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Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials on Friday evening arrested more than two dozen pastors across at least seven provinces who are part of the underground Zion Church network, extending what China Aid called “the most extensive and coordinated wave of persecution against urban independent house churches in China in over four decades.”

The belief that Christianity is anti-science and Atheism is pro-science is part of our cultural furniture here in the West. But what if the opposite were true?

Leftism properly understood finds its origins in the bloody horrors of the French Revolution, repeated time and time again over the course of the last two-and-a-half centuries of world history.

It is with some personal surprise that, after decades as an atheist, I’ve come to believe in God. When I was still very young, anger, hate, and pain drove me away from God. Thirty years later, love brought me back to Him.

Perhaps no words in recent political history have so rapidly proven correct as Vice President J.D. Vance’s warning that European religious liberty faces a toxic and growing “threat from within”, according to a new expert analysis of government infringements on Christians.

The beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan was marked by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer — not known for his religious sensibilities – but also the Vatican, and even King Charles. This sudden preference for Islam over Christianity seems like yet another example of double standards in public life.

The more often Americans attend virtually any Christian denomination, as well as Jewish services, the more likely they are to adopt conservative political views, according to a recent statistical analysis. “The more Democrats go to church, the more they look like Republicans,” states the study.

You probably wouldn’t know it by the legislation they pass and the debates they have, but Capitol Hill is one of the most religious places on earth.

It would be a mistake to read too much into Harris’s words, but by exalting abortion as a manifestation of freedom, isn’t she close to endorsing Sartre’s bleakness and despair? A distinctive moral feature of abortion is being alone – radical alienation from both the child and her partner.

In just this past week, Kamala Harris has demonstrated even more of her intense hatred of Christianity. She and her party made a blasphemous TV ad mocking Holy Communion. She deliberately refused to go to the 60-year-old Presidential Catholic charity dinner in New York City.

Take away the history of a people or a culture or a nation, and you effectively take away the people, the culture, and the nation. We are today what has gone before in our past. Being unmoored from our own past makes us quite vulnerable.

Eminent biologist Richard Dawkins believes rising cases of mental illness are attributable to the “astonishing rate” of technological change. While Dawkins’ comments on rapidly changing technology might have some validity, his recent comments on Christianity deserve far more thought.

Auron MacIntyre examines how Western democracies are being undone not just by our political elites but by flawed notions of progress, efficiency and individualism. At the end of the day, this is really a religious war, with two radically different worldviews battling it out.

The very idea that Payman sought wisdom from Allah before voting on policy issues has surprised many Australians who rarely give a second thought to religion. The fact is that no one arrives at any issue values-free. We all have a religion – whether we believe in God or not.

If you are an older person raised in the West – as I am – you will have lived through three different periods: Christian, post-Christian, and anti-Christian. We can no longer count on institutions to back us up.

Who does not suffer? And how do Christians accept and enter its deeper meaning and challenge with clarity, trust and hope, and not with passive, puzzled acceptance, denial, confusion, resentment – or even anger?

God works in mysterious ways. How He draws people to Himself can vary greatly. He uses all sorts of means in which He can reveal Himself to people and draw them into relationship with Him.

It is the conversion of Ayaan Hirsi Ali which I find to be the most intriguing. Her spiritual journey from Islam, to atheism to Christianity is extraordinary.

Things can change, and one never knows what surprises God might have up His sleeve for us. Just when things might seem the darkest, the light of Christ might erupt with brilliance and power.

It may seem like Christianity is nearly doomed in America and the West. It has had a very good run, but things seem to be heading south. So is there hope for the West? Well, as long as God is in the equation – and He always is – then there is still hope.