Day: May 21, 2023

Christian group urges congressional action after Biden’s ‘muted response’ to crisis

10:00 am May 21, 2023

A Christian advocacy group submitted a letter to the U.S. Congress this week urging action to help Armenians still cut off in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. “Washington’s lax approach has only emboldened Azerbaijan, who since December has been holding 120,000 Armenian Christians hostage in an attempt to extract concessions from Armenia in the long-delayed, oft-promised talks […]

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger ‘honored’ to be banned from Russia

9:17 am May 21, 2023

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger thanked the Russian government on Saturday for including him in its list of hundreds of Americans banned from its country for spreading “Russophobia.” Raffensperger said in a statement that he was grateful Russia decided to bar him from entering the country. “My inclusion on this list is deserved, and […]

Moscow mayor introduces quarantine in 16 city districts amid bird flu outbreak

9:02 am May 21, 2023

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Thursday ordered a strict quarantine for multiple districts in Russia’s capital due to an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, known as the bird flu. According to a document published on the mayor’s website, the order enacted on May 16 placed 16 of Moscow’s 125 districts in quarantine identifying the regions […]

Selma Blair went undiagnosed with MS for 40 years; she’s working with charity to find a cure

9:00 am May 21, 2023

Selma Blair is joining the Race to Erase MS. The actress has been open about her struggles living with multiple sclerosis since being diagnosed in 2018. Earlier this month, she revealed she went undiagnosed for 40 years despite showing symptoms. “If you’re a boy with those symptoms, you get an MRI. If you’re a girl, […]

This Christian college that attributes its soaring enrollment to free speech has a checkered past

8:30 am May 21, 2023

The president of a Christian college attributed his university’s soaring enrollment to its commitment to free speech, but the school initially blocked conservative commentator Ben Shapiro from speaking on campus just a few years ago. Grand Canyon University, founded in 1949 in Phoenix, Arizona, has tripled its enrollment over the last decade, surpassing 25,000 in 2022. The […]