(Reuters) — Officials from 11 U.S. states sued the Obama administration on Wednesday to overturn a directive telling schools to let transgender students use bathrooms matching their gender identity, decrying the policy as “a massive social experiment.” Ramping up the simmering battles over contentious cultural issues in America, the states, led by Texas and most […]
Ukraine (Mission Network News) – It’s when all comfort is gone that we feel our greatest need for the Gospel. That’s why Military BibleSticks of Faith Comes By Hearing (FCBH) are so important. The Ukrainian military has been in conflict with separatists since 2014. FCBH says more than 9,000 people have died in the fighting so far. […]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — An Indiana appeals court heard this week the case of a woman who was convicted last year of feticide and sentenced to 20 years behind bars after she allegedly threw her newborn baby in the trash. Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed amicus briefs in the case in […]
WASHINGTON (NBC News) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton violated federal records rules through her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, a State Department audit has concluded. “At a minimum, Secretary Clinton should have surrendered all emails dealing with Department issues before leaving government service,” says an audit by […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — A Senate committee in Louisiana has rejected a bill that would protect pastors who decline to officiate same-sex “weddings,” asserting that the move would be discriminatory. “As sexual liberty is elevated, we don’t want religious liberty to take a back seat and be pushed off the cliff,” said Rep. Mike Johnson, […]
HOUSTON — An attorney for the abortion giant Planned Parenthood admitted in court documents last week that the Harris County district attorney’s office purposefully bypassed a directive from the Texas attorney general not to share evidence in the investigation that resulted in the indictment of pro-life activist David Daleiden. Attorney Josh Schaffer wrote in an affidavit filed in federal […]
Madhya Pradesh (AsiaNews) – Police in Satna, Madhya Pradesh, arrested on Sunday three evangelical Christians for forced conversion and insulting Hindu religious sentiment. V.A. Anthony of the Brethren Assembly Church, his wife Prabha and another woman were taken into custody as they returned from Aber, where they go every week to lead prayers. They were […]
PORTLAND, Maine — A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction to a Portland pastor who asserted that he was being unlawfully targeted by police outside of a Planned Parenthood facility for his pro-life preaching. U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen, appointed to the bench by Barack Obama, ruled on Monday that police may not use […]
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio — The valedictorian of a high school in Ohio led his class in a recitation of the Lord’s Prayer during their graduation ceremony this past weekend after a musical version of the prayer that has traditionally been a part of the commencement for years was removed due to an atheist complaint. As previously reported, […]
ALBANY, N.Y. — An Assembly Committee in New York has approved the advancement of a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to request from their doctors a lethal prescription to hasten their death. As previously reported, the Medical Aid in Dying Act was introduced during a press conference on May 10 in the state’s capital. It […]