Pro-life groups are commending the Trump administration after it kept abortion-related language out of a United Nations resolution on “Women, Peace and Security” and urged members to stop using phrases such as “sexual and reproductive health” in U.N. documents  

The U.S. Security Council passed the resolution last week, but the U.S. split from the United Kingdom, France, South Africa and other nations over the issue of abortion.

Unlike multiple past resolutions on women’s issues, the new resolution does not reference abortion or reproductive health. 

Susan Yoshihara of the Center for Human and Family Rights called it a “victory for the Trump administration” and a “blow to Europeans who insist that abortion be funded as humanitarian aid.” 

It isn’t the first time the U.S. has taken such a stance under Trump. In April, the U.S. threatened a veto if language affirming “sexual and reproductive health” wasn’t deleted from a resolution on sexual violence. Eventually, it was removed.    

Although the new resolution does not reference abortion, it does mention previous documents that included such language. For example, it mentions resolution “1889 (2009)” – a document that affirmed “sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights.”

U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft spoke out against the resolution’s support of past…

Actress Patricia Heaton says she hopes Kanye West stays strong in his faith despite, inevitably, being ridiculed for his faith.

“It’s very hard,” Heaton said in an interview with the Christian Post. “I think when someone of his stature in the industry and someone who has his amount of fame makes that kind of proclamation, people then really watch and scrutinize everything he does to catch him falling down. I hope that he is able to handle that because that’s what’s going to happen.”

The 61-year-old actress is a devout Catholic and has said she is praying for Kanye West. She has also often used her platform to talk about Jesus.

“I think that if you have the Christian perspective that this time we have on Earth is actually very small compared to eternity, and that our lives are so filled with nonessential information—especially with the advent of social media—there has to be someone talking about eternal things and talking about our souls, and people actually are hungry for that, even if they aren’t aware of it.”

The Everybody Loves Raymond star’s career started rocky at the age of 30. She moved to LA, according to Christianity Today, with zero prospects or an agent. It wasn’t until she had reached a breaking point that God started to bring her success. After coming home from a mission trip to a Mexican orphanage, she felt a wave of…

James MacDonald, founding pastor of Harvest Bible Church, has been formally disqualified from ministry.

The elders of Harvest Bible Church shared the announcement with the church congregation Sunday, saying that MacDonald “was biblically disqualified from the position of Elder, meaning he did not meet the spiritual standards to which a Harvest Bible Chapel Elder is held.”

The elders of Harvest Bible Church shared the announcement with the church congregation Sunday, saying that MacDonald did not meet Scriptural requirements to be an elder, the Christian Post reports.

In a letter read to the congregation Sunday, Elder Karl Jackson said the elders were thankful for MacDonald’s service to the church, but he is not “above reproach.”

Jackson said MacDonald was fired from the elder board in February for “having a ‘sinful pattern of inappropriate language, anger, and domineering behavior,'” the elders stated.

“You may be wondering why we’re coming to you now, months after James’ dismissal. As we spent time with the congregation and visited all of our campuses, it became clear that there was confusion over the previous statements about our former Senior Pastor. We are here today to provide clarity to our church family and to those who listened to and supported Walk in the Word, a ministry of Harvest Bible Chapel.”

The elders…

Anne Graham Lotz, often called “the best preacher in the family” by her late father Rev. Billy Graham, said that President Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops from Syria could be part of a divine plan that could herald “the last of the Last Days.”

“Whether the president is aware of it or not, God has placed him in office,” Lotz said during an Oct. 30 interview on The Jim Bakker Show. “The Bible tells us that [about leaders], that He puts people in office.

“God has used [Trump] in an amazing way to stand up for life, to stand up for the Nation of Israel, appoint judges that abide by the Constitution and the rule of law.”

Lotz, the sister of the Rev. Franklin Graham, went on to say that she initially voted for Trump because she could not support the policies of his rival, Hillary Clinton.

“Then I became a supporter, and I’m almost a fan,” she said before shifting the conversation to foreign policy, admitting she was a bit perplexed by the president’s decision to leave Syria, which leaves the Kurdish community exposed to Turkey.

“I’m like a lot of people—what in the world is going on?” Lotz said during an excerpt from the hour-long program.

“But because I believe God has used him, whether he really knows it or not, I believe like King Cyrus or others in the Old Testament, Nebuchadnezzar, God uses them,” the evangelist and…

A Virginia public school library has stirred controversy by introducing a diverse library collection that include sexually graphic messages and foul language.

The new collections were created by the Loundoun County Public School’s teachers and administrators with the intention of diversifying authorship and subject material, according to the Loundoun Times-Mirror. Over 90 percent of the new collection is categorized as “Diverse Race, Culture, Language, [and] Religion” with 2-3 percent as “Disabilities/Abilities” and 5 percent labeled “LGBTQ.” But many parents have found that some of the new books are not age-appropriate.

“Erotic descriptions of sexual activity, including fondling, a kissing scene between three men, orgasms, masturbation, and sexual intercourse are also included in the diverse classroom libraries. Students are being deliberately exposed to this stuff. You have a duty to remove it,” said meeting attendee and parent Natassia Grover.

Loudoun Now reports that one book, Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit, contains 49 f-words.

The school board held a meeting in September over the concerns in which several parents demanded the removal of the books. One school librarian in support of the books pointed out that the previous collections featured largely “white and heteronormative characters” and schools must…

An elderly man preaching the gospel was seriously injured on a New York subway when a woman attacked him with her stiletto heel.

“He didn’t say anything to hurt anyone, he wasn’t even loud, you could barely hear him talk but this is what he got in return,” said an Instagram user, @f.u.n.m.i.k.e., who recorded the incident, according to CBS 2 New York.

Police say the 79-year-old man was riding on the southbound 2-train near Times Square on Oct. 24 when the attack happened. The man stood in the middle of the aisle with a Bible and shared his faith.

But a woman, who has yet to be identified, walked up to him and started to scream. The confrontation increased quickly and she took off her heel and beat the man. The attack left a gash on his head that took 30 stitches to close.

The aftermath of the attack was caught on video and showed the elderly man in shock. A passenger asked him to sit and helped him with his wounds. Shouting can be heard in the background.

According to the Instagram user, the attack occurred by a transgender woman.

“This old man right here was just singing some gospel songs and sharing the word of god to people on the train, he didn’t say anything to hurt anyone, he wasn’t even loud, you could barely hear him talk but this is what he got in return from a transgendered lady who hit him on the head with her heels, threw his Bible away and no…

Former evangelical leader and author Joshua Harris shared that when he denounced Christianity, he essentially “excommunicated” himself from the church.

Speaking to Axios on HBO, the bestselling author of the controversial book “I Kissed Dating Goodbye,” said that he came to the realization that he could not continue to be a part of his faith community and left on his own accord.

“If you’re not living according to the teaching of the Bible, and you’re living in unrepentant sin, then you have to be put out of the church,” he explained, noting that, as a pastor, he would excommunicate members of his church if it was clear they weren’t living according to the teaching of the Bible.

“I came to a point of recognizing that I’m not living according to this … And I held other people to this standard … I excommunicated myself, essentially,” he admitted.

When asked what he believed “unrepentant sin” was, Harris gave the examples of getting an “unbiblical divorce,” having an affair or “living a gay lifestyle.” When asked what his unrepented sin was, Harris declined to expand, though according to Axios he said, “oftentimes, that’s related to sexuality.”

The former church leader, who now runs a branding agency, added that he did not want to give certain groups of Christians the satisfaction of…