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The FBI is considering new threat categories to violent extremism, including but not limited to violent extremism that derives from bias against Christian denominations or perceived members of those denominations

The Department of Homeland Security will be “launching targeted initiatives to strengthen engagement with Christian communities, including dedicated listening sessions, on-site visits, and tailored grant briefings to address unique challenges and priorities. TLDR; They’ll be sharing resources related to Christianity

The DHS will be doing keynotes and public statements for Christian gatherings

The Department of Education identified and rescinded guidance documents that required school districts and institutions of higher education to recognize gender identity over sex. For example of what this means, they provided an example of the use of preferred pronouns over “biological realities.”

The DHS has been posting, and will continue to post, scriptural passages. The DHS has also ‘corrected’ “Happy Holidays” to “Merry Christmas”

The Department of Education opened up cases on four states that have policies that encourage concealing records of students transgender identities from parents

The HUD has rescinded the Fair Housing Act guidance that required Christian colleges to “violate their religious beliefs” by allowing transgender students to live in dorm rooms aligned with their gender identity. Furthermore, the HUD is “actively considering how to bolster protections for faith based housing providers under the Fair Housing Act”

The HUD is has basically demanded that all references to gender identity be scrubbed from its inner-workings.

The HHS has opened a major investigation on if the state discriminates against faith-based organizations or personnel by conditioning licensure on facilitating certain contested practices, such as abortion and gender affirming care.

The HHS has opened investigations into religious discrimination due to medical practitioners facing repercussions for asking for religious exemptions to treating patients who needed puberty blockers, an abortion-related ultrasound, and “sex-rejecting procedures”

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, especially in the eastern region, decades of violence have caused millions of deaths and forced many people to flee their homes. Armed groups such as M23 and CODECO have been the center of rape, kidnappings, and attacks on villages. Human rights organizations and the United Nations have warned about possible war crimes and crimes against humanity, while some experts and activists use the word genocide because of repeated ethnic killings and large-scale violence against civilians. EVEN though the crisis has lasted for many years, it often receives less international attention than other conflicts around the world. Millions of innocent people have been killed.