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The city of Fremont, Nebraska, has unanimously approved a resolution allowing homeschool graduates without accredited diplomas to work for the city. The change came after 22-year-old volunteer firefighter Andrew Coates was barred from applying for a full-time firefighter job. The council voted 8-0 Tuesday before what officials called the largest crowd in memory. The old policy cited liability risks in hiring applicants without an accredited diploma or GED. Days earlier, Coates and his parents appeared at the Family Research Council's Pray Vote Stand Summit. His father, Seth, said the family spent five months pressing the city, but "it took about five minutes" for the public to understand the problem. Reacting to the vote, Andrew Coates said the experience taught him "patience and that God's got a plan."
https://www.christianpost.com/news/nebraska-city-amends-rule-impacting-homeschool-graduates.html
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The South Carolina developer who infamously painted a Greenville church pink and emblazoned "TRAP" above its entrance is behind bars again. Ronald Dean Rallis Jr., 47, was arrested September 25 by Folly Beach police on a Greenville County warrant. He's accused of damaging the hood, windshield and wiper arm of a truck belonging to his brother, Justus Rallis, at their mother's home, causing an estimated $1,000 in damage. He's charged with malicious injury to personal property. Rallis bought the former Bibleway Full Gospel Missionary Baptist Church in 2022 for $425,000, reportedly painting it pink to call out Republican Congressman William Timmons, whom he accused of breaking up his marriage. One local business owner said at the time, "Pink is a great color, but this is definitely a lot." The building burned in 2025, and Rallis was arrested last October for DUI and child endangerment.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/developer-behind-infamous-pink-trap-church-arrested-again-in-sc.html
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Two Christian student groups are taking Virginia State University to federal court. Women of Victory and Bethel Campus Fellowship allege the historically black university discriminated against them with an August policy that folds their clubs into "Campus Ministries," overseen by campus minister Thomas Wynn and a faculty board that can control their events and guest speakers. The complaint notes that the policy exempts the Muslim Students Association and the VSU Community Faith Alliance. According to the suit, Wynn said the groups were merged "because you purport Jesus Christ and faith." Represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, the students claim violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. ADF senior counsel Tyson Langhofer said, "VSU is brazenly singling out Christian clubs and treating them worse than student groups of other faiths." VSU has not responded to requests for comment.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-student-groups-sue-virginia-state-university.html
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A popular TikTok missionary from Mansfield, Louisiana, now faces federal charges for allegedly sexually abusing three teenage boys in Haiti. Twenty-three-year-old Maylon Foshee gained more than 100,000 followers as a blond-haired American fluent in Haitian Kreyòl while working with Agape Ministries in Gonaives. A complaint filed September 22 alleges he abused the boys, all 14 at the time, between February and December 2025, after paying for some of them to attend school and letting them stay at his home. One boy says Foshee offered him a passport and a trip to the U.S. If convicted, Foshee faces up to 30 years in prison. U.S. Attorney Zachary Keller said, "Protecting children from sexual abuse wherever it occurs is one of this Administration's highest priorities."
https://www.christianpost.com/news/popular-tiktok-missionary-maylon-foshee-accused-of-abuse.html
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A federal judge in Los Angeles has partially blocked the University of California from enforcing anti-harassment rules against students who refer to transgender classmates using names and pronouns that match their birth sex. U.S. District Judge Fred W. Slaughter, a Biden appointee and UCLA graduate, granted a preliminary injunction sought by Defending Education on behalf of four anonymous students at UCLA, UC Irvine and UC San Diego. Slaughter found the policy likely "compel[s] speech" and is "viewpoint-based," though UC may still act "to prevent the abuse of transgender students." Defending Education President Nicole Neily said, "It is unconstitutional for public universities to compel student speech." UC spokesperson Rachel Zaentz countered that the policy aims "to protect members of the university community from discrimination and harassment, not to regulate protected speech." UC may appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/judge-limits-uc-rules-on-using-biologically-accurate-pronouns.html
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Contemporary Christian music artist Tauren Wells is opening up about burnout, faith, and why he believes believers can't go it alone. In a new video interview with The Christian Post, Wells reflects on how planting a church transformed his own walk with God, reshaping how he views ministry beyond the stage. The Grammy-nominated singer also speaks candidly about navigating seasons of burnout, a struggle familiar to many in ministry and in the pews. Central to the conversation is his conviction that Christians need the local church, a message he hopes his new project, "Here Comes the Church," will carry to listeners. Wells has also recently addressed church scandal and rediscovering God's presence, themes reflecting a renewed focus on community and spiritual health.
https://www.christianpost.com/video/tauren-wells-talks-burnout-why-christians-need-the-local-church.html
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Texas Attorney General and Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton says he supports data center development, with strings attached. Speaking Saturday at a United States Hispanic Business Council event in Fort Worth, Paxton told USHBC President Javier Palomarez, "This is not an extreme yes-no. This is a yes with conditions." His "Texas first" plan would require new facilities to generate their own power, use closed-loop water recycling, and ban Chinese hardware and software, warning that the AI race "may be a competition for survival." Paxton backed Gov. Greg Abbott's temporary moratorium and said there's "plenty of open space in Texas" to keep data centers away from homes. His Democratic opponent, state Rep. James Talarico, has pushed for tougher safeguards, charging that "data centers are jacking up utility bills across the state of Texas."
https://www.christianpost.com/news/paxton-qualifies-support-for-data-centers-a-yes-with-conditions.html