HBO star Yvonne Orji, from the hit series “Insecure,” recently opened up about how the Holy Spirit saved her when she was in the pit of her depression. 

Orji hosts a podcast called Jesus & Jollof with Luvvie Ajayi, and on the week four episode, “From Bottom to Breakthrough” she opens up about her difficult journey to make it in the entertainment industry. 

After being promised a hosting job for a daily TV show on an unnamed network, Orji was asked to suggest names for other shows the network needed hosts for. She gave the network a list of people she “thought would do a good job.”

 What happened next was what Orji said led to her depression. “I find out through the grapevine that one of the people I suggested, they made a better, bigger offer to that person and came back and told me that they only had groundnut and banana for me for pay,” the actress said.

She continued, “I was literally looking depression in the face. I could have let it take me out, but it was just like, ‘God I’ve done everything as right as I could.’ I’m even helping other people live out their dreams when I don’t even have my dream yet.”

During this time Orji said she didn’t even have enough money for gas so that she could go to church. Orji prayed to God saying, “God if you want me to volunteer at the church I need gas money.’ And there was sometimes where I only had…

A report from the human rights group Fortify Rights says that Myanmar military and civilian government could be prohibiting humanitarian aid to those displaced by violence in the Kachin state.

According to the 68-page report, Myanmar officials are “weaponizing” Kachin and keeping human rights organizations from delivering aid to the predominantly Christian and Catholic population living there.

China may also be encouraging Myanmar to block aid, the report says.

“Consecutive governments and the military have willfully obstructed local and international aid groups, denying Kachin civilians access to aid,” Fortify Rights CEO Matthew Smith said in a statement. “This may amount to a war crime, giving even more reason for the U.N. Security Council to refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court.”

The report also said there are more than 106,000 ethnic civilians who are displaced by conflicts in Kachin and Shan. They live in some 140 displacement sites.

“They block everything,” a 60-year-old displaced Kachin man in KIA-controlled territory said of the Myanmar military. He also said there is “no food for people on the border.”

According to the report, from June 2017 to June 2018, the civilian government of Myanmar only approved about 5 percent of the 562 “travel authorization” applications from humanitarian aid organizations.

Fortify Rights also…

Franklin Graham pointed to news of skyrocketing STD rates in the United States as evidence of our collective “moral and spiritual crisis.”

The series of tweets came in response to a CNN article reporting that a record number of STD cases, more than 2.3 million, were diagnosed in the United States in 2017. This was 200,000 more than the previous record, which was set in 2016. 

David Harvey, the executive director of the National Coalition of STD directors, said that President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar should declare this “a public health crisis.”

In the first of three tweets, Graham shared the link to the story, saying we had set another record, but that this one was carried no cause for celebration. 

.@CDCgov announced yesterday that our nation has set another record, but it’s not one to celebrate. Last year nearly 2.3 million cases of sexually transmitted diseases were diagnosed in the U.S. That broke the record set in 2016 by nearly 200K cases. 1/3 https://t.co/Y1MO1uTvtc

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) August 29, 2018

Then, he responded to Harvey’s call for President Trump to declare a public health crisis, saying that what we really have is a “moral and spiritual crisis.” He pointed to the rise in STDs as one symptom of the larger “crisis.”

An STD expert says that @POTUS should declare…

Antifa groups and gay rights activists protested a megachurch in Texas earlier this week and doxed the pastor’s son all because they oppose the church’s biblical views on sexuality.

Stonewall Militant Front-ATX and AZAAD Austin were among the groups protesting Celebration Church, a multisite nondenominational church in the cities of Austin and Georgetown. Antifa was reportedly protesting the Austin congregation on Sunday because they were meeting at the Austin Independent School District’s Performing Arts Center. The activists’ goal is to pressure the AISD to stop renting its space out to Christian “homophobes,” PJ Media reports. 

“Defend our youth from these attacks! Pride means fight back!” protesters said, waving rainbow flags, as worshipers walked into the auditorium.

When those attending the service left, protested yelled: “Bigots out of Austin; don’t come back.”

Under the Obama administration Antifa groups were designated as being a security threat and engaged in “domestic terrorist violence,” according to documents obtained by Politico, the National Review reports.

This week was the first time the church has rented the performing…

A woman is claiming that Kofi Danso, the leader of the Miracle for All Nations, told her that God wanted her to abort the child Danso impregnated her with or else she would die.

Chris-Ann Bartley’s son is now 6 months old. According to a DNA test, Danso, who calls himself a prophet, is the father.

Earlier this month, Danso asked the court to keep the paternity results sealed in Bartley’s lawsuit against him. He said if people knew he was the father, his reputation would suffer.

Ontario Supreme Court Justice Fred Myers denied the request.

“Ms. Bartley’s evidence is that when she approached Mr. Danso to tell him that she was pregnant, he asked her to have an abortion. When she declined, she claims that he told her that ‘the Lord showed him if I have the child I would die,'” Myers wrote.

Danso is married to Rev. JoAnne Danso. They have four daughters. His wife is also pregnant with twins.

According to a July affidavit, Danos said he did not have “sexual relations” with Bartley. He said the claims were meant to make him “pay child support for the child who was fathered by another man.”

After the paternity test was revealed to Danso, he said he was “shocked.” He has since said that he was seduced into the affair.

“But he now admits to having been seduced by Ms. Bartley. He says that being married, he offended his marriage vows, and was…

Sunday services at Inland Hills Church in Chino, California, will be dedicated to a time of worship and reflection in the wake of the recent suicide of Pastor Andrew Stoecklein, the church has announced.

“In lieu of our regular Sunday services, be with us for Open House Sunday anytime between 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., as we process and respond in the wake of Pastor Andrew’s passing last weekend. May our church family declare God’s goodness at all times, in every season. #godsgotthis#inlandhills,” the church noted in a statement on Facebook Thursday.

Stoecklein, 30, waged a very transparent battle with depression and anxiety before attempting suicide at the church last Friday. He was pronounced dead at a hospital several hours later on Saturday.

Since his tragic death, Stoecklein’s suicide has triggered a strong show of support from prominent…