Ninety-four clinic workers have sought help leaving the abortion industry after seeing the movie Unplanned, according to CBN News. 

“One percent of the abortion workers in the United States, after getting one look at them being portrayed on film,” Director Chuck Konzelman said during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, “have decided to change their lives…and what they do for a living.”

These clinic workers approached former Planned Parenthood executive Abby Johnson’s nonprofit, And Then There Were None, which helps workers exit the industry safely. The nonprofit employs former clinic workers to “end abortion from the inside out.” So far, ATTWN has helped almost 500 workers exit the industry and seek healing.

Konzelman visited Capitol Hill over Twitter’s alleged censorship of Unplanned’s account. It was temporarily suspended on the movie’s opening weekend in late March. Twitter claims it was an accident.

The Pure Flix movie, Unplanned, shares Abby Johnson’s radical transformation, from rising in the ranks of Planned Parenthood to joining the pro-life movement after watching a doctor perform an abortion via ultrasound.

Ashley Bratcher, the lead actress who portrays Abby Johnson, had a personal connection to the film. Shortly after accepting the role, her mother…

In a new survey looking at Americans’ religious identity, “No Religion” earned the most survey votes.

The analysis of the General Social Survey from Ryan Burge, a political scientist at Eastern Illinois University and a Baptist pastor, found that 23.1 percent of Americans claim no religious affiliation.

23 percent of survey participants identified as Catholic and 22.5 percent said they were evangelicals. According to CNN Some 2,000 people were interviewed as part of the survey.

The 2018 GSS was just released and there’s some big news. Those of “no religion” (23.1%) are statistically the same size as evangelicals (22.8%). There was also a small resurgence of mainline Protestants, while Catholics are down 3% in the last four years. pic.twitter.com/uiyDSe7M6f

— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) March 20, 2019

“It is the first time we have seen this. The same questions have been asked for 44 years,” Burge told CNN.

The Washington Post reports that in 1972, only 5 percent of survey takers did not assign themselves a religion and since 1991, the number of people saying they do not have a religion has grown by 266 percent.

“Religious nones,” or people who do not claim a religious affiliation, are defined as people who are atheists, agnostics and or “spiritual.”

Burge says he estimates that in four to five years, religious nones will make up the…

On Monday afternoon, a massive fire engulfed Paris’ famous Notre Dame cathedral.

Photos and videos posted to social media of the fire show large flames and black smoke ascending from the roof of the 12^thcentury church.

First photos/videos emerge on social media #NotreDame

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— RT (@RT_com) April 15, 2019

CNBC reports that Notre Dame – Paris’ most visited attraction site – attracts around 12 million visitors each year, with the Easter season being one of its busiest times, but so far, no injuries have been reported.

According to Fox News, at the time of this writing firefighters are working on controlling to the fire and the area surrounding the cathedral has been cleared.

The cause of the fire is not yet known, but Fox News reports that a source told them the fire was related to the $6.8 million construction and restoration project the cathedral was undergoing. According to Fox News, several parts of the cathedral were under scaffolding. Fortunately, several bronze statues were removed from the church sometime last week due to the restoration.

The mayor of Paris confirmed the fire in a Tweet around 2:20 PM CET on Monday. She wrote in French, “A terrible fire is underway at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. They @PompiersParis are trying to control the flames. We are mobilized on site in close connection with…

More than 100 Chinese police officers and SWAT team members closed a newly constructed church and beat dozens of Christians who were guarding it, and then buried Bibles and hymnbooks before leaving.  

The incident in Henan – China’s third largest province – took place in January and was reported by BitterWinter.org April 10. Chinese officials also seized the church’s cash and other possessions. 

“As soon as they entered the church, they smashed the donation box and pocketed the money, which totaled thousands of [yuan – likely hundreds in U.S. dollars.] They also questioned us about where all of our church’s money was kept,” a church member told Bitter Winter, which monitors religious persecution in China. 

The congregation, True Jesus Church in Anping, had opened a new building in July 2018 that cost around $300,000 U.S. But the Chinese accused the congregation of being in contact with foreign governments. The Chinese plan on converting the building to a nursing home, Bitter Winter reported.

Officials arrived Jan. 4 in dozens of vehicles to take over the building. When 60 or so church members barricaded the entrance with benches, more officers were called to the scene and stormed into the church. They beat the believers, leaving about 15 Christians on the floor moaning in pain. One woman who is in her 70s also was beaten, Bitter Winter…

Several thousand alumni, faculty members and supporters of an Indiana private Christian university are urging the school to rescind its speaking invitation to Vice President Mike Pence, saying the Trump administration’s policies aren’t consistent with Christian ethics.

Taylor University of Upland, Ind., announced Thursday that Pence would speak at its May 18 commencement. The school’s president, Paul Lowell Haines, said in a statement Pence has “been a good friend to the University over many years” and is a “Christian brother whose life and values have exemplified what we strive to instill in our graduates.” 

Taylor University is a non-denominational private Christian school founded in 1846.

More than 3,300 alumni and supporters of the university have signed a Change.org petition protesting the invitation.

“Inviting Vice President Pence to Taylor University and giving him a coveted platform for his political views makes our alumni, faculty, staff and current students complicit in the Trump-Pence Administration’s policies, which we believe are not consistent with the Christian ethic of love we hold dear,” the petition reads.

An unidentified tenured professor at Taylor told Salon the invitation “blindsided” people.

“I immediately became angry and cynical,” the professor said, “thinking that our dear seniors were being sold out,…

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Americans support bills that ban abortion after a heartbeat is detected, according to a new poll. 

But it depends on how the question is phrased. 

Pollster Scott Rasmussen surveyed 1,005 registered voters for the ScottRasmussen.com/HarrisX and split the samples in half to determine what Americans believe about the bills. 

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed such a bill into law last week.  

A full 56 percent of registered voters in the new survey backed such laws when they learned a fetal heartbeat can be detected as early as six weeks of pregnancy. The question read, “A fetal heartbeat can be detected as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. Do you favor or oppose a proposal that would make abortion illegal at any point after a fetal heartbeat has been detected?” Forty-four percent of registered voters were opposed. 

But support fell when the “six weeks” language was excluded.

Less than half (45 percent) of registered voters supported fetal heartbeat abortion bans when the question read: “Do you favor or oppose a proposal that would make abortion illegal at any point after a fetal heartbeat has been detected?” Fifty-five percent of registered voters opposed the bills when that language was included.

The questions included a sample size of 516 voters and 490 voters, respectively. 

An abdominal ultrasound usually…

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Artificial intelligence may allow technology to help people make wise decisions and work more efficiently.

But it is not morally neutral, argues a group of Southern Baptist and other evangelical leaders in a new declaration about technology and ethics.

“We affirm the use of AI to inform and aid human reasoning and moral decision-making because it is a tool that excels at processing data and making determinations, which often mimics or exceeds human ability,” according to the statement titled “Artificial Intelligence: An Evangelical Statement of Principles.”

“While AI excels in data-based computation, technology is incapable of possessing the capacity for moral agency or responsibility.”

Dozens of people gathered Thursday (April 11) at an event hosted by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for a discussion about the implications of artificial intelligence on topics ranging from faith to foreign policy.

ERLC President Russell Moore said the technological innovation could lead to new ways of sharing translations of the Bible with people across the globe who have yet to hear the gospel, and it already allows blind believers to listen to a smart speaker recite portions of the Bible.

But he said it is crucial to raise spiritual questions about the use of AI.

“For many years I have…