color, but to retain them and support them with the goal of diversifying the special operations community’s leadership.)Richard Torres-Estrada, the first-ever chief diversity and inclusion officer for the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), has been allowed to return to his duties this week after being investigated over past social media posts, including one comparing then-President Donald Trump to Hitler.“Mr. Torres-Estrada has resumed the duties of the Chief of Diversity & Inclusion for United States...

Previously, we have reported on the former USA President Barack Obama and his clear disdain for the Christian cultures of Poland and Hungary. In an interview with ‘comedian’ Trevor Noah in January, Obama stated that Viktor Orbán was part of a ‘strong man’ style of politics. […] In a new interview, Obama has incredibly referred to both Poland and Hungary as being ‘authoritarian’. For what purpose? Likely because of their high birth rates, their religiosity, their reluctance towards Americanization. In the interview on CNN with Anderson Cooper, who once worked for the CIA, Obama refers to them as being ‘authoritarian’...

Burger King is donating 40 cents for every sale of its new chicken sandwich, Ch’King, to the Human Rights Campaign. Chick-Fil-A has a reputation of donating to anti-LGBTQ+ groups. The Ch’King has been getting favorable opinions similar to Chick-Fil-A’s sandwich.

An Illinois school district is under fire after they confiscated a little girl's Bible while she was reading during recess, the American Center for Law and Justice alleges. "How could this still be happening in America," the ACLJ asked in a statement. The short answer is because we have a bunch of godless, anti-Christian Democrats leading our nation’s public education system. That’s also the long answer, by the way. Our public schools have been transformed into godless indoctrination centers for the left – brainwashing our children and filling their minds with anti-Christian and anti-American propaganda. Just last month a Michigan...