Died

23.1 million

The number of missing baby girls around the world from 1970 to 2017 due to sex-selective abortions. A new PNAS study of the sex ratio imbalance found most missing female births occurred in China and India.

$85,889

The average teacher salary in New York—the highest in the United States—according to National Education Association estimates. Mississippi paid teachers $45,574 on average.

How they stand

[ April 13 ] Thank you to Mindy Belz for this painful but necessary article about Yazidi women and girls who escaped from ISIS. They bear God’s image and deserve more than a clinically detached geopolitical analysis. Belz brought a human face to this story. —Brendan Bossard on wng.org

‘His sacrifice saved lives.’

Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Police Chief Kerr Putney on Riley Howell, a 21-year-old student who was killed while charging and tackling a shooter who opened fire in his classroom at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on April 30. The shooter killed two students and wounded four, but Howell’s actions bought enough time for the first police officer to enter the classroom and capture the suspect, according to Putney.
 

Abdicated

By the thousands

False convictions, ruined lives

[ March 30 ] Senior Chief Keith Barry endured a great deal while serving his country honorably, and then the Navy turned on him for political reasons. His sin cost him so much more than he imagined. I hope he finds his footing, and even more that he finds Christ in the process. —Larry Panella on wng.org