GREENWOOD, S.C. (Greenville Online) — About 2,000 members made the warm walk across the NewSpring Church parking lot in Anderson for each worship service Sunday morning. Few were fully braced for the news that awaited: Perry Noble, the only senior pastor the church has known, has been removed from his duties for personal issues related […]
Ten more states have filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its requirement that school districts allow male students who identify as female and vice versa to use the restroom that correlates with their “gender identity.” Nebraska, Arkansas, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wyoming now join the list […]
MOSCOW — The president of Russia has signed into a law an anti-terror bill that contains several provisions that have raised concerns among Christians, including requirements that religious citizens obtain permission from the government to share their faith. According to reports, the amendments to the “Yarovaya law,” named after the bill’s author, are meant to protect citizens from terrorists […]
AUSTIN, Texas — The governor of Texas has directed state health officials to propose new rules requiring abortion facilities to bury or cremate aborted babies instead of disposing of children as medical waste. “Governor Abbott believes human and fetal remains should not be treated like medical waste, and the proposed rule changes affirms the value and […]
GUANGDONG, China — (China Aid) A house church was forced to move last month after officials in China’s southern Guangdong province closed the building and pressured the landlady to terminate the church’s contract. Paul, an elder from Guangfu Church, said in an interview on June 16 that police came to the church, saying they needed to […]
SYDNEY — An Australian man and his homosexual lover have been extradited on charges that they raped the man’s 10-month-old daughter and uploaded inappropriate photos of the child while the mother was away for three hours. The men, whose names have not yet been released, were extradited from Melbourne to Sydney on Tuesday on charges that they […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Human Rights Commission has altered the language of its public accommodations brochure in an attempt to assuage concerns about requirements for houses of worship, but one group says that it doesn’t go far enough to protect religious freedom. As previously reported, the Commission’s previous publication “Public Accommodations Provider’s Guide to […]
Nearly 70 major U.S. corporations joined in a legal brief this week against North Carolina’s bathroom bill, which requires those who identify as the opposite sex to present their birth certificate before using government restrooms that correlate with their gender identity. Apple, Dropbox, eBay, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal, NIKE, Morgan Stanley, Etsy, Levi Strauss, American Airlines, […]
Dominican Republic (Mission Network News) – In the Dominican Republic, adult prostitution is legal, but it easily opens the door to a world of sex slavery. Actually, out of all the countries in the Caribbean, the Dominican Republic has the highest rate of human trafficking. In fact, a lot of young women and girls are […]
A well-known apologist and debater whose son-in-law was recently shown in a live online video obtaining a tattoo at one of the fundraisers for his congregation’s proposed church plant has let loose on those questioning the group over the matter, and is calling out media reports—including the one from this publication, which first released the […]