An analysis by the organization Open Doors revealed that the Bible is banned or restricted in 88 of the world's 195 countries, meaning that nearly half of all nations limit access to the Holy Scriptures. Among the most serious cases is China, where—despite its image of economic openness—state control, direct government intervention, and social surveillance mechanisms continue to persist. Additionally, Cardinal Joseph Zen has called on the faithful to “return to the catacombs,” warning that in China religious worship is not only strictly regulated, but that there is also a state-authorized form of worship. The prelate discourages attending these official churches and urges believers to practice their faith freely, remaining “faithful to the truth that makes us free.” [I spoke to a lady from China the other day. I believe she was wearing a cross, which is why the subject came up. She told me something to the effect of, Don't believe what the western media says about Chinese persecution of Christians. We have "official churches." They are fine.] Japan’s famously reserved political culture erupted in rare bluntness this week when Mizuho Umemura, a member of Japan’s upper house and rising figure in the Sanseitō party, delivered a firm rejection of expanding Muslim burial plots in Japan. Her remarks, now going viral, came during a November 27, 2025, session of the Health, Labour and Welfare Committee. She said openly what most Japanese politicians avoid acknowledging: Within hours, millions of Japanese praised her for saying what they feel but cannot express under modern speech restrictions: Japan will not be bullied into changing its identity. In her speech, Umemura notes that Japan’s land scarcity, geological instability, and centuries of public-health policymaking make burial, especially mass burial, a serious issue. Unlike much of the West, Japan is a country of: Cremation is not merely cultural. It is scientifically necessary in a nation where earthquakes can rupture soil, liquefy land, and disinter buried bodies — turning cemeteries into biological hazards. According to your verified transcript, Umemura said: Unlike Western politicians who bend immediately when accused of “Islamophobia,” Umemura does not retreat because she does not accept the premise that national self-preservation is bigotry. https://rairfoundation.com/japan-says-what-west-wont-nation-must-not/ UK Supreme Court Rules That Christian Education And Worship In Schools Is Unlawful: The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the Christian-focused religious education and collective worship in Northern Ireland’s state-funded primary schools is “unlawful.” This is a direct assault on the Christian foundations of the education system, but has been coming for some time. It is a stark warning of what happens when a nation abandons truth for relativism in its schools. The ruling claims that the current RE curriculum fails to be “objective, critical and pluralistic.” But what does that really mean? It could mean that Christianity will be treated as just one option among many and given less priority, stripped of its rightful place as the moral and spiritual bedrock of our culture, where Christ was once the focus of children’s worship. It will mean that Christian teachers in Northern Ireland, even where there are a majority of Christian pupils, will not be able to teach biblical truth as truth, but only as one perspective among countless others. The North Korean (DPRK) regime recently boasted that it had won the war against religion, even as a new human rights report shows that repression has only intensified since the pandemic. The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights surveyed 15,303 defectors and found that 99.6 percent said free religious practice is impossible inside the country. North Korea is officially an atheist state, though its constitution nominally guarantees freedom of religion as long as religious activity does not introduce foreign influence or threaten the state or social order. In reality, nearly all respondents reported that religious activity is completely banned, with only a small number saying they had practiced their faith in secret before escaping. Researchers conclude that restrictions have grown even harsher in recent years, reinforcing North Korea’s status as one of the world’s most repressive countries for religious freedom. Possessing foreign media or religious texts can lead to imprisonment, execution, or the punishment of entire families. Pyongyang recently claimed that underground churches and secret prayer groups have been “practically exterminated"... Anyone caught praying, possessing a Bible, or meeting for worship is labeled part of a hostile class and risks imprisonment, torture, or execution. Protestants and Catholics are sent straight to political prison camps without reeducation, and entire families can be punished for three generations under the regime’s “total control zone” system. North Korean Christians and field workers say they remain committed to discipling the young however they can, knowing that without a grounded next generation, the underground church may not survive. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/north-korea-war-religion-prison-work-camp-execution/ One of the left’s favorite talking points is that extreme wealth concentration among billionaires is a major contributing factor to the financial struggles of everyday Americans. According to the logic of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, among other progressives, eliminate billionaires and you solve America’s economic problems. But Mark Levin debunks this argument with ease: “The billionaires aren't our problem. They're irrelevant in terms of whether you succeed or not. Government's your problem because they take from you, they regulate you, they obstruct you.” Billionaires, he explains, via investments and spending, actually pump their money back into the economy, which means “more capital, more research and development.” Then the money they save in banks just gives banks “more money to lend to ... you and me, Mr. and Mrs. America,” says Levin. But the government with their excessive spending and never-ending list of regulations and taxes bar the American people from financial success. “Try and open a restaurant ... maybe a doughnut-and-coffee place in your community. Watch all the red tape you have to go through,” says Levin. “That's not capitalism blocking you. That's socialism. That's government. That's politicians and bureaucrats.” He gives another example of someone trying to increase his property value by adding a room to his house. Most will never see it happen because regulations will either forbid it or make it financially untenable for the homeowner. The national debt is sitting at $38 trillion, and that doesn’t even account for our “off books debt.” “Meaning they owe Social Security recipients, Medicare recipients because they've taken all your money,” Levin explains, noting that the actual debt is “over $300 trillion.” “The economy creates between 17 and 18 trillion a year. We're never going to pay that, are we? And so it's borrow, borrow, borrow, borrow,” he sighs. No matter how the economy is doing, the government’s mindset is always the same: “Spend more.” “I think people don't quite appreciate the level of danger that we're in from the woke mind virus being effectively programmed into AI,” Musk explained. Thus, extracting it is nearly impossible. Musk notes, “Google’s been marinating in the woke mind virus for a long time. It's down in the marrow." Musk believes this issue goes beyond political annoyance and into the arena of civilizational threat. You cannot have superhuman intelligence trained on ideological distortions and expect a stable future. If AI becomes the arbiter of truth, morality, and history, then whoever defines its values defines the society it governs. AI systems already have a moral hierarchy, and it didn’t come from voters, faith, traditions, or the principles of the Constitution. Silicon Valley technocrats and a vague internet-wide consensus established this moral framework. Most young Americans are open to an AI takeover. A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows that 41% of young likely voters support giving artificial intelligence sweeping government powers. When nearly half of the rising generation is comfortable handing this level of authority to machines whose moral logic is designed by opaque corporate teams, it raises the stakes for society. We cannot outsource the moral foundation of civilization to a handful of tech executives, activist employees, or panels of academic philosophers. We cannot allow the values embedded in future AI systems to be determined by corporate boards or ideological trends. At the heart of this debate is one question we must confront: Who do you trust to define right and wrong for the machines that will define right and wrong for the rest of us? If we don’t answer that question now, Silicon Valley certainly will. A strong majority of Americans now believe that higher education is a scam, according to new polling from NBC News. More and more, people see colleges as organizations that prey on young people, doing nothing more than saddling them with massive debt while imparting no real job skills. College tuition rates have risen to insane levels in recent decades, surpassing price growth in virtually every other area of life. In California, it was recently revealed that a shocking number of students entering college cannot even do math at an 8th grade level. A new NBC News poll finds that a full 63% of voters believe a four-year college degree now isn’t worth it, since many students graduate with “a large amount of debt” but no “specific job skills.” That’s up markedly from 2013, when a majority took the opposite view, as 53% called a degree “worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime.” If a young person wants to become a lawyer, a doctor, or some other kind of professional, then college is a must. For the vast majority of young people however, they would be much better off attending a trade school and learning how to become a plumber, electrician, welder, or mechanic. These jobs are in high demand and pay extremely well. Attending college for a degree in something like Gender Studies is a waste of valuable time and money. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/new-poll-reveals-strong-majority-americans-believe-higher/ Heaven save us from billionaires who have a God complex. In an interview with Axios last month at Caltech, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who frequently masquerades as a doctor or scientist, admitted that he has funded geoengineering research and that someday the world might need to deploy sun-dimming technology. Gates said that this deployment should occur only when the planet reaches what Axios called “climate tipping points.” Sun-dimming would likely involve “injecting sulfuric-acid particles into the upper atmosphere, mimicking the cooling effect of volcanic eruptions,” per Axios. Set aside for a moment the fact that climate change, at least as a planet-threatening phenomenon, amounts to a scam. Set aside, too, the fact that those who believe most fervently in climate change as an existential crisis already have authoritarian inclinations. Arrogance aside, what would compel scientists to try and mimic the effects of a volcanic eruption? After all, we already know how that works and what happens afterward. In April 1815, the violent eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia — the largest in recorded history — killed nearly 100,000 people. Volcanic ash lingered in the atmosphere for so long that contemporaries called 1816 the “Year Without a Summer.” In other words, Gates and his ilk want to play with forces that, 200 years ago, resulted in food shortages. Those of us who lived through the COVID nightmare must resolve never again to hand public policy over to the scientific establishment and its deep-pocketed enablers such as Gates. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/playing-god-bill-gates-pushes-use-sun-dimming/ In a devastating blow to Democrats and the media-manufactured “double-tap war crime” narrative, ABC News has now confirmed what the Pentagon already knew: the two alleged survivors of the cartel-linked cocaine boat were NOT surrendering, shipwrecked victims, they climbed back onto the vessel, attempted to recover narcotics, and maintained communication with other smuggling assets. That makes them active combatants, not “victims.” And just like that, the Left’s latest hoax, the “double-tap strike” smear campaign, detonated on impact. If you’re still climbing aboard a cartel vessel, communicating with accomplices, and trying to recover the cocaine payload intended for U.S. shores, you are not a “rescued shipwrecked mariner.” You are a narco-combatant continuing the mission. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/abc-shatters-democrat-double-tap-hoax-new-report/ In 2016, 51 percent of U.S. adults said they closely followed the news. Today, that number has crashed to 36 percent. “People in every age group are less likely now than in 2016 to say they follow the news all or most of the time,” writes the far-left Pew Research. “But older Americans remain more likely than younger adults to do so.” “For example, 62% of adults 65 and older now say they follow the news all or most of the time. That’s down 13 percentage points since 2016,” adds the pollster. “The decline is similar — 12 points — among adults under 30.” “This decline in Americans’ attention to the news over the years has also occurred across other demographic groups, including education, gender, race, ethnicity and political party.” Ask yourself: Why would people consume less of something? Well, the answer is the same for anything people consume less of: They no longer find the product helpful, worth their time, appealing, or necessary. Since 2016, the corporate media has simply burnt people out in all of those categories and accomplished this among every demographic. The media are not viewed as helpful because they have demonstrably lied. The media are not worth your time because so much of their reporting has been demonstrably inaccurate. The media are not appealing because they treat their audience like fools. The media are not necessary because who needs to be misled? The legacy media lie, mislead, and lead everyone down their delusional path, and I think people are sick of it — sick of the hate campaigns, the 24/7 outrage over nonsense (like the White House remodeling), and the entire institution turning itself into a sporting event of who’s up, who’s down, and why the home team (Democrats) are the only team decent people cheer. It’s all so manipulative, dishonest, and shallow… It’s all noise without substance, context, or clarity. Simply put, people are sick of the media, sick of news, and hopefully looking for healthier ways to spend their time.
Almost half of the countries in the world ban or restrict the Holy Bible:
Japan Says What the West Won’t: A Nation Must Not Rewrite Its Laws for Islam:
Japan’s funeral practices are not simply “tradition” — they are rooted in public health, national history, and cultural continuity. And they will not be rewritten because of foreign demands.Japan Cremates 99.9% of Its Dead — For a Reason, Not a Preference
North Korea War on Religion – Prison, Work Camp, or Execution for Believers:
New Poll Reveals Strong Majority of Americans Believe Higher Education is a Scam – All Debt and No Job Skills:
Playing God: Bill Gates Pushes Use of Sun-Dimming Technology at ‘Climate Tipping Point’
ABC Shatters Democrat “Double-Tap Hoax” — New Report Confirms Narco-Traffickers Climbed Back Onto Vessel to Recover DRUGS, Forcing Second Strike:
Nolte: Number of Americans Who Closely Follow the News Crashes:
