NAIROBI — One Kenyan student is dead and approximately 100 others were treated at a local hospital on Sunday following a stampede driven by fear of a second Islamic terror attack that turned out to be only an electrical problem. According to reports, at approximately 4:30 a.m., an electrical transformer blew up at the University of Nairobi-Kikuyu, […]
Malaysia (Mission Network News) — Amendments implementing the hudud law (Sharia penal code) were passed unanimously by the legislation of Kelantan state in Malaysia on March 19th. The next step is to submit two bills in the federal parliament in order for the hudud to be enforceable. Open Doors USA reports these bills will be […]
TIKRIT, Iraq (CNN) — Mass graves believed to hold Iraqi soldiers have been discovered in newly liberated Tikrit. Up to 1,700 bodies may be recovered. ISIS claimed to have executed that many soldiers captured in June outside Camp Speicher, a fortified Iraqi base near Tikrit. A total of 47 bodies have been exhumed from two […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Thousands of Christians gathered in Memphis, Tennessee last weekend to lift up the name of Jesus during an event that served as a response to an atheist convention in their city. The New Jersey-based group American Atheists held their four-day national convention in Memphis April 2-5. Spokeswoman Danielle Muscato explained to reporters […]
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Vermont man has filed suit against state and federal government entities as he says that he is wrongly being forced to choose between his pro-life beliefs and obtaining insurance coverage. Alan Howe,63, filed the legal challenge after finding that all of the health care plans in Vermont require a $1 per month […]
WASHINGTON — A legal brief recently submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court warns that forcing states to recognize same-sex “marriage” could bring God’s judgment upon the nation. As previously reported, in January, in light of contrasting appeals court decisions, the nine justices agreed to take up a case that would determine whether or not the U.S.Constitution provides […]
WASHINGTON — The White House opened its first “gender neutral” restroom on Wednesday, the same day that an executive order took effect prohibiting federal contractors from doing business with those that “discriminate” based on sexuality or gender identity. The restroom is located in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the West Wing of the White House. […]
FORT RILEY, Kan. — A Kansas man who sympathizes with the barbaric Islamic group ISIS, which identifies itself as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has been arrested on charges of conspiring to bomb a U.S. Army base. John Booker, Jr., 20, of Topeka, was arrested on Friday after an undercover operation found that […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — A number of Christians countered a pagan prayer delivered on Thursday before the Iowa state legislature by a local Wiccan priestess. “We call this morning to God, goddess, universe—that which is greater than ourselves to be here today,” Deborah Maynard, 43, a Unitarian Universalist and the leader of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, opened […]
LONDON — A mother in the UK is expressing thankfulness that she refused to listen to doctors who advised her to obtain an abortion two years ago after asserting that her then unborn daughter was “incompatible with life.” Michelle Macaulay and her husband learned in late 2012 that they were pregnant with their second child. […]