WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. law enforcement agencies have seized the sex marketplace website Backpage.com as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a posting on the Backpage website on Friday. Groups and political leaders working to end forced prostitution and child exploitation celebrated the shutdown of Backpage, a massive […]
Continue reading …LONDON (The Denver Post) — Friends say Israel Ogunsola was a bubbly young man with a knack for making people laugh. This week, the 18-year-old was stabbed to death, becoming London’s 53rd murder victim of 2018. The British capital is being shaken by a spike in deadly violence, much of it involving young people with […]
Continue reading …(CNN) — The Bible appears to have been removed from online marketplaces in China, as Beijing clamps down on how its citizens practice religion. China has always controlled sales of the Bible, only allowing it to be distributed and printed by state-sanctioned churches, but in recent years it had been available to buy online. That loophole […]
Continue reading …(Fox News) — A New Jersey man has been arrested and accused of kidnapping and murdering a man trying to buy a PlayStation video game console that was advertised online, according to multiple reports. Rufus Thompson, 29, was arrested Saturday morning in Trenton. He is charged with murder, felony murder, robbery, kidnapping and weapons offenses […]
Continue reading …(Washington Free Beacon) — The gag order against undercover videographer David Daleiden will remain in place. On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to lift a federal judge’s gag order suppressing the Center for Medical Progress from releasing undercover footage of abortion industry insiders discussing their organ harvesting operations. The National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood […]
Continue reading …SALT LAKE CITY (Associated Press) — The Mormon church has announced plans to build seven new temples, including one in Russia where Mormon missionaries are known as “volunteers” and banned by that country’s law from publicly proselytizing. New church president Russell M. Nelson announced Sunday that the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints […]
Continue reading …(Fox News) — A gang of teenagers beat a New Jersey man and left him to die on the street Wednesday, authorities said. Sebastian Aguilar, 36, of Guttenberg, was found lying on a street in the town, NJ.com reported. He was transported to Palisades Medical Center and pronounced dead Thursday, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez […]
Continue reading …LOUISVILLE, Miss. (USA Today) — A Mississippi church has chosen to leave the United Methodist Church over conflicting views on homosexuality, abortion and the teaching of Islam. The First United Methodist Church of Louisville decided to leave the denomination Sunday morning during a “membership affirmation,” said Mike Childs, the pastor of the church. The vote […]
Continue reading …NASHVILLE (USA Today)— Frank S. Page, a prominent Southern Baptist leader, has resigned from his top role in the largest Protestant denomination in America because of a “morally inappropriate” relationship. Page, the president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee, stepped down Tuesday from the leadership role and retired from active ministry, according […]
Continue reading …KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Baptist Press) — A Malaysian pastor threatened with death for trying to convert Muslims to Christianity remains missing more than a year after his February 2017 kidnapping in Kuala Lumpur, a family friend confirmed to Baptist Press today (March 26). The family of 63-year-old Raymond Koh has heard nothing of his whereabouts […]
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