NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Late one morning in northern India last month, pastor Ram Prakash, 52, was riding his motorcycle home when he noticed men on three motorcycles shouting obscenities as they followed him. The pastor had just visited four Christian families that day, March 24, praying with them at their homes in Karoate […]
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — A county circuit court judge has rejected the nation’s largest medical waste provider’s request to stop a pro-life group from distributing information about the company’s disposal of aborted babies for Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities nationwide. As part of its “Project Weak Link,” the Ohio-based group Created Equal had distributed leaflets last month in an […]
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NEW YORK — Republican presidential candidate John Kasich condemned Mississippi’s religious freedom law this week, just a day after telling reporters that he would not have signed North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” requiring residents to use the restroom that correlates with their biological gender in government buildings. “I read about this thing they did in Mississippi, […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — The governor of North Carolina issued an executive order on Tuesday to help clear up what he believes is confusion and misinformation about a recently passed state law that annulled a controversial “bathroom bill” in Charlotte and banned other cities from passing similar ordinances. “I have come to the conclusion that there […]
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Turkish authorities have detained a U.S. evangelist and ordered him held for 30 days without charge ahead of deportation, sources said. Declaring David Byle “a danger to public order,” authorities in Turkey took him into custody on April 6 after asking him to report to the immigration office in Istanbul […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A House committee in Missouri has approved a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would recognize the unborn as persons, sending it on to the full House for a vote. House Joint Resolution 98 was introduced by Rep. Mike Moon, R-Ash Grove, as a ballot initiative to be presented to the […]
DETROIT, Mich. — Attorneys for a funeral home in Michigan are seeking the dismissal of a federal lawsuit over the firing of a male funeral director for his desire to dress as a woman on the job. According to reports, Anthony Stephens, who now goes by the name Aimee Stephens, was hired as the funeral director and […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in eastern Uganda who last week attacked his wife for becoming a Christian had told a judge that Islam allows him to kill any apostate, sources said. Having moved to another village with their four children following an attack last year, Ntende Hawa, 38, said she was visiting […]
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — A federal appeals court has restored Utah’s ban on polygamous cohabitation in stating that the law posed no threat to polygamists since the state has outlined that it will not be enforced unless other crimes are involved. As previously reported, Kody Brown of the TLC reality show Sister Wives, along […]
BOISE, Idaho — The Republican governor of Idaho has vetoed a bill that would permit the Bible to be used a for reference purposes in public school classrooms out of concern that it could result in a lawsuit. “I have deep respect and appreciation for the Bible as religious doctrine as well as a piece of […]