Five pro-life activists, including Lauren Handy of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, have been found guilty of violating federal law in connection with a 2020 blockade of a Washington, D.C., abortion facility. All of the defendants were taken into custody following the verdict; another group of activists is set to be tried for their involvement with the same blockade. Handy made headlines in 2022 for recovering the remains of five full-term babies alongside 110 other human remains from the facility at the center of the trial. Read more.

A self-described clown barber with a full-facial clown makeup tattoo, silicon implants and red clown hair isn't what most people imagine when they think about someone who says they are ready to jump into ministry. But, that's exactly what Richie the Barber says he is working toward with the help of Pastor Joey Tellez of The Connection House Church in Whittier, Calif. Read more.

Living Waters founder and CEO Ray Comfort uses Scripture to highlight sin's similarities to sugar. Both are sweet, addictive and found everywhere—and both come with serious consequences. Read more.

Author and talk show host Dr. Alex McFarland cautions against city officials attempting to destroy Christian ministries to cater to the "LGBTQ+ mafia" in the wake of LGBT activists showing outrage over the support Myrtle Beach, S.C., has shown for the Ground Zero ministry. "[H]omosexual and woke activists' real problem is not with cities and businesses who help this or that charity. Their real beef is with God," he writes. Read more.

Oakdale Church of Olney, Md., has only a few weeks remaining to raise $4 million to keep their property or they will lose their church building. The congregation, which voted to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church in April, is required to pay the UMC mission shares, any unfunded pension liability and 50% of the property's assessed value, totaling approximately $4 million. Read more.

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• Oklahoma Supreme Court blocks church's disaffiliation vote

St. John's Institutional Missionary Baptist Church in Miami, Fla., is facing the foreclosure of several of its buildings after a former pastor allegedly mishandled the historic church's finances. A GoFundMe campaign has raised around $13,000 of the $3 million goal to cover the debt racked up by former pastor Bishop James D. Adams before Sept. 11 to avoid Taylor Made Lending auctioning the church's properties. Read more.

Vampyre Cosmetics has walked away from its collaboration with singer Alice Cooper in response to the rocker suggesting that transgenderism among youth is another "fad." Cooper raised concerns about adults teaching children they can change their sex if they want or even identify as a cat. Read more.