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Trump DOJ to Court: Faith-Based Adoption Agencies Can Refuse Same-Sex Couples

Trump DOJ to Court: Faith-Based Adoption Agencies Can Refuse Same-Sex Couples

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.

Father Who Encouraged Abortion Forfeited His Parental Rights, Court Rules

Father Who Encouraged Abortion Forfeited His Parental Rights, Court Rules

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 Beautiful, Surrogacy Isn't: Responding to Concerns and Questions

Adoption Is Beautiful, Surrogacy Isn't: Responding to Concerns and Questions

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.

What Makes This Year's Gerber Baby Unique: Three Steps That Can Change A Life

What Makes This Year's Gerber Baby Unique: Three Steps That Can Change A Life

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 in the City of Sin

Fostering Hope in the City of Sin

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.

Supreme Court Takes Major Adoption Case Pitting Religious Liberty, LGBT Rights

Supreme Court Takes Major Adoption Case Pitting Religious Liberty, LGBT Rights

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

Impromptu Baby Shower on Airplane: The Right and Wrong Way to Respond to Our Culture

Impromptu Baby Shower on Airplane: The Right and Wrong Way to Respond to Our Culture

After inquiring about why a couple would be traveling home with an eight-day-old baby, a flight attendant learned a beautiful story of adoption.

Planned Parenthood Performs 81 Abortions for every 1 Adoption Referral, Data Shows

Planned Parenthood Performs 81 Abortions for every 1 Adoption Referral, Data Shows

For everyone 81 abortions Planned Parenthood facilities performed, they only made one referral for adoption, the abortion giants annual report suggests.

Will New Adoption Rule ‘Discriminate’ against LGBTQ People? The Best Way to Prepare for the Future

Will New Adoption Rule ‘Discriminate’ against LGBTQ People? The Best Way to Prepare for the Future
Last Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a rule that would end discrimination against Catholics and evangelical Protestants in adoption services.

Trump HHS Rule Will Overturn Obama-era Rule, Protect Christian Adoption Agencies in LGBT Disputes

Trump HHS Rule Will Overturn Obama-era Rule, Protect Christian Adoption Agencies in LGBT Disputes
Faith-based adoption and foster care agencies that receive federal grants wouldn’t be forced to place children in same-sex homes under a proposed Trump administration rule that would overturn a rule finalized in the final days of the Obama administration.