June 2025

• U.S. Dept. of Education Office for Civil Rights: CIF, CA DOE in violation of Title IX, issues directive to restore records, medals to girls; June declared 'Title IX Month'
• Alliance Defending Freedom: States ask SCOTUS to review two women's sports cases
• CA Family Council: Female athletes protest CIF trans policy; Fri., 9am, Costa Mesa
• CA Family Council: DOJ opposes CIF 'gender-identity' sports policy

The Bible says ... 'Look to the mountains -- the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace!' -Nahum 1:15

PHOTOS: CIF ON FED RADAR. Boys (L) and girls (Lower) compete at CIF cross country, track and field events across Riverside County. Citing CIF Bylaw 300 D. as unconstitutional, the DOJ sent CIF a warning letter to 'comply with the Equal Protection Clause' to protect girls' sports. -File photos IC News

.

'Save Girl's Sports' rally, press conference ...

PHOTOS: About 60 Southern California female athletes, parents, teachers and supporters held a 'Save Girls' Sports' rally (Top) and press conference Friday, June 20th, 9 a.m. at Westin South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa outside from where California Interscholastic Federation Executive Committee were scheduled for a 10 a.m. meeting. California Family Council (CFC) sponsored the event. Notable speakers included Ryan Starling (L), whose daughter Taylor and a cross county teammate filed a civil federal lawsuit against Martin Luther King High School and the Riverside Unified School District, Chino Valley Unified School Board president and candidate for California State Superintendent Sonja Shaw (Center), CFC Outreach Director Sophia Lorey, Advocates for Faith and Freedom Senior Legal Counsel Julianne Fleischer, and former Jurupa Valley High School physical education teacher Jessica Tapia. Tapia won a $350,000 settlement in her lawsuit against Jurupa's school district after being fired for refusing to follow -- as a Christian -- its 'gender-ideology policies.' Tapia is also the inspiration for the Teachers Don't Lie movement. 

... appeals for Title IX protection from CIF Executive Committee

Speakers then addressed the 10 a.m. California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Executive Committee meeting (R) with grievances during public comment citing alleged Title IX violations of girls' rights. Current CIF policy (Bylaw 300 D.) and the State of California (AB 1266), Jan. 1, 2014) allow biological males (XY) -- who self-identify as females -- to compete in girls' sports and use girls' locker room facilities (safe spaces). Lorey presented the CIF Executive Committee with a 'Save Girl's Sports' binder containing 20,074 petition signatures 'demanding CIF return to policies that align with federal Title IX law, laws designed to protect equal opportunities for girls.'

"This is not about hate, it's about justice ...

let girls play, let girls win, let girls be safe."

-Sophia Lorey

A few of the 23 Executive Committee members nodded in agreement as speakers presented thier arguments. Nearly each of at least 25 speakers -- alloted two minutes each for public comment -- cited firsthand knowledge of females who trained hard, yet were denied a top three athletic placement -- some even a scholarship -- displaced for an athlete who is a biological male. The Committee had voted to accommodate nine more speakers. The public comment time then came to a close.  'Thank you for your time,' said President-Elect and Superintendent of Monrovia U.S.D, Dr. Paula Hart Rodas (R, 2nd from L) as rally members exited peacefully -- and resolutely. -Photos IC News

_____________________________________________________

May 2025

• Red Schoolhouse: How to start a one-room Faith-based schoolhouse
• Alliance Defending Freedom: Psychiatry professor vindicated in $1.6M settlement by U. of Louisville in free speech lawsuit

.

The Bible Says ... 'I will utterly sweep away everybody from the face of the earth.' -Zephaniah 1:2

.

PHOTOS: SRO. The failed Krikorian movie theater project (L) in downtown Menifee, Calif., finally declared a 'public nuisance' in 2023 -- demolition began in 2024; 'What Can I Do For You?' sang Bob Dylan during his gospel years, recordings collected from concerts on 'Trouble No More -- The Bootleg Series Vol. 13, 1979-1981.' (Lower). -File photos InterChurch News 

______________________________

April 2025

The Good News

'For in him the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily ... you who were dead in your trespasses ... God made alive ... having forgiven us all our trespasses by canceling the record of debt ... nailing it to the cross. -Colossians 2:9ff

'... we believe that Jesus died and rose again ... through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep ... then we ... will be caught up together with them ...' -1 Thess. 4:14ff

.

The Bible says ... 'It is finished.' -John 19:30

.

PHOTOS: Riverside National Cemetery, Memorial Day. (L) -File photo InterChurch News; A church building after the rapture. -Stock photo. 

______________________________

March 2025

• Alliance Defending Freedom: Holy Sexuality vs. Asana; ADF Center for Free Speech files lawsuit on behalf of Holy Sexuality in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
• Pacific Justice Institute: Public Education Religious Rights (CA); free booklet access/download (Ex: CA public school students are allowed to distribute religious materials (tracts), witness their faith; bring Bibles to school; hold prayer meetings ...)

The Bible says: 'You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.' -Matthew 16:3

.

PHOTOS: At least eight contrails (some say 'chemtrails') are visible in the southwestern Riverside County sky (L), March 9, 2025. The contrails spread -- clear, blue sky became overcast. As forecast, it rained for four days. -Photo InterChurch News

Contrails ...

-Photos

InterChurch News

______________________

February 2025

• Intercessors for America: Daily morning prayer for America
• Decision Magazine: Anchor Stone Christian Church sues City of Santa Ana for prohibiting worship services -- after allegedly granting prior approval 
• Calif. Family Council: Vista HS required students to role play LGBT 'coming out,' failed to notify parents 

The Bible Says ... 'And the rib that the LORD GOD had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.' -Genesis 2:22

The Bible Says ... 'Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing ...' -Isaiah 43:18, 19

.

COVER PHOTO: President Donald Trump (L) signs 'Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports' Executive Order, February 5th. - 'X" screenshot InterChurch News

_____________________

.Rediscovering

Trail Hikes .

Riverside County provides three public campgrounds in the San Jacinto Mountains: Idyllwild Regional Park, Hurkey Creek Park and McCall Memorial Park. .

Campsite nightly rates are $30-$35 and well worth it  -- they offer clean campsites and restrooms, water spickets throughout each park, fire pits, bench's and access to hiking trails. Each park offers Day Use only areas.

McCall Park offers equestrian accomodations at campsites. 

Hiking trails in San Jacinto Mountains beats working out on a treadmill -- by a mile. A Word of Caution: make sure cellphone is fully charged. Take food, water, headlamp, poncho and compass in daypack. Stick to your pre-planned turn-around time; hiking trails after sunset is high risk for novices. Call 911 if you've lost the trail. The RIVCO Sheriff's Department rescues hikers -- but if you've lost cellphone charge, you will be harder to locate.

.San Jacinto Mountains, President's Day weekend

.-Photo Essay InterChurch News 

PHOTOS: San Jacinto Mountain Range (top, L), Apache Peak area (Middle, L), Manzanita regrowth (Middle, R).

_______________________________

January 2025

• CBN News-Israel: Israel October 7 War
• L.A. Fire Info: Airbnb partnering with 211 LA  to offer limited free temporary housing for residents displaced or forced to evacuate; free limited Lyft, Uber drives offered; temporary animal shelter
• Harvest Relief Fund: SoCal Fires, help provide emergency medical care, food, shelter -- assist first responders, support local churches
• CBN News: As 'Apocalptic' wildfires ravage L.A., pastors minister hope amidst devastation 
• California Family: Faith under Fire -- The purge of Calif. Christian foster parents 
• ACLJ: Our client didn't become a nurse to kill the unborn
• Decision: Billy Graham chaplains deploy to New Orleans after attack

The Bible Says ... 'By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.' -1 John 5:2

.

Cover photo: La Jolla Sea Caves, Christmas 2024. -Photo InterChurch News

_______________________________

Remembering the 21 Christian martyrs

of February 15, 2015

.

'Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus

and for the word of God,

and those who had not worshipped the beast

or its image and had not received its mark

on their foreheads or their hands.

They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.'

-Revelation 20:4-5

.

'In 2015 21 Coptic Christians were beheaded by ISIS on a beach in Libya. ISIS released a video of the beheadings that was intended to terrorise Christians in the Middle East. Yet this very video is watched repeatedly by the families of the martyrs: they are inspired by the calmness and courage of their men. Why are Coptic Christians encouraged rather than terrorised by the video?

Martin Mosebach, an award-winning journalist, travelled to the village that was home to 16 of the martyrs, to interview their families, church leaders and others. His inspiring investigation describes the primitive faith of Egyptian Christians, who have been using the same creed and liturgy since AD42, and how they live in the face of persecution in a Muslim-majority country.'

For more information, refer to Release International ministry to order

'The 21 -- A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs'

by Martin Mosebach

Further references:

1. 'Do This For Love -- Free Burma Rangers in the Battle of Mosul' by David Eubank with Hosannah Valentine, 2020
2. 'The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East -- Prevention, Prohibition & Prosecution' Edited by Ronald J. Rychlak, Jane F. Adolphe, 2017
3. Wikipedia: 2015 kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya
4. 'The Global War on Christians -- Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution' by John L Allen Jr., 2013
5. 'Tortured for Christ' by Richard Wurmbrand, 1967. 'I tremble for Western Christians who don't help their persecuted brethren. In the depth of my heart, I would like to keep the beauty of my own vineyard and not be involved in such a huge fight. I would like so much to be somewhere in quietness and rest. But it is not possible ... the quietness and rest for which I long would be an escape from reality and dangerous for my soul ... the West sleeps and must be awakened to see the plight of the captive nations.' 

Back to Index

+ + +