Author: unitedfamilies

Amid Fear of Attacks, Many Nigerians Mute Christmas

In past Decembers, pastor Paul Maina’s congregation at Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) Njilang in Chibok, Borno state, Nigeria, spent the week before Christmas celebrating. They often went house to house, singing in the local Cibak language, dancing, bearing gifts, and sharing meals. Maina prepared a midnight Christmas Eve service at church. Non-Christian neighbors joined in the festivities.

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House passes bill to criminalize transgender mutilation of children

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 216-211 Wednesday to criminalize performing gender transition procedures on minors, although its prospects of making it through the Senate are doubtful. Introduced by outgoing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), the Protect Children’s Innocence Act would impose fines and/or up to 10 years in prison on anyone who “knowingly performs, or attempts to perform, genital or bodily mutilation on another person who is a minor”; “knowingly chemically castrates a minor”; or knowingly “facilitates or consents to female genital mutilation of a minor” or “transports a minor for the purpose of the performance of female genital mutilation on such minor.”

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Even Under Threat, Pregnancy Resource Centers Are Thriving

Each year, pregnancy resource centers (also known as crisis pregnancy centers) open their doors daily to serve over one million pregnant women across all 50 states. These centers represent a robust grassroots network of organizations seeking to serve women who are pregnant and under-resourced in some way, whether being financially unstable, medically uninsured, or unsupported by a partner or family.

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Planned Parenthood Closed Almost 50 Abortion Centers in 2025

The nation’s largest abortion business reeled from funding cuts this year after Congress and President Trump signed off on a bill that revoked federal taxpayer funding. The defunding resulted in the abortion giant closing almost 50 of its abortion centers. All Planned Parenthood centers either directly kill babies in abortions, arrange for the sales of dangerous abortion pills or refer women to abortion businesses in other states.

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