News and Views June 9, 2020

Albert Mohler: Rewriting the Bible? The Crackdown on Christianity in China (Part I)

"With the world distracted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party has restarted its long running campaign against Christianity. Provincial authorities have banned online religious services. Officials in one province reportedly removed crosses from two churches in April adding to a tally of defaced churches that stretches into the thousands."

Christian teen cut into pieces by radicals in India 3 years after conversion
A Christian convert teenager in the Odisha state of India was killed last Thursday by a group of religious fanatics in the Hindu-majority country, who reportedly cut up his body into pieces, according to the interdenominational ministry Persecution Relief.

Pastor Bijay from the Malkangiri district told the nonprofit serving persecuted churches in India about how a group of suspected Hindu radicals (some of whom did not live in the village) ganged up last Thursday to kidnap Christians in the remote Kenduguda village.

As a result, seventh-grader Samaru Madkami was killed by the perpetrators, who were said to have cut his neck and crushed his head with a rock. The suspects are also alleged to have cut the teenager’s body into pieces and buried him in a pit....

UCLA to Investigate Lecturer for Reading MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail
The University of California Los Angeles has launched an inquiry into a teacher for reading aloud Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" because the civil rights document includes the n-word...

The Four Horsemen of America's Apocalypse
Here are four roots of evil that are guaranteed to destroy a civilization...

UCLA Prof on Leave After Refusing to Cancel Final Exam George Floyd's Death


Manufacturer to Leave Minneapolis After Being Set on Fire in Riots:
“The fire engine was just sitting there, but they wouldn’t do anything,” Wyrobek said. “That’s the frustrating thing to us.”

A Tale of Two Urbanisms:
New Yorkers are trying their best to muddle through—but will their government and political class fail them?

A enormous swarm of locusts—8,000 times larger than before—could descend on East Africa ...In an area where 20 million people are already food-insecure, if the swarms aren’t stopped, staple crops such as maize could be decimated...