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They threw Christians to the lions in ancient Rome and two thousand years later, followers of Jesus Christ are still persecuted around the world in Muslim and Hindu nations like Pakistan and India, as well as places in Africa such as Nigeria.
We Americans tend to think of persecution and martyrdom only as something bloody and tragic that happens in other countries, without much concern that it could ever happen in the same way here, to us.
Think again.
The pieces are steadily being put in place to inaugurate what will begin as mere restrictions that inevitably, given human nature and the Left’s worship of power and control, will become outright persecution of anybody who doesn’t toe the Left’s line. It will then only be a short-step to something much worse.
A Timeline of COVID-19 from Discovery to Vaccine
By Stephanie Parker, Stacker News
, Diana Shishkina, Stacker News
AND Betsy Ladyzhets, Stacker News
On 1/9/21 at 10:00 AM EST
COVID-19 has spread quickly around the world, causing more than 1.7 million deaths and infecting more than 81 million people as of Dec. 28, 2020, according to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. It s already hard to remember life before COVID-19 but it was less than a year ago when a doctor in China sounded the alarm about a new respiratory virus. Since then, cases have been confirmed in nearly every country and on every continent except Antarctica. The United States today has the most COVID-19 cases in the world, and cases are rising quickly as people defied CDC recommendations to gather for fall and winter holidays.
Attorney General Becerra Says We’re Ready to Defend California’s Charitable Donation Reporting Requirement Safeguarding Donors from Fraud Published: Saturday, 09 January 2021 05:56
January 9, 2021 - SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued the following statement on Friday’s news that the U.S. Supreme Court will review challenges to California’s
charitable donor reporting requirement in
Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Becerra and
Thomas More Law Center v. Becerra.
“California’s donor reporting rules simply require charities to provide the state, on a confidential basis, the same information about major donors that they already provide to the federal government,”
said Attorney General Becerra. “This information helps the state protect consumers from fraud and the misuse of their charitable contributions. We look forward to defending our rules before the Supreme Court.”
By Terence P. Jeffrey | January 6, 2021 | 5:48am EST
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra speaks via video after President-elect Biden nominated him to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services on December 7, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has a record of attacking the freedom of speech and freedom of conscience.
It is not surprising, therefore, that Joe Biden has decided to name him secretary of Health and Human Services. They have shared values.
In 2018, Becerra filed a brief in the Supreme Court in the case of National Institute of Family Life Advocates v. Becerra. The question: Could California force pro-life pregnancy centers to promote government-funded abortions?