Current Events

Help Stop MAID in the U.S.

Canada’s Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) law will expand in March 2023, extending eligibility to those with a mental illness. A Creighton School of Medicine professor said this would even allow “mature minors” to be euthanized by state doctors without the consent of their parents. He said, “This is what happens when autonomy just goes nuts.” Health care has been “hyper-secularized” in recent years and is based on “cost-benefit analysis.” We must advocate against these practices, or these polices will make more inroads in the U.S. We need to support, in whatever way we can, health care that is about caring, not killing. There is even a coalition starting a new medical school that is going to focus very clearly on just that, “health care that is about caring, not killing.”

—FoxNews.com

Attacks Increase on Pro-Life Groups

Data show there have been twenty-two times more attacks on pro-life groups than pro-choice ones since the Supreme Court leak of the draft opinion that eventually overturned Roe v. Wade. “The overwhelming narrative in the media is the claim that those on the right are responsible for most of the politically motivated violence in the U.S. …with many claiming that there was disproportionate violence against pro-choice providers. Yet, a review of cases shows over twenty-two times more violence against pro-life advocates,” said the founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC).

—FoxNews.com

Parents Extremely or Very Satisfied with Private Schools

According to a new survey from Pew Research Center, “About eightin-ten private school parents…say they are extremely or very satisfied with the quality of the education their child is receiving, compared with 55% of those answering about a child in a public school.” Additionally, “parents answering about a child in private school are far more likely than those answering about a child in public school to say they are extremely or very satisfied with how much input they have in what their child learns in school.” Finally, a majority of parents say the teachers and administrators at their child’s private school have values that are very or somewhat similar to their own, compared with 11% of parents of a child in public school.

—PewResearch.org

Increasing Attacks in the DRC

Twenty Christians were killed and several others kidnapped after the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) struck the village of Kainama in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) the night of October 4. A bishop confirmed the attack, terming it “a devastating occurrence that continues to bleed off hope that the DRC has been praying for.” Their bodies were lying all over, and houses had been burnt down, other people are missing, taken away by the Muslim fighters. The ADF Islamist militant group has continued to stage attacks on Christians ceaselessly, leaving behind a trail of unfathomable losses, killing innocent believers and destroying shelters, food stores, hospitals, and vehicles. The bishop recounted fifty deaths in October. “We are losing believers almost every night savagely slaughtered…we do not get to know all the cases,” he said.

—Persecution.org

Some Encouraging Support to Christians

Recently there were encouraging decisions in several countries that will benefit Christian minorities. The Supreme Court of Pakistan granted bail to three Christians accused of “blasphemy.” Also, there was a legal decision in Pakistan affirming that preaching Christianity is in no way a criminal offense. In India, a Supreme Court order makes eight states submit evidence about anti-Christian persecution, also a legal opinion that conversion from one religion to another is entirely legal. In a similar vein, it was encouraging to note the support given by Indonesia’s federal government to Christians who are applying for a permit from their local officials to construct a new church building. The permit has not yet been granted by the local authorities, but with federal government support, attempts are ongoing.

—BarnabasFund.org

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