(SRN NEWS ) Persecution of Christians in Iran is surging. According to Article 18, a British human rights group, nearly 100 believers were sentenced to prison for their faith in 2024 by Iranian courts. That’s a 600 percent increase over 2023. The U.S. Commission on International Freedom is also concerned about the so-called Muslim morality […]
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(SRN NEWS ) Persecution of Christians in Iran is surging. According to Article 18, a British human rights group, nearly 100 believers were sentenced to prison for their faith in 2024 by Iranian courts. That’s a 600 percent increase over 2023. The U.S. Commission on International Freedom is also concerned about the so-called Muslim morality police, who abuse Christians on the streets. A new report by the Commission says these bands “violently arrest and assault women not wearing the hijab. They also penalize businesses that allow patronage by women.”
( ) Another court in the United Kingdom rules against transgenderism. The Court of Session in Edinburgh, Scotland says public schools in the country can not allow males to use female restrooms, locker rooms and other facilities. That decision comes hard on the heels of Britain’s highest court announcing this month that men who are living as women can not be considered actual, biological women under the law. After rapidly embracing transgenderism, a growing number of European governments are now doing an about-face in response to growing popular opposition.
( ) Organizers and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. have canceled a week’s worth of events promoting the LGBT agenda for this summer’s World Pride festival. The move comes amid a shift in priorities and the ousting of center leadership by President Trump. Both the firing of the president and the chairman of the Kennedy Center took place in early February. Mr. Trump has vowed to roll back all federal promotion of the LGBT agenda that was established by President Biden. The World Pride event, held every two years, runs from May 17th through June 8th.
( ) A new study finds the number of sex-change operations carried out in the U.S. nearly tripled from 2016 to 2019 before dropping slightly in 2020 due to the pandemic. About 48,000 patients underwent such operations during the five years studied, with about 13,000 procedures done in 2019. A little more than half the patients were ages 19 to 30, but about 1,000 children under the age of 18 underwent a sex-change operation every year. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.