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The United Kingdom's West Midland Police have dropped charges against a woman arrested in March for silently praying within an abortion facility's "buffer zone."

A recent article in The Atlantic by Helen Lewis made the bold claim that “The Gender War Is Over in Britain.” An overstatement, to be sure, but not entirely unwarranted. Keir Starmer, head of the Labour Party, recently led his party away from full support of radical gender ideology. This was a notable shift for the United Kingdom’s largest left-wing party, which had previously encouraged radical elements of trans activism and stood aside as feminists were canceled for resisting the new orthodoxy. The shift, which was quietly announced to the public, made “three big declarations.”  

A Christian social worker in the United Kingdom says he is the victim of religious discrimination after a job offer was revoked after his faith-based views on same-sex marriage and homosexuality were revealed.

A student cell church movement has been holding prayer and worship events called “Ignition Nights” over the last eight months, spurring Christian students to evangelize in cities across the UK.

The United Kingdom will no longer "routinely" give puberty blockers to children under a decision by the nation's National Health Services that will limit such drugs to minors within clinical trials.

While it costs us nothing to pray today to Christ our Savior, it costs us everything to coronate him our King. C. S. Lewis observed, “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

Apparently, the U.K. has decided to shift its loyalties from courageously defying tyranny in the 20th century to embracing it in the 21st. Last week, a “conservative”-led British Parliament made George Orwell’s fictional accounts of “thought crime” a reality. After establishing censorship zones around abortion clinics in England and Wales, the MPs voted 299-116 to continue criminalizing even silent prayer in the vicinity of such clinics.

As a lawyer for the U.K.’s Alliance Defending Freedom put it, Today’s vote marks a watershed moment for fundamental rights and freedoms in our country. Parliament had an opportunity to reject the criminalisation of free thought, which is an absolute right, and embrace individual liberty for all. Instead, Parliament chose to endorse censorship and criminalise peaceful activities such as silent prayer and consensual conversation.

The law is no idle threat.

Pro-life activist and charity worker Isabel Vaughn-Spruce was arrested for a second time for the "offense" of praying silently outside of an abortion clinic.

A UK court has acquitted a pro-life activist and a Catholic priest of violating a Public Space Protection Order by silently praying outside of an abortion clinic.

United Kingdom authorities have dropped charges levied against a pro-life activist who was arrested last year for silently praying outside an abortion clinic.