Jeanie Hannaman

December 12, 2018

Religious Freedom Envoy: China One of the ‘Worst Human Rights Situations in the World’, by Patrick Goodenough

By Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews - The administration’s ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom painted a bleak picture Tuesday of the landscape in China, and called the communist regime’s suppression of Uighur Muslims one of the “worst human rights situations in the world.”.. “China isn’t backing away from the religious persecution; it seems to be expanding,” Ambassador Sam Brownback said, pointing also to Beijing’s treatment of Christians and other minorities.

December 12, 2018

Inspiring ‘Unbroken’ Sequel Shows WWII Hero Overcoming “Darkest Days”, by Josh Shepherd

By Josh Shepherd, The Stream - As Americans look back on the past year, the life of evangelist Billy Graham (1918-2018) will be recalled for his impact on millions of lives worldwide. For Graham, his hero was a young man who came to one of his Los Angeles meetings in 1949. At the time, the man was an abusive alcoholic. Yet when Louis Zamperini accepted Christ, his life radically changed.

December 12, 2018

SCOTUS Stumbles in Refusal to Review Abortion Funding, by Thomas Gallatin

By Thomas Gallatin, The Patriot Post - The Supreme Court declined Monday to review a lower court’s ruling that prevented two states from ending public Medicaid funding for abortion providers, with the obvious target of those states being the nation’s leading baby killer: Planned Parenthood… On a final note, Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency for the past two years and could have tackled this issue by passing legislation to prevent government funding of Planned Parenthood. They failed to do so.

December 12, 2018

Vatican, US Diverge on UN’s ‘Global Compact on Migration’, by Edward Pentin

By Edward Pentin, EWTN News - The Global Compact on Migration — a U.N.-prepared agreement aimed at bringing a more globally coordinated approach to international migration — was signed Dec. 10 by 164 governments, including the Holy See, which firmly backed the nonbinding treaty... But the United States, along with Hungary, Japan and 26 other states, did not, believing it fails to deal effectively with the phenomenon and, in the view of many of the nations that declined to sign, undermines a nation’s sovereign right to decide how to protect its borders.