1. Planned Parenthood Closes Gainesville Florida Center Planned Parenthood's Gainesville center will permanently close June 26 due to declining patient volume. When Planned Parenthood cannot find enough customers in a Florida college town to stay open, that is a pro-life victory worth celebrating.
2. Senator Kennedy: California Medicaid Pays for Exorcisms While Fraud Doubles to $222 Billion Senator John Kennedy revealed California's Medicaid program pays healthcare providers for exorcisms and tribal spiritual ceremonies while spending has doubled to a projected $222 billion. The same California that strips Christian expression from public life is funding tribal spiritual practices with federal tax dollars.
3. Texas Detransition Clinic: Next Steps for Child Reparations The opening of the nation's first detransition clinic at Texas Children's Hospital is generating serious discussion about legal accountability for the institutions that pushed irreversible gender procedures on children. Care is the first step. Justice must follow.
4. Man Arrested for Threatening to Bomb TPUSA Event and Kill Erika Kirk and Every Christian Jacob Wenske, 26, of San Antonio was arrested after threatening to bomb a women's leadership summit because Christians would be attending. His own words: "Every Christian nationalist shall perish in the bombing." The primary target was Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk. Anti-Christian violence must be named and condemned clearly and consistently.
5. Franklin Graham Blasts Texas Rep. for Claiming the Bible Is Silent on Abortion Franklin Graham called it "an absolute lie" after a Texas state representative claimed the Bible is silent on abortion. Psalm 139. Jeremiah 1:5. Luke 1:41. The Bible is not silent on when life begins. It never has been.
6. Liberty University Students Denied State Grants for Religious Studies Three Liberty University students are fighting in court after Virginia denied them state education grants specifically because they chose to study religion. The attack on Christian education is coming from every direction simultaneously.
7. Christian Persecution Is Now Trump's Foreign Policy Roadmap A new analysis argues the Trump administration has reoriented American foreign policy around the question of Christian persecution, asking specifically where it is happening and who is responsible. Nigeria, Egypt, India, and China are among the primary focus nations.
8. Trump Authorizes 10,000 Additional White South African Refugees President Trump authorized admission of 10,000 additional Afrikaner refugees from South Africa, predominantly Calvinist Christian farmers who have faced targeted violence, land seizures, and expropriation without compensation.
9. 7th Grade Girl Banned From Presenting Pro-Life Poem While LGBTQ Poems Were Welcomed A 7th grade girl was told her pro-life poem was too political and would make classmates feel unsafe, while poems on immigration, LGBTQ rights, and racial justice were presented without objection. Only the poem defending unborn life was silenced. The student and her mother came forward this week.
10. Virginia Bishop Burbidge Urges Voters to Reject Abortion-Up-to-Birth Amendment Catholic Bishop Burbidge of Arlington called Virginia's abortion-up-to-birth constitutional amendment headed to November voters "from the evil one," warning it would eliminate parental rights and allow completely unregulated abortion on healthy babies up to birth.
11. Planned Parenthood Directors Admitted Under Oath They Sold Aborted Baby Parts As Congress debates defunding Planned Parenthood, sworn testimony from their own directors confirms they sold aborted baby body parts. Every vote to continue federal funding is a vote to fund an organization whose own leaders admitted this under oath.
12. Nearly 80% of Planned Parenthood Clinics Now Offer Sex-Rejecting Procedures A new report found that nearly 80% of Planned Parenthood clinics now offer puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, making the abortion giant one of the largest providers of gender transition procedures in America. This is what your tax dollars currently fund.
13. Planned Parenthood of Michigan Seeks $5 Million Emergency Government Bailout Planned Parenthood of Michigan warned that without $5 million in emergency state funds its 10 abortion facilities will close. Maine and Illinois governors have issued similar bailouts. The abortion industry is hemorrhaging. Press your representatives to hold the line.
14. Pope Leo XIV Releases First Encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" on AI and Human Dignity Pope Leo XIV released a 42,000-word encyclical warning that humanity faces a pivotal choice between building a new Tower of Babel with artificial intelligence or a civilization where God and humanity dwell together. VP JD Vance called it "profound."
15. Scottish Boy Scout Refuses to Bow to Allah During Mosque Field Trip. Goes Viral Worldwide. A young Scottish boy quietly refused to bow toward Mecca during a mosque field trip while his entire troop including the adult leader knelt. He did not protest. He simply stood. Social media immediately called him Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
16. Belgian Court Rules Factually Correct Statements Can Constitute Hate Speech A Belgian court ruled that factually accurate statements can constitute criminal hate speech if used to incite hostility. Truth is no longer a defense in Belgium. This legal framework is already spreading across Western Europe and moving toward America.
17. India: Three Baptist Pastors Killed Returning from Peace Conference. 20 Christians Still Held Hostage. Three senior Baptist pastors, Reverend Dr. Vumthang Sitlhou, Reverend Kaigoulun Lhouvum, and Pastor Paogoulen Sitlhou, were ambushed and killed in India's Manipur State while returning from a peace conference. Twenty Christians remain held hostage. Pray for them by name.
18. China: Six House Church Leaders Arrested for Running Sunday School Chinese authorities arrested six house church leaders in Guizhou province for running Sunday school classes for children. Their names are Wei Yongqiang, He Jinbao, Quan Xiaolong, Long Jian, Cheng Yongbing, and Zhou Guiya. The same China rewriting the Bible is arresting people for teaching it.
19. Young Catholics Drive Record Crowds for Chartres Pilgrimage in France Thousands of young Catholics drove record crowds to the annual Chartres Pilgrimage in France this week, walking miles in public profession of their faith in an increasingly secular Europe. The Church is not dying in the West. In some places it is being reborn.
Lord, we bring these stories before You not in fear but in faith. You are not surprised by any of this. You are sovereign over every courtroom, every legislature, every nation, and every life represented in these headlines. Give Your Church wisdom to understand the times, courage to speak the truth, and compassion to love the people behind every story. Protect the persecuted. Defend the innocent. Revive the comfortable. And remind us that the same God who raised Jesus from the dead is still at work in the world today. In Jesus' name, Amen.
