At the 2024 March for the Martyrs, held in Washington, D.C. in honor of persecuted Christians, a unique perspective was raised. If not unique, then certainly something seemingly underdiscussed. While considering global Christian persecution, event speaker Christian Trimino asked the question: What about the American church? Are we prepared, should persecution come our way?
Instead of the quiet, studious atmosphere often observed near a semester's end, American colleges continue to wrestle with radical leftists' prolonged, pro-terrorism temper tantrum. Police have already arrested more than 600 demonstrators this month for trespassing, public disturbance, or more violent crimes, raising the total number of campus arrests since April 18 to more than 2,200.
Over a dozen House Democrats have sided with their Republican colleagues to condemn President Joe Biden's border and immigration policies. Thirteen Democratic representatives on Wednesday voted in support of House Resolution 1112, "Denouncing the Biden administration's immigration policies." Another 210 Republicans also voted to pass the Resolution, with 191 Democrats voting against, and seven Republicans and eight Democrats not voting.
Seventy-six-year-old Jimmy Lai, a media tycoon known for role as a leader in pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, faces three charges of sedition and collusion in a pivotal national security trial in Hong Kong. The prominent Catholic activist and self-made billionaire has sacrificed a great deal his effort to preserve and strengthen Hong Kong's democratic spirit in its face off with China's Communist Party leaders. Now, a bill has been introduced in the U.S. House to rename a Washington, D.C. street adjacent to a Chinese government building as "Jimmy Lai Way" in his honor.
A bill (H.R. 6090) to make the Department of Education adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism "is unnecessarily raising concerns" about its effect on the gospel message, said Quena Gonzalez, senior director of government affairs at Family Research Council. The IHRA definition includes "contemporary examples," he told The Washington Stand, among which is "using ... claims of Jews killing Jesus ... to characterize Israel or Israelis."
Britain's top health authority is officially rejecting transgender ideology and declaring that biological sex is a reality, while "gender identity" isn't. The U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) is revising its constitution to state, "We are defining sex as biological sex." The proposed constitutional revisions stress a need for "respecting the biological differences between men and women," further warning, "If these biological differences are not considered or respected, there is the potential for unintended adverse health consequences."