JOS, Nigeria, July 22, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Monday (July 20) killed 11 Christians in an attack in Kaduna state, Nigeria, the latest of more than 50 members of Baptist, ECWA and Catholic churches slain since June 12, sources said.

More than 50 armed herdsmen invaded Gora Gan village, in the north-central state’s Zangon Kataf County, on Monday at about 7 p.m., setting dozens of houses on fire, according to the Rev. Isaac Ango Makama, vice chairman of the local chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).

Seven other Christians were injured in the attack and were receiving treatment at General Hospital in Zonkwa, and many others are missing, he said. Corpses of those killed were taken to the morgue of the same hospital.

The attack brought to more than 500 the number of Christians taking refuge at a camp for the displaced, said Ezekiel James, one of the officials manning the camp.

“We currently have 559 displaced Christians at the Zonkwa Town Camp,” James told Morning Star News by text message. “They are Christians who escaped the attack against Gora Gan village and other villages in the past few days. These internally displaced Christians are in dire need of food items, drugs, and facilities to treat those who are traumatized.”

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The attack brings to more than 50 the number of Christians killed in Muslim Fulani herdsmen…

In his strongest comments on the subject in months, President Trump Tuesday urged Americans to wear masks, saying the coronavirus pandemic likely will “get worse before it gets better” in the United States. 

“We’re asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask, get a mask,” Trump said at a news conference. “Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact. They’ll have an effect. And we need everything we can get.”

President @realDonaldTrump: “We’re asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask.” pic.twitter.com/pfpssIqJjH

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 21, 2020

Later, he returned to the same subject: “We’re … asking Americans to use masks, socially distance, and employ vigorous hygiene – wash your hands every chance you get – while sheltering high-risk populations.”

Trump, who discussed masks several times during the coronavirus briefings in April, has been criticized by some for not promoting them enough in recent weeks. He wore a mask publicly while visiting Walter Reed National Military Medical Center July 11, and on July 20 tweeted a photo of himself wearing a mask. On Tuesday, he re-tweeted a video of his news conference comments about masks.

We are United in our effort to defeat the Invisible China Virus, and many people say that it is Patriotic to wear a face…

Acknowledging founder Margaret Sanger’s ties to the eugenics movement as well as her “racist legacy,” Planned Parenthood of Greater New York said Tuesday it would remove her name from a building and also work to scrub her name from an honorary street sign.

Sanger’s support of eugenics has long been criticized by pro-life activists. She died in 1966.

Sanger opened the first Planned Parenthood clinic in 1916 and is considered the founder of the national organization.

In a statement, the New York Planned Parenthood chapter said the announcement “reflects the first of many organizational shifts to address Sanger’s legacy and system of institutional racism, which negatively impacts the well-being of patients, staff and PPGNY’s broader communities.”

“The removal of Margaret Sanger’s name from our building is both a necessary and overdue step to reckon with our legacy and acknowledge Planned Parenthood’s contributions to historical reproductive harm within communities of color,” said Karen Seltzer, board chair at Planned Parenthood of Greater New York. “Margaret Sanger’s concerns and advocacy for reproductive health have been clearly documented, but so too has her racist legacy. There is overwhelming evidence for Sanger’s deep belief in eugenic ideology, which runs completely counter to our values at PPGNY. Removing her name is an important step toward…

Two black Christian women are standing up against the Black Lives Matter organization by covering up its murals that have been painted in several New York City locations.

The Christian Post reports that on Saturday, activists Bevelyn Beatty and Edmee Chavannes attempted to paint over the Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower. Both women arrived in a sports utility vehicle with numerous cans of black paint, alongside several other women.

A Facebook live video on Beatty’s page showed them pouring the paint over the mural’s yellow letters. As of Wednesday, the now-viral video has amassed over 1.6 million views, with 20,000 likes and 40,000 shares.

According to the video’s description, Beatty wrote that the Black Lives Matter Movement is “a domestic terrorist organization” who does not “care about black lives.”

Instead of using the hashtag ‘Black Lives Matters’, the activists are using the hashtag ‘Jesus Matters’ in making a statement.

“They support the killing of more than 600K Black Babies every year!” she added.

“We’re not standing with Black Lives Matter. We want our police. Refund our police,” Beatty said in the video.

“Jesus Matters! Jesus Matters!” she exclaimed as she smeared the paint over the mural.

“Black Lives Matters is a demon. It’s a devil!” Chavannes added. “It’s destroying this nation!”

As the NYPD came to…

A man from China recently offered a personal account of how he and other believers are being forced to renounce their faith or, if they refuse, be imprisoned.

A man under the pseudonym Li Geng told persecution watchdog Bitter Winter that he was arrested five years ago and was imprisoned for three years and six months for “organizing and using a xie jiao organization to undermine the law enforcement.”

Li is a member of The Church of the Almighty God (CAG), which Bitter Winter describes as “the single most persecuted religious group in China” due to its “phenomenal growth” in membership.

During his incarceration, Li was kept under 24/7 supervision by a team of prisoners that were led by guard assigned inmates.

Bitter Winter explains that the “supervised” prisoner had to obey the team leader and must always stay in close proximity. This also includes asking for permission in everything that they do, including eating, drinking water, using the toilet, changing clothes, sleeping or even scratching an itch. However, if the leader denies the request, the prisoner must comply.

In order to make CAG members renounce their faith, they are subjected to mandatory indoctrination.

Reportedly, Li was required to memorize prison regulations and “The Standards for Being a Good Pupil and Child,” a manual centered on the teachings of Chinese philosopher Confucius….

Police from Kansas City, Missouri are raising funds for a single mother after she donated her $100 lottery winnings to a police officer who was shot in the line of duty.

According to NBC12 in Kansas City, Shetara Sims is a single mother who lost her job because of the coronavirus pandemic. She said she had $7 and bills due but she found a $1 bill in a grocery store parking lot and bought a scratch-off ticket. She won $100.

Her daughter, Rakiya Edmonson, 12, suggested they donate the winnings to a police officer who was shot on July 2 while chasing a suspect. He is currently in the intensive care unit in stable condition, KCPD shared.

“She won $100, and I said we should donate it to the police officer that got shot for his family to go eat and see him,” Rakiya said.

On July 10, Sims made the $100 donation anonymously.

NBC12 says police “spent days tracking her down” and set up a GoFundMe page for the single mother. As of Wednesday morning, the site had raised more than $51,000.

“Even still, when we tracked her down, she said, ‘Doesn’t the officer’s family need it more than me?’ She’s got a heart of gold, and here’s how you can help her out: gf.me/u/ygr4ya,” the Kansas City police department said in a tweet.

Sims said she appreciates the work of police officers. After her other daughter was murdered in 2012, Kansas City police stayed in contact…

Earlier this week, an appeals court ruled that a New York-based Christian adoption agency can now sue the state of New York for attempting to shut them down because the charity does not place children with same-sex or unmarried couples.

According to The Christian Post, after New York’s Office of Children and Family Services sent a notice to New Hope Family Services threatening to disband the charity for violating a 2013 state law against discriminating against applicants, New Hope filed a lawsuit in 2018. This latest ruling pushes the case back to the district court and handed the charity a victory.

The three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that New Hope was within its First Amendment rights. Circuit Judge Reena Raggi, who wrote the panel’s opinion, stated that “the allegations cannot be dismissed for failing to state a plausible Free Exercise claim.”

“It is plainly a serious step to order an authorized adoption agency such as New Hope—operating without complaint for 50 years, taking no government funding, successfully placing approximately 1,000 children, and with adoptions pending for being supervised—to close all its adoption operations,” Raggi wrote.

“All the more serious when, as just discussed, the agency has, for five years and without objection by OCFS, used recusal and referral to avoid rejecting…