As of noon on December 31, 2021, there were 42.6 million abortions performed in the course of the year, while 8.2 million people died from cancer, 5 million from smoking, 1.7 million of HIV/AIDS, 1.3 million from traffic fatalities, and 1 million from suicide.

44% will make New Year's resolutions this year, up from 39% in Dec 2017

Evangelist Franklin Graham — son of the late Rev. Billy Graham — said this week he doesn’t believe the “vaccine passport” microchip implant is the biblical “mark of the beast.”

Rev. Frank Barker, whose 4,000-member Briarwood Presbyterian Church grew from a Birmingham storefront before he helped found the conservative Presbyterian Church in America, has died.

Marine commanders have rejected all 3,080 religious exemption requests from US Marines so far this year for the required COVID vaccine.

...Among those Republican respondents, 25% said Biden's triumph was "probably not legitimate," and 46% said it was "definitely not legitimate," according to the poll.

COVID-19 vaccine mandates have put some vital U.S health and safety institutions in a tough spot after cutting personnel who didn’t comply. 

Health, faith and finances are the three most common topics of New Year’s Resolutions, according to a new Lifeway Research survey that examined what Americans focus on when the calendar turns.

...Few have hopes that it will significantly improve in the new year...

...The measures, which will go into effect March 1, 2022, include a stipulation making it illegal to disseminate religious ideas online unless one possesses a govenment issued license...

As the days of 2021 dwindled, so did any remaining traces of democracy in Hong Kong.

...Although the CDC recently loosened restrictions on COVID-positive persons, Fauci has been busy fearmongering about potential new lockdowns...

The Catholic Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Vincent Nichols has urged the UK government to respect Church autonomy in the fight against the coronavirus.

The FAA is breaking its own rule that states pilots should not fly after having taken medications that have been approved for less than a year, according to a group of attorneys and doctors.

...many seminarians face difficulties as they graduate into a religious landscape that has been transformed — spiritually, physically, politically and logistically — by COVID-19...