For decades, persecuted Christians have left their homes and entered a sort of migration limbo, all the while hoping they could one day end up in a country that would protect their religious convictions. For decades, this country was the United States. (Brown, Christianity Today)
Read MoreRobert Preston Morris, 63, has been charged with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child. The alleged abuse started in 1982 when the victim, referred to in the indictment as C.C., was 12 years old and Morris was a traveling evangelist staying in Hominy, Oklahoma, with her family, according to the attorney general’s office. The abuse allegedly continued for four years. (Anonymous, AP News)
Read MoreFive years after the coronavirus outbreak, many Americans say public behavior in the United States has changed for the worse, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. Nearly half of U.S. adults (47%) say the way people behave in public these days is ruder than before the COVID-19 pandemic. (Schaeffer & Sakla, Pew Research Center)
Read MoreWhen the police arrived at the door of a pastor in Uttar Pradesh in February 2024, the first question they asked was “What religion do you belong to?” The police had received calls from Hindu right-wing groups claiming the pastor had lured locals to convert to Christianity, the pastor said. CT agreed not to use his name due to security concerns. The pastor told the police that he was a Christian, and they arrested him. (Sankar, Christianity Today)
Read MoreWhat if the big question surrounding the existence of aliens wasn’t whether they exist but why the U.S. government has been hiding this information from the American public for so long? And what if, in hiding that information, our own leaders were putting us in danger of annihilation? (Yuan, The Washington Post)
Read MoreColumbia University is fighting two wars at once. One rages publicly against President Trump, whose administration in recent days ordered the arrest of a student protester and canceled federal funds to the Ivy League school over allegations of antisemitism. The second conflict simmers behind the scenes: a faculty civil war that pits medical doctors and engineers against political scientists and humanities scholars over how to handle pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have disrupted campus life. (Belkin, The Wall Street Journal)
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