(SRN NEWS)- ( ) Holocaust survivors, politicians and regular people commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, gathering at events held across Europe and the world. The event, which recalls Germany’s effort to annihilate European Jewry, is observed annually on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of the Nazi death camps. At the […]
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( ) Holocaust survivors, politicians and regular people commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, gathering at events held across Europe and the world. The event, which recalls Germany’s effort to annihilate European Jewry, is observed annually on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of the Nazi death camps. At the memorial site of Auschwitz, located in Poland, former prisoners laid flowers and wreaths at a wall where German forces executed thousands of prisoners. In Berlin, candles burned and white roses were placed at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
( ) A lot of people in this country continue to turn to the word of God in troubled times. The American Bible Society’s annual report finds that about 41 percent of Americans qualify as “Bible users,” meaning they have read the scriptures at least three times a year outside of church services. That’s up from 38 percent last year but down from 2021, when half of Americans fit that category. The ABS report also reveals that a little over a third of Gen Z and Millennials would qualify as Bible users — an increase for Millennials over 2024. Publishers also reported a surge in sales of the Bible last year.
( ) The Department of Justice has dropped a request for the personal and medical information of transgender patients at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. The DOJ had issued subpoenas to over 20 providers offering sex-change operations on minors to investigate health care fraud. Seven families sued to keep the information private, and the hospital did not provide the requested documents. The DOJ has now withdrawn its requests through 2029. This decision follows a similar case in Baltimore and is part of broader federal actions designed to keep taxpayers from supporting sex-change operations on kids.
( ) According to a new report from the Pew Research Center, about 43 percent of moms and dads in this country take their children to church at least once a month. Another 56 percent of parents also say they talk about faith with their kids on a regular basis. About one-in-five couples tell Pew that they are raising their youngsters in a “very religious household” and another 34 percent say their home is “somewhat religious”. Analysts say that despite the general decline of Christianity in the U.S., polls like the one from Pew indicate that at least a remnant of parents are continuing to “train up a child in the way they should go.”