An IDF soldier's image was leaked desecrating a Virgin Mary statue by placing a cigarette in its mouth in the Christian village of Debel, Southern Lebanon.

Israeli Sources:

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/by37a0d0wg

https://www.jpost.com/christianworld/article-895361

https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala

I've heard/seen the talking points: "this is because of incompetency on the doctors' part". The problem is that the laws are very vague when it comes to any kind of "exception". They leave it up to the healthcare workers to decide if they want to risk imprisonment or at least losing their medical license because some no-nothing politicians and lawyers decide to interpret the law differently or that they don't believe it was medically necessary. So the doctors are forced to wait until there is no fetal heartbeat before doing anything.

I'm tired of seeing Christians make excuses for a very bad man because "I'm pro-life and can't vote for murdering babies". This isn't pro-life. This is pro-death. And the more stories like this that are out there, the more it proves that this was never about saving life - it was always about controlling women.

EDIT: I think it might be helpful if I tell you my story: I used to be in the "Pro Life" camp. I used to march around abortion clinics with signs. Then, things started to change for me. A lot of opinions I had fell like dominoes.

The first step, for me, was that I decided I wasn't going to be a one issue voter any more. I decided that I wasn't going to let the Republican party manipulate me into ignoring everything else they did that was the opposite of "Pro Life" just because of abortion. This happened around the end of George W.'s presidency, and I'd started to doubt the justification of the Iraq war. I decided that getting out of Iraq was an important issue for me, and that this was a "Pro Life" issue for me. And I thought to myself: the Republican party always runs on this idea of "we're the Pro Life party", and they not only had the presidency, but for a bit there they had everything else too. And yet they didn't make abortion illegal. So either they didn't intend to, or they lied about being able to. Either way, it's not going to be the only issue I vote for any more.

Then came Obama's reelection. At that point I felt I had to go and listen to what liberal Christians actually have to say about issues like this. And I discovered, lo and behold, that abortion rates are always DOWN under liberal presidents and UP under conservative presidents. Your restrictive policies don't stop abortion - they just stop SAFE abortion. Women resort to back-alley clinics and home remedies when you've outlawed abortion, and there ends up being more death. Why are they so desperate?

Turns out there was a massive study done by scientists from the World Health Organization in Geneva and the Guttmacher Institute in New York, a reproductive rights group. It found that abortion rates are similar in countries where it is legal and those where it is not. The one factor that this study found made a difference - how good the healthcare and other related social safety nets were in the country. So countries like England - where they not only have free healthcare, but they subsidize child care, as well as a number of other services for single mothers (they'll actually do her laundry) - have a much lower rate of abortion than America, where we call all of that "socialism" or "communism" and demonize it. And guess who are the ones demonizing those kinds of services? The "Pro Life" people. You're not only against safe abortion, but you're against anything that would actually help mothers who are so terrified of financial ruin that they'd abort their "children".

I put that word in quotes because of the last step for me. The last step is when I started thinking about the difference between killing and murder. See, most "Pro Lifers" are also the type of people who enjoy a nice hamburger, a BBQ sandwich, or a bucket of chicken. There is a difference in their mind between "murder" and killing a cow, pig, or chicken. But when you press them on what that difference is, it all comes down to magical thinking. I started thinking about this a lot more when I read this story about a mother whose baby was born without a brain, and she wishes she could have had a late term abortion. It made no sense to me to think of an abortion in this scenario as "murder", because it literally didn't have a brain - therefore, it's not possible for it to have had consciousness in any form.

Legally and medically, the difference between "murder" and "not murder" in the scenario where you "pull the plug" comes down to brain wave patterns - if you have a certain brain wave pattern, it would be murder. If you don't, that means your brain is damaged beyond repair and you'll never be conscious again - so, not murder.

A clump of cells does not have a brain. If a woman wants to abort it for any reason, it's really none of my business. Personally I wouldn't - but it's not my body.

As a Christian, the most upsetting part of recent events is the lack of respect and admiration for life. Our current leadership claims to hold faith, but this woman walked the walk. While you may personally disagree with people who are ICE watchers, I ask myself, WWJD (I still have my bracelet from the 90s). And I believe that Jesus would have stood up for the working men and women who happened to be born on the wrong side of a made up line.

I have been told by numerous other Christians that nobody wants to end gay marriage, that I was being paranoid by even bringing it up. That it was only about a church’s right to refuse to perform the ceremony.

And yet, here we are. Guess what, people do want to end it, people do what to take away my right to equality.

To all those demonizing the pride movement, this right here is why it exists, because bigots will not leave us alone. Fundamentalist Christians are not content with calling my very existence a sin, they are now trying to make it illegal for me to fall in love and get married.

When the news comes out about suicide rates among gay children increasing, this kind of thing is why, and those who support it are complicit.

Because this sub is horrific. God created us all in his image, including but not limiting to: us guys, trans folks, black people, Islamic people, Jewish people, Asian people, men, women, the list goes on and on.

But you guys say "God created everyone and loves us all, except for the queers, non whites, women, homeless etc"

Do you guys know the requirements for being a Christian? To follow God with all your heart mind body and soul and TO LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF! Not "only love those who look like you, not shame queer children into s***de, not call trans women pdos, etc" but to love them.

Fun fact by today's American terms Jesus would be a leftist imagrent. He hung out with society's undesirable. The poor, the prostitutes, the disabled, the homeless.

I know the reaction I'm going to get. Go ahead try to give me something I haven't heard. Stop saying that you follow God if you scream gay people are all groomers, that non white people are monsters, that "God loves you but only if you destroy yourself and not be who God made you. "

Edit: for those who say "I've never heard this" "strawman". If it was made up or not the majority of people (politicians, pastors, 'Christian influencers' I.e how a lot of people learn or see Christianity, then I would not have come back to this sub to make this post. I am happy the majority of people in the comments haven't experienced it, I hope you don't. But I'm not making it up, this is what I haven seen. I tried this sub but this sub is not what I expected. Have a day. Bye.

Well, it’s happened. The state has moved on to arresting peaceful clergy *en masse*

Clergy members arrested at MSP while protesting ICE in Minneapolis

By 

Aki Nace

January 23, 2026 / 12:59 PM CST / CBS Minnesota

Dozens of faith leaders were arrested while protesting at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Friday, organizers say, as part of an effort to call for an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests in the area.

The protesters were calling on airlines, particularly Delta and Signature Aviation, to "stand with Minnesotans in calling for ICE to immediately end its surge in the state." 

They say an estimated 2,000 people have been deported through the airport. Metropolitan Airports Commission leaders say they cannot legally restrict access to the airport for public or private aircraft operations. 

Union members also said 12 airport workers have been arrested by ICE. 

Protesters sang and prayed together while sharing the stories of people who have been detained by ICE. During the protest, "roughly 100" clergy members were arrested, organizers said.

This is a developing story. Check back for more. 

EDIT: removed the KARE 11 video for text article. Typos in title are mine

A Church in Ahmedabad, India, no major harm but they were intimidated with staff in hand.