During a panel discussion at the 2024 Pray Vote Stand Summit, Andrew Brunson flagged his concern that "there's a wave of hostility and persecution that is racing toward the church" in America. The church in the U.S. is still "large" and "influential," he noted, but "there hasn't really been serious persecution in the United States in the past," which "can create a sense of false security ... of permanence, like things are going to continue to be as they have been."
Exactly 365 days ago, armed terrorists swarmed into Israel on a Sabbath morning, burning villages, raping women, murdering babies, and kidnapping innocent civilians. These bands of militants, affiliated with Hamas and other Islamist extremist groups, cut through Israel's border fence with Gaza, or parachuted over it, or boated around it. They killed, stole, and abused however they pleased, accompanied by cheering Gazan auxiliaries and U.N. employees, before whisking back to Gaza as anti-Semites the world over crowed immediately for a "ceasefire now!"
Growing up in a military family, I spent most of my formative years in Europe. For families stationed overseas, there's such a thing called the Department of Defense Education Activity, otherwise referred to as the DoDEA school system. I attended middle school through a DoDEA program, and I absolutely loved it. But as the 2024 Pray Vote Stand Summit made evident, the DoDEA no longer operates the way it used to as LGBT and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideologies are prioritized above all else.
Former President Donald Trump hosted his second campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. The last time he was in Butler, he was shot in the side of the head.
Week after week, participants of the Lady in White protests were violently detained by an army of PNR and State Security personnel, who transported them to places far from urban centers, such as the Tarará Police School, where they were subjected to torture with beatings and humiliation.
The answer to the mental health crisis is in filling the hearts of our children with absolute truth, grounded in love, respect, humility, and resiliency before the world has an opportunity to turn their hearts cold.
