A growing number of major American corporations are offering meditation, mindfulness and yoga programs for their employees, practices that are believed to have originated in pagan Eastern religions. Last week, the California-based software company Salesforce generated media attention for putting meditation rooms on every floor of the company’s newest corporate office building in San Francisco. Marc […]
(CNN) — Two Syrian women took a hidden camera through the northern Syrian city of Raqqa to document their life under ISIS rule, knowing they faced execution should they be discovered, according to CNN Swedish affiliate Expressen TV, which commissioned the video. Fully covered and wearing face veils, they shop, take a taxi and walk […]
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico — Three people have been arrested after being accused of killing their friend in a Satanic ritual that they believed would turn him into a vampire. According to reports, Edwin Juarez Palma, 24, was fooled into taking part in what he believed was an initiation ceremony for the group known as Sons of Baphomet 1. […]
BALTIMORE, Md. — A teenager who was captured in a now viral photograph praying for a homeless man as he slept on the sidewalk says he doesn’t want praise for the act, as it was done for the glory of God alone. As previously reported, Eric Gaines, a police officer at the University of Maryland, […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal appeals court has reversed its previous decision banning officials in North Carolina from issuing “Choose Life” license plates after the U.S. Supreme Court asked the court to revisit its ruling in light of a similar decision from the nation’s high court. As previously reported, in February 2014, a three-judge panel with […]
United Kingdom (Daily Mail) — Women whose babies develop fatal defects in the early stages of pregnancy will be given advice on going ahead with the birth so the NHS can harvest their organs, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Most expectant mothers opt for termination after being told the devastating news their child has […]
KENT, U.K. — A magistrate in the United Kingdom was removed from office on Thursday over comments he made last year expressing that it is best for adoptive children to be placed with a mother and father. Richard Page, who identifies as a Christian, had been a judge for 15 years and sat on the Family Panel […]
HOLLISTER, Mo. — Students in a Missouri school district are pushing back after a professing atheist organization recently sent a letter to district officials, demanding that an area youth pastor be prohibited from leading prayers during the lunch period. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) had sent a letter last month to Hollister Superintendent Brian […]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Lawmakers in Indiana have passed a bill banning the murder of unborn children based on a Down Syndrome diagnosis or any other disability, while stopping short of banning all abortion in the state. H.B. 1337 passed the House of Representatives in a 60-40 vote on Wednesday, just a week after the Indiana Senate […]
Greece (Mission Network News) — Christian Aid Mission reports that while the European Union reached an agreement with Turkey this week to stem the tide of Syrian and other refugees to Greece and other EU countries, refugees continued to pour onto the Greek islands–or die trying. At least 25 refugees perished when their Greece-bound dinghy […]