(SRN NEWS) – Fear is changing the way Jewish people in the United States go about their daily lives. According to a new poll from the American Jewish Committee, 56 percent of Jews say they have abandoned certain behaviors and dropped certain activities for fear of anti-Semitism. That’s up from 46 percent who were doing […]
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(SRN NEWS) – Fear is changing the way Jewish people in the United States go about their daily lives. According to a new poll from the American Jewish Committee, 56 percent of Jews say they have abandoned certain behaviors and dropped certain activities for fear of anti-Semitism. That’s up from 46 percent who were doing so a year ago. The most common thing poll respondents say they do is avoid wearing any apparel that would identify them as being Jewish. Anti-Semitism has spiked all around the world ever since Hamas launched its October attack on Israel in 2023.
Bad news for Christians in Nicaragua. The legislature has approved a new constitution that makes President Manuel Ortega a virtual dictator and gives his wife similar powers. Ortega, whose Communist Sandinista Party took control in Nicaragua in the 1980’s, would specifically be able to override all guarantees of freedom of religion. Lately Ortega has been campaigning against clergymen who criticize his policies. Some church leaders are wary of the president’s wife, Rosario, who is a prominent advocate of witchcraft and the occult.
A judge has permanently blocked an Ohio law that would have required that the bodies of aborted babies be cremated or buried. The decision by Hamilton County Judge Alison Hatheway came in a case brought by a group of abortion clinics and the ACLU. The judge found that the 2020 law violates a 2023 amendment that enshrined abortion in the Ohio constitution. Pro-life advocates argued that the law assured some measure of human dignity for aborted babies. Abortion advocates called it an effort to obstruct access to abortion.
President Trump has signed an executive order that aims to help people hoping to expand their families through in vitro fertilization by reducing costs for the procedure. Those costs can now range from 12,000 to 25,000 dollars per cycle. Mr. Trump’s order instructs the assistant to the president for domestic policy to give the president a list of policy recommendations on protecting IVF access and “aggressively reducing costs”. Some pro-life advocates oppose IVF because the procedure can involve the destruction of human embryos.