After Pastor Chu Yiu-ming and eight others were convicted on Tuesday of crimes related to being a part of the pro-democracy Occupy Central with Peace and Love Movement and the Umbrella Movement protests, he stood in a Hong Kong courtroom and gave the sermon of his life.

According to Christianity Today, Chu – who is the leader of the Chai Wan Baptist Church and a pro-democracy advocate– shared his personal testimony before the court recalling how his difficult childhood lead him to Christ, to a life in ministry and to fighting for human rights.

According to an English translation of Chu’s testimony published in the Hong Kong Free Press, the pastor said, “I am a Christian minister committed to the service of God. I have resolved to live a life of friendship with the weak and the poor, praying that God’s justice be manifested on earth as it is in heaven, and that the gospel of love and peace be proclaimed among the people.”

He continued, “But today, old and grey, I find myself in the Defendant’s dock, making a final plea as a convict. It looks so absurd, if not outright shameful for a person holding holy office.

“And yet, at this very moment, my heart tells me that with this defendant’s dock, I have found the most honourable pulpit of my ministerial career. The valley of the shadow of death leads to spiritual…

The LGBT-themed Equality Act sparked immediate controversy when it was introduced in the House of Representatives last month.

But the pushback is only intensifying now that its implications are becoming clear.

House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat and co-sponsor, acknowledged this month that the Equality Act would force public schools to allow transgender athletes to compete in the sport of their preferred gender. The bill has 241 sponsors or co-sponsors — 238 of whom are Democrats. That is more than enough votes to pass the Democratic-controlled House. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is one of the sponsors.  

“Arguments about transgender athletes participating in sports in accordance with their gender identity having competitive advantages have not been borne out,” Nadler said. “Sports have positive impacts on physical, social and emotional well-being, and we should not be denying transgender athletes those opportunities simply because sometimes they may win. Nor should their occasional success be used as a roadblock to advancing civil rights legislation for LGBT people as a whole.”

In Connecticut, biological male athletes have won track and field state championships. 

The Equality Act(HB 5) would amend several laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to prohibit discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation and gender identity…

The city of San Jose, California will fly rainbow flags near a new Chick-fil-A that is slated to open at the city’s airport. 

The city council voted 11-0 this week to display a rainbow flag and a transgender rights pink, blue and white flag near the San Jose International Airport.

“I made the suggestion to put the flags next to the restaurant, and council members liked that idea but also said that maybe put flags elsewhere, too, like outside,” Ken Yeager, the first openly gay elected official in Santa Clara County, told NBC News.

Chick-fil-A has not commented on the council’s decision.

In 2018, the city council voted to approve a Chick-fil-A location in the airport’s food court.

Chick-fil-A has recently made headlines after the restaurant was barred from opening a new location in the San Antonio, Texas airport.

The San Antonio city council voted in March to stop Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant in the airport because of its LGBTQ donations and history. 

According to a report from ThinkProgress, Chick-fil-A tax documents show the Chick-fil-A Foundation has donated to groups that have openly stood against LGBTQ movements. Those groups included the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Paul Anderson Youth Home.

“With this decision, the City Council reaffirmed the work our city has done to become a champion of…

Attorney General William Barr says he believes there was campaign spying during the 2016 election cycle.

According to CBN News, Barr believes that political campaign spying may have been at the origin of the nearly two years long Mueller investigation into President Trump. Barr said that he has an “obligation” to look into whether or not spying did take place during the 2016 election cycle and as such he is working on putting together a team to investigate the allegations.

“I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal,” Barr said during Senate testimony Wednesday.

“I am not saying that improper surveillance occurred,” the attorney general said. “I am saying that I am concerned about it and am looking into it. I feel that I have an obligation to ensure government power was not abused.” 

He added that the “question is whether it was predicated, adequately predicated.”

A 22-month investigation found the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia during election season, but many Democrats have still asked to see the full report.

Barr said he couldn’t release a fully unredacted report but said the report should be released sometime next week.

In response, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the Associated Press that she didn’t trust Barr, while House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler of New…

After being admitted into the hospital late last month following complications from her cancer treatments, Joni Eareckson Tada has been released.

As Christian Headlines previously reported, the 69-year-old champion for people with disabilities was admitted into the hospital in late March after experiencing significant pain issues and difficulty breathing.

According to CBN News, doctors initially believed Tada was suffering from pneumonia, later doctors realized, however, that Tada’s lung condition was due to more than just pneumonia.

Tada shared on her Facebook page that her chronic quadriplegia – which she has dealt with for over 51 years – had put an undue amount of stress on her heart and lungs. 

This, Tada shared, was not a bad diagnosis. The author and speaker wrote, “The good news is, doctors believe that with medication and with a more efficient way of breathing, my condition can be reversed.”

An optimistic Tada shared that while this time may have been challenging, she knew that God was using this experience in her life to show His love and mercy.

She said, “My assignment over the last 14 days of hospitalization was straight out of Acts 20:24, ‘But life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus – the work of telling others the Good News about God’s almighty kindness and love’…

One person was arrested after a conservative speaker talking on gender politics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City was sprayed with an unknown chemical that smelled like bleach.

According to the Daily Wire, the news outlet’s own Michael Knowles was attacked on Thursday with a squirt gun filled with a glittery chemical – initially believed to be bleach – by a masked person while giving a speech called “Men Are Not Women.” 

The speech, which was meant to highlight key differences between liberal and conservative gender ideology, was hosted by the conservative group Young Americans for Freedom. The event attracted a handful of protestors who Knowles says were heckling him while he was trying to deliver his speech.

According to the Daily Wire, “Hecklers consistently interrupted Knowles and yelled at him, prompting Knowles to respond, ‘I know, you’re so oppressed, my dears. I know, life is so hard for you. You have to live in the richest, most equitable, most just country in the history of the world. You have to get a college education; you have to voluntarily go to lectures; it’s so awful. I can’t imagine.’”

Knowles’ response triggered a mass exodus of the protestors. This is when the masked protestor sprayed Knowles in the face and side with the unknown substance. 

Police then wrestled…