Pharmacy owners cannot cite religion to deny medicine -U.S. appeals court
Dan Levine, Reuters
Throughout human history, people of all cultures have sought freedom. Some have emphasized inner spiritual or emotional freedom, and others freedom from external restraints, such as slavery or political freedom.
Why Congress Won’t Defund Planned Parenthood
Dustin Siggins, The Federalist
Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, takes money for baby body parts, but stopping this atrocity, let alone taxpayer funding for it, will take more than the proposals at hand.
Human trafficking: The lives bought and sold
BBC
Millions of men, women and children around the world are currently victims of human trafficking – bought and sold as commodities into prostitution and forced labour.
Chinese Communists Losing the War Against Christianity
The American Interest
Communists in China increasingly realize that the war against religion as such is a losing proposition, and are now looking to support “indigenous” Chinese religions and traditions—Confucianism, Buddhism, Chinese folk religions—against both Christianity and Islam, seen as dangerous imports with potentially destabilizing effects, and “new religions” like the cult of Falun Gong.