Two Republican congressmen have introduced legislation that would allow adults who underwent body mutilating gender-transition surgeries as minors to sue the doctors who operated on them. The bill also includes a 30-year statute of limitations.

North Carolina authorities are investigating the death of Christopher Hensley, a 35-year-old former youth pastor and father who died in police custody last Wednesday while he was being restrained.

A recent Fox News segment about a trans-identified child has sparked shock and outrage among many conservatives.

The ministry Sight & Sound, which has spent decades providing biblically-based entertainment at performance theaters in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Branson, Missouri, is expanding its entertainment portfolio by creating content for the silver screen.

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• Pastor, migrants held hostage by Mexican drug cartels released | U.S. News

A regional body of The United Methodist Church has approved a resolution denouncing biological males participating in women’s sports.

A group of Democratic U.S. senators is urging Google CEO Sundar Pichai to take action after a report from a left-wing activist group found Google may be directing users who search for abortion services toward pro-life pregnancy centers.

In 206 years, Christ Church UMC in Southwick, Massachusetts, has survived changes to its name, facilities and membership. After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic however, members voted in May to permanently disband the congregation due to their dwindling numbers beginning July 1 and their pastor decided it was a good time to retire too.

Iconic entertainer Whoopi Goldberg joined worship group Maverick City Music and gospel legend Kirk Franklin in singing and dancing during an appearance on “The View” Monday.

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• Texas AG can't intervene in lawsuit over puberty blockers: judge | Politics News
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• Kirk Franklin, Maverick City perform worship song on 'The View' | Entertainment New

The Supreme Court has ruled that Maine cannot stop parents from using a state tuition program to send their children to religious private schools.

Pro-life groups are slamming the Food and Drug Administration for permanently eliminating the in-person dispensing requirements for the abortion pill, thereby allowing women to obtain the drug by mail and end their pregnancy without seeing a doctor first.

World swimming’s governing body, FINA, has decided to prohibit some men who identify as female from participating in women’s competitions. However, some say the new policy is misguided and further legitimizes trans-ing children at an early age.

Italy has formally approved and carried out its first-ever doctor-assisted suicide, which followed a lengthy legal fight so that a quadriplegic man could end his life.

Indianapolis Colts starting safety Khari Willis announced that he is walking away from the NFL and millions of dollars in earnings to devote the rest of his life "to the further advancement of the Gospel of Jesus Christ."

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• 44-y-o man becomes first to die by assisted suicide in Italy | World News
• UK sanctions Russian Patriarch Kirill over Ukraine invasion | World News
• Young NFL starter retires to spread the 'Gospel of Jesus Christ' | Sports News
• Chicago megachurch pastor to retire, names successor | Church & Ministries News
• Art teacher banned from profession over 'suggestive' photo shoot | World News

While 81% of American adults say they believe in God, the percentage has dropped 6 points since 2017 and is the lowest since the Gallup polling firm started asking the question more than seven decades ago.

The Jewish Yeshiva University in New York City is not a "religious corporation" and must recognize an LGBT club as the city's anti-discrimination law demands, a state judge has ruled.

Andy McQuitty, who pastors the Texas megachurch Irving Bible Church, discusses his new book "Your Best Life Later" with The Christian Post.

Actress Alexa PenaVega, who's widely known for her leading role as Carmen Cortez in the “Spy Kids” film series, shared how God’s Word helped her overcome an eating disorder during an interview with Sadie Robertson Huff on the “Whoa That’s Good” podcast.

Actor Chris Massoglia, who portrays legendary Gospel Hall of Famer Pat Boone in the upcoming biopic “Reagan,” said even though it's not a faith-based film, it will showcase how faith influenced the late president's life.

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• Megachurch pastor says it's 'unloving' to affirm LGBT lifestyles | Church & Ministries News

President Joe Biden has added “intersex” to the list of sexual identities his administration is recognizing as part of “pride month." Biden also declared his support for allowing children and adolescents with gender dysphoria to undergo body mutilating surgeries or use puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to look more like the opposite sex.

The best studies tend to show the worst results when it comes to transition surgery. These studies, however, never seem to generate media coverage.

Progressive Christian leaders are planning what they hope will be the largest gathering ever of low-income Americans and their allies in Washington, D.C., this weekend to help advance anti-poverty and anti-racism efforts.

An actor starring in Disney Pixar's animated film “Lightyear” ridiculed those who are outraged over its inclusion of a same-sex kiss as “idiots” who are poised to “die off like dinosaurs."

Southern Baptists voted to approve an abortion resolution in anticipation of an upcoming Supreme Court ruling that could overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

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• Calif. official denounces pride flag-raising at city hall | U.S. News
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• DOJ urged to act after 'open season' declared on pro-lifer groups | Politics News
• So. Baptists adopt pro-life resolution anticipating Roe v. Wade | Church & Ministries News

A megachurch in Georgia has agreed to pay $13.1 million to leave The United Methodist Church with its property, ending litigation between it and the mainline Protestant denomination.

John MacArthur and Voddie Baucham are warning the nation's largest Protestant group to resist compromise amid a wave of internal disputes and controversies.

Southern Baptists adopted a resolution Tuesday rejecting the prosperity gospel, calling it false teaching and distortion of Scripture, particularly regarding Jesus Christ’s atoning work on the cross.

A Republican has won a special U.S. House of Representatives election in historically Democratic South Texas, signaling changes in the political preferences of Hispanic voters in the region and possibly previewing a strong GOP performance in the 2022 midterm elections.

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• Southern Baptists denounce prosperity gospel as ‘false teaching’ | Church & Ministries News
• Republican wins historically blue House seat in special election | Politics News
• Nearly naked pro-abortion protester disrupts Catholic Mass | U.S. News
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Messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Annual Meeting overwhelmingly approved a series of abuse reform recommendations in the wake of a report detailing how some SBC leaders mishandled allegations of abuse and mistreated abuse victims.

Leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are calling for politicians to speak out against the increasing vandalism of churches and pro-life pregnancy centers ahead of an expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., claimed that drag queens are “what America is all about" during an appearance on the reality TV show “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars."

Theologian Tim Keller is “dealing with the side effects of an immunotherapy treatment that he is undergoing” amid his ongoing battle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, his family announced in a social media post asking supporters for their prayers.

At a time when dark content is pervasive across Hollywood, the film “Jerry and Marge Go Large," starring Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening, assures audiences that there's still good in the world — and generosity has far-reaching effects.

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• SBC delays decision on Saddleback Church's female 'pastors' | Church & Ministries News

Multiple conservative commentators are criticizing Fox News after the network embraced by millions of conservatives in the United States aired a profile of a trans-identified child during “pride month."

Millions of American women of childbearing age have significant gaps in their understanding of the process and benefits of adoption, according to new research.

Today Americans seem to fight more among themselves than together. My hope is that this Flag Day we will remember that no matter our political affiliation, religious beliefs, or social positions, we all fly under the same flag.

Critical race theory critic Voddie Baucham lost his bid to become the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Pastor’s Conference to a relatively unknown, first-time North Carolina pastor.

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Secular intolerance has a “chilling effect” on Christians who are having to practice “various forms of self-censorship” as they're finding it difficult to express their faith freely in society, according to a new report detailing accounts from four countries.

Through its proxy militias, Iran is carrying out an “invisible jihad” against Christians in the Middle East with the aim of creating a Muslim demographic purity by producing conditions that would force Christians out of the region, according to a new report.

The Satanic Temple was stripped from the roster of an Idaho pride event on Saturday after sponsors, who were seemingly supportive of an event that also targeted impressionable children, started bowing out amid backlash for including a group that has Satan in its name.

Pop star Justin Bieber has asked fans to pray for him as he battles Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which has caused the right side of his face to have paralysis, but he said he trusts God that “it’s all for a reason."

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Naasón Joaquín García, the leader of Mexico’s largest evangelical church, was sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting three minor girls from his flock.

In continuation of a cultural shift researchers have previously documented as a growing rejection of organized religion, a new study from Lifeway Research shows Americans are least likely to dismiss churches branded as nondenominational.

Gospel pioneer Kirk Franklin apologized to an audience of thousands at a concert in Florida for the lack of love displayed by his generation of the Church.

Grammy-nominated country music singer Jimmie Allen says contemporary Christian music “saved" him during a challenging time in his life.

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• 5 UMC leaders withdraw support for separation protocol | Church & Ministries News
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