This is the truth the world needs to see: my father, Pastor Son, jailed in Korea for standing on God’s Word and refusing to bow to anti-Biblical education. They raided his church, seized phones, filed 20+ lawsuits, and now jailed him. This video tells the story. #ReligiousFreedom pic.twitter.com/W52eZ112Hi

— Chance Son (@ChanceSon1226) September 8, 2025

The result of the detention legality review is out: dismissed. My dad Pastor Son remains behind bars.

If this were truly unlawful, precedent shows it should result in a fine. But “flight of risk”?
If he were going to flee, would he have held in-person worship even during COVID? pic.twitter.com/xxsjiGX8fK

— Chance Son (@ChanceSon1226) September 24, 2025

 Original news report: https://naver.me/5v3w8wDL

 Chance Son’s X post: https://x.com/ChanceSon1226/status/1970790652108820804

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The United States is intensifying its efforts to hold Haiti’s political and economic elite accountable, as both the Department of State and federal immigration authorities took major actions this week against high-profile Haitian figures.

On Monday, the State Department publicly designated Arnel Belizaire, a former member of Haiti’s Chamber of Deputies, and Antonio Cheramy, a former Haitian senator, for their involvement in significant corruption during their time in public office. 

According to U.S. officials, both men abused their positions by interfering with government processes, acts that destabilized Haiti’s institutions and undercut democratic governance. 

WATCH: THE ATLANTIC Admits the LEFT has a VIOLENCE Problem

The designations render Belizaire, Cheramy, and their immediate family members generally ineligible to enter the United States.

“Corrupt and destructive acts by these officials had serious effects on U.S. national interests by further destabilizing Haiti’s institutions and processes,” the department stated. 

The designation further underscores the Trump administration’s commitment to holding accountable individuals who undermine stability in Haiti.

The following day, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed the arrest of Dimitri Vorbe, one of Haiti’s wealthiest and most influential businessmen. 

Vorbe, who has long been a central figure in Haiti’s private energy sector, was taken into custody in Miami and is currently being held at the Krome North Service Processing Center. 

Federal records showed no formal charges against him as of Tuesday evening, and ICE officials declined to comment further.

Vorbe’s detention comes just two months after ICE arrested another Haitian business tycoon, Réginald Boulos, in Florida. 

U.S. authorities have accused Boulos of supporting violent gangs in Haiti that Washington has labeled terrorist organizations. 

Analysts see the back-to-back arrests as a warning to Haiti’s entrenched elite.

“With the arrests of Boulos and Vorbe, you are seeing a strata of Haitian society touched in their places of exile,” said author Michael Deibert, who has written extensively on Haiti. 

“A message is being sent to the upper echelon of Haiti’s political and economic elite that they’re not untouchable anymore.”

Vorbe’s family owns Société Générale d’Énergie S.A., once one of Haiti’s largest private power suppliers, and has historically benefited from lucrative state contracts under previous administrations. 

In 2020, the government of slain President Jovenel Moïse seized the company, accusing Vorbe of corruption. The family has also wielded political influence through ties to Fanmi Lavalas, a major party founded by former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

“The Vorbe and Boulos families have long represented the intersection of political and economic power in Haiti,” noted Jake Johnston of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. 

“For many Haitians, these arrests may feel like a rare step toward accountability in a country with a broken judicial system. 

The question is whether these moves amount to a coherent strategy that truly benefits Haiti.”

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau underscored that the U.S. government intends to remain “relentless” in pursuing those who support gangs and destabilize Haiti, whether through indictments, arrests, sanctions, or immigration restrictions.

Taken together, the designation of former legislators and the arrests of businessmen underscore Washington’s increasing willingness to target both political and financial elites seen as complicit in Haiti’s deepening crisis. 

In a country where gangs control nearly all of Port-au-Prince and public trust in government has collapsed, the United States is signaling that the shield of wealth and office no longer guarantees protection.

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The Vatican has officially documented 1,624 Christians killed for their faith between 2000 and 2025, honoring them as modern martyrs across denominations. The Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, however, estimates a much higher number, between 100,000 and 160,000 per year.

The discrepancy lies in how “killed for their faith” is defined. Gordon-Conwell used a very broad definition that included Christians killed in wars or killed irrespective of the motivation of the killer. For example, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, about 4 million Christians were killed between 2000 and 2010, which heavily skewed the statistics.

By contrast, the 1,624 documented by the Vatican were primarily victims of jihadist extremism, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia; criminal organizations such as cartels and gangs targeting religious workers in the Americas; and ethnic-political conflicts often intertwined with tribal and religious tensions. State persecution also contributed, though far less than in the 20th century under communist regimes.

This violence reflects a rising global trend of Christian persecution that has also reached the United States. According to the Family Research Council, attacks on churches in the U.S. surged during the Biden administration, rising from 98 incidents in 2021 to 485 in 2023, with 415 reported in 2024 across 43 states. For comparison, the baseline in 2018 was 50 incidents.

On March 27, 2023, The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, a Presbyterian parochial school, was the site of a massacre when 28-year-old former student trans, Aiden Hale, a transgender man, killed three nine-year-old children and three adults before being shot dead by police. Investigators later confirmed Hale deliberately targeted the school because it was Christian.

One of the most recent tragedies occurred on August 27, 2025, when a trans mass shooter struck the Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during a school-wide Mass.

Two children, Fletcher Merkel and Harper Moyski, were killed, and twenty-one others were injured, including eighteen students and three senior citizens.

Just weeks later, on September 10, Charlie Kirk was assassinated while espousing Christian values before an audience at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Catholic churches have been targeted with particular intensity.

CatholicVote.org documented 522 attacks from May 28, 2020, through 2025, including arson that damaged or destroyed historic churches, graffiti with satanic messages, rocks and bricks hurled through windows, statues decapitated, and illegal disruptions of Mass.

The breakdown includes 60 attacks in 2020 (from May 28 onward), 83 in 2021, 143 in 2022, 108 in 2023, 86 in 2024, and 42 so far in 2025.

Despite this wave of violence, the Biden administration failed to act.

In December 2021, CatholicVote sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland citing a federal statute requiring investigation and prosecution of such crimes, urging action to protect Catholic churches.

Although the DOJ promised a “15-day review,” no evidence of significant action followed, and attacks continued.

The Vatican commission’s findings further highlighted the global scope of persecution.

Of the 1,624 cases confirmed over the past twenty-five years, 643 were from sub-Saharan Africa, where jihadist violence and ethnic-political conflict claimed the most lives.

Asia and Oceania accounted for 357, including 200 killed in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka.

In the Americas, 304 martyrs were murdered largely by cartels or criminal groups. Another 277 were recorded in the Middle East and North Africa, while Europe saw 43, in addition to 110 Europeans killed abroad, mainly missionaries serving in vulnerable regions.

Although the Vatican has withheld the full list for security reasons, several names were cited as emblematic.

Sister Dorothy Stang, an American nun murdered in Brazil in 2005 for defending the poor and the rainforest, famously held up her Bible before her killers, declaring, “This is my only weapon.”

Father Ragheed Ganni, a Chaldean priest from Mosul, Iraq, was shot in 2007 after refusing to close his parish.

Brother Francis Tofi, an Anglican member of the Melanesian Brotherhood, was tortured and killed with six others in the Solomon Islands in 2003 while mediating conflict.

Ten-year-old Abish Masih died in a 2015 church bombing in Pakistan. The twenty-one Coptic Orthodox Christians executed by ISIS on a Libyan beach that same year were later added by Pope Francis to the Roman Martyrology.

Other victims included four Missionaries of Charity killed in Yemen in 2016 by gunmen who stormed their convent, Paul McAuley, a La Salle brother found burned to death in the Peruvian Amazon in 2019 after defending indigenous rights, Blessed Leonella Sgorbati, an Italian Consolata Missionary murdered in Somalia in 2006, and six Evangelicals slain at Silgadji Mission in Burkina Faso in 2019.

In his homily, Pope Leo praised these martyrs for refusing to meet hatred with violence, instead embodying what he called the meek and hidden power of the Gospel.

He warned that persecution did not end with the dictatorships of the last century but continues, and in some regions has even intensified. The blood of martyrs, he said, is a source of hope and unity for Christians everywhere.

“Their martyrdom continues to spread the Gospel in a world marked by hatred, violence, and war. It is a hope filled with immortality because, even though they have been killed in body, no one can silence their voice or erase the love they have shown.”

The liturgy included the reading of the Beatitudes, framing prayers for Christians persecuted, imprisoned, kidnapped, or killed for their faith, for defending the poor, protecting creation, or standing for religious freedom.

Regina Lynch, President of Aid to the Church in Need, the Catholic foundation supporting efforts to document the martyrs, noted that the findings reflected what her organization witnesses daily: Christians risking their lives for their faith, for charity, for justice, and for peace.

Pope Leo XIV presided over an ecumenical prayer service on September 14, 2025, at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. The event coincided with both the Jubilee of Hope and the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

Representatives from more than 30 Christian denominations—including Orthodox patriarchs, Anglican bishops, and Protestant leaders, stood beside him in what the Vatican has called the “ecumenism of blood,” the shared witness of Christians persecuted and killed for their faith regardless of tradition.

The Vatican described the new martyrs as men, women, and even children who trusted in God’s faithfulness amid adversity.

Their legacy, Pope Leo said, is not one of sorrow but of hope, serving as a prophecy of the triumph of good over evil.

Concluding the service, he prayed, “May the blood of so many witnesses hasten the arrival of the blessed day when we will drink from the same cup of salvation.”

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Crazy, far left filmmaker Rob Reiner came out of hiding this week appearing on Bill Maher’s podcast, where he suggested Democrats should put preconditions on speaking to Republicans, and now appearing on CNN.

In this case, he was asked about a watch party he attended last spring for Biden’s disastrous debate performance. According to Kamala’s new book, Reiner exploded at Doug Emhoff when he saw Biden’s performance.

Reiner disputes this, saying that he was basically screaming at everyone and that he would not have singled out Emhoff for blame.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

KASIE HUNT, CNN: Before we do that, I do want to ask you about some brass tacks politics because you, of course, have been a donor to the Democratic Party. I’ve, you know, interviewed you before talking about politics. And Kamala Harris, actually, in her new book, which has been quite candid, relayed a moment where she says that you were talking with her husband, Doug Emhoff, at a watch party.

It’s described as with Hollywood donors. There you go. And this is, of course, watching Joe Biden’s debate stage performance. And she writes this. Rob Reiner had screamed at him, at Doug Emhoff, quote, “we are going to lose our effing democracy and it’s your fault.”

So, sir, I’m just wondering, did this happen as it’s described here? And what was going through your mind at the time?

ROB REINER, ACTOR, DIRECTOR: No, it didn’t happen that way. I was upset, along with everybody in that room, including J.B. Pritzker and Andy Beshear and Gretchen Whitmer. They were all at this gathering. It wasn’t just Hollywood people. It was a political gathering. And we were all appalled by the debate performance by Joe Biden.

And I screamed out those words, the F word. I threw it out there. And I said, we’re effing dead. You know, to me, it was like, put a nail in the coffin. We were dead. I was screaming at everybody. And yes, I used the F word many times in that rant.

Here’s the video:

.@ActualRobReiner denies that he ever yelled at Doug Emhoff after watching President Biden’s debate performance, as reported in Kamala Harris’ new book: “No, it didn’t happen that way… I was screaming at everybody, and yes, I used the F word many times in that rant.” pic.twitter.com/3rGGOaSrs5

— The Arena on CNN (@TheArenaCNN) September 24, 2025

Imagine being a fly on the wall at that party. It must have been an interesting evening.

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Zohran Mamdani, the communist running for mayor of New York City, wants to spend $100 million in tax dollars on increased services, specifically legal services, for illegal aliens living in the city.

It’s so stunning to see this man admit that he wants to take the hard earned dollars of the citizens of New York City and give the money to non-citizens who are in the country illegally, and yet is leading in the polls. Has everyone in New York City gone insane?

His candidacy is being driven by far left progressive hipsters in the city, but are they really the majority?

Townhall reported:

New York City’s sanctuary policies don’t go far enough for Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, who said on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” he wants to spend even more taxpayer money to help illegal immigrants if he’s elected…

“I would also commit to increasing the staffing of our law department by 200 to bring us back to pre-COVID levels, and to ensure that when we look at this city we are using every tool at our disposal to keep New Yorkers together, to keep families together,” the democratic socialist continued.

Mamdani emphasized the urgency of his plan, claiming “400,000 of our residents are right now in urgent risk of deportation.”

“The city knows that when it provides legal assistance to those same New Yorkers, their chances of going home increase 11-fold, and yet it has only assisted fewer than 200 of those New Yorkers,” he added. “That’s why also a cornerstone of our campaign is a commitment to increase funding for those very legal defense services by more than $100 million so we can ensure we’re taking every step we can to keep New Yorkers safe, to keep New Yorkers together, and to show the world that they are welcome in this city.”

See the video below:

Communist Zohran Mamdani goes further than NYC’s sanctuary city policies, saying he wants to spend $100 million to provide legal aid to illegal aliens.

Mamdani wants to use New Yorkers’ taxpayer dollars to protect “400,000” illegal immigrants. pic.twitter.com/lMSaYm2smG

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 21, 2025

There was a time not too long ago when a comment like this would end a person’s political career. What changed?

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