(Ottawa Citizen) — Syphilis is making a comeback in Ottawa, with a 400 per cent increase in cases in the city over the past five years. The sexually transmitted disease, which is treatable with penicillin, is both highly contagious and easy to miss because patients are sometimes asymptomatic, or have symptoms that last only a […]

NASHVILLE — A Roman Catholic school in Tennessee has decided to pull all Harry Potter books from its library shelves over concerns about the spiritual impact of the curses and spells in the series, which centers on a boy who studies at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. “These books present magic as both good […]

 SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (Fox News) — A Texas pastor whose teenage daughter was among those killed during a mass shooting in his church in 2017 says he’ll run for the state Senate next year. The pastor, Frank Pomeroy, on Monday announced his intention to run as a Republican against Judith Zaffirini, an incumbent Democrat. […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WACH-TV) — Two congregations came together to unite in prayer Friday evening. Rosewood Baptist Church hosted a vigil for Centro Cristiano de Columbia where a gunman shot a parishioner, Esvin Perez, during early morning services this past Sunday. Jerimias Perez, the brother of of Esvin, spoke to the crowd with another witness and […]

Five people were killed and 21 injured in random shootings by a motorist in the Odessa area, Texas, police said Saturday. Three of the injured were law enforcement officers — a state trooper, an Odessa police officer and a Midland police officer,Chief Michael Gerke said at a news conference. “What a horrific day for Odessa,” […]

SILVER SPRING, Md. (NBC Washington) — Detectives arrested the mother of a newborn baby someone discovered in the woods in Maryland. Leticia Guzman, 25, of Silver Spring, has been charged with child neglect and reckless endangerment, nearly two weeks after the baby was found. A man was walking in the 10000 block of Tenbrook Drive […]

LOCKLAND, Ohio (WXIX-TV) — Two men are under arrest on child rape and porn charges as police race to identify children they suspect are being victimized in pornographic pictures posted online. Lockland police describe the case as the worst they’ve ever seen. They say they found the pornographic images, including child bestiality, on the suspects’ […]

(Christian Solidarity Worldwide) — CSW has learned that an evangelical pastor died on Aug. 10 after being shot multiple times in his home in Bajo Cauca Antioquia, northern Colombia. The body of Pastor Plinio Rafael Salcedo was discovered at his home in the village of La Caucana, in the town and municipality of Tarazá, Bajo […]

(Reuters) — The Kentucky county clerk who in 2015 gained widespread attention for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples may be sued for damages by two of those couples, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. In a 3-0 decision, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati said Kim Davis can […]

(Daily Signal) — A lawyer representing PragerU in federal court says Google’s reasons for denying some viewers access to videos produced by the conservative education organization on the tech giant’s YouTube subsidiary defy belief. “To suggest that PragerU’s content is obscene, violent, hate speech is an absolute insult to the intelligence of the American public […]