# persecution (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 7 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover persecution. Page: Feed: --- ## [List of Protestant leaders accused of abuse goes online](https://www.christian-heritage-news.com/2026/08/list-of-protestant-leaders-accused-of.html) _2026-08-20 · Angela Wittman · Christian Heritage News_ The homepage of ProtestantAccountability.org, which launched Wednesday with 2,700 searchable entries on Protestant leaders accused of abuse across more than 100 denominations. (Screengrab/The Roys Report) By Daniel Silliman - Posted at The Roys Report : Published August 19, 2026 Youth pastors and youth leaders: 694 Worship leaders: 93 Lead pastors and solo pastors: 1,578 Associate pastors: 172… ## [Is this really what conservatives voted for on immigration?](https://www.christian-heritage-news.com/2026/08/is-this-really-what-conservatives-voted.html) _2026-08-19 · Angela Wittman · Christian Heritage News_ By Samuel Rodriguez - Posted at The Christian Post: Published August 12, 2026 Conservatism, at its core, is built on three pillars: ordered liberty, the dignity of every human being made in the image of God, and fidelity to the rule of law. Any immigration enforcement strategy that cannot be defended on all three grounds is not conservative. It is merely reactive. The timing of this conversation… ## [Mike Pence takes on new role at Colorado Christian University](https://www.christian-heritage-news.com/2026/08/mike-pence-takes-on-new-role-at.html) _2026-08-18 · Angela Wittman · Christian Heritage News_ Mike Pence will take on a new role at Colorado Christian University. Image: Facebook/Colorado Christian University (My Christian Daily) By David Rogers - Posted at My Christian Daily : Published August 16, 2026 Former Vice President Mike Pence is heading back to the classroom, serving as a visiting faculty member at Colorado Christian University. Colorado Christian University (CCU), a private… ## [A missing chunk of Pope Vitalian’s Letter to King Oswiu about Easter?](https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/08/17/a-missing-chunk-of-pope-vitalians-letter-to-king-oswiu-about-easter/) _2026-08-17 · Roger Pearse · A missing chunk of Pope Vitalian’s Letter to King Oswiu about Easter?_ In Bede's Ecclesiastical History book 3 chapter 29, he quotes a letter from Pope Vitalian to the Anglo-Saxon King Oswiu, encouraging him to adopt the new simpler ## [The National Gospel](https://www.christian-heritage-news.com/2026/08/the-national-gospel.html) _2026-08-17 · Angela Wittman · Christian Heritage News_ By Jim Cassidy - Posted at The Heidelblog: Published August 17, 2026 In a recent episode of Presbycast , the host and three guests considered a letter written by J. Gresham Machen in 1925 to a missionary in the Southern Presbyterian Church. It did not take long for the conversation on the podcast to turn to “muscular Christianity” and Christian nationalism. And why not? The subject is very much on… ## [The encomium of Phoebammon on St Colluthus](https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/08/15/the-encomium-of-phoebammon-on-st-colluthus/) _2026-08-15 · Roger Pearse · A missing chunk of Pope Vitalian’s Letter to King Oswiu about Easter?_ There are two long encomia / eulogies on St Colluthus. The first of these exists in English already. The second, by Bishop Phoebammon or Phoibamon, acting as ## [American missionary pilot released after being abducted in Niger last year: report](https://www.christian-heritage-news.com/2026/08/american-missionary-pilot-released.html) _2026-08-14 · Angela Wittman · Christian Heritage News_ By CP Staff - Posted at The Christian Post : An American missionary pilot has reportedly been released from captivity after being abducted last October in Niger. Two U.S. officials told The New York Times on Thursday that Kevin Rideout, who serves with the North Carolina-based Evangelical organization Serving In Mission , was in U.S. custody and en route to the United States. For months, public… ## [“Who Am I to Declare Someone a Non-Muslim?”](https://stopthepersecution.substack.com/p/who-am-i-to-declare-someone-a-non) _2026-08-14 · Stop The Persecution · Stop The Persecution_ Jinnah’s vision of religious freedom, and the Pakistan that abandoned it. By Yasser Latif Hamdani. ## [The Guild](https://www.christian-heritage-news.com/2026/08/the-guild.html) _2026-08-13 · Angela Wittman · Christian Heritage News_ By Blake Callens - Posted at PostTruthPost: Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. — Matthew 6:19-21 I would never begrudge God His… ## [So why should we edit Coptic martyrdoms anyway? The CSCO editor replies.](https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/08/13/so-why-should-we-edit-coptic-martyrdoms-anyway-the-csco-editor-replies/) _2026-08-13 · Roger Pearse · A missing chunk of Pope Vitalian’s Letter to King Oswiu about Easter?_ I’ve started to look at the modern critical edition of the texts around St Colluthus. This was printed a decade ago in 2013 in the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium (CSCO) volume 650, edited by Gesa Schenke. The texts were printed properly – in place of the half-assed hand-written texts in the editiones principales. The translation \[…\] ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Z0aaKkEVIjwk) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [Pastor suffers stroke in ICE detention, will remain in custody pending removal](https://www.christian-heritage-news.com/2026/08/pastor-suffers-stroke-in-ice-detention.html) _2026-08-12 · Angela Wittman · Christian Heritage News_ By Anugrah Kumar - Posted at The Christian Post: Published August 11, 2026 A Liberian pastor in North Carolina suffered a stroke while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, his family says as they are seeking answers about the medical care he received. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 55-year-old Gabriel Johnson during a targeted immigration enforcement… ## [The Martyrdom of St Colluthus – Second Version](https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/08/12/the-martyrdom-of-st-colluthus-second-version/) _2026-08-12 · Roger Pearse · A missing chunk of Pope Vitalian’s Letter to King Oswiu about Easter?_ St Colluthus was a Coptic physician who was tried and executed in 314 AD. This was part of the great persecution of Christians ordered by the emperor Diocletian. The original court record survives, more or less, preserved as a martyrdom text, and this I posted a few days ago here. This has been referenced in \[…\] ## [Why Christians Should Vote](https://www.christian-heritage-news.com/2026/08/why-christians-should-vote.html) _2026-08-11 · Angela Wittman · Christian Heritage News_ Providence Has Given Us a Meaningful Voice By Matthew Adams - Posted at Mining the Riches : I voted this morning. Normally, that would not be particularly noteworthy. I walked into my polling place, checked in, cast my ballot, and went on with my day. It did not take very long. But today is a special election day in South Carolina, and elections like this have a way of exposing something about the… ## [Powerful earthquake shakes Colombia, causes destruction, casualties](https://www.christian-heritage-news.com/2026/08/powerful-earthquake-shakes-colombia.html) _2026-08-10 · Angela Wittman · Christian Heritage News_ By Diario Cristiano - Posted at The Christian Post: An earthquake of magnitude 7.4 shook Colombia on Monday morning. The movement was strongly felt in several regions of the country and caused damage, evacuations and casualties. The Colombian Geological Service located the epicenter near San José del Palmar, in the department of Chocó. The earthquake occurred around 7:34 a.m., local time, and had… ## [An English translation of Harnack’s reconstruction of Marcion’s gospel](https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/08/10/an-english-translation-of-harnacks-reconstruction-of-marcions-gospel/) _2026-08-10 · Roger Pearse · A missing chunk of Pope Vitalian’s Letter to King Oswiu about Easter?_ An interesting email this morning from W. C. Muenchow IV of truetestament.org: I’m writing to let you know about … the first complete English translation of Adolf von Harnack’s textual reconstruction of Marcion’s Bible, built largely from close analysis of Tertullian’s five books against Marcion, together with Epiphanius and the Dialogue of Adamantius. Harnack’s reconstruction \[…\] ## [Blatant corruption starts with small compromises of integrity](https://www.christian-heritage-news.com/2026/08/blatant-corruption-starts-with-small.html) _2026-08-07 · Angela Wittman · Christian Heritage News_ We notice the obvious instances, but not the more subtle cases that make the worst ones possible. By Bruce Barron - Posted at Evangelical Focus : Published August 6, 2026 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. —Ephesians 5:11 On July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham died. Discourse after his death focused on how Senator Graham had been a clear-minded, firm… ## [Open-access edition and translation of Galen’s “Peri Alupias” (On grief) and “On my own opinions”](https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/08/05/open-access-edition-and-translation-of-galens-peri-alupias-on-grief-and-on-my-own-opinions/) _2026-08-05 · Roger Pearse · A missing chunk of Pope Vitalian’s Letter to King Oswiu about Easter?_ I’ve written before about the discovery of a fascinating work by the 2nd century physician, Galen, describing the loss of libraries and his own research collection in a fire in Rome. Now an edition of it, with English translation, plus another work, has come online, open-access: Galen,, Polemis, Ioannis and Xenophontos, Sophia. ›On Avoiding Distress‹ \[…\] ## [Chronicle of the Persecution of Scientists No. 35](https://t-invariant.org/2026/07/h1-chronicle-of-the-persecution-of-scientists-no-35-h1/) _2026-07-31 · ak · Т-инвариант / T-invariant_ T-invariant is publishing its latest regular report, Chronicle of the Persecution of Scientists No. 35, dated July 31, 2026. Russia’s State Duma has passed a law aimed at political émigrés. Human rights advocates say it is effectively a citizenship-stripping law. The Russian authorities are expanding the practice of freezing bank accounts outside of any specific case, on the basis of “suspicion”… ## [A letter of Peter of Alexandria to a bishop who apostasised in the persecution under Diocletian](https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/07/30/a-letter-of-peter-of-alexandria-to-a-bishop-who-apostasised-in-the-persecution-under-diocletian/) _2026-07-30 · Roger Pearse · A missing chunk of Pope Vitalian’s Letter to King Oswiu about Easter?_ In the Acts of St Colluthus, which record events in May 304 AD, the persecutor Arianus attempts to get Colluthus the physician to apostasise by sacrificing to the gods. Not that Arianus, nor the emperor Diocletian who set him to work, actually believed in the gods. The demand was made precisely because it was known \[…\] ## [They Came for the Geneticists? Why Scientists See the New Genetic Data Law as a Threat to Russian Science](https://t-invariant.org/2026/07/they-came-for-the-geneticists-why-scientists-see-the-new-genetic-data-law-as-a-threat-to-russian-science/) _2026-07-30 · Vladimir · Т-инвариант / T-invariant_ On September 1, 2026, right after the summer vacation season, Federal Law No. 43-FZ and Government Decree No. 750 take effect, regulating the transfer of human genetic data outside Russia. Authorities describe the new rules as a measure to protect national security and “genetic sovereignty.” Many scientists, however, see them as a serious blow to international scientific cooperation — fearing new… ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/iaqQRVqc1uvA) _2026-07-30 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [A few musings on Colluthus and Coptic and copyright infringement](https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/07/29/a-few-musings-on-colluthus-and-coptic-and-copyright-infringement/) _2026-07-29 · Roger Pearse · A missing chunk of Pope Vitalian’s Letter to King Oswiu about Easter?_ I’m still pottering around in the Coptic martyrology area, especially with regard to the Great Persecution of the church under Diocletian. I have a translation of another version of the Acts of St Colluthus to upload, although a valueless one. I’ve been looking for the other texts about the same saint – two encomiums – \[…\] ## [A Verdict by Men’s State: T-invariant uncovers the details of Darya Shipacheva’s treason case](https://t-invariant.org/2026/07/a-verdict-by-men-s-state-em-t-invariant-em-uncovers-the-details-of-darya-shipacheva-s-treason-case/) _2026-07-28 · ak · Т-инвариант / T-invariant_ On July 29, the Moscow City Court is set to hand down its verdict against Darya Shipacheva, author of books and podcasts about chronic pain. The prosecution of this science journalist and feminist activist illustrates a new pattern in how Russia’s repressive machine operates. Treason cases involving money transfers to Ukraine — like those involving donations to Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption… ## [Disability Pride Month 2026: Progress, Pride, and the Work Ahead](https://www.sharynmorrow.com/2026/07/disability-pride-month-2026-progress-pride-and-the-work-ahead/) _2026-07-28 · Sharyn Morrow · Sharyn Morrow, CPACC_ Every July, Disability Pride Month gives me an opportunity to reflect on how far we’ve come and how much work remains. This year feels a… The post Disability Pride Month 2026: Progress, Pride, and the Work Ahead appeared first on Sharyn Morrow, CPACC . ## [The trial of St Colluthus ca. 304 AD – a literal transcription of the court proceedings](https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/07/27/the-trial-of-st-colluthus-ca-304-ad-a-literal-transcription-of-the-court-proceedings/) _2026-07-27 · Roger Pearse · A missing chunk of Pope Vitalian’s Letter to King Oswiu about Easter?_ St Colluthus was tried and executed in the Great Persecution ordered by the emperor Diocletian, in May 304. Unusually we have a near-exact transcript of his appearance before the Roman provincial governor. This was Satyrus Arianus, whose activity against the church is recorded in a number of papyri. The opening and closing paragraphs are clearly \[…\] ## [From my diary](https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/07/25/from-my-diary-565/) _2026-07-25 · Roger Pearse · A missing chunk of Pope Vitalian’s Letter to King Oswiu about Easter?_ A book arrived through the post yesterday: E.A.E. Reymond & J.W.B. Barns, Four Martyrdoms from the Pierpont Morgan Coptic Codices, Oxford (1973). This contains the martyrdom of St Colluthus, plus an English translation. I did try to order it by ILL, but something went wrong, and I gave up. Needless to say they have now \[…\] ## [Two miracle stories of St Colluthus from the White Monastery](https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/07/24/two-miracle-stories-of-st-colluthus-from-the-white-monastery/) _2026-07-24 · Roger Pearse · A missing chunk of Pope Vitalian’s Letter to King Oswiu about Easter?_ As I wrote earlier, the first pages – parchment – to arrive in Europe from the library White Monastery at Sohag in Egypt were leaves of a life of the incredibly obscure St Colluthus (or Coluthus), containing two stories of miracles that took place at his shrine. These were published by Francesco Borgia in 1781; \[…\] ## [Mathematics Is a Live Performance.” Misha Verbitsky on Intelligent Mold, Non-Consensus Realities, and Aesthetics as the Last Refuge of Human Reason](https://t-invariant.org/2026/07/mathematics-is-a-live-performance-misha-verbitsky-on-intelligent-mold-non-consensus-realities-and-aesthetics-as-the-last-refuge-of-human-reason/) _2026-07-23 · Vladimir · Т-инвариант / T-invariant_ In June 2026, the mathematician Misha Verbitsky ended up in an Armenian jail, caught in the automatic machinery of intergovernmental agreements that Russia has pressed into service for political persecution. Starting from that story of police and politics, his conversation with T-invariant editor Alexander Sergeev turns steadily more philosophical. How is polarization destroying scientific unity?… ## [The Paradox of Open Borders: Why Physical Freedom Doesn’t Liberate the Mind. An Interview with Marina Bykova](https://t-invariant.org/2026/07/h1-the-paradox-of-open-borders-why-physical-freedom-doesn-t-liberate-the-mind-an-interview-with-marina-bykova-h1/) _2026-07-20 · ak · Т-инвариант / T-invariant_ In 1993, Marina Bykova became the youngest Doctor of Sciences in the humanities in Russia. Today she is a professor at an American university and editor-in-chief of the journal Studies in East European Thought . Her professional life has been devoted to building and sustaining dialogue between the Russian philosophical tradition and the international academic community. In an interview with… ## [Sir Chaudhry Zafrullah Khan: A Man Who Revolutionised Article 18](https://stopthepersecution.substack.com/p/a-man-who-revolutionised-article-e0d) _2026-07-09 · Stop The Persecution · Stop The Persecution_ Written by Mikaeel Malik our Religious Freedom Correspondent ## [Putin’s Falcons. Alabuga’s CEO patented a game called Drone Battle: Ukraine, while his deputy patented the war’s main drone](https://t-invariant.org/2026/07/putin-s-falcons-alabuga-s-ceo-patented-a-game-called-drone-battle-ukraine-while-his-deputy-patented-the-war-s-main-drone/) _2026-07-08 · ak · Т-инвариант / T-invariant_ YouTube, TikTok and Twitch are blocking ads en masse for the Alabuga Special Economic Zone, which recruits young people to assemble combat UAVs. Yet Tatarstan's efficient managers have relaunched the recruitment campaign - through the proxy project Stalin's Falcons, the Dronecon cyber tournaments with million-ruble prizes, and the game Drone Battle: Ukraine. Details in a T-invariant investigation.… ## [Chovy's Blog: Agentic Coding (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/E5miZDKBn8Am) _2026-07-08 · **Sponsored**_ Personal posts on agentic coding, moshcode CLI, and security findings. ## [The Passport Black Spot: How Dual-Use Restrictions Are Sending Russian Scientists to China](https://t-invariant.org/2026/07/the-passport-black-mark-how-dual-use-restrictions-are-sending-russian-scientists-to-china/) _2026-07-06 · ak · Т-инвариант / T-invariant_ An experimental physicist originally from Russia is now one of the most undesirable applicants on the global academic job market. Even IT specialists and theoreticians find it easier to secure employment than those who actually know how to turn lab concepts into working experiments. In Europe, the primary legal barrier is a sweeping expansion of European export control legislation regarding… ## [“From Law to Loss”: How Pakistan’s Constitution has led to a decline in talent](https://stopthepersecution.substack.com/p/from-law-to-loss-how-pakistans-constitution) _2026-07-02 · Stop The Persecution · Stop The Persecution_ Written by Aaman Khan Freedom of Religion or Belief Correspondent ## [Chronicle of the Persecution of Scientists No. 34](https://t-invariant.org/2026/06/chronicle-of-the-persecution-of-scientists-no-34/) _2026-06-30 · Vladimir · Т-инвариант / T-invariant_ T-invariant is issuing its regular report, the Chronicle of the Persecution of Scientists, No. 34, dated June 30, 2026. From June 8 to 14, the fourth edition of the “You Are Not Alone” marathon in support of political prisoners took place, raising more than 14 million rubles over the week. The funds raised are used to help people in Russia who are imprisoned on politically motivated charges, and… ## [Bleder Kanalgeruch with an h-index: A Tour of Belgian Academic Magic](https://t-invariant.org/2026/06/bleder-kanalgeruch-with-an-h-index-a-tour-of-belgian-academic-magic/) _2026-06-24 · ak · Т-инвариант / T-invariant_ A questionable publication in Nature, several fake images, a professor with a dozen suspicious papers, a phantom author with an h-index who turns out to be a Zenit football fan from a fan website — this is not an isolated oddity, but part of a system, a cross-section of today’s Belgian academic environment. More in the latest installment of Plagiarism Navigator. The post Bleder Kanalgeruch with an… ## [Faith Under Watch: Pakistani Ahmadi Muslims Continue to Face Persecution During Eid-al-Adha and Beyond](https://stopthepersecution.substack.com/p/faith-under-watch-pakistani-ahmadi) _2026-06-23 · Stop The Persecution · Stop The Persecution_ Written by our Freedom of Religion Correspondent Ibrahim Shaikh ## [PUSIN for Putin: Who is selling the “happiness button” and how?](https://t-invariant.org/2026/06/pusin-for-putin-who-is-selling-the-happiness-button-and-how/) _2026-06-22 · ak · Т-инвариант / T-invariant_ By the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s new presidential term in 2030, Russia’s fastest-growing neurotechnology company Neiry promises to begin developing solutions for maintaining mental health and cognitive function, as well as technologies for stimulating brain neuroplasticity and managing emotional states — specifically, “fear, happiness levels, and motivation.” Research and development are being… ## [When a Law Decides Who You Are Allowed to Be](https://stopthepersecution.substack.com/p/when-a-law-decides-who-you-are-allowed) _2026-05-01 · Stop The Persecution · Stop The Persecution_ Understanding Ordinance XX and its impact on Ahmadi Muslims, 42 years later ## [How Pressure from Clerics Shapes Law Enforcement Against Ahmadi Muslims](https://stopthepersecution.substack.com/p/how-pressure-from-clerics-shapes) _2026-04-23 · Stop The Persecution · Stop The Persecution_ Written by Our Freedom of Religion Correspondent Faran Shaheen ## [Eid in the Shadows: When Religious Celebration Is Denied to Religious Minorities](https://stopthepersecution.substack.com/p/eid-in-the-shadows-when-religious) _2026-04-21 · Stop The Persecution · Stop The Persecution_ Written by Ibrahim Shaikh, our Freedom of Religion Correspondent ## [I’m Speaking at Minnebar 20](https://www.sharynmorrow.com/2026/04/im-speaking-at-minnebar-20/) _2026-04-20 · Sharyn Morrow · Sharyn Morrow, CPACC_ I’ll be speaking at Minnebar again this year and I hope you’ll join me. My session is called “When Disability Is Misread: Safety in High-Stress… The post I’m Speaking at Minnebar 20 appeared first on Sharyn Morrow, CPACC . ## [The Upholding of Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) in Islam](https://stopthepersecution.substack.com/p/the-upholding-of-freedom-of-religion) _2026-03-10 · Stop The Persecution · Stop The Persecution_ Written by our Freedom of Religion Correspondent Faran Shaheen ## [Before, During, and After](https://www.sharynmorrow.com/2026/02/before-during-and-after/) _2026-02-26 · Sharyn Morrow · Sharyn Morrow, CPACC_ Accessibility Does Not Stop at the Screen I have spent more than thirty years working in the digital space. For the last eleven years, I… The post Before, During, and After appeared first on Sharyn Morrow, CPACC . ## [First Book from Pope Leo XIV: ‘PEACE BE WITH YOU!: My Words to the Church and to the World’](https://pierced-hearts.com/2026/02/19/first-book-from-pope-leo-xiv-peace-be-with-you-my-words-to-the-church-and-to-the-world/) _2026-02-20 · Lisa Graas · Pierced Hearts_ Pope Leo XIV's first book, PEACE BE WITH YOU!, releasing February 24, 2026, shares his vision for unity and peace, including sermons and addresses from his early papacy. ## [In Kentucky, Organ Donation Pause in Procedure Act Moves to the House Floor](https://pierced-hearts.com/2026/02/19/in-kentucky-organ-donation-pause-in-procedure-act-moves-to-the-house-floor/) _2026-02-19 · Lisa Graas · Pierced Hearts_ House Bill 510, the Organ Donation Pause in Procedure Act, passed unanimously in Kentucky, establishing safeguards to protect patients and ensuring independent reassessment before organ procurement resumes after any change in neurological status. ## [Bangladesh at a Crossroads](https://stopthepersecution.substack.com/p/bangladesh-at-a-crossroads) _2026-02-19 · Stop The Persecution · Stop The Persecution_ What does the future hold for Religious Minorities? Written by Our Religious Freedom Correspondent Ibrahim Shaikh ## [Nigerian Catholic Diocese Stages Protest over Mass Killings, Condemns “heartbreaking carnage”](https://pierced-hearts.com/2026/02/14/nigerian-catholic-diocese-stages-protest-over-mass-killings-condemns-heartbreaking-carnage/) _2026-02-14 · Lisa Graas · Pierced Hearts_ The Catholic Diocese of Wukari in Nigeria has staged a protest mass killings in parts of Southern Taraba State, condemning the violence as “heartbreaking carnage” and urging the government to take decisive action to halt the bloodshed and protect affected communities. ## [Kentucky Right to Life Applauds Filing of HB 646 to Strengthen Enforcement of Life-Terminating Pharmaceuticals](https://pierced-hearts.com/2026/02/13/kentucky-right-to-life-applauds-filing-of-hb-646-to-strengthen-enforcement-of-life-terminating-pharmaceuticals/) _2026-02-13 · Lisa Graas · Pierced Hearts_ Kentucky Right to Life supports House Bill 646, aimed at regulating the trafficking of life-ending pharmaceuticals, imposing felony penalties and protecting vulnerable populations from harmful practices. ## [Religious Minorities in India Suffer Escalating Attacks](https://pierced-hearts.com/2026/02/06/religious-minorities-in-india-suffer-escalating-attacks/) _2026-02-06 · Lisa Graas · Pierced Hearts_ The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) calls on the U.S. government to urge Indian officials to hold perpetrators of targeted violence accountable for attacks against religious minorities. Over the past couple of months, violent attacks by Hindu nationalist mobs targeting Christians have escalated. ## [An Historic Moment for Courage International](https://pierced-hearts.com/2026/02/06/an-historic-moment-for-courage-international/) _2026-02-06 · Lisa Graas · Pierced Hearts_ Courage International participated in a private audience with Pope Leo XIV, celebrating their mission to support individuals experiencing same-sex attraction and their families while promoting chaste living within the Catholic faith. ## [19,775 Catholics Urge Pennsylvania Parish to Cancel Fr. James Martin Talk](https://pierced-hearts.com/2026/02/04/19775-catholics-urge-pennsylvania-parish-to-cancel-fr-james-martin-talk/) _2026-02-05 · Lisa Graas · Pierced Hearts_ Faithful Catholics petition Epiphany of Our Lord Church to disinvite Jesuit priest Fr. James Martin for promoting views contrary to Catholic doctrine, causing scandal within the Church.