RELIGION HEADLINES
Written by on January 5, 2025
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(SRN NEWS) – There’s not much for families to watch on popular streaming services. The Parents Television and Media Council has conducted a study and it reveals that the vast majority of programs produced by on-demand companies are aimed at mature audiences only. Of all the original shows available to stream, more than 540 are rated Mature, versus less than 60 that are G-rated. On Netflix, for example, 62 percent of programs are for mature audiences, six percent are PG-rated, and one percent are G-rated. Many families are turning to Christian streaming services.
It’s been a decade since six South Koreans were detained in North Korea, but there is still no word on whether they are alive. Three of them are Christian missionaries and the rest North Korean defectors, who had resettled in the South. The missionaries, who had been involved in covert work to spread Christianity in the North, were all sentenced to hard labor for life after being convicted of plotting to overthrow the North Korean government. Relatives are urging South Korean officials to elevate international awareness of the detainees.
Religious Freedom advocates are expressing outrage over the conviction of a Catholic priest in Belarus. He was accused of high treason for criticizing the government and handed an 11-year sentence. This is the first case of politically driven charges against a clergyman since Belarus became independent in the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. The conviction comes as government authorities intensify their sweeping crackdown on dissent ahead of January’s presidential election. The priest joins more than 1,200 political prisoners in Belarus.
The number of abortion clinics that have been closing in pro-life states is being balanced by new ones opening in pro-abortion states. There were 800 publicly identifiable abortion providers in the U.S. in May 2022, the month before the Supreme Court reversed Roe versus Wade. Today there are 792. Illinois, Kansas and New Mexico are among the states with new clinics. Several pro-life states have no abortion clinics of any kind. And some hospitals that had always provided abortions are now advertising the fact, in an effort to increase business.
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