Rae

I love God, and the peculiar people He has blessed me with. I dance, sing, write, and want to learn how to play the guitar. Among many other things...

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

You know what shook me when I was Muslim?

The story of Hosea. God tells a prophet to marry a woman He knows will betray him.

She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, used up, worthless to the world.

And God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK.

To pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. Hosea 3.

I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Why would any man do that?

Then I realized I was the wife.

I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters. I sold myself cheap. I made myself worthless.

And God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.”

He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”

That’s the Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.

He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.

Islam told me to make myself worthy of God.

Hosea showed me a God who pays to redeem the unworthy.

The cross was Him naming the price.

Praise the Lord.

[Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @JewsFightBack]

“Daddy was visibly Jewish.”

That is what Albert Itzkowitz’s daughter said through tears.

Albert was 75.

He owned a kosher bakery in Queens.

He served as a rabbi at a nursing home.

He volunteered as an EMT.

He was a grandfather.

On May 18, he went to Kissena Park, where he used to spend quiet time on his lunch break.

He brought a chair and a crossword puzzle.

He was found shot in the neck and back.

Murdered.

Now his children are asking anyone who saw something to come forward.

More than a month later, there is still no arrest.

There is now a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

Somebody knows something.

Say his name.

Albert Itzkowitz.

Do not let his family demand justice alone.

[𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥 @Preach_DGospel]

.
MY HEART IS BROKEN 💔💔

This is Rev. Choji, his beloved wife, and their children, who were brutally kllled in Gako village, Riyom.

A whole family wiped out. A servant of God is silenced. A home turned into a place of bl⁰⁰d.

How long will this continue? How long will innocent lives be taken in such a cruel and senseless way by the Islamic tɛrr⁰rists?

These repeated klllngs in our land are no longer “news” they are becoming a painful pattern. And that should trouble every one of us.

Something is deeply wrong when communities live in constant fear, and those who serve God in rural areas are left exposed and unprotected.

My heart cries out: Lord, how long?

We mourn. We grieve. We weep for the Church, for the family, and for the land. Please, I call on everyone to pray for the Church in Riyom, pray for ECWA Bukuru DCC, and pray for all affected families.

Pray for God’s comfort, His justice, and His intervention in our land. Rev. Choji, you did not die in vain. Your bl⁰⁰d speaks.

Your labour in God’s vineyard will never be forgotten.

“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” Psalm 116:15.

Dear believers, let's wake up from our slumber and defend ourselves from these bl⁰⁰d thirsty dɛm⁰ns!

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

Paige Rogers is a sophomore at a Christian college in Kentucky who was fired from her job at a local coffee shop because she answered questions from two coworkers about her beliefs. They asked Paige about her beliefs on marriage, sexuality, and other topics. She answered honestly and respectfully, and a week later received a text saying that her employment was being terminated immediately because she had violated policies about workplace conduct. Ridiculous. Paige is right—no one should be fired for respectfully sharing their religious viewpoints—especially when asked. Would you pray for Paige and share an encouraging word in the comments below? https://t.co/9ysR7n4myx

[Erin for Parental Rights @Erin4Parents]

5 years ago, my little girl was secretly being groomed and transitioned at her public school.

4 years ago, she was still lost in a dark cloud, suicidal, identifying as a “boy” named Toby.

Last night, she went to her first prom with her boyfriend — glowing with confidence and grace.

Thank you, Jesus, for saving her. 🙏🏼
What the enemy meant for evil, God is turning into good.

If you’re a parent fighting for your child right now and it feels hopeless, please hold on. There is light on the other side.

I won’t stop fighting for your horror story to have a happy ending, too.

[Sean Feucht @seanfeucht]

Today, an entire Christian family was buried in Nigeria.

A father. A mother. Their children.
Murdered for their faith in Jesus Christ by Fulani Muslim terrorists.

The world may ignore it —
but Heaven will not forget.

Pray for the persecuted Church. #PrayForNigeria @ezekieldachomo0

[Sean Feucht @seanfeucht]

Over 130,00 Christians brutally massacred.

Over 20,000 Churches burned.

Over 380,000 Christian refugees in one camp alone.

When will the cries of these people in Nigeria be heard?

[Sean Feucht @seanfeucht]

🚨 PALM SUNDAY MASSACRE IN Nigeria

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES just shared with me from local pastors.

Fulani militants on motorbikes slaughtered many Christians tonight outside Jos before fleeing into the mountains.

The world cannot stay silent. This must end.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Reporter: How do you feel about the Iranian Foreign Minister accusing the US and Israel of genocide?

Marco Rubio: The Iranian? He's an expert in genocide. They've killed thousands. Every problem in the Middle East is Iran. Hezbollah? Iran. Shia militias destroying and threatening Iraq? Iran. Hamas? Iran. Houthis? Iran. Assad in Syria? Iran. Everywhere you turn, they're behind all of it.

[Arash Habibi Lashkari @arashhlashkari]

With my people in #Iran, these days…

A young woman is beaten in the street by police for “improper hijab.”

Power used against the powerless.

This is not strength, this is abuse.

No one should look away from this.

This must not be ignored.

دختری جوان در خیابان توسط پلیس برای بدحجابی مورد ضرب و شتم قرار می‌گیرد.

قدرت علیه بی‌دفاع‌ها به کار گرفته می‌شود.

این قدرت نیست، این خشونت است.

هیچ‌کس نباید از این صحنه روی برگرداند.

این وضعیت نباید نادیده گرفته شود.

#AllEyesOnIran #DigitalBlackoutIran

[Joyce Meyer @JoyceMeyer]

God doesn’t choose us and bless us because we’re wonderful or perfect or lovable. But you can have a wonderful, amazing life, not because you’re good, but because God is good and He delights in you. #JoyceQuote

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A South Carolina mother just shared one of the most disturbing school gender transition stories I've read in a long time.

Her 14-year-old son attended Beech Springs Middle School in Spartanburg SC.

For OVER A YEAR, he was changing into girls' clothing at school, and changing back before his mom picked him up.

It was apparently a daily operation, coordinating with another student to bring the clothes, multiple bathroom trips, and deliberate concealment from his parents every single day.

Multiple staff members at school had to have seen this.

You don't pull off daily clothing changes in a middle school without teachers noticing.

But NOBODY called home to tell his parents.

Nobody except one teacher.

One teacher the previous year did her job, she noticed, she called the mom, and she followed South Carolina law H.4624, which explicitly requires school staff to notify parents when a student expresses gender identity confusion.

That call is the only reason the family found out at all.

They got their son into gender-related counseling over the summer of 2025. They were engaged, they were involved, they were actively trying to help their kid navigate something difficult.

Then the school went silent again.

The pattern continued into the next school year and nobody said a word.

Fast forward to February 2026.

The mom gets her son's hair cut. He cries in class. His teacher sits with him for 10 minutes while he tells her everything, that he wants long hair like a girl, that his parents won't affirm his gender identity, all of it.

Again, South Carolina law H.4624 exists for exactly this moment. When a student expresses gender identity distress to a school employee, the law says the school SHALL notify the parents.

But the teacher didn't call the mom.

She called DSS.

That same day, February 13, 2026, she filed a child protective services report against this family for "medical neglect..."

Medical neglect because
A) the boy allegedly coughed up blood and wasn't receiving care.

B) Mental injury because the parents won't affirm a gender transition.

And... I'm not even kidding

C) making him do "manly chores."

The mom asked her son what that meant.
He said "cutting the grass."

DSS showed up at their home on Valentine's Day weekend.

Two days later, the family took their son and got a chest x-ray. His lungs were completely clear. He never coughed up blood. The allegation was fabricated.

On February 19th, five days after the report was filed, DSS closed the case. Unfounded. No evidence of medical neglect. No evidence of mental injury. Nothing.

So just to recap...

A teacher had a 10-minute conversation with a 14-year-old, decided his parents' refusal to affirm a gender transition constituted child abuse, invented or wildly exaggerated a medical claim to make the report actionable, violated state law by never calling the parents, and weaponized DSS on a family over Valentine's Day weekend.

And the school's response?

The principal wrote back defending the teacher. Called the DSS report "appropriate based on medical neglect suspicion."

The report that was closed completely unfounded in five days. The report based on a medical claim that was disproven with a chest x-ray. That report. Appropriate

The principal also mentioned that staff had received "gender identity training" and that the school followed "applicable South Carolina statutes." But the H.4624 violation, the actual law that was actually broken, was never addressed.

Not once.

The superintendent promised a full investigation by a Chief Administrative Officer. Instead, the principal, the direct supervisor of the teacher in question, provided the only written response, and used it to defend her own employee.

This school watched a student secretly change genders during the school day for over a year and chose not to tell his mother.

That's not an accident.

You don't miss daily clothing changes in a middle school.

They saw it.
They allowed it.

They made a decision, collectively and repeatedly, that the parents didn't need to know.

Then when that same family's values came up in a conversation, the response wasn't to pick up the phone and call mom like the law requires.

The response was to report them for child abuse.

The silence for a year and the DSS report aren't two separate events. They're the same event.

They both reflect the same institutional decision: we know better than these parents, and we will act accordingly, whether that means hiding things from them or weaponizing the state against them.

This family did everything right.

They got their son counseling.
They stayed engaged.
They were present.
They got a chest x-ray to disprove a fabricated allegation.

DSS came into their home, looked at how they parent, and walked out five days later with literally nothing.

But the school is STILL calling it appropriate.

The mom has filed complaints with both the school and the South Carolina Department of Education. The school defended the teacher.

The state has been silent for over a month.

Her son is now homeschooled, by the way and she says he's thriving.

The school literally weaponized the state against a family for cutting their son's hair.

Let that sink in.

[Eli Afriat 🇮🇱 @EliAfriatISR]

Look at the little lioness who wanted to pick up her brother as the siren began. 👇

When the mother arrived and took the child, the little lioness didn't miss and picked up the dog on the way to the shelter.

Just a real lioness.🤍🇮🇱

[Israeli Titan🇮🇱 @israelititan]

Atefeh Rajabi Sahaaleh, was a 16 year old girl from Neka in Iran's Mazandaran Province. A lovely happy girl enjoying her life. One day while travelling in a taxi she was arrested by the morality police for not wearing a hijab. She endured days of torture and rape at the hands of Captains Zabihi and Molai, who later confessed to misconduct amid family complaints and global outrage.

Brought before Judge Haji Reza, stumbling and bleeding from repeated assaults, she begged Judge Reza for justice and punishment of her tormentors.

Instead he passed a sentence for her to be executed for the crime of Adultery and Chastity.(The poor girl was raped and tortured in captivity)

In defiance of her death sentence, she tore off her hijab and threw it at his feet.

On August 15, 2004, she was publicly hanged from a crane in Neka's town square. (The judge himself later admitted to raping and torturing her during interrogations.

[Jesse Duplantis @jesse_duplantis]

The Bible teaches only two instances when we are required to forgive. The first is when we have an ought against someone, and the second is when someone has an ought against us. That seemed to cover it all—how could we expect God to forgive us of our sins if we are unwilling to forgive others? If unforgiveness is allowed to take root in your heart, your prayers will be hindered, and you will quench the Spirit of God in your life.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Breaking: The regime in Iran has now admitted that the IRGC mistakenly bombed an Iranian school yesterday, killing many children.

Sadly, bad actors have exploited the death and war fog to help the Iranian regime hide this crime and avoid accountability.

Among the people who circulated these lies blaming Israel and America for killing the schoolchildren were @Malala and @zarahsultana, who are known for being unreliable sources of information and for spreading lies and misinformation against Israel without mentioning that the sources are all parroting Hamas.

Please share the additional information below!

H/T @NiohBerg

[Kaivalya @Bhagwa_Piller]

20 years ago today (Aug 15, 2004), 16-year-old Atefeh Rajabi Sahaaleh was publicly hanged from a crane in Neka, Iran.

Sahaaleh was convicted of fornication under Iranian Penal Code Article 221 (a crime against chastity) when she was 13 years old. Following a police raid, she was discovered alone in a car with a boy.

She was jailed and given 100 lashes. While in prison, she was further allegedly tortured and raped by prison guards. She told her grandmother that she could only walk on all fours because of the pain.

In the following years, she was arrested twice more for crimes against chastity, and both convictions were punished by flogging and jail time.

Under Iranian Penal Code Article 136, a fourth conviction for a hadd crime for which the punishment was carried out three previous times results in the death penalty

That fourth conviction started in May 2003, when Sahaaleh was arrested at home and charged with adultery and immorality.

Police presented a report which they claimed supported the charges against Sahaaleh, but the only signatures on the report were police officers and other local authorities

The judge presiding over the trial was Haji Rezai. After Rezai interrogated Sahaaleh, she confessed to being raped by Ali Darabi, a married 51-year-old ex-revolutionary guard turned taxi driver.

Sahaaleh was raped repeatedly by Darabi over the previous three years. Judge rezai had personal grudges against her and refused to trust her testimony

When Sahaaleh realized that she was losing her case, she removed her hijab, an act seen as a severe contempt of the court, and argued that Darabi should be punished, not her.

She removed her shoes and threw them at the judge. Rezai sentenced Sahaaleh to death. Her lawyer appealed to Iran's Supreme Court in Tehran, where the verdict was upheld due to Sahaaleh's confession and three prior convictions for similar offenses

Her age was falsified to 22 to allow execution, violating Iran's own treaty obligations against executing minors. Before the noose tightened, she pleaded: "If you forgive me, I will never look into the eyes of a man again." She asked the crowd for forgiveness. She was executed at the age of 16 and her body was made to spat on by children

She was the youngest victim of Khamenei moral police apparatus which doesn't follow any law protocol or transparency.

[Sheema Kalbasi شیما کلباسی @IranianWoman]

I was eleven years old. My mother was taking me to an eye specialist when we were stopped by a patrol of the IRGC at this very spot. A few strands of my hair were visible, and I had grown too tall for my trousers. Again and again she pleaded with them not to take me, explaining that I was tall for my age, that she had just returned from the front lines and had not yet found the time to buy me new clothes. I was frightened, but my mother's fear was far greater than my own.

Many years have passed since that afternoon. Yet when I see this place of cruelty and its power holders reduced to dust, I am overcome with emotion and an unexpected, trembling relief. To witness a regime of terror crumbling into ruin feels like learning to walk after long paralysis, like unfurling wings and discovering flight, like water offered at last to one who has wandered for hours through the Sahara.

I feel a release, a memory long buried in the body beginning at last to loosen. In this moment, the child I once was seems to breathe again.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

When I was a few weeks postpartum with my second child, I bundled us both up and waddled into the Fairfax County Circuit Court to testify against a man who had accosted my then-toddler daughter and I in a public bathroom while I was heavily pregnant.

When I arrived I was brought into a room with his other victims and found out he had assaulted a woman in the same bathroom. I suddenly felt I had been lucky.

The arresting officer who had also interviewed me weeks prior was clearly eager to do everything right to keep this guy off the street—he found additional witnesses, pulled surveillance footage, followed every step to the letter.

It was physically painful and difficult for me to even be there—trying to discreetly feed and soothe my two week-old for 6 hours on hard benches when we should both be home in bed. It was also terrifying discreetly breastfeeding in the same room as this monster.

When I finally took the stand, the attorney for the Commonwealth asked me if the man who was in the bathroom that day was in the room.

I paused, confused—because I knew what was going to happen next.

The courtroom had been packed all day but as case after case was handled, ours was the last one—now it was just the judge, court reporter, bailiff, the defendant, his lawyer, the Commonwealth attorney, and I.

The arresting officer wasn't in the room. The other victim and her husband had been given a new court date and sent home.

I adjusted my baby against my chest and looked at her as she repeated the question: Do you see the man you reported to police in this room today?

Why was she doing this? What was she doing?

I was sweating in my oversized cashmere nursing sweater and I felt prickles down my back. Everyone was staring at me. I'm not a lawyer. She asked me a question... and she was “on my side” so I should answer it, right?

I adjusted my baby again to give myself a free hand—and I pointed to him.

And just as I expected, his lawyer immediately pointed out there was nobody else present in the courtroom who it could be and therefore we had violated his constitutional right to due process.

The judge agreed. Hell, *I* agreed—but then I asked WHY hadn't the Commonwealth given me a photo array to choose from? Why did she ASK that?

Too late. It didn't matter that he was on surveillance footage entering the bathroom before us and pushing past us as we fled.

He was set free.

As I walked out of the court room the arresting officer spotted me from down the hall and ran over to me “Is it back in this courtroom? Is it starting?”

No, I told him, it's already over. He had been sent to another courtroom “by mistake.” He didn't even get a chance to testify. He looked horrified.

The Commonwealth attorney and “victims advocate” that morning assured us they were going to fight for us. They were SO SORRY this had happened to us. They were SO GRATEFUL that I had come to testify in my condition.

Instead they seemingly intentionally let the monster walk free.

It's been two years.

Yesterday he was released on bail for yet another crime—one of at least THIRTEEN he's committed since that day in court—including sexual abuse of a child under 15.

His arrest record from just the last 5 years spans four pages on the Virginia court website.

Look at how many women—and CHILDREN—he's victimized since that day.

Look how many times his victims have gone to court just as I did only to see him set free again and again and again.

This is NOT happening by accident.

This is deliberate.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

This is what one Iranian ballistic missile did in Tel Aviv.

This is why we won’t let it build thousands.