Hostility Toward Churches: Causes & Implications Faith Under Fire – 4/18/24 A six-year national study of threats, violence and vandalism aimed at churches and religious organization shows the danger spiked in 2023. This edition of Family Life’s “Faith Under Fire” feature invites back Arielle Del Turco for a second conversation. Today, we recap the results …
Rising Hostility Against Churches – This week on “Faith Under Fire” The number of incidents of assaults, violence, vandalism and other hostile actions against Churches across the USA doubled in 2023, compared to the relatively high number of incidents reported the previous year. Threats and actual attacks became eight times more frequent than just six …
An Insider’s Perspective on Haiti – Faith Under Fire When gangs burst into prisons throughout the island nation of Haiti, it launched a cascade of violence and brutality which shook the residents, toppled the standing of government, and opened the doors to crime and murder. Family Life News offers you a perspective on what it …
Gender, Sports, Parental Rights, and the First Amendment – “Faith Under Fire” A small Christian school has sued its state sports association, after the Vermont Principals Association evicted the school’s teams from the group. The Mid Vermont Christian School’s girls basketball team forfeited a state tournament game, rather than play an opposing team which included …
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court this week, by a narrow 4-3 vote, ruled that a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood is to be heard by a lower court. At issue is a question about whether Pennsylvania can restrict the state’s Medicaid funds only to pay for the abortions which are directly related to situations of rape, …
As the abortion industry and many politicians look to put abortion into state constitutions, many in the pro-life movement seek to redefine the debate. Christina Fadden is president of Syracuse Right to Life. The day after the National March for Life in DC, that group and its partners held a local rally and March for …
What lessons learned during the “Covid Era” will help congregations thrive into the new future? We have a return visit from Allison Norton of the Covid Religion Research Project, which is in the third year of a five-year study of 15,000 American congregations. In this new conversation Norton addresses how congregations are poised to either …
“We have to understand that this is a SPIRITUAL battle, expressed in a MILITARY attack.” — Susan Michael, on the October 7, 2023, attacks made against the nation of Israel This week is the 13th week since Hamas militants poured across Israel’s southern border — killing, assaulting and kidnapping citizens of Israel and other nations. …
A five-year research project on congregational vitality began just before the Covid shutdowns began in 2020. (The timing gives informative snapshots of the effect of the closing of church buildings, and the move of church life to electronic connections. It also gives us a long-view of how congregations have rebounded, and why some churches are …
Today’s “Faith Under Fire” Feature on Family Life features analysis of how the pro-abortion and pro-life movements have adapted this year, after the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v Wade, sending the lawmaking decisions back to each of the 50 states. Jim Harden is President of Compass Care, which operates pregnancy care centers in Albany, …
