Author: Bethania Wonagseged

By Bethania Wonagseged — Exactly nine months after Baylor prayed for a younger sibling, Hayden arrived at their house to be adopted on Oct. 5, 2015. Nine months earlier, Mom thought her 9-year-old daughter was adorable and silly when she piped up with: “Mom, I think the Lord is calling us to adopt a kid.” ”Well, I don’t feel the calling, but obviously if there’s a kid on my doorstep then I will take them in,” Mom replied politely. There were no plans for more kids. Born in a Christian household, Baylor was the younger sibling and wanted to be…

By Bethania Wonagseged – At the agreed meet-up place, Dustin Lampros waits to talk to the person he has only met online. He’s going to put him behind bars “We’re catching grown adults coming to meet with what they believe are children to engage in sexual activity,” Lampros says. Dustin Lampros, an MMA fighter who freelances busting predators in Florida, uses the moniker 561 Predator Catcher on social media. He started just after he re-committed to the Lord and starting praying for a ministry to get involved with in 2022. His friend showed him what creeps were doing online luring…

By Bethania Wonagseged – A student group suspended for vandalism and anti-Jewish speech has been reinstated and is recruiting new members at George Mason University. Students for Justice in Palestine, with at least 350 chapters on college campuses nationwide, was suspended in November 2024 after leaders vandalized campus property in a pro-Palestinian protest. They were eligible to reapply under Free Speech law at GMU and celebrated their reinstatement as a student group with an ominous video of a leader masked in a keffiyeh with voice scrambled threatening to eradicate Israelis “from the river to the Sea.” “We call upon the…

By Bethania Wonagseged — With ministries around the world, globetrotting preacher Arch Bonnema noticed that lots of poverty women were begging or falling into prostitution. He bought sewing machines and set up a training center. “We bought 20 sewing machines and started a center where older women would teach them how to make things they could sell,” Arch says. “We gave each woman material, thread, scissor and measuring tape to start.” A machine and material costs $150. That’s a tiny price to save a woman from the worldwide scourge of what is essentially sex slavery. A single mom can feed…

By Bethania Wonagseged — After listening to Christian radio at age 16, Moses Kiyemba converted and preached to his entire school, saving 500 kids. It was a Muslim school. For his zeal, they beat him, they suspended him, the kicked him out of his house in Kampala, Uganda. “I had a rough start in my walk with the Lord,” Moses says. “I could not abandon Jesus.” Today, he is a pastor in Magamaga, his second church aiming to launch his third. Born into a household with a Catholic father and a Muslim mother, Moses Kiyemba listened to a Gospel explanation…

By Bethania Wonagseged — Vanessa didn’t date her husband. She dated her husband’s family. “They were really hospitable people, having me over literally every single night for dinner,” Vanessa says. “Their food was delicious so you bet I did not turn down a single invitation. I dated him for three years, but I felt like I was really dating his family.” Her boyfriend was deployed across the country, so Vanessa hung out with her future in-laws who told her about Christ. “I wasn’t a Christian at the time,” Vanessa confides. “They treated me with such grace and kindness and warmth.…

By Bethania Wonagseged — Americans are fleeing tax-heavy California and New York for tax havens in Texas, Tennessee and Florida. “It’s very, very clear that people ultimately vote with their feet and when they feel like they’re getting taxed too much, they go somewhere else where they will be taxed less,” says Heritage Foundation chief economist E.J. Antoni. “If you look at where these people are going, they’re not going to Massachusetts or Illinois or California. They’re going to Texas,” Antoni adds. “They’re going to Tennessee. They’re going to Florida — places with low or no income taxes and low…

By Bethania Wonagseged — Stripping Jesus of his divinity and remaking him into a Marxist hero, Columbia’s President Gustavo Petro commented that the Man of the Gospels actually made love to Mary Magdalene and never called himself Christ. “I believe Jesus made love, yes … perhaps with Mary Magdalene, because a man like that without love could not have existed,” the non-practicing Catholic said. Jesus was a “man of light, of truth and a revolutionary” but not “Christ” because that means he attributed to himself “power and kingship.” Liberation Theology downplays the supernatural in the Gospels and recasts Biblical events…

By Bethania Wonagseged — Taking cues from other Islamists in Africa, extremist Muslims in Ethiopia are now massacring Christians, with the latest attacks tallying 144 dead mostly from the Orthodox and Catholic communities in the Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region. Since September, militants have staged coordinated attacks. The so-called Oromo Liberation Army raided the Asebot Monastery in the West Hararghe Zone. Anbes Felate, was killed, and his son, Betre Anbes, was critically injured. Two others were abducted. In Oct. 24-28, extremists have hit multiple districts in Arsi. In one attack, 24 Orthodox Christians were killed, including a toddler and…

By Bethania Wonagseged – Ultimately, Cait Taylor chose the Stanley knife to defend herself against her stepfather, who was beating up Mom. “Could I hit him with the hammer?” she wondered and decided against it. But when the police arrived, she hid the knife in the grass, thinking they might mistake her for the aggressor. In fact, the police stopped Stepdad, for the umpteenth time. Eventually, Mom came to her senses and left him for good, ending a harrowing eight years. Cait Taylor, who as a little girl wished for a father only to fall into the nightmare of a…