U.S. EMBASSIES STILL HOISTING RAINBOW FLAGS

Since the State Department began rejecting all embassy requests to hoist rainbow flags outside the mission buildings during Gay Pride Month this year, some U.S. diplomats have been finding ways to defy, or at least get around, the new policy. The facades of the U.S. missions in Seoul and Chennai, India, are partially hidden behind … Continued

SARAH SANDERS TO LEAVE WHITE HOUSE BY END OF JUNE

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is leaving the Trump administration at the end of June, President Donald Trump announced Thursday. Sanders became the administration’s deputy press secretary after Trump took office in 2017 and was later promoted to press secretary after Sean Spicer left the role. She was the third woman to hold the … Continued

RUSSIA TO DELIVER S-400 DEFENSE SYSTEM TO TURKEY

NATO member Turkey’s S-400 deal with Moscow has angered the United States, which has threatened to remove Ankara from its F-35 fighter jet programme unless Turkey pulls out of the deal…. The comments came days after the head of Russian state conglomerate Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, said Moscow would start delivering S-400 missile systems to Turkey … Continued

ISRAEL COMPLETES NEW GAZA BORDER WALL

A new section of a protective wall being erected alongside Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip was completed last week, Channel 12 reported. The wall, which is designed to block Gaza terror operatives’ view of the roads and train lines that run along the border and are vulnerable to attacks like the Kornet antitank missile … Continued

BARR IS ASKING QUESTIONS THAT THE MEDIA DON’T WANT ASKED

“I’m amused,” Attorney General William Barr told CBS News’ Jan Crawford, “by these people who make a living disclosing classified information, including the names of intelligence operatives, wringing their hands about whether I’m going to be responsible in protecting intelligence sources and methods.” He went on after further questions, “Well, the media reaction is strange. … Continued

RAID ON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL QUESTIONS BIBLE TRAINING AS COERCIVE

A California case that began with police raiding a private Christian boarding school could have major implications for religious education in the state, attorneys for the school are warning. River View Christian Academy in rural Northern California was raided in January by 16-armed law enforcement officials who were accompanied by two canine units and 17 … Continued

TEXAS GOVERNOR SIGNS ‘SAVE CHICK-FIL-A’ BILL

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the “Save Chick-fil-A” bill into law Monday. The new bill prohibits the government from taking “adverse action” against an individual or business based on contributions to religious organizations. WATCH FOR OUR QUESTION AT THE END OF THIS ARTICLE The Texas legislature passed SB 1978 after the San Antonio City Council … Continued

INDIA VOTES WITH ISRAEL AT UN–FIRST TIME EVER

“This is a good sign. … India was the first country to support us amongst the Asia group,” said Maya Kadosh, deputy chief of mission at the Israel embassy in India. For the first time ever, India voted last week with Israel at the United Nations against granting observer status to a Palestinian human-rights organization … Continued

SOUTHERN BAPTISTS TO FIGHT SEX ABUSE IN THE CHURCH

The head of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, urged the denomination to adopt a constitutional amendment that would create a committee that will help fight sex abuse. Speaking at the SBC Annual Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama on Tuesday, new SBC President Ronnie Floyd told the messengers gathered that they should adopt a measure to … Continued

SOME DARE CALL IT THEOCRACY

This ominous-sounding charge was made by the son of the late, great Francis Schaeffer as he discussed the Republican Party and political figures like Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann. The irony here is that Bachmann credits watching the elder Schaeffer’s How Shall We Then Live, the seminal analysis of western culture from a Christian-worldview perspective that … Continued

IS THE “HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH” SUPPORTING ABORTION AND LGBTQ PRIDE?

Today’s technology and high-definition sonograms reveal with amazing clarity images of baby’s delightful thumb-sucking and dancing in the womb. It also discloses with certainty DNA and detectable heartbeats of in utero developing little ones. How far have we fallen as a society when we deny these realities and cavalierly exterminate developing babies? The New Your Times cleverly covers … Continued

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