Emily Wood joined The Christian Post as a staff reporter in February 2021. She primarily covers the global persecuted Church, the pro-life cause, Christian culture and American politics.
Emily graduated with a degree in journalism from Liberty University in May 2020 and served as the editor-in-chief of the Liberty Champion newspaper. Emily most recently worked at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and as a congressional intern in the U.S. Senate. A native of upstate South Carolina, Emily now lives on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
A German court has upheld a ban on silent prayer gatherings near organizations that promote abortion, dismissing a prayer leader’s challenge to have the vigil restrictions lifted.
Two months after President Joe Biden derided state officials like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as exhibiting “Neanderthal thinking” for lifting statewide mask mandates, the state celebrated zero covid deaths for the first time in over a year on Sunday.
The Jacksonville Jaguars have signed popular Christian athlete and former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow as a tight end after weeks of speculation surrounding the 33-year-old.
As Israel has been bombarded with thousands of missiles fired by Hamas over the past two weeks, American Christians have provided aid from afar by helping fund mobile bomb shelters that will protect Israeli civilians from the attacks.
Black Lives Matter expressed its “solidarity” for Palestinians, advocating for “ending settler colonialism” and Palestinian liberation in a tweet that implicitly undercut Israel after days of attacks in the region.
Mental health struggles exacerbated by the isolation brought on by lockdowns in response to COVID-19 led to a massive spike in the number of people seeking help for eating disorders, according to Christie Bettwy, executive director of Rock Recovery.
A leading association of over 180 Protestant colleges and universities is coming to the defense of Christian colleges amid a lawsuit filed by former and current LGBT students who seek to revoke religious schools’ exemptions to Title IX discrimination law.
The nation’s top health official denied the existence of a federal law that bans partial-birth abortions nationwide during a congressional hearing this week, receiving criticism from a prominent pro-life activist organization.
Israel’s military is considering the possibility of launching a ground campaign in the Gaza Strip as the Israel Defense Forces claim Iran-backed Hamas has fired over 1,500 rockets into Israel since Monday.
Former Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback is “encouraged” by the Biden State Department's statements on international religious freedom thus far as Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday called religious freedom a "co-equal" right.
