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By Adam McManus
Christians evicted from their homes in Chhattisgarh, India
Three years ago, Manu, a 37-year-old day laborer in Chhattisgarh, India, came to faith in Jesus after experiencing a miraculous healing. Then, roughly two months ago, he started to pay a price for his Christian faith, reports International Christian Concern.
Manu said, “I was thrown out of my house because I follow Jesus.”
He is one of the hundreds of Christians who have been evicted from their homes and banned from their villages in Chhattisgarh because of their faith in Christ. Hindu nationalists, who want India to be a purely Hindu nation, are increasingly forcing Christians to become homeless and destitute. The goal of the violent attacks is to force the believers to return to Hinduism.
Manu, his wife, and their two children have taken shelter in a temporary bamboo shed since May 21. He said, “My children are getting sick ever since we moved into this shed. The small bamboo shed does not protect us from rain, wind, and extreme weather conditions. This shed was used as a chicken shed prior to our occupation, with no facilities for people to live.”
The persecution didn’t end with the family losing their property. Hindu villagers also shunned the family, preventing them from purchasing products from certain vendors and hindering Manu from securing employment.
When asked what keeps him from giving up on his faith, Manu explained, “Jesus gave me life, He gave me peace, and I am willing to make any sacrifice and bear all these hardships. I know it’s all worth it.”
In John 10:10, Jesus said, “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”
House Speaker: Democrats never mentioned Epstein files during Biden’s term
Appearing with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Saturday’s “This Week on Capitol Hill,” House Speaker Mike Johnson explained that the Democrats are using the Epstein files as a wedge issue.
JOHNSON: “The Democrats have been engaging in a civil war. They’re trying to determine if they’re going to go full Marxism, like with [Zohran] Mamdani, their nominee for mayor of New York City, or if they’re going to go Marxism Light with their woke progressive nonsense that they tried to hoist upon the people for the last four years. So, they found a wedge issue trying to manufacture some controversy with the so-called Epstein files. Here’s the problem they have, Tony, with their hypocrisy. It’s quite laughable.
“Remember, the Biden Department of Justice had all of these files in their possession for the previous four years. Not one time did [House Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) or Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), or Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), or any of the Democrats who made so much noise over the last two weeks, not one time in the last four years that they mention the word Epstein at all. It’s nowhere in their social media and their interviews or anything. And now, suddenly, it’s the most important thing in the world.
“We’re not buying it, and I’m not going to allow them to drag the Congress into this.
“The House Republicans are 100 percent united and 100 percent consistent, as we have been for many years regarding this matter. We want full transparency, total disclosure of all credible evidence. We want to and we must protect the innocent victims of those unspeakable crimes, trafficking and all the rest that were involved there. But it needs to be done in the right way.”
The audacity of the Democrats surprises even House Speaker Johnson.
JOHNSON: “They’re trying to claim that this is some sort of cover-up. Remember, each of them were involved in orchestrating what was the largest political cover-up and political scandal in the history of the United States. And that was covering up for the rapid mental decline of the previous occupant of the White House. When Joe Biden was no longer fit to serve, they went out and tried to convince us of the opposite — very, very dangerous stuff. They need to answer for that, and there needs to be a lot of accountability all the way around. And House Republicans are the ones urging that and pushing it along with every tool in our arsenal.”
American Academy of Pediatrics says Trisomy 13 and 18 are not ‘uniformly lethal’
The American Academy of Pediatrics has released new guidance stating that the genetic disorders Trisomy 13 and 18 are not “uniformly lethal” and the practice of promoting abortion and “postnatal comfort care” for all children with the conditions is outdated, reports The Christian Post.
The guidance, published July 21, notes the “steady increase in medical and surgical interventions for infants and children with trisomy 13 and 18.” The medical organization described the conditions as “chromosomal syndromes associated with a range of congenital anomalies and universally severe neurodevelopmental impairment.”
The American Academy of Pediatrics noted that about 12.3 percent of those with Trisomy 18 survive beyond their fifth birthday and 9.7 percent of children with Trisomy 13 survive as well.
U.S. divorce and out-of-wedlock births are becoming less common
The Institute for Family Studies is reporting that after many decades of increasing divorce, nonmarital childbearing, and children living in broken homes, current statistics show that the trends are either leveling off or reversing, reports The Washington Stand.
The group notes that the largest shift has become apparent with divorce. After reaching a peak in the late ’70s and early ’80s, “the divorce rate has been falling in recent decades,” currently hitting a 50-year low. Divorce is less likely because “marriage has become more selective, with more educated, affluent, and religious couples becoming more likely to put a ring on it than the general population.”
The Institute for Family Studies further observed that according to the most recent projections, the risk of first marriages ending in divorce is now around 40 percent, a significant drop from couples who married in the ’80s and ’90s, of whom 50 percent experienced divorce.
Malachi 2:16 says, God “hates divorce.”
Another factor contributing to more intact families is that the amount of children being born to unmarried women has leveled off. Children born out of wedlock peaked in 2009 and has plateaued ever since, remaining at roughly 40 percent over the last 15 years.
Transgender Lady Liberty stirs debate at Smithsonian
And finally, Amy Sherald is a 51-year-old woke artist who became famous for depicting the Statue of Liberty as black and transgender, reports Christian talk show host Todd Starnes.
She also created a rendition of the famous World War Two Times Square kiss featuring two homosexual black men. And Sherald earned national acclaim for painting the official portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama.
What an unusual combination – transgender statues, homosexual black men, and Michelle Obama.
The National Portrait Gallery alerted the artist that they might remove her painting of “Transgender Lady Liberty” over fears it might anger President Donald Trump. Sherald accused the Smithsonian of censorship and pulled out of the exhibit.
The White House, which believed that the painting all but desecrated one of our most sacred symbols, celebrated the development as a step toward restoring sanity in the taxpayer-funded art world.
Starnes concluded, “The only person censoring Sherald’s exhibit is in fact Sherald. And Lady Liberty is meant to inspire national unity – not pronoun confusion.”
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