A moving video of a Chinese girl joyfully running into the arms of her adoptive parents has gone viral, causing tears of happiness for thousands of viewers worldwide. The video was posted earlier this month by Michael and Meg Foster of Lockport, New York, as it captured what is known as the “gotcha” moment of their […]
CHICAGO — A Chicago man who identifies as a woman has filed a federal lawsuit over the city’s ban on toplessness in bars, asserting that it is discriminatory against women. The 23-year-old man, who goes by Bea Sullivan-Knoff, was filed Wednesday and is the next step after city council members refused calls to relax Chicago’s […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. – A group of atheists, upset that they were not allowed to give invocations in front of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, have filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth. The Pennsylvania House of Representatives, in keeping with a longstanding tradition, invites a chaplain to offer a prayer at the beginning of each meeting […]
(Newsweek) — The Islamic State militant group ISIS has claimed a suicide bombing that killed at least 15 people and injured 16 at a wedding party near the Shi’ite city of Kerbala late Sunday. Five assailants including the suicide bomber attacked the celebration in Ain al-Tamr, west of Kerbala in southern Iraq, firing machine guns […]
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A federal judge nominated to the bench by then-President George W. Bush has temporarily blocked the University of North Carolina from enforcing the state’s restroom law as it pertains to three individuals at the educational institution. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Lambda Legal had sought an injunction on behalf […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky Supreme Court has denied an abortion facility’s request to lift an injunction against the location for operating without a license, keeping the facility closed until it complies with the law. According to reports, the EMW Women’s Clinic in Lexington has been closed since June as the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services […]
ROSELLE PARK, N.J. — The borough council of one New Jersey municipality has resisted a humanist group’s demand to remove what was deemed a religious veterans display from the lawn of the public library, voting instead to keep the figure in its place. The American Humanist Association (AHA) recently sent a letter to Carl Hokanson, […]
SHANGQIU, Henan (China Aid) — Amid escalating pressure to join state-run churches, a house church in China’s central Henan province rejected a government order to stop its religious activities by July 20. On July 15, the Zhecheng County Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau issued a notice to Proclaiming Christ Church, citing provincial religious affairs regulations […]
WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. — Apologist Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis recently rebutted a liberal ELCA Lutheran minister who asserted in a published column that the biblical account of the global flood is “not history,” noting that the man is also calling Jesus a liar, for He spoke of Noah and the Flood. Steve Hammer is leads Esperanza […]
BALTIMORE, Md. — Two psychiatrists from Johns Hopkins University assert in a new report that there is no scientific evidence to support that people are born homosexual or innately oriented to have sexual relations with the same gender. The report, Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences, was written by Dr. Lawrence Mayer […]