adoption

On Friday, President Trump issued a proclamation recognizing November as National Adoption Month.

A U.S. federal judge sided with a Christian adoption agency on Monday and blocked the state of New York from closing the agency over its policy on same-sex adoption.

An appeals court, this week, ruled that a New York-based Christian adoption agency can sue the state of New York after it attempted to shut the agency down for only placing children with opposite-sex, married couples.

President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that seeks to improve relationships between state agencies and faith-based organizations in the foster care system.

The Trump Department of Justice offered its support to a Catholic foster care agency in the midst of a religious liberty case that is questioning how government entities should interact with and what requirements, if any, they should have for religious organizations.

A Georgia court recently ruled that a father who had pushed for an abortion had forfeited his rights to his now three-year-old son. The son's guardians are seekings to adopt him.

Adoption is proof that physically bearing children is not the only way a woman becomes a mother. Among the darkest evils of surrogacy is that it treats a mother as less than a whole person, wanted for her procreational parts that are increasingly treated as consumer products, especially as commercial surrogacy becomes more common.

In Acts 10, Simon Peter was shown a vision of “all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air” (v. 12). He was told to “kill and eat” but refused, citing his commitment to Jewish dietary restrictions (vv. 13–14). This was the response: “What God has made clean, do not call common” (v. 15).

Just then, he received Gentile visitors asking him to accompany them to see a Roman centurion named Cornelius. Before his vision, Peter would have refused to speak with these men, but as he later testified, “God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean” (v. 28). He discovered his prejudice and learned to love all people as does his Lord.

Fostering Hope, a Las Vegas church-based ministry, is working alongside churches in the Las Vegas valley to grow the number of certified foster families, provide ongoing support for current foster parents, bring awareness and education to the unmet needs in the valley, and meet the practical needs of local agencies caring for children.

The Supreme Court has decided it will hear a major religious liberty case that could affect how religious adoption agencies and charities operate.