This week, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed multiple items in the state budget designed to promote adoption, including tax credits for adoptive parents and a marketing program that would have promoted adoption as an alternative to abortion. The veto decision sparked frustration and confusion among lawmakers and pro-life groups.
Christ for All Nations has announced that it will reimburse its employees for adoption expenses up to $5,000.
Abortion is twice as popular an option as adoption among women of childbearing age, according to a new survey that asked what they would likely do if faced with an unintended pregnancy.
The same filmmakers who were behind the faith-based hits War Room and Overcomer will release their next movie, Lifemark, in theaters on September 9, spotlighting the subject of adoption by focusing on two families brought together by the birth of a baby.
Many of us have started moving on from the pandemic. We’re at the two-year mark now, cases are dropping, and we’ve started living our normal lives again. But for so many, this return to normalcy is impossible. Human trafficking spiked during the pandemic, as did the sheer number of those vulnerable to traffickers. And hundreds of thousands of these newly-vulnerable people all over the world are just children.
Citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has agreed to pay a Catholic adoption agency $550,000 in attorney's fees after it tried to force the faith-based organization to place children in same-sex homes.
For millennia, those who follow Jesus have been a voice for the pre-born. Since the passing of Roe v. Wade in 1973, they have not only raised concerns and advocated for new laws, but they have also built pregnancy centers and family support systems. In our efforts to fight for vulnerable children, we must continue to follow the broader call of Scripture — namely, to care for all children, pre-born and already-born.
Dustin Tavella, the magician who won America's Got Talent with a sleight of hand and stories of inspiration, told Ellen Degeneres on Wednesday that his wife, Kari, told him he would be victorious.
A new federal lawsuit claims that a New York state agency violated a Christian adoption agency’s constitutional rights by opening an investigation and harassing it about its beliefs on marriage.
