“This is a victory for common sense and for every woman who simply wants to feel safe at work,” said Darlington nurse Bethany Hutchison, president of the Darlington Nursing Union. “Women deserve access to single-sex spaces without fear of intimidation. Forcing us to undress in front of a man was not only degrading but dangerous. Today’s ruling sends a clear message: the NHS cannot ignore women’s right in the name of ideology.” 

Open Doors International, which has been ranking countries since 1993 based on reports of violence against Christians, released its 2026 World Watch List on Jan. 14. Open Doors CEO Ryan Brown said that 388 million Christians live in regions of the world where they are highly susceptible to persecution for their faith. “The enemy is seeking to attack that which is advancing. … As those numbers increase, it shows that the enemy is working even harder to try to squelch the Church.”

Cissie Graham Lynch, who hosts the “Fearless” podcast and is a senior advisor at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, attended the oral arguments and is calling Christians to stand up for truth in the case.  “I hope these cases help wake Christians up,” Lynch said. “Believers can’t stay on the sidelines anymore."

Australia is reaching a moral flashpoint. Across the nation, laws governing life, death, family, sexuality, and religious expression are shifting at breakneck speed. The country is abandoning its ethical foundations and trampling on long-held freedoms. Legislation is increasingly secular, increasingly coercive, and increasingly hostile to the values that once guided public life. The result is an unprecedented assault on human dignity—and a growing attempt to push Christian voices out of public debate.

“The church’s religious belief is that it is facilitating abortion by covering it through the church’s plan. There is absolutely no argument otherwise that there would be no abortion coverage here but for Cedar Park seeking out an insurer, negotiating the terms and signing a contract,” Gray said during the hearing. 

The Islamic State has warned Nigerian Christians that they can “spare their blood” by renouncing their faith in Christ, according to a social media post from a West Virginia congressman and a Jan. 8 news report.

The law, signed by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis in April 2023, deemed any effort to dispense or recommend abortion pill reversals as “unprofessional conduct” and “subject to discipline in this state.” It affectively barred women who changed their mind during the beginning stages of a chemical abortion from obtaining medication to save the baby’s life. Such pills have a 64% to 68% success rate on saving of unborn babies’ lives.

Dr. Ingrid Skop, vice president and director of medical affairs for Charlotte Lozier Institute, says the FDA’s statistics are often inaccurate because women often go to an emergency room rather than return to the abortionist. Charlotte Lozier Institute’s study on ER visits related to abortion pills found that in a five-year period, nearly 84% of those visits were miscoded as miscarriages. Skop, a practicing obstetric hospitalist, also says that in some studies, half or more of the women are lost to follow-up.

Joel Veldkamp, head of international communications for Christian Solidarity International, said politics often taints the CPC list. Nigeria was on the list during Trump’s first term, but the Biden administration removed it. “It’s one of the most egregious omissions,” Veldkamp told CBN News. “More Christians are killed in Nigeria for their faith every year than in the rest of the world combined.”

“President Trump is trying to fix this tragedy and keep America from becoming like these countries that have been ruined by socialism, communism, corruption, crime, and drugs,” Franklin Graham wrote. “Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse have worked for many years with churches in Venezuela—over 4,500 of them. Please pray for these congregations and ministers of the Gospel as they share the hope of Jesus Christ.”

In 2024, Portland District Court barred Bickford from reading her Bible or religious materials to her daughter Ava and taking her to church or to religious events, such as Christmas or Easter services. Ava, 12-years-old at the time, was also prohibited from contacting church friends and church members at her church, Calvary Chapel Church.

The call to pray is a priority for evangelical Christians, who know that prayer must be true prayer, prayed in the Name of Jesus to the one true God. During a meeting of the Trump-appointed Religious Liberty Commission, held at the Museum of the Bible in early September, Scott Turner, U.S. secretary of Housing and Urban Development and a Southern Baptist minister, cast the vision for “America Prays” and said more than 70 faith organizations had already joined the initiative.

“No student should be censored, punished and shamed by school officials simply for sharing her views,” said ADF senior counsel Travis Barham. “Charlie Kirk boldly defended open and respectful discourse on school grounds literally until his last breath, and this courage inspired many across the country, including the student who painted the message on Ardrey Kell High School’s spirit rock."

“The decision to prosecute a woman engaged in silent prayer is not only concerning in terms of its impact on respect for the fundamental freedoms of expression and religion or belief, but is also an unwelcome departure from the shared values that ought to underpin U.S.–U.K. relations... We are monitoring Isabel’s case closely. It is common sense that standing silently and offering conversation should not constitute harm."

In his ruling, Benitez made clear that the state had overstepped its constitutional authority by sidelining parents, compelling educators to violate their consciences, and harming vulnerable children by depriving them of parental guidance. At the heart of the case was the question of who holds primary authority over a child’s welfare. The court answered decisively: parents do.