Lone Trumpet — A Voice From the Wilderness

A one-year Medicaid defunding of Planned Parenthood lapsed July 4, restoring roughly $800 million in taxpayer funds to the abortion provider.

1st Circuit rules Saint Dominic Academy, Bangor Christian Schools must follow Maine's gender-identity rules to keep public tuition funds.

A Lahore court frees Nadeem Masih, a blind Christian jailed 10 months on a blasphemy charge stemming from a dispute over borrowed money.

Iranian authorities order roughly 20 Armenian and Assyrian families to leave Tehran's 150-year-old St. Peter's Church ahead of state seizure.

Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least 52 people in Kyiv apartment blocks, drawing condemnation from Ukraine's church leaders.

Trump's Religious Liberty Commission delivered its 224-page report June 26, urging repeal of the Johnson Amendment and new protections for faith.

Pastor Ezra Jin, founder of Beijing's Zion Church, reaches Los Angeles after nine months detained, freed following Trump's direct appeal to Xi Jinping.

International Christian Concern's 2026 Global Persecution Index reports 388 million Christians persecuted worldwide, Nigeria deadliest by far.

Solicitor General Sauer filed a brief backing two Denver-area Catholic preschools excluded from Colorado's universal pre-K program.

Erika Kirk and Charlie Kirk's parents saw accused killer Tyler Robinson in person for the first time as his Utah death-penalty hearing began.

Thousands closed the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in Philadelphia July 5, tying America's 250th birthday to a call to faith.

ICE agents detained Sister Leticia Ugboaja, 56, as she walked to Sunday Mass in McAllen, Texas, confiscating her rosary before releasing her hours later.

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that states may bar transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports, upholding laws in West Virginia and Idaho.

A one-year Medicaid ban on Planned Parenthood lapsed July 4, restoring funding after nearly 30 clinics closed nationwide.

Delaware permanently agrees not to enforce a law compelling pro-life pregnancy centers to post state-mandated disclaimers, ending a federal suit.

An Austin server is charged with stabbing his Catholic pastor at a steakhouse, saying the priest mocked him during confession years earlier.

Amir Peter, 61, died July 1 in a Lahore prison after nearly a year awaiting trial on a false blasphemy charge carrying a death sentence.

A 15-year-old Ethiopian girl, Indii Mikaa'el, faces death threats from her own family after leaving Islam to follow Jesus in June 2025.

What does it mean for joy to be our strength? Let's explore the scene in Nehemiah to find out.

In the quiet moments of life, joy seems elusive. Yet, Scripture calls us to rejoice always. How do we grasp this joy?

Defendants who disrupted a St. Paul church's Sunday service in January ask a federal judge to drop charges under the FACE Act.

Kerrville dedicates a 20-foot steel cross as Texas Hill Country marks one year since a flood killed 139, including 27 at Camp Mystic.

The DOJ's Religious Liberty Commission, chaired by Dan Patrick, delivered a 224-page draft report June 26, open for public comment until July 13.

On July 4, 2026, 48 tall ships from 20 nations sailed New York Harbor as the nation marked 250 years since independence, amid record heat.

Christian and human rights groups are urging U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack to press Damascus to free Sadad's former mayor, jailed 17 months without charge.