SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — A federal judge in Utah has ruled that the state may strip the abortion giant Planned Parenthood of its funding while the organization proceeds with a lawsuit over being defunded. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups, nominated to the bench by then-President George W. Bush, reversed an earlier decision calling for […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its final guidance on allowing homosexual men to donate blood, stating that men should be allowed to do so if they have been abstinent for at least one year. As previously reported, the FDA first announced its intent to loosen its restrictions on blood donations from […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Islamic State has sanctioned the harvesting of human organs in a previously undisclosed ruling by the group’s Islamic scholars, raising concerns that the violent extremist group may be trafficking in body parts. The ruling, contained in a January 31, 2015 document reviewed by Reuters, says taking organs from a living captive to save […]
LANSING, Mich. — The Satanic Temple held a ceremony on the steps of the Michigan capitol building on Saturday to decry what it called the “siren song of the religious right.” “Hail Comrades. Hail sisters and brothers. Hail Satan,” Director Jex Blackmore said as she opened the gathering, being met with the response of “Hail […]
PHOENIX — A Muslim man who was arrested in June after allegedly being involved in a plot to attack a “draw Muhammad” contest in Texas has now also been accused of planning to bomb a shopping mall in Arizona and the 2015 Super Bowl. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, 44, of Arizona, had been charged this summer […]
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Abortion activists stood outside of a Tennessee courthouse on Monday with signs calling for “abortion on demand and without apology” and for charges to be dropped from Tennessee woman who attempted a coat hanger abortion to kill her unborn son. As previously reported, Anna Yocca, 31, an unmarried mother, reportedly filled her bathtub with water […]
(New York Times) — Vonette Z. Bright, who founded Campus Crusade for Christ with her husband and built it into a global evangelical organization, died on Wednesday in Orlando, Fla. She was 89. Her death, from complications of leukemia, was announced by Campus Crusade, which she and her husband, William R. Bright, founded in 1951 […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The new governor of Kentucky has issued an executive order that accommodates county clerk Kim Davis’ request that her name be removed from the “marriage” licenses that her office is issuing to homosexuals. The current license “creates a substantial burden on the freedom of religion of some county clerks and employees of […]
WHEATON, Ill. — Talks have broken down between a prominent Christian-identified university in Illinois and an associate political science director who was placed on leave after she declared in a self-initiated hijab-wearing campaign to fight “Islamophobia” that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. As previously reported, Larycia Hawkins posted to Facebook two photos of herself […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two federal judges in California have refused to grant injunction requests that would have stopped a new law from being applied that requires pro-life pregnancy centers to provide information on government abortion programs. As previously reported, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Reproductive FACT Act into law in October, a measure that has been […]