Author: Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency Young men in bathing trunks emerge from a Swedish lake and begin cheering, embracing, and jumping with joy. They have just been baptized–not in America’s Bible Belt or somewhere in the developing world, but in one of the most secular nations on earth. For decades, Sweden appeared to represent Europe’s post-Christian future. Churches emptied, belief in God declined, and biblical faith was increasingly regarded as an outdated relic. Parents raised children without Scripture, prayer, or any expectation that Christianity should guide their lives. But something unexpected is happening. The generation raised without God is…

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency “Convert or get hurt.” Three words. One terrifying choice. For a vulnerable man entering the wrong British prison wing, those may be among the first words he hears. The message is not an invitation to examine a faith. It is an ultimatum from men who control protection, access, territory and punishment inside institutions the government is supposed to control. Britain’s prisons have become incubators for a militant form of Islam that increasingly resembles organized gang rule. The leaders call themselves “emirs.” They surround themselves with enforcers, recruit frightened newcomers, impose religious rules and punish…

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency Jacob Coxon did not leave the artificial intelligence industry because he feared losing his job to a machine. He left because he feared what the machines themselves may become. After spending three years conducting AI pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic—two of the most powerful artificial intelligence laboratories in the world—Coxon resigned with an extraordinary accusation: neither company is acting responsibly. “They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” he warned. Those words deserve more attention than another vague prediction about robots taking jobs. Coxon helped build the technology. He…

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency For most people, buying a concert ticket or streaming a favorite song doesn’t feel like a political act. You like the music, enjoy the artist and pay for the entertainment. End of story. Except increasingly, it isn’t. Pop superstar Olivia Rodrigo provided a striking example when her Daisy Chain Fields festival reportedly raised $10 million for organizations including Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rights and the National Women’s Law Center. Melinda French Gates then matched the funds, bringing the total to an astonishing $20 million. Rodrigo wasn’t hiding the purpose. The festival combined…

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency For years, the greatest fears surrounding artificial intelligence have centered on jobs, misinformation and machines eventually becoming too powerful for humans to control. Now one of the world’s most important financial watchdogs is warning about another threat that could hit much closer to home: AI could become a danger to the stability of the global financial system itself. Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England and chairman of the Financial Stability Board, issued the warning in a letter to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors ahead of meetings in Asheville, North Carolina.…

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency For years, Americans have worried about surveillance cameras mounted on buildings, government facial-recognition systems and smartphones quietly collecting enormous amounts of personal data. But the next stage of surveillance may not be mounted on a wall or sitting in someone’s hand. It may be sitting on someone’s face. Meta has filed a patent describing AI-powered smart glasses capable of using facial recognition to identify people in the wearer’s field of view, analyze facial expressions, track the wearer’s gaze and use relationship data to determine which people and moments deserve attention. The system could then…

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency When Grosvenor Park United Church in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, announced it would host a ticketed “All Ages Drag Show” featuring performers dressed as DC comic book characters, it wasn’t simply promoting another community event. Admission was set at $10 for ages 12 and older, $5 for children ages 5-11, while children four and under were admitted free. For supporters, the event represented inclusion, diversity, and hospitality. For critics, it represented yet another example of a church embracing values increasingly at odds with historic Christian teaching. But while the headlines focused on one congregation in one…

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency Something unusual is about to happen in the heavens. Before sunrise on August 12, six planets will be spread across the morning sky. Later that same day, the moon will pass directly between the Earth and sun, producing a total solar eclipse across portions of the Northern Hemisphere. Then, as darkness falls, one of the year’s most spectacular meteor showers will be reaching its peak. It will be quite a day to look up. NASA confirms that the August 12 total solar eclipse will sweep across Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain…

Mike Bain/cvnznews.com/Katy Nolan/PNW News Agency Is Kathryn Krick’s Ministry Simply Causing Division—Or Are Seeds of Apostasy Taking Root? The church must never become so skeptical that it dismisses everything supernatural, nor so undiscerning that it embraces anything that looks spiritual. Scripture warns, “Do not quench the Spirit… test everything; hold fast what is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:19–21). Those commands belong together. They are not competing values but complementary safeguards. And they are urgently needed in the growing debate surrounding Kathryn Krick and her Five‑Fold Church. Who Kathryn Krick Is Kathryn Krick is a Los Angeles‑based minister who identifies as an…

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency If you walked into many mainline churches today after being away for 40 years, the first thing you would likely notice isn’t the sermon. It’s the sanctuary itself. Rainbow flags hang where banners proclaiming Christ once stood. Pride colors decorate the chancel. In some congregations, even clergy wear rainbow stoles or vestments as visible declarations of affirmation before a single word is preached. The architecture may still be familiar. The stained glass still depicts biblical scenes. The pews remain in place. But the message has changed. What is being taught, celebrated, and proclaimed from…

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency The story almost sounds too unbelievable to be true. A homosexual couple is suing the surrogate mother they hired—not because she harmed their baby, but because she refused to abort him. According to reports, prenatal testing suggested the child might be born with a cleft lip and other possible birth defects. The two men allegedly demanded that the surrogate terminate the pregnancy. She refused. Today, the child has been born with only a minor birth defect and is expected to live a healthy life. Now the couple is seeking approximately $600,000 in damages. Pause…

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency In an age dominated by streaming services, social media algorithms, and endless digital distractions, many have assumed that the era of stadium evangelism has come and gone. Why gather tens of thousands of people in one place when a sermon can be watched on a smartphone? Yet this past weekend, approximately 30,000 people packed Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, for the annual Harvest Crusade led by Pastor Greg Laurie. It was a powerful reminder that despite the constant claims that Christianity is fading, people remain deeply hungry for hope, truth, and the transforming message…

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency For years we’ve been told there are certain issues that are simply too controversial to decide. So what do organizations do? They create a committee. Study it. Delay it. Hope the controversy cools off before anyone has to take a position. That’s exactly what happened this week. The only problem? The organization wasn’t a Fortune 500 company trying to navigate corporate politics. It wasn’t Congress trying to avoid a difficult vote. It was a Christian denomination trying to decide whether its pastors should be… monogamous. Yes, you read that correctly. The Presbyterian Church (USA)…

Editors Note: While this story is very much anchored in the United States, as Christians in New Zealand, we cannot ignore what is happening in the this country. Jesus repeatedly told his followers to “stay Awake”. Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency You can believe the Bible… just don’t act like you believe it. That increasingly appears to be the government’s definition of religious freedom. Across America, Christians are repeatedly assured that no one is trying to take away their faith. They are free to attend church, own a Bible, pray before meals, and believe whatever they wish. Religious liberty,…

Katy Nolan/PNW News Agency For generations, the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem was viewed as little more than a dream held by a small number of deeply religious Jews. It was discussed in prophecy conferences, debated by theologians, and dismissed by many as politically impossible. Not anymore. Something remarkable is happening inside Israel. A new poll commissioned by Temple Mount Heritage Foundation and conducted by the Direct Polls Institute, shows that 55 percent of Israeli Jews now support rebuilding the Third Temple on the Temple Mount. That statistic alone represents a dramatic cultural shift. But perhaps even more…

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency There are moments when a single church service captures just how dramatically some denominations have drifted from historic Christianity. A recent sermon delivered by Anglican Bishop Susan Bell appears to be one of those moments. For many Christians watching clips and photos from the service, the first thing that stood out was not the sermon itself but the overwhelming symbolism on display. Rainbow imagery dominated the sanctuary. A massive rainbow arch framed the stage. Rainbow banners were prominently displayed. Even Bishop Bell’s ceremonial bishop’s hat—known as a mitre—featured rainbow colors. The symbolism was unmistakable.…

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency A Denver Public Schools teacher who once received top performance ratings has now lost her job after an investigation concluded that she required students to participate in same-sex kissing scenarios as part of graded classroom assignments. In a unanimous 7-0 vote, the Denver Public Schools Board of Education voted to terminate Jennifer Honka, a French Language and Culture teacher at Northeast Early College. The official grounds for dismissal were “incompetence and neglect of duty.” What makes the case particularly noteworthy is not simply the nature of the assignment itself, but the broader questions it…

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency There are moments when a news story is so shocking that it almost feels satirical. You read the headline, assume it must be exaggerated, and then watch the video only to discover that reality is even worse than the description. That is the reaction of most Christians after seeing footage from MCC Toronto, a self-described “progressive church” that recently featured a drag queen collecting the offering during a worship service. As congregants handed over dollar bills, the performer walked through the sanctuary singing Gloria Gaynor’s famous anthem “I Will Survive.” The money was then…

By Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency How far can a nation go in protecting people from being offended before it starts criminalizing its own heritage? That question is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid in Finland, where authorities appear determined to ensure that Christian beliefs remain safely locked away from public view–lest someone hear them, disagree with them, or worse yet, be offended by them. The warning signs have been flashing for years. Many Christians around the world first became aware of Finland’s growing hostility toward biblical speech through the case of Päivi Räsänen, a grandmother, medical doctor, former Interior…

By Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency The details surrounding the death of 45-year-old Ontario man Thomas Dillon are so shocking that many Canadians could be forgiven for thinking the story was satire. A doctor reportedly assessed Dillon for euthanasia outside a Tim Hortons coffee shop, exchanged personal text messages with him about ending his life, and later drove him to the location where he would receive a lethal injection. Yet this was not fiction. It was another real case within Canada’s rapidly expanding MAID system — Medical Assistance in Dying — a program that has now become one of…

By Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency The stones beneath Jerusalem are speaking again. For decades, the Temple Mount was treated as a place too volatile to touch politically, spiritually, or prophetically. Jewish prayer there was heavily restricted, Jewish religious presence was intentionally minimized, and most Israelis avoided even ascending the mount altogether. But something has changed in recent years — and especially since the horrors of October 7th. A growing wave of religious Zionism is sweeping across Israel as many Jews rediscover their Biblical identity, their covenant history, and their connection to the very place where the First and…

By Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency For thousands of years, humanity has pursued the same dangerous dream: to transcend its limitations without God. From the Tower of Babel in Genesis to today’s race toward artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and digital immortality, mankind continues chasing the ancient temptation first whispered in the Garden of Eden: “You shall be as gods.” What once sounded like science fiction is now openly discussed by some of the world’s most influential technology leaders. Elon Musk continues advancing brain-computer interface technology through Neuralink while warning about the dangers of uncontrolled AI. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley increasingly…

By Katy Nolan/Staff Writer at PNW News Agency The images from October 7 were horrifying enough. Burned homes. Bullet-riddled cars. Blood-soaked shelters. Families wiped out in a single morning. But the newly released findings from the independent Israeli Civil Commission investigation into Hamas’s October 7 massacre force the world to confront something even darker: this was not merely terrorism. It was calculated human degradation on a level that many civilized people struggle to even comprehend. For two years, investigators reviewed more than 10,000 photos and video segments, analyzed over 1,800 hours of footage, and conducted more than 430 interviews with…

by Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News Agency The recent release of long-awaited UFO-related government documents has once again pulled the public imagination toward one of the most persistent and controversial questions of modern times: what exactly are unidentified anomalous phenomena, and how should they be interpreted? The latest batch of files–released following a directive associated with President Donald Trump–includes historical State Department cables, FBI records, and NASA mission transcripts now made available through a newly launched Pentagon portal. Officials have framed the release as part of a broader push for transparency, encouraging the public to examine the material and draw…

Katy Nolan/Staff Writer, PNW News. The slow but measurable decline of the Euphrates River has begun to capture attention far beyond environmental and geopolitical circles. Once a lifeline of ancient civilizations and a defining boundary of empires, the river is now increasingly viewed through a more symbolic lens—especially among those who study biblical prophecy. For some observers, the shrinking waters are not just an ecological warning sign, but a potential alignment with ancient predictions found in the Book of Revelation. A recent report warning that the Euphrates could be at risk of significant depletion by 2040 has intensified concern. Satellite…