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A member of China’s Early Rain Covenant Church says the Chinese Communist Party continues to persecute members of the church by threatening to send their children to government re-education camps or forcibly remove adopted children from their parents. In a video released Wednesday alongside a new report by International Christian Concern, Liao Qiang, a member of ERCC in Chengdu, said that despite shuttering the church and jailing Pastor Wang Yi in December of 2018, the CCP continues to harass its members. Qiang said in the video accompanying ICC's new report on Religious Suppression in China that his family was forced...

A FAYETTE COUNTY COUPLE FOUND LITTLE HELP WHEN THEIR SON TOLD THEM HE WAS GAY. NOW THEY REACH OUT TO OTHERS WITH A MESSAGE OF ACCEPTANCE AND UNDERSTANDING. Late at night, when she couldn't sleep, Patti Ellis sought anonymous solace on the Internet. She was distraught because Adam, her teenage son, had revealed that he was homosexual. That news turned her life upside down and created conflict with the Christian teachings she'd absorbed since childhood. But she didn't find understanding on the Internet, only X-rated Web sites or church-sponsored sites telling her that Adam would burn in hell. That was...