(BBC News) — A child abuse inquiry witness has told how he and others were raped by priests drink-fuelled sex parties that he characterized as “Satanic.” Dave Sharp also described a catalogue of sexual, physical and emotional violence at St Ninian’s in Falkland, Fife, between 1971 and 1975. Mr. Sharp, from Glasgow, said the […]

 MADISON, Wisc. (The Journal-Times) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers ordered a rainbow flag fly above the state capitol for the first time in state history, a decision praised by Democrats for promoting inclusivity and derided by some Republicans who said it was divisive. June is “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month” […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Baptist Press) — The Southern Baptist Sexual Abuse Advisory Study issued a report Saturday (June 8) after 10 months of work with the hope that God will use it to “spark a movement of healing and reform.” The 52-page report — produced by a fluid study group formed last July by new Southern […]

 (WJRT) — A pro-life effort Friday morning ended with multiple police agencies arresting four people. The director of the South Lyon based group Citizens for a Pro-Life Society said this isn’t the first time the group’s work has resulted in a heavy police presence. Monica Miller explained two of the four arrested this time […]

PITTSBURGH, Pa. (Post-Gazette) — A new type of fetal surgery to repair the most common and severe type of spina bifida has been done for the first time in Pittsburgh and now three months after being born, the little patient is showing almost completely normal leg function. Surgery was done by a team of specialists […]

(New York Post) — A Dutch teen who was sexually assaulted at age 11 and raped at 14 chose to end her life because she couldn’t deal with the anguish anymore. Noa Pothoven, 17, who lived in the Netherlands, wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post about her heartbreaking decision to stop eating — leading to […]

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. (FOX 5 Atlanta) — An Acworth church is attempting to clean up the damages after an act of vandalism and robbery Monday morning. Cherokee County Sheriff’s deputies said someone or a group of people broke into the Faith Family Church on the Bells Ferry Road and stole a cash from a secured tithe […]

(Heavy) — Ryan Keith Cox was a hero of the Virginia Beach mass shooting, said survivors who credit their lives to him. Cox, an account clerk at Virginia Beach Public Utilities, saved the lives of seven women who were also in building 2 of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center Friday when a suspect began “firing indiscriminately” […]

ST. LOUIS (New York Times) — A judge in Missouri gave the state’s last abortion clinic more time to resolve a dispute with the state health department, defusing a standoff that had threatened to shut down all abortion services in the state at midnight on Friday. Gov. Mike Parson has said that the clinic, Reproductive […]

WASHINGTON (Pennsylvania Capital Star) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal in a case surrounding a Pennsylvania school district’s policy on bathroom access for transgender students. The high court’s move to sidestep the case … keeps in place a lower court’s decision upholding the school district’s policy, which allows some transgender students […]