An Australian Christian missionary was arrested this past Sunday by North Korean authorities for distributing Gospel literature. John Short, 75, who has lived in Hong Kong for 50 years, was arrested in his Pyongyang hotel, a day after arriving in the North Korean capital. “[John] was carrying Korean literature on his person and that could be the reason, but I don’t […]

NORFOLK, Va. – The federal judge who struck down Virginia’s ban on homosexual ‘marriage’ as being unconstitutional wrongly attributed a quote from the Declaration of Independence to the U.S. Constitution. In her 41-page decision issued late Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Arenda Wright Allen had ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violated the right to due process and equal protection afforded under […]

NORFOLK, Va. – A federal judge struck down Virginia’s ban on homosexual ‘marriage’ late Thursday as being unconstitutional, stating that it deprived those engaging in the homosexual lifestyle the “fundamental freedom to choose to marry.” U.S. District Court Judge Arenda Wright Allen in Norfolk, Virginia cited in her 41-page opinion that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violated the […]

PHILADELPHIA –An unlicensed medical school graduate who worked at Kermit Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Society abortion facility in West Philadelphia has been sentenced to serve six to 12 years in prison for his role in the killing of two babies born alive at the clinic. Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Benjamin Lerner told Steven Massof, 51, on […]

RICHMOND, Va. –  North Carolina’s ‘Choose Life’ license plate is unconstitutional because the state doesn’t provide the same forum for motorists on the other side of the contentious issue, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. A three-judge panel of the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a federal judge’s ruling that the “Choose Life” […]

BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber instructor in Iraq accidently set off his own explosives during a training on Monday, killing himself and his entire class of would-be terrorists. The Iraqi instructor was teaching a class at a camp in the Sunni region of the country, north of Baghdad, when the bomb was detonated. A total of 21 suicide bombers […]

If a spate of recent allegations proves true, Hollywood may have a hideous epidemic on its hands. The past two weeks have brought three separate reports of alleged child sexual abuse in the entertainment industry. Martin Weiss, a 47-year-old Hollywood manager who represented child actors, was charged in Los Angeles on Dec. 1 with sexually […]

A new study might reveal why a majority of Christian teens abandon their faith upon high school graduation. Some time ago, Christian pollster George Barna documented that 61 percent of today’s 20-somethings who had been churched at one point during their teen years are now spiritually disengaged. They do not attend church, read their Bible […]

An increase in violence against Christians in northern Iraq has increased the flow of Christians leaving the country. The north, generally considered a relatively safe area of the country, had become home for many Christians fleeing from the tumultuous central and southern regions. However, several bombings in the north in recent months have caused panic […]

Washington, D.C. — A recent spate of attacks against Christians and house churches in China underlines the country’s relentless habit of persecuting Christians, even at the cost of its own reputation in the international community. Christians Beaten in Hainan Province On Aug. 14, a number of Christians in Lingao town, Lincheng county, Hainan Province, were […]