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(SRN NEWS) According to the annual Red List from Global Christian Relief, China arrests more people for their religious beliefs than any other country. Christians are the primary target although a few Muslims and members of the Falun Gong are also incarcerated in the giant country. Russia comes in second on the list, targeting just about anybody who isn’t Russian Orthodox. Iran, Vietnam and Nicaragua round out the top five nations […]

(SRN NEWS) According to a wide-ranging new study by the Becket Fund — a Christian legal group — 77% of adults have no problem with moms and dads getting state vouchers to send their kids to private schools, and USING that money to enroll them in religious institutions. 23% oppose the practice. What’s doubly important is the fact that the nation’s COURTS see things the same way, ruling again and again […]

(SRN NEWS) They come from the Cultural Research Institute at Arizona Christian University and they indicate that America’s youngest adults are reading the Bible more these days and more of them are calling themselves Christians. However, a lot of their beliefs are NOT particularly Christian, including the feeling that Biblical marriage is simply one of many acceptable options — not a mandate from God. The CRI says Gen Z is spiritually […]

(SRN NEWS) Wesley Han is a man who is living as a woman.  He was staying at the Soho Grand recently and when he entered the women’s restroom some women complained.  Han says he was ejected by a security guard and told to use the men’s room.  New York is an exceedingly liberal city in an exceedingly liberal state, so it’s unclear if the hotel can successfully defend itself in […]

(SRN NEWS) The Southern Baptist Convention is gearing up for its annual summer convention in Orlando.  The gathering will bring SBC delegates from all over the country to Orange County Convention Center June 7th through the 10th.  Organizers say there will be as many as 200 separate events and meetings held during the convention.  The SBC is in the midst of a slow but persistent decline in membership though baptisms are on […]

(SRN NEWS) A new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute finds that 70% of Americans who support abortion say they never or very rarely read a religious text.  Two-thirds of them never attend a worship service and about half say they never pray.  On the flip side, most folks who describe themselves as pro-life read the Bible, go to church and pray regularly.  The strongest pro-life religious groups are White Evangelical Protestants […]

(SRN NEWS) Pro-choice groups have gotten enough signatures to place a referendum on the fall ballot that would water-down the state’s ban on abortion.  If approved, the legislation would lift the ban’s provision of jail time for doctors who perform illegal abortions.  The signatures must now be certified.  Under the current law, medical personnel who perform illegal abortions face up to five years behind bars.  Abortion is on the ballot in several other states this […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Salvadoran investigative outlet El Faro announced Thursday that two of its members’ assets, including a bank account and property, were frozen, in what it denounced as an escalation of political persecution for its work exposing corruption in the government of President Nayib Bukele. “It’s another level of attack against us with a clear purpose,” El Faro Director Carlos Dada said in a news conference Thursday. “These […]

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese military court gave suspended death sentences Thursday to two former defense ministers who were accused of bribery, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. The court said Wei Fenghe was guilty of accepting bribes and sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve. It said Li Shangfu was guilty of accepting and offering bribes, and handed him the same sentence. Suspended death sentences are often commuted […]