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Child brides – the practice of marrying off young girls to older men – is still prevalent in many parts of the world. But it comes at great cost for the girls. This is a practice that must be stopped. Recently, the world read with [...]

The Imago Dei or "image of God" is a powerful theme that runs through Scripture. It is what makes Christianity unique among the world's religions in solving mankind's deepest issues. The opening chapter of the Bible states, "God created man in his own image, in [...]

Many have termed America's war in Afghanistan "the forever war", but is this really accurate? Some historical context will prove illuminating. Are we sure we shouldn't have maintained a presence in Afghanistan? Imagine after Pearl Harbor, FDR announcing, “We’re getting into this to bring human [...]

The fall of Afghanistan is a real worry indeed: It has happened so quickly. Kabul is fallen. The Taliban have captured the capital of Afghanistan and President Ashraf Ghani has fled the country. The US Embassy there has been successfully evacuated, and some fighting is [...]

Why was the LGBT flag flying over the US Embassy in Kabul during Pride Month? The tragedy unfolding in Afghanistan is unsettling on so many fronts. We grieve for the women, children, Christians and other minorities left behind, all of whom now face an uncertain [...]

Jesus told us to pray for our persecutors. This week, that means praying for the Taliban. This week, I have felt physically ill as I’ve read stories and seen the videos and photos coming out of Afghanistan. I can’t begin to imagine the terror awaiting [...]

When the United States formally withdraws from Afghanistan on September 11, 2021 -- yes, on the 20th anniversary of al-Qa’ida’s terrorist attacks on the US -- the country will immediately fall back under the control of the Taliban. Tragically, the most devastating impact will be [...]

For some in the West, Islam is a synonym for terrorism and oppression. Others seem to believe that Muslims deserve a free pass, and special immunity from criticism. I’ll admit upfront that I’m biased too. I love my Muslim friends, and I have a deeper [...]

The Cry for Human Rights In 1945, out of the ashes of World War II, forty-eight nations formed the United Nations. Still reeling from the genocidal atrocities of Nazi Germany and the savage treatment of civilians and prisoners of war by Imperial Japan, human rights [...]

Heroes of the Faith We live in an evil world filled with suffering, even for believers. On 15 February, 2015 twenty-one young Egyptian men were executed for their faith on a lonely beach in Libya. Each had been kidnapped in separate incidents in the previous [...]

Editor's Note: GlobalPrayerforChina.org, the online voice responding to Cardinal Charles Bo’s request to come together internationally to pray for the Church and Peoples of China, describes the ongoing human rights violations by the government of China. Read the original article here. ___ Across the board, [...]

The persecution of Christians worldwide continues to get worse: If you have ever wondered what is the surest way to face persecution, torture and death in so many places around the world, we fully know the answer to that: simply be a committed follower of [...]

I have a dear friend who writes like Charlotte Bronte. My Charlotte would be able to respond to Mark Conner’s article about blind privilege and her deep meditations would be heard. Because of all she inherited in life, she would be granted that privilege. As [...]

Cancel culture is censorship culture: The cancel culture is alive and well, and getting worse by the day. Usually the targets are Christians and conservatives -- especially Christian conservatives. But so bad has this toxic movement become that now it is consuming its own. We [...]

You may have heard this argument before: how dare we speak of religious persecution in the West when the persecution of Christians in other nations is so horrific? I agree wholeheartedly that persecution in the non-Western world is a terrible injustice that we have an [...]

The endgame for the militant left is the destruction of Christianity: Those who hate the West and want to see its downfall also tend to hate Christianity and seek its demise as well. That is because Western Civilisation is in good measure the product of [...]

The Australian journalist Greg Sheridan has quipped that these days, “the academic fashion is to attack Western civilisation, not study it.” With historic statues being trashed and toppled around the western world, and accusations of systemic racism being levelled against the fairest societies that history [...]

Destroying statues, books and art: today’s left is the new Taliban: Remember how the world was outraged when the Taliban blew up and destroyed two large 1500-year-old Buddha statues in Afghanistan in 2001? ‘What barbarians’ everyone thought. ‘This great cultural, artistic and historical artefact has [...]

Executive Editor’s Note: Africa is a wonderful continent filled with wonderful people, and yet at the same time is one of the most tragic continents on the globe. Beautiful people filled with joy, smiling in the midst of crippling poverty and chronic corruption, and at [...]

Assessing the interaction of adultery, no-fault divorce, LGBTQ trends, poverty, and church surrender. by Marvin Olasky Patrick Henry College professor Stephen Baskerville is the author of Not Peace But a Sword: The Political Theology of the English Revolution. His most recent book, The New Politics [...]