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Seven children are without a mother after an apparent murder-suicide outside a Chick-fil-A in Rome, Georgia. According to police, 56-year-old Anthony Wayne approached 39-year-old Cassie Lashae Davis in the early morning hours of April 5th. Davis was stopped in the pick-up lane of the Chick-fil-A drive-thru when Wayne shot her three times. He later allegedly shot…

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A military helicopter crash in Kentucky took the lives of nine service members, including the 25-year-old son of a North Carolina pastor. Pastor Tim Gore, the grieving father, told the media, “He is my hero, and I am proud that God let him call me dad.” WKRN reported that Caleb Gore, Pastor Gore’s son, was…

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An emotional moment was caught live on-air as a news reporter for Fox was on the scene of a high school shooting at East High School in Denver, Colorado. A student had shot two school administrators during a pat down, later taking his own life in an area not far from the school. Reporter Alicia Acuna…

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In the aftermath of the tragic shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, TN, by a transgender man, the media has been laced with subtle, and sometimes not so-subtle, mockery of Christians and praying. Curtis Houck of the Media Research Center spoke to Fox News Digital about his perception of media coverage after the shooting. “The media…

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A Utah parent is calling on the Davis School District just north of Salt Lake City to remove the Bible from a high school, calling it “one of the most sex-ridden books around.” “Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” the parent listed as examples. “You’ll no doubt find that the Bible,…

G.K. Chesterton once wrote, “Tradition is the extension of Democracy through time.” He later went on to add that “Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our father.” Chesterton said he couldn’t…

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Dr. James Spencer, president of the D.L. Moody Center in Northfield, Massachusetts, joined Fox News’s “Lighthouse Faith” podcast to discuss his new book, Christian Resistance: Learning to Defy the World and Follow Jesus. He compared the current climate in the United States for conservative Christians to that of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. “I think Orwell is describing…

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Five children from the ages of 8 to 17 died in a tragic car accident on the Hutchinson River Parkway in Scarsdale, NY. A tweet from CBS New York reporter Tony Aiello identified the children as Anthony Billips Jr., 17, Malik Smith Jr., 16, Zahniyah Cross, 12, Shawnell Cross, 11, and Andrew Billips, 8. One nine-year-old boy…

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Melissa Joan Hart, known for playing “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” was going to a parent-teacher conference when news of the shooting at The Covenant School broke out in Nashville, Tennessee. Hart and her husband, Mark Wilkerson, were in their car when they saw a group of kindergarteners running out of the woods near the private…

The Pew Research Center has released a study on Americans’ views of different religious groups, including Muslims, Jews, mainline Protestants, and Catholics. The study was conducted in September 2022 with 10,588 US adults through a random survey of residential addresses. It also asked about views on atheists. Overall, most respondents chose to remain neutral when discussing opinions…

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