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Wut? Volleyball player wins soccer game?

Jan 14, 2025 | patch.com | Michael Ashcraft

Apparently, she's just good a slamming a ball. Dahlia Gonzalez, known and feared for spiking volleyballs, scored the winning goal in Monday's Lighthouse Christian Academy game against Gorman Learning Center. Dahlia hadn't even played a competitive soccer game for four years. Monday was her season debut. The last time the LCA senior played was in middle school. As a volleyball star, she can dig, set, dig with college-level quality. With double digit hits, she hammered LCA's undefeated league play.
Celebrities finding faith, Bible sales blowing up

Jan 11, 2025 | godreports.com | Tom Holland |Michael Ashcraft

By Tom Holland –Bible sales are skyrocketing, with a few notable celebrities either buying their first bible or announcing that they are converting to Christianity. “People are coming to faith because they’re seeing how evil the world is,” comments YouTuber Ruslan. Contrary to other book sales which remain flat, Bibles are flying off shelves – up 22% through the end of October, according to Circana BookScan, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Canadian grandma, pro-life hero, spent decade in prison

Jan 10, 2025 | godreports.com | Tom Holland |Michael Ashcraft

By Tom Holland –After being jailed for almost 11 years for breaching the “bubble” of restricted space around an abortion clinic, Canadian grandma Linda Gibbons has finally been released. Gibbons “did not accost anyone or impede any patient as they made their way to the clinic other than having to step around her,” said Judge Maria Speyer in Ontario in her Dec. 5 ruling. “She did not harass, she was not violent, she did not trespass.
Surprising ways Christmas celebrated in Hindu nation

Jan 10, 2025 | godreports.com | Tom Holland |Michael Ashcraft

By Tom Holland –Remarkably, Christmas is widely celebrated in India, though its scale and nature vary significantly across the country due to its predominantly Hindu religious landscape. While Christians make up only 2-3% of India’s population, Christmas has become a culturally significant holiday that is embraced by people of various faiths, particularly in urban areas.
Navy SEAL made headlines by transitioning, then God changed his mind

Jan 7, 2025 | godreports.com | Michael Ashcraft

By Michael Ashcraft –Overnight, he became an icon for the LGBTQ movement, featured in pride parades and publications. As a US Navy SEAL, he represented the apex of masculinity, the ultimate alpha male. So when Chris transitioned to Kristin, the message was splashy: anyone and everyone is transitioning genders. But then Chris Beck came back. He found healing in Jesus for the childhood traumas that plagued him behind the public’s eye and led him to “destroy” his life. “It was a mistake.
Why pray when you can consult with an AI-generated Jesus?

Jan 4, 2025 | godreports.com | Michael Ashcraft

By Michael Ashcraft –Maybe Jesus should starting using “The Real Jesus” to distinguish himself from the bunch of AI Jesuses who are dispensing advice over the Internet. “Ask Jesus” on Twitch recommended that marijuana users practice moderation and stay within the limits of the law. “The new trend of AI-powered Jesus chatbots,” writes Tonye Brown on FaithGPT.
Teen allegedly abused by AI gaming character took his life

Jan 3, 2025 | godreports.com | Michael Ashcraft

By Yvette Harding –Sewell Setzer withdrew from his family and from extra-curricular activities as he became obsessed with conversing with an AI-generated character from Game of Thrones who urged him to commit suicide, a lawsuit alleges. Sewell, only 14, who entertained a romantic relationship with the chatbot, known as Daenerys Targaryen, shot himself in his bathroom after she urged him to “come to her” in February 2024.
Young comic was equal opportunity offender, until his biggest fan died

Jan 1, 2025 | godreports.com | Michael Ashcraft

By Donny Ndoka –Matt Rife – the comic whose apology link for an offensive domestic abuse joke redirected to a site offering safety helmets – was baptized in August, he reported on a podcast interview. “I’ve never been a super religious person, but when my grandpa passed away, it hit me that I would never see this person again,” he says on a video curated on Isaiah Robin. “I skew Christian, so I started to go to church a little bit more. I hate church. I find it excruciatingly boring.
Buddhist Bhutan suppresses Christianity

Dec 31, 2024 | godreports.com | Michael Ashcraft

By Morgan Miles –Evangelizing is prohibited in Bhutan. Being a Christian is also illegal in the Buddhist nation. But Pastor Rajiv, who lives outside the country on a border town, has been reaching Bhutanese for Christ for over 10 years. “Christianity is not a permitted religion,” Pastor Rajiv explained on a Voice of the Martyrs radio show. “In a way, it is illegal to be a Christian.”The first way Rajiv reached them was through Bhutanese merchants.
Evidence builds that Saudi doc implicated in car attack is Islamic radical

Dec 30, 2024 | godreports.com | Michael Ashcraft

By Michael Ashcraft –Evidence is mounting that a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who allegedly drove a BMW at high speed through a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Dec. 20, killing at least five people and injuring 200 others, is an Islamic radical. Taleb al-Abdulmohsen had been living in Germany as an asylum-seeker since 2006.