BLADENSBURG, Md. — A humanist group in Washington, D.C. has filed an appeal of a recent ruling declaring a veterans memorial in the shape of a cross to be constitutional. As previously reported, the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial, also known as the “peace cross,” was erected in 1925 by the American Legion to […]
TORONTO – A team of French and Canadian scientists have identified preserved embryos within the eggs of a tiny shrimp-like creature believed to have lived over 500 million years ago, raising questions about both the development of the creatures’ brooding abilities and the likelihood of such delicate materials surviving for thousands of millennia. Waptia fieldensis […]
HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas mother says that she intends to continue to fight to have a state law repealed that allows hospitals to stop providing life-sustaining treatment to patients after her son passed away last week just days before doctors planned to pull the plug. As previously reported, Christopher Dunn, 46, had been in Houston […]
AUSTIN, Texas — Officials in Texas have decided to strip the abortion giant Planned Parenthood of nearly $600,000 that the group had been receiving for its HIV prevention and testing program. “We have the discretion to extend the contract and elected not to,” Texas Department of State Health Services spokesman Chris Van Deusen told reporters. “The […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern Uganda was hacked to death on Wednesday (Dec. 23) as he and other church members resisted an effort by Muslims to take over their land, area church leaders said. In Nansololo village near Mazuba, in Namudumba District, Muslims erected a boundary fence with poles and barbed […]
NEW YORK — The New York City Commission on Human Rights has announced new guidelines under the city’s Human Rights Law that may impose fines on employers who use masculine pronouns for male workers who wish to identify as women and vice versa. The Commission released its interpretive guide to the law on Monday, which includes a […]
HAWKINS, Texas — Officials in a Texas city have voted to sue a local church over land that it purchased to help protect a “Jesus” sign from being removed following a complaint from a prominent professing atheist organization. As previously reported, the situation centers around a sign in Hawkins, Texas that reads, “Jesus welcomes you […]
HOUSTON, Texas — Controversy is stirring over Bruce Jenner’s recent visit to a megachurch in Texas, where he prayed with a pastor who stood against an ordinance allowing men who identify as women to use womens’ restrooms and vice versa. According to reports, the former Olympian visited Ed Young, Sr.’s Second Baptist Church of Houston last week […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Police hostility toward Christians continued this year as officers in Tamil Nadu, India reviled two Christians for their faith and seriously injured them, sources said. The two Christians, A. Rethinakumar and C. Nova of Jesus Redeems Ministry, were traveling by motorcycle in Thomas Nagar on Nov. 3 at about 2:30 […]
ALPINE, Texas — A prominent professing atheist group is seeking to stop a Texas sheriff from placing cross decals on his deputy vehicles out of its assertion that doing so violates the U.S. Constitution. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) wrote to the Brewster County Sheriff’s Office on Monday after learning of Sheriff Ronny […]