April 17, 2026

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Yet Another Study Finds That Regecting God’s Design For Gender Harms Children… But Christians Aren’t Surprised

And that’s no surprise. That child is actively living in opposition to God’s design for them as a male or as a female. There is no such thing as a “transgender” child. There are children who are confused about their bodies, and they don’t need their bodies mutilated—they need help to accept the body God gave them and live according to God’s design.

Yet Another Study Finds That Regecting God’s Design For Gender Harms Children… But Christians Aren’t Surprised

And that’s no surprise. That child is actively living in opposition to God’s design for them as a male or as a female. There is no such thing as a “transgender” child. There are children who are confused about their bodies, and they don’t need their bodies mutilated—they need help to accept the body God gave them and live according to God’s design.

Ugandan Bill To Establish Sharia Courts Sparks Urgent Religious Freedom Concerns 

“The Ugandan Qadhis Courts Bill should not proceed within the Parliament, and it is imperative that both international and Ugandan actors oppose it. The proposed bill’s passage would represent a dangerous expansion of Sharia law into Sub-Saharan Africa at a time when Christian persecution is growing.”

The Claim That ‘Gender Treatments Save Lives’ Stands In Direct Contradiction To The Evidence

The mother of a girl who tried to become a boy told me that the doctor said to her when she opposed the treatment, ‘Would you rather a dead daughter or a live son?’ Parents across Australia have been told the same thing when sharing their concerns regarding their child’s desired gender treatment. They have been manipulated into believing that they have no real choice.

As Mail Order Abortions Flow Into Pro-Life States, The Promise Of Roe’s Reversal Remains Unfulfilled

One decisive step would be for the Trump administration to reverse the Biden policy that has effectively nullified state-level protections duly enacted by Republican states. Because until that happens, the promise of Roe’s reversal remains unfulfilled, and the consequence is clear: more trust broken with those who were promised action, more laws undermined, and a nation bearing the weight of more innocent blood.

Florida Threatens To Sue Miss America For False Advertising Over Definition Of ‘Female’

Florida could sue the Miss America organization for false advertising if it continues allowing castrated boys to compete in its pageants, state Attorney General James Uthmeier advised the company in a letter Friday.

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The Claim That ‘Gender Treatments Save Lives’ Stands In Direct Contradiction To The Evidence

The mother of a girl who tried to become a boy told me that the doctor said to her when she opposed the treatment, ‘Would you rather a dead daughter or a live son?’ Parents across Australia have been told the same thing when sharing their concerns regarding their child’s desired gender treatment. They have been manipulated into believing that they have no real choice.

Thousands Decry New Connecticut Bill: Forcing Parents To Get ‘Approval’ To Educate Their Children Is ‘Obscene’

“It violates federal law in its data sharing provisions; it removes the presumption of innocence; it violates due process, equal protection, and search and seizure provisions of our federal and state Constitutions and places a child on a parent’s fundamental rights,” continued Stevenson in her stinging analysis of the bill.

As Mail Order Abortions Flow Into Pro-Life States, The Promise Of Roe’s Reversal Remains Unfulfilled

One decisive step would be for the Trump administration to reverse the Biden policy that has effectively nullified state-level protections duly enacted by Republican states. Because until that happens, the promise of Roe’s reversal remains unfulfilled, and the consequence is clear: more trust broken with those who were promised action, more laws undermined, and a nation bearing the weight of more innocent blood.

Examining Mounting Global Opposition To Assisted Suicide 

It’s important to recognise that no amount of “safeguards” can truly make assisted suicide safe. Legalising the practice inherently endangers human life. However, Alberta’s proposed legislation is a step toward shielding vulnerable citizens from an increasingly permissive system. 

Over 91K Mail-Order Abortions Were Carried Out in Pro-Life States in 2025: Report

As estimates released by Planned Parenthood’s former research arm show that abortion in the United States continues to rise despite the passage of restrictions in many states, pro-life advocates suggest the increasing prevalence of abortions by mail is to blame. 

‘Mental Heath’ And Progressive Propaganda: A Deeply Controversial Agenda In Schools That Should Alarm All Parents

The state and its schools are aiming to sideline and ultimately replace parents on these critical issues. It is true that children are suffering badly today. Children need God, truth, parents, and families — not occult-themed SEL, dangerous “mental health” indoctrination, and psychotropic drugs. Unfortunately for those still in government schools, that is not an option.

Democrat Quits Politics, Says Party’s Agenda Is Incompatible With Scripture: ‘I Have Compromised For Too Long’

“For me, it is impossible to be a faithful follower of Jesus Christ while remaining a member of the Democratic Party as it exists today. I cannot reconcile that platform with Scripture. That conviction includes the issues I cannot reconcile with Scripture: abortion, the normalization of the gay lifestyle, and the push to redefine gender,” Whitsett said. “I have compromised my relationship with Jesus for too long, and I’m grateful God did not give up on me. He gave me time to repent, turn, and be fully devoted to Him.” 

Idaho Prohibits Pride Flags on Government Properties: ‘Ideological Flags Do Not Belong In Official Gov’t Speech’

A 2025 law that banned non-official flags did not include a penalty for violations. In response, Boise had passed a loophole resolution to make the LGBTQ flag an official flag. Mat Staver, Liberty Counsel’s founder and chairman, explained that the bill, which passed with a House vote of 58-11 and a Senate vote of 26-8, closed that loophole.  “Idaho’s law strictly defines ‘official’ government expression via flags and closes a loophole whereby municipalities could embrace a contentious ideology as government expression,” Staver said.

As Jew-Hatred Emerges Across Party Lines, Christians Warn: Tolerance Of Anti-Semitism Is The ‘Canary In The Coal Mine’

A growing record of anti-Semitic rhetoric among Republican operatives highlights a concerning new trend in American politics. Once an exclusively fringe phenomenon, anti-Semitism spilled into the mainstream conversation of the Democratic Party after October 7, 2023, when Israel suffered the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. But now, the virus of anti-Semitism appears to be influencing Republicans as well. “We already have one anti-Semitic party. We don’t need two,” warned FRC President Tony Perkins on a Tuesday conference call with faith leaders.

With Enough Distortion, People Can Exploit The Bible To Justify Any Position

In a way, people can use the Bible to justify any position they want. It happens all the time. They do this by taking verses out of context, quoting only part of a verse, claiming that the meaning only applied in a past culture, and so on. The governor of Kentucky (Andy Beshear) recently used the Bible to supposedly justify his position on supporting transgender surgeries and hormone treatment for minors who claim to be transgender.

Why Motherhood and Homemaking Are Now Categorized Under The Umbrella Of ‘Extremism’

What happens when society starts calling motherhood “dangerous”? We are watching a generation redefine what God has already established. Isaiah 5:20 is unfolding before our eyes. Any culture that fears motherhood has already lost its moral compass. Motherhood used to be honored. Now it’s questioned.

Alliance Defending Freedom Appeals Ruling Barring Businesses From Speaking Out Against Gender Ideology

“Colorado continues to place itself on the wrong side of the law by forcing Coloradans to speak against their conscience,” said Frampton. “As the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed this week when it ruled against another Colorado law in Chiles v. Salazar, the government shouldn’t be able to censor speech or force people to speak views they disagree with. We are asking the appeals court to protect the ability of Coloradans to openly express their beliefs on a hotly debated issue.”

Juries in California, New Mexico Rule Against Meta

Juries in California and New Mexico dealt Meta two costly legal defeats, reflecting Americans’ mounting frustration with social media companies’ unwillingness to protect children on their platforms.  

Canada Is One Step Closer To Making Christian Beliefs Illegal To Express

Of course, they are claiming this will not “criminalize faith,” but we’ve seen what has happened in Europe (and what has already happened in Canada) when “hate crime” legislation is passed. Christians are specifically targeted for their beliefs, especially regarding gender, marriage, and the sanctity of human life. Every thinking person knows that this change to the Criminal Code will be used in exactly the same way eventually (and probably not far in the future). It’s all part of the spiritual battle raging around us as Satan attempts to silence Christians.

Despite Conclusions Of The IRS, Federal Judge Upholds Law Barring Churches From Political Endorsements

“Plaintiffs have a bona fide religious conviction that they must teach and preach about all areas of life,” the complaint states. “No area of life is exempt from the reach of Scripture. And teaching is not limited to generalized principles. Proper teaching includes a precise application of scriptural principles to every area of life. This includes the spiritual duty to teach about issues of life that may arise in the public arena.”

Why Colorado’s Attempts To Suppress Christian Freedoms Fail In The Highest Court Of The Land

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Chiles marks the third significant loss for the state of Colorado in cases involving religious liberty and LGBT-related claims. In 2018, the Court sided with baker Jack Phillips in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, finding evidence of hostility toward his religious beliefs. In 2023, the Court held that web designer Lorie Smith could not be compelled to create expressive content that violated her convictions. Now, the Court has sided with Kaley Chiles.

Supreme Court Rejects Colorado’s ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban As Unconstitutional

“But the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country,” the court’s opinion stated. “It reflects instead a judgment that every American possesses an inalienable right to think and speak freely, and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for discovering truth... any law that suppresses speech based on viewpoint represents an ‘egregious’ assault on both of those commitments.”

Pressure Mounts on Nigerian Government After Muslim Jihadists Kill Scores Of Christians On Palm Sunday

The ongoing slaughter has gotten the attention of the Trump administration after years of being shrugged off during Joe Biden’s presidency. In October of last year, Trump’s Department of State redesignated Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern. Months later, on Christmas Day, the U.S. military struck ISIS-linked targets in northern Nigeria with 16 Tomahawk missiles after the country’s government requested the assistance.

As The False Gospel Of Marxism Gains Steam, Christians Must Stand On The Truth

A false gospel rooted in Marxism has gained massive popularity, placing increasing pressure on Christians. We sense this pressure in the rise of cancel culture, where Christians are being censored, fired, or arrested for upholding their biblical beliefs. We feel it in the prevalence of “woke” messages that label Christians as oppressors who must be silenced.

Utter Madness: Progressive Left Spends Palm Sunday Weekend Raising A Fist Against Biblical Truth

There was a time when the week leading up to Easter would spark reverence and reflection throughout the Judeo-Christian Western world. It's the most important week on the Christian calendar, starting with Palm Sunday. Therefore, it was very instructive to see how prominent left-wing figures across the West spent this Palm Sunday weekend.

‘Murder By Mail’: At The Hands Of Abortion Pills, America’s Killing Of The Unborn Reaches Highest Number Since 2009

The number of abortions in the U.S. continued to rise in 2025, according to a new report, while the number of unborn lives lost to the abortion drug jumped dramatically. The Guttmacher Institute, founded as a component of Planned Parenthood in 1968, published its annual abortion report this month, recording 1,126,000 abortions in the U.S. over the course of 2025...

A Revealing Ideological Bias: Australia Grants Special Status To Radical Anti-Christian Lobby Group

Equality Australia actively campaigns against religious freedom because they think that a biblical worldview on human sexuality is discriminatory. They have urged the removal of religious exemptions in anti-discrimination laws, arguing that these exemptions protect the discriminators. It is their view that the discriminators are Christians who believe in marriage between a male and a female, and Christian schools who teach this biblical truth.  

When A Nation Diminishes And Redefines The Role Of Fathers… The Consequences Are Everywhere

When I was a boy, my father gave me what I thought was a punishment: to read a chapter of Proverbs every day. What I didn’t realize at the time was that he wasn’t just correcting behavior, he was building a foundation. Because a father’s responsibility is not merely to raise children, but to prepare them. To prepare them for life. To prepare them for truth. And ultimately, to prepare them for eternity.

DOJ Launches Probes Into California And Maine For Housing Men In Women’s Prisons

“California’s Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act has provided none of these qualities to the female inmates of state prisons who have been forced to share space with biological men who are violent felons,” said Bill Essayli. “Our Constitution protects women from having their civil rights violated by harmful state legislation wrapped in the language of ‘equity’ and ‘progress.’”

Poll Finds 57 Per Cent Of Victorians Are Opposed To Children Being Taught About Gender Ideology

We’re often told that concerns about gender ideology in schools come from a small minority of parents. The data tells a very different story. We recently commissioned research surveying 1,500 Victorians, and the results are clear. A majority of parents are not comfortable with the direction of gender-related teaching in schools.

Almost Unanimously, 1,200 Texas School Districts Vote Against Allowing Prayer And Bible Reading Time In School

Other school districts across the state invoked the tired phrase, “separation of Church and State,” in order to scare school officials into enforcing a public-school campus entirely sanitized of religion. These vocal opponents of SB11 fret that respecting and tolerating the religious practices of public-school students would cause division, steal valuable instructional time, or even “squeeze in Christian religious opportunities and principles into the school day itself.”

Succumbing To A Secular Culture: A Staggering 1% Of Gen Z Americans Hold A Truly Biblical Worldview, Report Finds

Yet rather than dwelling on the past, Munsil turned the focus to the future — and what he described as far more concerning: “the percentage drops with each generation.” Among Baby Boomers and Gen X, about 7% hold a biblical worldview. That number falls to just 2% for Millennials — 1 in 50. And for Gen Z (ages 18–22), it plummets to a staggering 1% — only one in 100 — of Americans who “are thinking and living biblically.”

Chilling Ramifications: Finnish Supreme Court Finds Christian Parliamentarian Guilty Of ‘Hate Speech’

“I am taking legal advice on a possible appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. This is not about my free speech alone, but that of every person in Finland. A positive ruling would help to prevent other innocent people from experiencing the same ordeal for simply sharing their beliefs,” added Räsänen.  

Public Square Pariahs: Why Christians Face Unique Backlash In Modern Culture

Publicly advocating for a soup kitchen and publicly advocating for the protection of life in the womb are both outworkings of a biblical worldview. But there’s a major difference in how those two actions are perceived by culture. As Christians, therefore, we aren’t resented for everything we believe and do, but because we’re reviled for opposing some of the values most cherished by culture, we’re increasingly hated as a group.

Biden-Era CIA Analysis Linked ‘Motherhood And Homemaking’ To ‘Violent Extremism’

After the American public witnessed the Department of Justice target school board parents during President Joe Biden’s term, the DOJ lawyers might have been outdone by secretive analysts at the CIA and their hated target: Stay-at-home moms and their organic gardens.

While Approving Student Anti-ICE Protests, School Says Sharing The Gospel With Classmates Is ‘Not Permitted’

During the conversation with the student, the vice principal said it was permissible for the school to allow students to leave campus during school hours to participate in anti-ICE protests, but she maintained that the student’s distribution of religious literature was not permitted. “The District’s own officials have articulated a policy of viewpoint discrimination with unusual candor,” the ACLJ’s letter states. “The school has opened a forum for student expression during non-instructional time and has selectively excluded a religious viewpoint from that forum.”

When A Nation Loses Sight Of The Value Of Life, The Most Vulnerable Are The First To Be Sacrificed

Whenever a nation loses sight of the value of life (which always happens when the biblical worldview is replaced with an anti-God worldview!), the most vulnerable are the first to be sacrificed. The disabled, terminally ill, elderly, orphan, widow, and unborn suffer. God commands us not to murder (Exodus 20:13). Assisted dying might be dressed up in compassionate language, but really it is the murder of some of the most vulnerable.

While Transgender Ideology May Be Losing Significant Public Ground, Democrat Politicians Are Hardening Their Position

This ongoing institutional support helps explain why Senate Democrats unanimously opposed the women’s sports amendment. Advocacy groups continue to exert considerable influence within the Democratic Party. Organizations such as Equality PAC and the Human Rights Campaign have invested millions of dollars to support candidates aligned with their priorities and have developed strategic guidance for advancing LGBT policies in upcoming elections.

Hegseth Called ‘Controversial’ After Asking Americans To Pray For Troops

A nation founded on Christian values was also founded on free speech. That intersection of First Amendment rights has found significant blowback for the War Secretary. Pete Hegseth, who, in a press briefing last Thursday, asked Americans to pray for their troops who have entered harm’s way during the conflict against Iran.

After Sharing The Gospel In Public Led To His Arrest, Supreme Court Unanimously Sides With Mississippi Evangelist

Kelly Shackelford, president, CEO, and chief counsel for First Liberty Institute which defended Olivier in his suit, celebrated the ruling. “This is not only a win for the right to share your faith in public,” Shackelford said, “but also a win for every American’s right to have their day in court when their First Amendment rights are violated.”

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Yet Another Study Finds That Regecting God’s Design For Gender Harms Children… But Christians Aren’t Surprised

And that’s no surprise. That child is actively living in opposition to God’s design for them as a male or as a female. There is no such thing as a “transgender” child. There are children who are confused about their bodies, and they don’t need their bodies mutilated—they need help to accept the body God gave them and live according to God’s design.

‘One Week. One Nation. One Book’: Leaders To Read The Bible Aloud Cover To Cover In Washington DC.

For just over a week beginning this Sunday (April 19), some 500 Christian leaders, government officials and celebrities will embark on a first-ever public endeavor: They will take their turns reading the Bible—from cover to cover, 12 hours each day. The first “America Reads the Bible” week will be broadcast and streamed from the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. “When the Bible is read, people are changed."

State of the Bible Report Highlights Growing Biblical Illiteracy Among Americans

These numbers are more than dry statistics that vary slightly from year to year. They should be a giant alarm bell alerting Americans to a sense of urgency over their spiritual danger. The reality is, reading only part of the Bible leaves one dangerously vulnerable to false teaching. Granted, reading a little Scripture is better than reading no Scripture at all. But it is also true that Satan — and false teachers who follow his example — loves to take small doses of God’s word and distort them into something false.