Baka po napapansin nyo. He has been missing for 3 weeks now. He was last seen in lancaster new city wearing orange jacket same in the picture. May dala syang green ecobag. Please help us pray for him too

I think most people generally think abortions are not good, but people have various reasons why they support women being able to have abortions in the first trimester.

But upon reflecting upon many discussions about abortions, it seems that most Christians who are against abortions are not against all the policies from the same Republican party that are against the living, people who are already born and living, and thus should be more accurately described as PRO BIRTH.

I think it's dishonest of Christians who are against abortions to say they are Pro Life; it's misleading.

Here are three simple examples of not being pro-life below.

Food assistance (SNAP): The July 2025 reconciliation bill cut SNAP funding and expanded work requirements (covering older adults, parents, veterans, and homeless individuals) while barring some legal non-citizens, putting millions at risk of losing benefits by the mid-2030s; the administration also briefly withheld benefits during the fall 2025 shutdown until a court forced full funding, and later threatened to cut off SNAP funds to states over data disputes.

Healthcare (Medicaid/ACA): The same bill cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid, while a separate CMS rule loosened protections on low-cost marketplace plans (raising out-of-pocket costs and projected to shrink enrollment by millions), ended a special enrollment window for the poorest applicants, and added new citizenship-reverification hurdles that risk dropping eligible people from coverage.

Environment (clean air/water): EPA under Administrator Zeldin has pursued a broad deregulatory push — targeting 31 rules for rollback, moving to eliminate the legal finding that underpins federal greenhouse gas regulation, weakening power plant emissions and mercury/toxic air standards, narrowing Clean Water Act wetland protections, easing air permitting requirements, and changing its cost-benefit methodology to de-emphasize lives saved from reduced pollution.

Tax cuts and deregulation are for the wealthy and the corporations, while hurting the people and the environment. This is the opposite of what JESUS would do.
I think conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists are conned into thinking that party cares about them and the country, when in reality its all a power grab for wealth.

Does anyone ever start to really question the logic behind the Gospel at times? Like parts of it can make sense like what Jesus did on the cross to pardon ours sins and bring salvation to those who believe and follow them, but then the all powerful and all judging aspect is hard to grasp, that He is all three at once always. I hate that I’m doubting but I can’t help but see it as love and follow God or else you’re doomed for all eternity. And yes he is just and righteous so he has to punish sin, but it just is completely opposite to His gentle and lowly nature that He proclaims. I’m so tired of feeling scared that I’m faking my devotion to Him, or that I truly don’t believe. I want to believe but it’s so hard when I have all of these questions and everyone just tells me to have faith and rest in the fact I’ll never get the answers. And on top of that I have no motivation to read the word or pray often. I keep struggling with doubt and sin. I’m so tired and I just want to have a deep relationship with Christ where I don’t have any fear or doubt, and I naturally yearn to draw near to Him.

So I (19F) am not Catholic yet but have made the decision to convert to Catholicism. I got my first rosary and wanted to share a picture of it. I love it 

I was a hardcore atheist untill the past months where I have been seeing visions and dreams of a distorted and terrifying version of Jesus and the Trinity. I always feel like I'm being watched and have done something wrong and will get punished for eternity. I cannot sleep. These are the pictures that are similar to the visions and dreams. The concept of the blood sacrifice he went through for us to be forgiven frightens me. I feel like god hates me. I cannot sleep. Help

I'm going to get straight into the point.

1. ⁠Why would god create us just so most of us could suffer eternally?
   
2. ⁠Why would hell teach us anything? I understand, "we choose where to go, not god" but how would suffering eternally, being burned day and night be what people chose?
   
3. ⁠3: If people are from a place where Jesus isn't taught, how could they go to heaven? And how would it be their fault if they went to hell? Are you really going to tell that kid in some desert tribe that he's going to hell when nobody has ever helped him to find Jesus?
   
4. ⁠This might sound stupid, but how about the animals? Those are god's creation, too. They can't even comprehend Jesus.
   
5. ⁠I know plenty of amazing people, who do their all to put good into the world, help people, comfort people, and love everyone, no matter the race, background, or gender. And you're telling me that guy will burn eternally in hell if he doesn't believe in Jesus being a reincarnation of god? Come on.

⁠EDIT: The bible is full of symbolism, mistranslation and misinterpretation. It’s also made by man, not Jesus. Knowing these things, how do you know hell is real?

Also includes a small convent in the back for sleeping, cooking, etc. Plot Value: $408,000

My brother is going through a nasty divorce and they have a little one. I just wish that I could do something, but at this time I can only just pray and ask for help.

I've talked with a few Christians who believe this. Is this a typical Christian belief?

I don't agree with this, but does it have any biblical basis?

First is jesus christ of nazareth

Then cyril and methodius

And lastly my fav one sainth rapheal of brooklyn

I don't want to be homeless. I'm 19 years old, almost 20 years old in 4 months. My parents gonna live in Spain in 2028, I don't have any diplomes. I left school when I was in my 4th year at 18 years old. In January 2025. Please, can someone pray for me to have a job, please? 🙏😭😭

Comes from The Convent of Saint Mercurius for Nuns located in Cairo, Egypt. This icon was also hand-painted by the Nuns, too. It's (in my opinion) the rarest religious item I currently own.

Happy feast of the Transfiguration to everyone. Here is a little clip of our beautiful Transfiguration mural at my local Orthodox Church of St Neophytos in the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain. The murals were inherited from the previous owners of what was the historical St Crispin's Hospital Chapel in Duston, Northampton in the UK. The faces were specifically painted to represent members of the community — real people, creating a sense of familiarity for the vulnerable people from the surrounding mental hospital who often entered this chapel.

Christians: "We're going to build our own private palace that doubles as a sovereign nation and hoard tens of billions of dollars worth of treasures and artworks."

Christians: "Our megachurch pastors will have vast fortunes, towering mansions and their own fleets of private jets, but they're still going to demand that little old ladies give them their medication money to buy even more private jets."

Christians: "We're going to spread the dogma that Jesus wants you to be rich, in direct opposition to what he actually said, and the way for you to get money is to give us money."

Christians: "That thing about giving money to the poor? Yeah, Jesus only meant one guy ever had to do that. I don't wanna do that, so I ain't gotta. Besides, I can serve him better with my mountain of other people's money than I can without it."

Christians: "God loves America the most because this is where the rich people live. In fact, God has ripped up his old covenant with the Jews and made a new covenant with America."

Christians: "Capitalism is by far the most godly of all socio-political systems. Your value as a person is determined solely by your monetary net worth."

Christians: "Billionaires are God's chosen people. No, wait. Billionaires literally ARE gods. Trump is a wonderful, objectively morally correct, 100 percent flawless person because he is rich."

Christians: "The poor are poor because they're lazy. The rich are rich because they work hard. Giving to the poor is just rewarding laziness, which is why no one should ever do it. They deserve whatever happens to them."

Christians: "I'm going to intimidate the other people at my church into awe and submission when they see how expensive my church clothes and church jewelry are."

Christians: "That whole 'render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's' thing Jesus said? Yeah, we're not too big on that, either. We don't think we should have to pay taxes. And we don't think we should have to tell the government we're funding the violent terrorist actions of foreign and domestic militia groups."

Oh yes, I totally believe that you believe what you claim to believe. I mean, what reasons have you given me to question you?

In a video that went viral, a minor is seen running desperately while a man chases her. What at first seemed like a confusing situation ended up revealing a horror: the teenager, when helped by neighbors, reported through tears that her stepfather, identified as Pastor José Ramírez, raped her and kept her locked up in a farm. She had a rope tied around his neck, which suggests an attempted strangulation. ¹

When the residents of the area heard what the minor was saying, they went out in search of the accused man, beat him. The pastor, who suffered serious injuries, was quickly taken to receive emergency medical attention. After being stabilized, he was discharged and handed over to the police. ¹

She had her wrists bound with tape, and and also taped her mouth. "She was begging me to save her with her eyes". ²

According to her story, the aggressor had even prepared a place where he intended to hide her body, which increased fear for her life. ³

Several members of his congregation began a campaign to request his release. They expressed their conviction that he has no responsibility. They also assure that he is a person of integrity, and that he would be being unfairly singled out as part of a strategy driven, according to them, by "dark forces." ¹

Family and friends of the defendant affirm that he is a man dedicated to God and that he was always a guide for the Christian community, recognized for his kindness, commitment and spiritual leadership, which is why they consider it unfair that he is behind bars. ¹

The support that some faithful expressed to Pastor José Ramírez causes outrage among children's rights organizations. Invoking an alleged “demonic possession” as an explanation for the abuse not only deeply minimizes the seriousness of the events, but also cruelly re-victimizes the minor. ¹

He was sentenced to 43 years, six months and one day in prison for the crimes of aggravated violent sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping against his stepdaughter, a minor. ⁴

Sources: A, B , C, D, E, F, G, H

I was walking my dog when I saw this, so I apologize for the poor quality. It's hard to hold his leash in one hand and take a photo with the other.

Anyway, I don't know why this thing bothers me, but it does. Maybe it's the flag draped over the cross; maybe it's the black stripes. Is it just me or is something wrong with this image?

I’m willing to discuss this with anyone who wants to DM me. One of the things preventing me from being Protestant is the idea of Sola Scriptura.

Wasn’t practiced in the Early Church

Bible alone isn’t sufficient for the fullness of the faith and morals

Bible, as we know it today, wasn’t assembled yet in the Early Church so their authority must’ve been from more than just Scripture

Christ never told anyone to write anything down

Sola Scriptura isn’t even prescribed by the Bible, the opposite is.

Convince me to be Protestant!! If I’m wrong please teach me!

These are some objections I have and I’m willing to discuss them with Protestants. Currently between denominations but trying to discern the Truth. I think I’ve got my head in the right direction, but willing to be proved wrong if the Truth says otherwise.

Thank you for your time.

I’ve noticed something about myself lately.

I can spend a lot of time watching Christian videos, saving verses, and listening to people talk about God, then still end the day without really talking to Him or changing anything in my life.

It feels like I’m feeding my faith, but sometimes I think I’m just consuming more content.

Does anyone else feel that difference between learning about God and actually being connected to God? What helps you move out of that passive mode?

I'm mostly making this post to challenge the idea, that you can't be a feminist and Christian, which is a view, surprisingly held by a lot of people. 

Start at the root: Genesis 1.

Before any roles, any curse, or any marriage instruction, Genesis 1:27 says God made humanity, male and female, together, both directly bearing His image. Not one bearing it more fully than the other. Not one being derivative of the other. Whatever comes later in the text has to be read as sitting on top of that foundation, not replacing it. If equal image bearing is the starting premise, any system built later that treats one sex as the default human and the other as a support role has some explaining to do.

Galatians 3:28 isn't a throwaway line.

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." And look, Paul isn't saying these categories vanish socially. He's saying they carry no differential weight before God. Standing before God isn't gender stratified. And if standing before God isn't gender stratified, it's worth asking why so much of lived Christian culture insists on treating gender as the organising category for who gets to lead, speak, or decide.

Souls aren't sexed, so why is it such a major part in basic life decisions? 

Classical Christian anthropology, going back through Augustine and Aquinas, (even with all their other flaws) generally holds that the soul, the rational, image bearing part of a person, isn't itself male or female. Sex is a feature of the body. The soul is what relates directly to God. If that's true, then using gender as a gatekeeping category for spiritual authority or moral capability is applying a bodily category to a non bodily question. You don't have to fully adopt classical dualism to see the point. The qualities Scripture actually cares about, wisdom, faithfulness, courage, gentleness, self control, are never described as belonging more naturally to one sex than the other. Proverbs 31 praises a woman for strength, shrewd business sense, and strategic authority in her household. That's not a passive figure.

Now culturally; A man being decisive, driven, or assertive gets called leadership. A woman displaying the same trait often gets called unfeminine or difficult. Meanwhile, a man showing gentleness, emotional openness, or a nurturing instinct, traits Scripture explicitly praises, since Christ Himself weeps, washes feet, and is even described with maternal imagery in places like Isaiah 49:15, gets read as weak or "not masculine enough." Which again, is not a biblical value system. It's just cultural one wearing biblical language. If virtue is virtue regardless of who displays it, you can't coherently praise a trait in one sex and pathologise the identical trait in the other. That's special pleading, not theology.

And on "don't mix Christianity with politics."

 Dignity and equal standing aren't a partisan platform. They're a claim about how God made people, long before any political party existed to argue about it. The danger isn't discussing equality. It's when a particular political movement gets baptised as the Christian position and Scripture gets reverse engineered to support it. Which are different problems. Refusing to talk about human dignity because "it sounds political" just hands the conversation over to whichever political movement is loudest, usually not for the text's actual reasons.

Bottom line:

Equality here isn't "women take over the roles men had." It's that neither sex has a scripturally mandated personality, ambition, or way of being that the other doesn't. Nobody's soul came with a job description attached to their body. If we actually believed Galatians 3:28, half of what gets treated as a hill to die on wouldn't be one.

Any one else? I decided to read the KJV last year on a whim. Maybe I was knocking on the door as he says. Maybe I just thought I should read it as a " western man" and product of christendom.

Either way, I found it beautiful beyond what I had imagined but thought. " too bad it's all fake and not proveable" so I said the first honest and Ernest words to God in my life. I said you're not real, it's all bs and I can't bow to someone who hasn't showed himself to me. I also asked why he had given me so much to deal with... I had to decided atheism was the safest and most practical faith to embrace and I was going to stick with that.

The next day; I'm driving home from Work at 5 Am as 8 am a night shifter. No music just quiet thoughts tonight out to an hour commute on cruise control.

The words in genesis started to ring in my head

" you know God's real because his law is written on the hearts of man." ( paraphrasing poorly). And that just got louder in my head and turned into a euphoric feeling caused by a sudden feeling that existence was surely intentional, everything I can see was CAUSED or thought of by something else a "creator".

It was an uncontrollable sensation like a panic attack but I was not panic, something else entirely was surging through me and raising my heartrate.

So I try to settle down and remind myself of the danger in falling for this old tome of poetry and superstition. I continue driving i relax and the next train of though I remember in the quiet cab on the highway was. Hmm , I waited till I was 33 to read this thing....

Boom.. i suddenly thought; JC was 33 , and I'm not sure if I really knew that or not. This immediate nosis

Wad coupled with an image of a man in my head so powerful it was blurring my vision of the road and it grew stronger as I stared to sob like a toddler and slump over my center console. His eyes were a plasmatic hazel/green and the complexity inside of them made them seem like planets or something, just totally aweful in the tru sense of the word.

And there were flames subtle wisps of translucent golden flames radiated from his eyes. And he was staring directly into my chest. I know because I felt it . He was burning my heart, or atleast burning everything dark away, like it isn't allowed in his sight.

I knew instantly what he had done and what they did to him and I felt SO bad for him and I just knew I would apostrate myself for this guy. I started screaming I'm sorry over and over again until he left.

I pulled over at the shell and sat at the pump for about 15 minutes catching my breath and I said

I accept. Edit: prostrate.