adminCharlie Kirk’s brutal assassination on September 10, 2025 stopped a young leader who was changing the trajectory of conservatism and faith in America, and it was meant to intimidate every patriot who speaks truth. The shooter struck in front of thousands at Utah Valley University, turning a campus forum into a crime scene and a national wake-up call about the cost of speaking out. The shock of his murder has only hardened resolve among conservatives to finish the work he began.
In the days after his death, Charlie’s pastor, Rob McCoy, revealed a final promise Charlie was racing to keep: he had been assembling evidence and contacts to expose the politically motivated persecution of Pastor Son Hyun-bo in South Korea and intended to put the pastor’s story on his show. McCoy says Charlie had concrete plans—to gather the charges, bring witnesses, and shine American light on what is happening to Christians under a regime that has started using law to silence dissent. That revelation makes this not just a murder of a man, but an attempt to stop an entire campaign to defend persecuted believers abroad.
Pastor Son Hyun-bo, a megachurch leader in Busan who refused to bow to lockdowns and who led vocal pro-democracy, pro-religion rallies, was arrested in early September on contested election-law charges that many view as selective enforcement against conservative Christians. South Korean police say the charges concern alleged campaigning and interviews, but international observers and faith groups are alarmed at the timing and scale of the crackdown. This is the pattern authoritarian-minded governments follow: weaponize regulations against moral leaders while calling it law and order.
Rob McCoy took this urgent message to Glenn Beck’s program to plead with Americans: don’t let Charlie’s last project die with him, pick up the torch and make Son Hyun-bo’s case impossible to ignore. McCoy’s appearance was not mere punditry but pastoral leadership, calling on churches, activists, and lawmakers to mobilize in defense of religious freedom and to demand accountability from allied governments that betray democratic norms. If America abandons persecuted Christians overseas because it is politically inconvenient, we lose our moral standing and the international influence Charlie spent his life building.
This story exposes a sobering truth Charlie understood: the culture wars are international and faith leaders are in the crosshairs. Kirk had been pushing Turning Point Faith and conservative pastors into the public square precisely because the left’s allies in government and media want the pulpit silent and the civic square surrendered. If a young American voice can be cut down on a college quad while trying to amplify a persecuted pastor, then ordinary citizens must recognize the stakes and respond with conviction, not cowardice.
The response at home must be muscular: Congress should demand briefings, the State Department should open an inquiry, and conservative media must flood the airwaves until Son’s case and the broader pattern of religious suppression are fully exposed. The same federal investigators who are probing extremist threads tied to Charlie’s murder underscore a broader climate of political violence and lawfare that will not stop unless Americans act decisively to protect free speech and religious liberty. We cannot allow silence to be the victory of the tyrants.
Turning Point and leaders like Rob McCoy have already begun to answer the call—continuing the tour, filling stages, and gathering tens of thousands to honor Charlie’s life and mission, proving the movement he built lives on. That energy must be directed outward now: legal defense funds, diplomatic pressure, and a media campaign to make it politically costly for any government to persecute pastors while pretending to be democratic. Conservatives should be proud, not passive; Charlie taught us to turn faith into action and now is the time to act.
Make no mistake: this is a fight for the soul of the free world. Stand with Pastor Son Hyun-bo, demand justice for Charlie Kirk, and refuse to let the forces of censorship and political retribution win by intimidation. The torch that Charlie carried is now ours—let every church, campus, and kitchen table light it and carry it forward until the cause of liberty and faith is restored.
