The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which released its Standards of Care 8th Edition in the International Journal of Transgender Health earlier this month, published a correction on Thursday removing sections related to "suggested minimal ages" for offering so-called "gender-affirming care" or "surgical treatment," such as experimental puberty-blocking drugs, breast amputations on girls and removing boys' genitals. Chapter 6 of the guidelines claims that a double mastectomy can alleviate "chest dysphoria" in girls who are led to believe that in order to be happy, they must remove their breasts. It further argues that boys suffering from gender dysphoria can experience "improved psychosocial functioning" by obtaining a vaginoplasty where penis tissue is removed to create a fake vagina. Read more.

More than 2,000 guests, including presidents and prime ministers, attended the late Queen Elizabeth II's funeral at Westminster Abbey in the United Kingdom on Monday. The Most Rev. Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, delivered the sermon at the historical abbey, telling attendees that the queen had touched "a multitude of lives." The archbishop encouraged the leaders in attendance to follow the queen's example of servant leadership, noting, "Her late majesty's example was not set through her position or her ambition but through whom she followed." He went on to quote the late monarch's address to the nation during the pandemic when she ended with the words from a Vera Lynn song, "We'll meet again," saying, "All who follow the queen's example and inspiration of trust and faith in God can with her say, we will meet again." Read more.

In this editorial, F. LaGard Smith discusses Britain's longstanding faith history, how it has contributed to impressive reverence and pageantry and how the loss of such faith in today's society will ultimately result in traditions crumbling. "Considering the rapid decline of faith on this side of the pond, which reading of that epitaph will be ours? That of a believing Queen, whose faith-inspired farewell pageantry has made us weep, or that of an unbelieving society of cultural vandals whose self-lauding, empty rituals should make us cry?" Smith asks. Read more.

Fellowship of Christian Athletes Chief Field Officer Dan Britton shares why he deleted the phrase "I'm busy" from his vocabulary. Britton cautions against getting caught up in the "trap of busyness" and shares why it's essential people step back from stress to find spiritual nourishment and rest. Read more.

While the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will save the lives of countless preborn babies, abortion continues to be legal in many states. A growing number of states are expanding and promoting abortion.

That’s why Focus on the Family is working hard to equip as many pro-life pregnancy medical centers as possible with ultrasound capability. The research proves it . . . when a woman like Marta is given the chance to see an ultrasound image of her child and hear the heartbeat, she’s much more likely to choose life.

The discovery of approximately 450 graves in a pine forest in a Ukrainian city formerly occupied by Russian forces has prompted the European Union presidency to call for the creation of a war crimes tribunal. Oleg Synegubov, the head of the Kharkiv administration, a northeast city in Ukraine, wrote on his Facebook page Friday that 99% of the bodies show signs of violent deaths. Synegubov stated that many were found with their hands tied behind their backs, and one person was buried with a rope around their neck. Two hundred law enforcement officials are investigating the site where the bodies were found, with Synegubov stating the bodies will be sent for forensic examination to determine the cause of death. Afterward, "they will all be buried with proper honor. Every death will be investigated and become proof of Russia's military crimes in international courts," the official wrote. Jan Lipvasky, foreign minister of the Czech Republic, which holds the rotating presidency of the EU, expressed disgust in a Saturday tweet at the idea that such attacks would take place against a civilian population in the 21st century, calling it "unthinkable and abhorrent." Read more.

Matt Markins, the head of the child discipleship organization Awana, says that churches that don't invest more in discipleship-oriented children's ministries will be "standing on a burning platform." Markins, who spoke with The Christian Post ahead of Awana's Child Discipleship Forum held from Sept. 22-23 in Nashville, Tenn., explained that because research shows that most people's worldview formation is "largely fixed" by age 13, it's important to recognize that worldview formation is not "a youth group conversation" but a "child formation conversation." The leader says that, while last year's event was a kickoff conversation focused on addressing the best way to help the Church move from children's ministry to child discipleship, this year's forum will focus on how churches can best shift from the "old map" children's ministry to "new map" children's ministry to form lasting faith in kids. Continue reading.