These Maternity Homes Offer Sanctuary, but It Can Feel Oppressive

Sep 25, 2024 | ,

In many parts of Florida, where housing costs are soaring and lawmakers have sharply curtailed abortion access, pregnant women and teens who need a safe, stable place to live are increasingly turning to one of their few options: charity-run maternity homes.
The homes, most of which are affiliated with churches or Christian nonprofits, often help women and teens as they flee abuse, age out of foster care or leave drug rehabilitation.

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‘It’s a parental rights bill, period.’ East Tennessee lawmakers react after federal judge blocks contested “abortion trafficking” law

Sep 25, 2024 |

TENNESSEE, USA — Tennessee’s highly contested “abortion trafficking” law now faces another hurdle before it can take effect. A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked Tennessee from enforcing its law banning adults from helping minors get an abortion without parental permission.
U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger argued that the Republican-controlled state cannot “make it a crime to communicate freely” about legal abortion options even in a state where abortion is banned at all stages of pregnancy, except for a handful of situations. Trauger’s decision means that the law will be placed on hold as the case makes its way through court.

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Despite counter-protest, 4,000 marched for life in Berlin

Sep 25, 2024 |

Berlin and Köln (Cologne) saw on 21 September how thousands expressed their desire to see human life respected before birth.
The 15 groups that form the National Union for Right to the Live (BVL) brought together 4,000 people in Berlin and 3,500 in Köln, according to the organisers.
Initiatives to liberalise abortion more are being pushed by the progressive German government coalition in recent months. The law as it stands now allows abortion until de 12th week, after having received counselling on the implications of terminating the pregnancy.

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“The sexual revolution neglects the weakest, the world needs the Jesus revolution”

Sep 25, 2024 | ,

The Fourth Lausanne Congress (L4) is not only a mass meeting. It is also intended to be broadly representative of the global evangelical church. One of the goals emphasised by the organisation is that evangelicals need to listen better to each other, and this effort to ensure that the conversation is not dominated by any one actor is very much present.
In the same way, Lausanne shows how the evangelical world is opening its ears to the female voice. Participation on the main platform is so far even, and the number of women attending the Congress is close to 29%.

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Rhode Island Man Detained on Federal Child Sexual Exploitation Charge After HSI and Rhode Island State Police Investigation

Sep 25, 2024 |

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents and officers from the Rhode Island State Police (RISP) Internet Crimes Against Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force arrested a North Providence man Sept. 23 following an investigation for the alleged production and distribution of child sexual exploitation material.

According to charging documents, on Sept. 16, an HSI task force officer assigned to the RISP ICAC Task Force received information from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children that an IP address, later determined by the task force officer to belong to Albino’s residence, was used to upload 10 files depicting the abuse of a prepubescent child. Further investigation revealed that that the location where the videos were recorded matched s of rooms recently displayed in an online property rental listing where Albino resides.

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