A special news feature from Family Life that examines some of the religous battle grounds in our country and the efforts to protect religious freedom.
New York is poised to become the 13th state to legalize physician assisted suicide via the "Medical Aid in Dying Act." Governor Hochul has reached a verbal agreement with the legislature and plans to sign the bill in January. It will take effect six months later.
Dr. Stanley Bukowski has 40 years experience in end-of-life care. He sits down with our own Sarah Harnisch to discuss the slippery slope of assisted suicide, and what has happened in other countries where it has passed.
Learn more about taking a stand against physician assisted suicide here.
Prison Fellowship Mission Ambassador Jermaine Wilson sits down with Family Life News Anchor Sarah Harnisch and shares his incredible story of seven years in prison to becoming the mayor of Leavenworth, Kansas. Prison Fellowship's Angel Tree program blessed his son while he was behind bars. Wilson says, "your past is a place to learn from, not live in."
Learn more about Prison Fellowship here: https://www.prisonfellowship.org/
Learn more about the Angel Tree program here: https://www.prisonfellowship.org/about/angel-tree/angel-tree-christmas/
More than 350 people attended vigils across the state of New York ahead of Governor Kathy Hochul's decision on whether or not the Empire State would become the 13th state to legalize assisted suicide. Family Life's Sarah Harnisch sat down with New York Alliance Against Assisted Suicide's Reushann Cox to explain why Hochul should be a hard no when it comes to the "Medical Aid in Dying Act."
Learn more about their work here: https://nosuicideny.org/
More than 50-thousand Christians have been killed in Nigeria since 2009, with a dramatic uptick this year, as radical Muslim groups move deeper south. Nigeria is now one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian. Family Life's Sarah Harnisch sits down with Voice of the Martyr's Vice President Todd Nettleton for an inside peek at the underground work their teams are doing in Nigeria, and how you can be a part of it.
Learn more here: https://www.persecution.com/globalprayerguide/nigeria/
The group "What God is Doing in Friendship New York" through the Alliance of Churches is hosting a nativity display contest. A prize of $100 will be given for the top home or business presentation that is visible to the public from the road or street. You have until 5pm Friday December 19th to enter.
To learn more about the "Origin of Christmas" nativity contest, go here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/whatgodisdoinginfriendshipny/
It's high-tech evangelism!
Sat 7 is using satellite technology to broadcast Christian programming to 25 million people deep in the Middle East. Just four percent of the audience believes in Jesus Christ.
Family Life's Bob Price sits down with Sat 7 Vice President Joe Willey. He says their team allows Muslims that want to covert to Christianity to contact them using the encoded app "What's App" so they cannot be tracked.
They're using social media, apps, and satellite technology to reach people for Jesus Christ, without ever setting foot in countries hostile to Christian missionaries.
Learn more here: https://www.sat7usa.org/about-us/
Just 37 to 42 percent of Christians say they will show up on election day, November 4th, in New York and Pennsylvania. Political educator and author of "Jesus and Politics" Bunni Pounds says that has to change. Pounds runs the website "Christians Engaged", which 850-thousand people of faith use to understand politics from a Biblical worldview. Find out more here: https://christiansengaged.org/
Family Life's Sarah Harnisch sits down with Special Counsel Thomas Breth of the Thomas More Society to speak about a win with the PIAA: the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association. They will now allow students of parochial schools across the state to take part in public school sports. To learn about the Thomas More Society, go here.
Family Life News Anchor Sarah Harnisch sits down with Voice of the Martyrs Vice President Todd Nettleton to talk about the "International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians." The VOM team has put together an outstanding set of resources for churches, for free, to encourage Christians to pray for persecuted brothers and sisters around the world. Find all the details here: https://www.persecution.com/idop/
Family Life News Anchor Sarah Harnisch sits down with Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer to discuss testimony at the Religious Liberty Commission's third hearing on religious freedom in K12 schools across America.
Learn more about the word of Alliance Defending Freedom here: https://adflegal.org/
Family Life News Anchor Sarah Harnisch sits down with Attorney Thomas Breth to discuss a case against the State College school district. Parents of kids at parochial schools sued to get their kids access to extra curricular activities at public schools.
Learn more about the work of the Thomas Moore Society here: https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/
Family Life News Anchor Sarah Harnisch sits down with M.D. Stanley Bukowski to discuss physician assisted suicide, which is close to passage in New York.
Learn more here: https://nosuicideny.org/