The United States decried the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s extensive abuses against people of faith from Uyghur Muslims to Christians to Falun Gong practitioners, as the State Department released its annual update on religious freedom around the world on May 12. Daniel Nadel, a senior official in the State Department’s Office of International Freedom, said…
US State Department Highlights Communist China’s ‘Dire’ Religious Freedom Situation
Falun Gong Adherents Celebrate Faith Around the Globe, Stand Up to Communist China’s Persecution
NEW YORK—Before the pandemic, waves of people donning yellow and blue would congregate in New York and elsewhere this time of year to take part in a celebration. In public parks and on the streets, they showcased slow-moving, meditative exercises, while wearing shirts emblazoned with the words “truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance”—the three core tenets of…
‘I’m Doing It’: Resilience and Faith in Our Daily Battles
A few weeks ago, one of my sisters told me that her best friend, whom she’s known for over 50 years, had been diagnosed with breast cancer. This woman, a retired schoolteacher in her mid-60s, is now undergoing various surgeries and chemotherapy. To encourage her, my sister kept saying: “You’re doing it. You’re doing what…
The ‘Most Dangerous Country’ to Be a Christian: North Korea and Its War on Faith
The “hermit kingdom” of North Korea has willfully walled itself into isolation, making it difficult for other free societies to know what is happening inside the secretive state sitting on the east coast of communist China. It is often through defectors that the world gets glimpses inside a country ruled by a totalitarian regime, including…
Dad of Miracle Son With Spina Bifida Inspired to Face Life’s ‘Greatest Fear’ With Faith: Video
Swapping fear for faith, a Louisiana couple cultivated the strength to choose life over termination after learning their unborn baby had spina bifida. The journey they embarked upon 12 years ago has changed many lives and validated the virtue of “self-sacrificial love.” In 2008, Chad and Ashley Judice, of Lafayette, Louisiana, were pregnant with their…
Dana Point Artist Credits Faith for Adding Color to His Life
DANA POINT, Calif.—When Hyatt Moore reflects on the experiences that most profoundly shaped his life as an artist, he focuses on two main things. The first is his marriage. The second is the Lord, whom he says changed his life. “Those things changed the directions in my life, and all that had happened since then,”…
Embers to Flames: Reviving Faith, Hope, and Love
The three theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity often take a back seat to the classical, or cardinal, virtues: prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. In teaching literature and history to homeschoolers, I sometimes employed them as a framework for the topics at hand, reference points to which we’d return during discussions of classics like “Hamlet”…
Video: Changing Nations by Repairing Relationships; a Discussion With Fr. David Guffey
Political division has become a key topic in the United States, and while facing troubles that seem insurmountable. But one of the ways that people can come together as a nation is through faith, culture, and family. A story that brings this together is that of Patrick Peyton, and to learn more about this story…
Blind Massage Therapist Embraces Life With Faith and Companions
Whenever Ezzie Davis has a challenging day, she relies on her faith, her husband, and her dog, Calypso, to lift her spirits. Calypso, a black Labrador, accompanies Davis, 31, as she takes three different buses from her home in Long Beach, California, to Costa Mesa, where she works as a professional massage therapist at Elements…
Blind Masseuse Embraces Life With Faith and Companions
Whenever Ezzie Davis has a challenging day, she relies on her faith, her husband, and her dog, Calypso, to lift her spirits. Calypso, a black Labrador, accompanies Davis, 31, as she takes three different buses from her home in Long Beach, California, to Costa Mesa, where she works as a professional masseuse at Elements Massage….
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