(PEOPLE) — In obvious agony, the father of one of the victims in Wednesday night’s mass shooting at a California bar announced his death to the world. “His name was Cody Coffman, my firstborn son,” Jason Coffman told reporters Thursday morning. About 12 hours earlier a gunman burst into the crowded Borderline Bar & […]

MOREHEAD, Ky. (Lexington Herald-Leader) — Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk made famous by her refusal to sign marriage licenses for gay couples, lost Tuesday in her reelection bid for the Rowan County clerkship. Davis, a Republican, lost to Democratic challenger Elwood Caudill Jr. by about 700 votes. Her loss marks at least a temporary end […]

FORT DODGE, Iowa (Associated Press) — A Roman Catholic diocese acknowledged Wednesday that it concealed for decades a priest’s admission that he sexually abused dozens of Iowa boys—a silence that may have put other children in danger. Jerome Coyle, now 85, was stripped of his parish assignments in the 1980s, but never defrocked. And it […]

(The Guardian) — The U.S. has warned its citizens in Tanzania to be cautious after the commercial capital Dar es Salaam announced a crackdown on homosexuality, a criminal offense in the country. In an alert on its website late on Saturday, the U.S. embassy in Tanzania advised Americans to review their social media profiles and […]

(The Christian Institute) — A mother who was advised by doctors to have an abortion has spoken of how glad she is that she did not go through with it. When Demi Goodman found out she was expecting a baby in late 2016, she was thrilled, but at a 20-week scan she was told that […]

 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KOB4 News) – A local actor is trying to right a wrong after years of pretending to be a wounded veteran in the hopes of landing roles. “The film industry obviously took a different angle—that I was different. And so, they liked that,” said Todd Latourette. The actor says he is bipolar and wasn’t […]

CHENGDU (China Aid) — Police in China’s southern Sichuan arrested more than 20 Christians from Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu last Sunday as they evangelized on the streets and detained them until evening. On Oct. 20, the church organized a street evangelism team and proselytized on the street, as well as held a worship […]

 PITTSBURGH (New York Times) — Armed with an AR-15 assault rifle and at least three handguns, a man shouting anti-Semitic slurs opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday morning, killing at least 11 people and wounding six others, officials said. President Trump described the shooting as a “wicked act of mass murder” that was […]

(The Telegraph) — Students at the University of Oxford have voted to ban a controversial Christian group from one of their colleges because it would threaten their “physical and mental safety.” The JCR at Lady Margaret Hall voted overwhelmingly in favour of banning Christian Concern from hosting a residential summer camp on the premises because […]

(Coalition for Marriage) — A quarter of young people back temporary marriages, while almost one in three back “fluid arrangements,” according to a major new poll for the Coalition for Marriage. The survey of over 2,000 members of the public found that young people were more likely to support polygamy, further changes to civil partnerships […]