(BBC) — A 27-year-old Indian man plans to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent. Mumbai businessman Raphael Samuel told the BBC that it’s wrong to bring children into the world because they then have to put up with lifelong suffering. Mr. Samuel, of course, understands that our consent can’t be […]

ELDORA, Iowa (KRVR) — A 9-year-old boy clutched a stuffed animal as he told a judge that his father’s girlfriend often withheld food and helped lock him under a staircase in the basement at their Iowa home. “I couldn’t get out” of the basement enclosure, the boy testified Wednesday in an Eldora courtroom at the bench […]

LEXINGTON, Ky.  — In a bizarre display, a self-identifying church in Kentucky turned their Sunday service in a Super Bowl celebration with its “pastors” pretending to be football players and competing in preaching, complete with referees, a pig roast, commercials, and its “band going wild at halftime.” “We’ve got jambalaya cooking out front, a pig roast, and […]

(The Christian Institute) — Medics from the University of London and Maastricht University are concerned that euthanasia in the Netherlands is approved too readily and puts vulnerable people at risk. Responding to a Guardian article, they agreed that the life-ending procedure is a “slippery slope” with ever-changing standards. This comes as the Royal College of […]

ALBANY, N.Y. — Liberal New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who has decried what he calls “extreme conservative” politicians who impose on the people by law “their view of what God says should be done,” has signed into law a bill that not only codifies, but also expands abortion access in the state, allowing babies to be […]

(Bitter Winter) — In China, Communist Party members have always been prohibited from holding religious beliefs. Last August, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities incorporated this conventional principle into the newly revised “Disciplinary Regulations of the Chinese Communist Party,” increasing the level of punishment for party members with religious belief or sympathies. To promote these […]

(Bitter Winter) — Churches are supposed to be the place where Christians worship God. In central China’s Henan Province, however, the government is forcibly occupying churches in large numbers and turning them into theaters, game rooms, and other types of entertainment venues—all to Christians’ torment. To look at the government-approved Three-Self church in Caowu village, […]

(The Christian Institute) — A surrogate mother from Texas refused to abort a baby with a heart defect in the face of demands from its biological parents. At 16 weeks, doctors revealed that the baby Stephanie Levesque was carrying, had a high risk heart defect. Against the parents’ wishes, Stephanie carried the baby to full […]

ASHLAND, Ky. (Baptist Press) — A cardiologist who had a miracle recovery from a grim cancer diagnosis this summer spoke emotionally Dec. 16 from the pulpit at Rose Hill Baptist Church. After receiving a standing ovation from a packed house in Ashland, Ky., David Bush thanked a congregation who had lifted him up in prayer […]

(NBC News) — Apple has removed from its online store a religious app accused of portraying being gay as an “addiction,” “sickness,” and “sin” after a national gay rights organization petitioned to have it pulled. Truth Wins Out, which says it fights “anti-gay religious extremism,” launched a petition urging Apple to remove the app by […]