(RNS) — Visiting historically Black college campuses during homecoming observances over the last month, Blexit, a conservative Black group run by the late Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, has received pushback from some university officials and commentators.

Hampton University in Virginia and Howard University in Washington were among 10 institutions announced as locations of the tour by the group that was founded by conservative activistCandace Owens. The group, which describes its mission as focused on “Faith, Family, and Freedom,” merged with Turning Point USA in 2023.

According to its website, the “Elevate to Liberate” tour started on Sept. 25 at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, and will conclude Friday (Oct. 31) at Bowie State University in Maryland and Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.

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The head of the Syriac Catholic Church in central Syria has warned that Christianity is disappearing from the country. Speaking in Rome, the archbishop said the church is “dying” and called for urgent international intervention to stop the collapse.

Archbishop Jacques Mourad of Homs, Hama and Nabek said the Christian exodus was a result of the country’s “disastrous political and economic situation,” which has driven tens of thousands to flee Syria in search of safety and stability, the charity Aid to the Church
in Need reported.

At the launch of ACN’s Religious Freedom in the World 2025 report last month, the charity reported estimates that Christians in Syria have plummeted from about 2.1 million in 2011 to around 540,000 in 2024.

Mourad warned that without political reform and security guarantees, the Church has no way to stop the ongoing wave of migration.

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Democratic lawmakers, across the country, are hellbent on making the violence of abortion three things: unlimited, unrestricted and unregulated. New York, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon, Michigan, Colorado, Vermont, and New Jersey have all enshrined destroying our posterity as a state “constitutional” right. They have struck down the most minimal common-sense protections like parental consent/notification, 24-hour waiting periods, and abortion facility medical regulations.

Pro-abortion leftists in Pennsylvania want to do the same thing. They will contort and distort anything to make it possible, even if it means manipulating tragedy to bolster their trickery. In a recent hearing in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, pro-abortion lawmakers pushed for an amendment (HB 1957) to the state’s constitution to make unlimited, unrestricted and unregulated abortion legal in the commonwealth. (See the extreme nature of some current Democratic legislation in the Keystone state.)

Representative Chris Pielli (D), did what Democrats always do to promote abortion: Exploit rape. “I’m asking all the men if this right [to abortion] should be protected by law ... I keep hearing this from the other side, ‘Why do we need this?’ Without exceptions even for rape, incest and pedophiles. We’re not just talking about grown women; we’re talking about children. I’m asking all the men, fathers, think about this — husbands — think about what that means. Your wife will have to carry a rapist’s child. That’s more Taliban than American.”

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I don't know how to feel about this. It is good that finally a leader has the guts to stand up to these evil radicals. It is good that other cases of inhumane treatment is being highlighted. It seems strange that it has taken so long for someone to highlight this in the worlds eyes. With all the attention on Gaza and Isreal we forget there are other much worse situations.

Why was there no protests in the streets or on campuses for the almost genocidal levels of Christian persecution throughout the world.

Trump opens the door for sanctions on Nigeria over persecution of Christians

Lord Jesus, I pray for your will to be done in my life, no matter what that may entail. I surrender my all to you. I submit to your Lordship over my life. I give all my trials and tribulations and concerns over to you, and I trust that you will work them all out for my good, and for the good of others whose lives I touch. I pray we might all follow you in obedience to your commands, and that we might all submit to your will and purpose for our lives, even if it means more pain, more suffering, and more hardships yet to come. For we know you are good, and whatever you allow in our lives, you allow for our good, to conform us to your likeness, and to make us your holy people.

So, what is the hope of God’s calling upon our lives? What are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints? And what is the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe in Jesus Christ?

It is that Jesus Christ (the Son of God, and God the Son), our Lord and Savior, left his throne in heaven, humbled himself, and took on human form so that one day he would become our sacrificial lamb on a cross to take away our sins, but not just to forgive us our sins, but to free us from our slavery (addiction) to sin so that we will now serve him with our lives in walks of surrender to him in obedience to his commands.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

But it isn’t just that. Our faith in Jesus Christ should go beyond just denying self and dying to sin and walks of obedience to his commands. We need him to give us a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him in every aspect of our lives, and in all the choices and decisions that we make about our lives. For he is now to be our life, and our lives are now to be surrendered to him to do his will in all areas of our lives, and not just on a spiritual level, but in our everyday ordinary lives and things we go through.

For we are not to separate our spiritual lives from our secular lives. Our lives are to be surrendered to the will of God in all areas of our lives and in all of our daily routines. For God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – is not to be worshipped just one day a week or in one specific location, but we are to worship him in spirit and in truth all the time, and in every location, and under all circumstances. And we worship him in truth by surrendering our all to him in submission to his will and purpose for our lives.

And his will for our lives isn’t just all the feel good stuff. It isn’t just to forgive us our sins so one day we get to be with him for eternity. But it is the hard stuff, too. It is the trials and the tribulations which we experience which come into our lives to test our faith to see what we are made of. And the testing of our faith is to grow us to maturity in Christ, to make us more like Jesus in character, in thought, in word, and deed. It is to humble us, to bring us into subjection to our Lord in all things, and to make us God’s holy ones.

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 7:13-14; Matthew 10:16-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 17:14; Romans 5:3-5; Philippians 3:7-11; 1 Peter 1:6-7; 1 Peter 4:12-17; 2 Timothy 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 3:1-5; James 1:2-4; 2 Corinthians 1:3-11; Hebrews 12:3-12; 1 John 3:13; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,
Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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Seems like there is not a lot of biographical info about Calvin, compared to say other notable christian theologians like Edwards, Wesley, Luther etc.

How much is known historically about him. Has anyone ever attempted a biography?

What is a Confession of Faith and what purpose do they serve?

Hi, it's been awhile since posting at CF regularly. Taking into consideration I'm a visitor to this forum and not wanting to "Stir the pot" as it were. I'd sincerely appreciate input on the current climate of Christian nationalism within Catholicism in the U.S. Frankly I'm sicken by the far right in the Evangelical churches and I'm too conservative for the progressive churches so I'm at a loss at where I might find a home church. Friendly input would be highly appreciated.

A church I attended many years ago, had on its members role several thousand families. It was an average sized church building, hard to say what it would hold numerically - perhaps a thousand people at most. But I don't recall it having a lot more than maybe a few hundred out at the services I attended. I was kind of stunned to learn how many families were connected to that congregation. But my quetion is doesn't this make each service potentially very changable fellowship-wise in terms of whose attending each week. Clearly not everyone on the members role came to church every Sunday, how often some attended I don't know, but they were still connected to that congregation I suppose even if they hadn't been there in months or years.

Also some I suspect might have been going to a house / home group and not attending the weekly services regularly.

By contrast my early childhood was going to a mission hall, where perhaps there was 50 - 100 at most at a service (the hall would not have held more than 100 people) So it was mostly regulars, with occasional new faces.

What I am getting at is - in churches that have that many families connected, can one end up feeling at times, is this same church I attended last week, because there is a sudden change in who is there?

Bishop Jose María García-Maldonado celebrated a Mass Nov. 1 outside the Broadview facility in Chicago where immigration advocates allege federal authorities inhumanely treat detainees.

Maldonado, an auxiliary bishop in Chicago, and a group of eight spiritual leaders sought to bring Holy Communion to detainees and were not admitted. Mass organizers said they followed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s guidelines to obtain access and submitted the request weeks in advance.

An estimated 2,000 Catholics attended the outdoor Mass including Sister JoAnn Persch, 91, a Sister of Mercy and longtime advocate for immigrant rights in the Chicago area.

Persch said in previous years she was granted access to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and brought communion to detainees, but access has ceased. Obtaining access initially took time when she first began visiting the facility a decade ago, she said.

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I just did all mine this morning. I’m not big on the time changes twice a year.

Reviews are in: Heritage Foundation thumbs up; Rubio thumbs down

Conservatives are fighting among themselves over the far-right commentator Tucker Carlson’s decision to interview the antisemitic white supremacist Nick Fuentes on his podcast, where the two men decried conservatives who support Israel.

Kevin Roberts, the head of the conservative Heritage Foundation thinktank, defended Carlson after the episode, saying Carlson “remains and, as I have said before, always will be a close friend of the Heritage Foundation”.

Fuentes thanked Roberts for the [support] in a reply on X, citing his “courage in standing up for open discourse and defending Tucker against the Israel First Woke Right”.

On the podcast, Carlson called out Republicans including Senator Ted Cruz, the former president George W Bush and the ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, for being “Christian Zionists” who have been “seized by this brain virus”.

“I dislike them more than anybody,” said Carlson, the former Fox host whose podcast has skewed further to the right during the second Trump term.

In remarks to the Republican Jewish Coalition after the podcast aired on Thursday, Cruz said: “Now is a time for choosing. Now is a time for courage … If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very, very cool and their mission is to combat and defeat ‘global Jewry’, and you say nothing, then you are a coward, and you are complicit in that evil.”

Cruz also said he had seen more antisemitism on the right in the last six months than he had seen in his entire life, claiming it was a “poison” and that the party and the country were “facing an existential crisis”.

In recent weeks, reporting revealed that a group chat of young Republicans included a host of antisemitic comments, and texts revealed a Trump nominee – since withdrawn – who said he had a “Nazi streak”.

Fuentes went further on his views in a video after the podcast. “Do us all a favor,” he said. “We are done with the Jewish oligarchy. We are done with the slavish surrender to Israel, the wars, the foreign aid, the policing of antisemitism, the Holocaust religion and propaganda.”

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Just to make it clear to the people eager to confuse the issue. This is not about free speech. Neither Cruz nor I are calling for Tucker to be 'taken off the air' or that he shouldn't be allowed to interview Nick Fuentes. It's about the choice to use one's own free speech to point at and deplore antisemitic speech, or the choice to go along with it or ignore it.

Please keep my brother Alex in prayer. He's greatly ill with damaged kidneys and is on dialysis. He's having trouble eating food and keeping it down and as a result lost a lot of weight. Pray for his healing and salvation.
Please pray for Aiden that the Lord would open his eyes and his heart to the gospel. That the Lord would heal his father wounds and take down the barriers he's put up in his heart. That the Lord would reveal Himself as the perfect Father who won't turn away from his as Aiden's father did. That he would be protected from the enemies lies and discern the truth about the Lord. That the Lord would place other Christians in his life to bear witness to the Gospel. That he would be forgiven and repent.
Please pray for Josh. That the Lord would open his eyes to the lies the enemy has used to hold him. That the Lord would grant him repentance so that he might turn to the Lord.
That God would be glorified in all.

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Catholic U.S. Army veteran, Will Thibeau, explains how the U.S. Army's decision to cancel all religious support contracts for Army chapels disproportionately impacts Catholic soldiers.


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Catholic vice president pushes back against those who are framing his desire as disrespectful.

JD Vance hopes that his wife Usha one day becomes a Christian — and is pushing back against those who are framing his desire as disrespectful.

The vice president, who is a convert to Catholicism, took to social media on Oct. 31 to defend his wish, shared publicly at a speaking event two days earlier, that his Hindu-raised wife would one day come to “believe in the Christian Gospel.”

“My Christian faith tells me the Gospel is true and is good for human beings,” Vance said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “[Usha] is not a Christian and has no plans to convert, but like many people in an interfaith marriage — or any interfaith relationship — I hope she may one day see things as I do.”

“Regardless, I’ll continue to love and support her and talk to her about faith and life and everything else, because she’s my wife,” wrote Vance. The vice president, who met his wife at Yale Law School when they both identified as agnostics, added that Usha is “the most amazing blessing” in his life, adding that she encouraged him to reengage with his own faith “many years ago.”

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Amy Morrell, a beloved staff member at the Meadowridge Academy in Swansea, Massachusetts, has died after she was kicked in the chest by a 14-year-old student she was trying to restrain, authorities say.

Morrell, 53, of Riverside, Rhode Island, collapsed at the therapeutic residential school for "youth and young adults with mental health issues" after she was kicked on Wednesday, Oct. 15. The Bristol County District Attorney's Office said in a statement cited by WBZ-TV News that the incident occurred at around 6:55 p.m. when the female student was allegedly trying to leave a dorm building without permission.

“Based upon the initial investigation, the juvenile was charged with Assault and Battery causing Serious Bodily Injury," the district attorney's office said.

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If one considers ethics to an an agreed upon set of rules for conduct such as the code of Hammurabi and other ancient laws, one might consider "morality" as going beyond conduct to motives for behavior such as the danger of "coveting". One might even ask if philosophies such as Stoicism were influenced by Jewish law.

There are elements of ethics in Jewish law as well as proscriptions for activities to remind them of the God they were supposed to remember. However, one can find elements of morality beyond don't steal because you might be punished to don't steal because it is wrong to hurt someone else.

One might even say that God used Israel to introduce morality such that people would start doing less harm to others. One might then see in Christianity and advance in that the idea of even doing good for others is introduced.

Interesting possibilities.

2 Mississippi sheriffs, 12 officers charged in drug trafficking bribery scheme, officials say​

One of the indictments, which charges 15 people, says law enforcement officers provided armed escort services on multiple occasions to an FBI agent posing as a member of a Mexican drug cartel.

01 November 2025 – China​

Multiple branches of Beijing Zion Church were raided in June, with a large number of church members being summoned for questioning. Pray that the harassment of this influential church will ease and that the Lord will give its leaders wisdom to know how to respond.

31 October 2025 – Somalia​

Praise God that ‘Andrea’ (see previous day) has recently seen seven women and two men come to Christ. They are now part of the underground church that she helps to run.

30 October 2025 – Somalia​

Please pray for ‘Andrea’, an older Somali believer who has experienced considerable persecution since coming to Jesus. However, despite her life being at risk she continues to reach out with the gospel to local Somali Muslims through her small business.

29 October 2025 – Somalia​

Praise God for initiatives that our partner is taking to nurture and disciple Somali families in the word of God as well as to provide healing for the many believers who have experienced trauma as a result of persecution.

28 October 2025 – Pakistan​

Pray for Release International partners who serve the persecuted in Pakistan. One faithful partner was recently forced to leave his home after being maliciously targeted by a neighbour. Another partner has been trying to deal with serious false accusations, which have affected his physical and mental health.

27 October 2025 – Pakistan​

The wife of a Christian brick-kiln worker was brutally raped at gunpoint while her husband was out working. After harassing her over a long period of time, her attacker forced his way into the family home before assaulting the mother of five.

26 October 2025 – Pakistan​

Pray for a teenaged Christian girl who recently escaped after being kidnapped by a local Muslim man and his son. During her captivity, she was tortured, beaten and raped and suffered a miscarriage. She attempted suicide before managing to escape.

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Evangelist Franklin Graham condemned the face of “radical Islam” in Sudan after receiving videos showing paramilitary fighters executing civilians following their capture of the city of el-Fasher. Graham said the footage, which includes people being shot in the head and “piles of bodies,” was too graphic to share publicly.

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, seized el-Fasher on Monday, taking control of the last government-held city in Darfur after a months-long siege, The Associated Press reported. The RSF had already expelled Sudanese army troops from the region in recent weeks, marking a new stage in a war that has killed more than 40,000 people and displaced over 14 million.

On Wednesday, the Sudanese government reported that more than 2,000 civilians were killed since RSF entered the city.

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Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Nick Fuentes is another clear articulation of what Tucker is trying to do to the American right. Carlson knew exactly who Fuentes is and what he represents. He gave a platform to a man who openly admires Hitler, denies the Holocaust, and preaches white supremacism dressed up as “Christian traditionalism.” That was the point. The goal wasn’t to debate Fuentes. It was to mainstream him, to test how far this poison could spread inside the conservative movement, and to drive a wedge between Jews and Christians.

Ever since he left Fox News, Carlson has not been shy about his disdain for Israel and for Christians who support it. In his interview with Fuentes, he said he hates Christian Zionists more than anyone else and called their beliefs “heresy.” Think about that. A man who claims to defend Western civilization now mocks the very faith tradition that built it. He is trying to turn Christians against the Jewish people, to convince them that standing with Israel is a betrayal of Christ. It has never been clearer that Tucker doesn’t know his Bible.

Moreover, by hosting Fuentes, Tucker is stabbing TPUSA in the back. Nick Fuentes was an enemy of TPUSA. And now, just a short time after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, Tucker, who claims to be one of Charlie’s closest friends, hosts one of Charlie’s enemies.

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Recently, Politico exposed a seven-month collection of Telegram chat conversations among 12 members of the Young Republican National Federation that were overtly hateful, racist, and antisemitic.

It’s easy to try to dismiss this abhorrent chat group as an outlier of immature kids who have very little impact. (Most conservatives are not hateful, after all.) We want to believe that this report is just another example of liberal media bias — especially when we, as Christian conservatives, are regularly demeaned and labeled as right-wing extremists, often called “white Christian nationalists” by those in the middle and left side of the political spectrum. In fact, Vice President J.D. Vance downplayed the story, saying that these chats paled in comparison to the outright violent rhetoric and actions of the Left.

While the vice president is right to point out that these 12 young Republicans are far less influential and violent than those on the Left like Antifa, Charlie Kirk’s assassin, and the Virginia attorney general candidate, Jay Jones (a man who could potentially become the state’s chief legal advisor and law enforcement officer), we should not disregard or excuse their disgusting words. Disturbingly, there is a growing trend of hateful language among young conservatives and even some other influential conservatives. What has typically been relegated to the “alt-right fringe” is pushing its way into normal conservative circles. This is something that we, as Christians, must stand up against and stop.

Conservative leaders raising the alarm​

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