Will Christians Ever “Stand Up” Against Evil as They Once Did?

Raymond Ibrahim Mar 17, 2026.

Why the simple act of standing up would be a gamechanger for Christians 

Western authorities seem to encourage anyone and everyone to “stand up” for themselves. Everyone, that is, except Christians—they who, rather ironically, created and made Western civilization so appealing in the first place.

There are numerous examples of this. Here’s an especially memorable one:

In 2024, a Muslim man stabbed and partially blinded Orthodox bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel while he preached inside his Sydney church. Commenting on this—as well as the ongoing terrorization of Christians at the hands of Muslims in general—an Australian man wrote “Christians should stand up” on social media.

Because of this simple assertion, police—accompanied by a head shrink—“visited” and questioned the man in his home. You can watch the video here. In it, the man can be heard questioning the police,

This is religious discrimination, right now, you know? Because you wouldn’t be knocking on Muslims’ doors if they had this conversation—so I already know why you’re here. This is religious discrimination.

Zahra Ghanbari, 34, the Captain of Iran’s Women’s National Soccer team is the Latest Iranian Team Player to have ended her attempt to seek Asylum

by: Human Events Staff  

Zahra Ghanbari, 34, the captain of Iran’s women’s national soccer team, [pictured here] is the latest Iranian women's team player to have ended her attempt to seek asylum in Australia and is returning home, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported Sunday. She is the latest of several players to reverse course amid concerns for their families as some now report that they have gone "missing."

Shiva Amini, an exiled former Iranian soccer player, said the decision came after “intense and systemic pressure on the players’ families” from Iran’s Football Federation. “Several of the players decided to go back because the threats against their families became unbearable and the intimidation was relentless,” she wrote on X. ...

The controversy began last week when seven members of Iran’s team at the Women’s Asian Cup refused to sing the national anthem, prompting backlash and threats. Their protest coincided with US and Israeli air strikes on Iran, which killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The women were branded “traitors” at home, and observers fear the regime may target their families if the players stay abroad.

We’re Losing Children to Diseases We Already Defeated

Lauren Burke-Sarabia ...

Over the past year, the Food and Drug Administration has done important work drawing attention to how food choices affect health. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. deserves credit for shining a light on food additives and America’s dependence on processed foods.

I’m a registered nurse and a mother. I applaud that work. But I also need to ask a hard question: Why aren’t childhood vaccines getting the same attention and urgency?  *** RFK Jr is right that clean food matters.  But so does keeping measles and whooping cough of kids' lungs ...

I’ve spent years in intensive care watching people of all ages fight respiratory illness. Even with experience, it’s brutal to see a patient cling to life through ventilators, intubation, or ECMO machines.

Why Johnny Still Can’t Read: The Curriculum Cartel Doesn’t Want Reform

Vince Bielski,  March 14, 2026   

Popular programs stay entrenched even after admitting flaws. Gatekeepers prefer familiar dogma over the hard work of changing course.

Half a century after the book “Why Johnny Can’t Read” sounded an alarm about the rise of illiteracy in the U.S., the problem has only gotten worse. A quarter of all young adults, many of them high-school graduates, are now functionally illiterate. Unable to read more than basic, short sentences, their prospects in today’s information economy are bleak.

This crisis gave rise to a movement that embraced the science of reading and produced a surprising success story in the Deep South, a region dogged by the highest rates of childhood illiteracy in the nation. State leaders and education reformers in Mississippi and Louisiana led a remarkable improvement in elementary reading scores that now rank among the highest in the nation.

The Most Dangerous Job in America Claims the Life of a 29-Year-Old Kentucky Amish Man

Erik Wesner

Logging workers have the highest fatality rate of any civilian job in the US, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The profession sees 110.4 fatalities per 100,000 workers – a rate more than double that of roofing (the third-deadliest occupation) and over 33 times higher than the national average for all workers.

Amish in many communities are involved in the lumber industry – both in logging, and in operating sawmills. And sadly, news has come that another Amish logger has lost his life, this time in an incident in Crittenden County, Kentucky. ...

Northern Cheyenne Tribe Reclaims Cultural Belongings from UM

Northern Cheyenne elders and cultural leaders traveled from the southeastern Montana reservation to UM to reclaim ownership of dozens of culturally significant items, recordings and documents in the university’s collections.

Inside the University of Montana’s Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, Donovan Taylor stretched his arms across a wooden conference table holding his phone, which was recording, up to two gray speakers. He furrowed his brow and closed his eyes as he listened to a 1968 recording of a Cheyenne love song. 

Next to him, Theresa Small, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council, leaned closer to the speakers and cupped a hand to her right ear, trying to hear the drums and singers through the lo-fi audio.