Armenian Americans breathed a sigh of relief this week when the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved Resolution 296 to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Around 1.5 million Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1923, as the defeated Ottoman Empire transitioned into the modern Republic of Turkey. Less than half a million survived. (Casper, Christianity Today)
Read MoreThe Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would allow adoption, foster care agencies, and other social service providers receiving taxpayer funding from the Department of Health and Human Services to refuse to serve people based on religion, sexual orientation and gender identity. (Shimron, Religion News Service)
Read MoreJust over half of children in the United States — 53 percent — now own a smartphone by the age of 11. And 84 percent of teenagers now have their own phones, immersing themselves in a rich and complex world of experiences that adults sometimes need a lot of decoding to understand. (Kamenetz, NPR)
Read MoreThe country’s first arrest and prosecution for praying in public has collapsed following a bungling police investigation. Christian Hacking, 29, was arrested by police after he was seen praying outside an abortion clinic in London earlier this year. (Swerling, The Telegraph)
Read More“Student information officers” keep tabs on their professors’ ideological views. They are there to help root out teachers who show any sign of disloyalty to President Xi Jinping and the ruling Communist Party. (Hernandez, The New York Times)
Read MoreFormer president Barack Obama offered some advice earlier this week to young people hoping to change society: participating in cancel culture isn’t the way to do it. (Chiu, The Washington Post)
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