INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The governor of Indiana has signed a bill into law that allows prosecutors to charge criminals with murder if an unborn child is intentionally killed in the commission of a crime. The law does not apply to babies who are murdered by abortion. S.B. 203 was introduced by Republican Senator Aaron Freeman, […]

KNIGHTDALE, N.C. — A North Carolina man who was accused of committing incest with his adult daughter killed the young woman, their baby and himself on Thursday. Steven Pladl, 42, was to have appeared in court on April 23 to face the felony charge. He and 20-year-old Katie Fusco had been arrested in January after […]

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan pastors delivered 23,000 petitions this week to two state lawmakers who have urged Attorney General Bill Schuette to investigate Metro City Church for offering biblical teaching to teenage girls who struggle with homosexuality or gender dysphoria. “It is alarming that legislators, who have sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution, have attacked […]

WAYNESBORO, Tenn. — Prayers will not be allowed to be presented over the public address system at a school in Tennessee after one of the nation’s most conspicuous professing atheist groups lodged a complaint about a student’s recent prayer during the morning announcements. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) sent a letter on March 26 […]

CLARKRIDGE, Ark. — An Arkansas man is crediting God for his survival after he was recently submerged in a frigid pond for three hours when his tractor slid off a muddy levee, sending it into the 12-foot-deep water. Eldon Cooper of Clarkridge says that he decided to check out the levee on his property on Feb. 28 before […]

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UK — Humanist Lindsay van Dijk has been selected to lead Buckinghamshire’s team of hospital chaplains, a move that has left Christian groups baffled. “It’s a further move away from the Christian principles upon which the NHS was founded,” Tim Dieppe of Christian Concern told Premiere News Hour this week. “The whole reason we have chaplains […]

CAROL STREAM, Ill. — A now 20-year-old Alex Malarkey, who in 2015 publicly disavowed the best-selling story “The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven”—a book that claims he died and went to Heaven—is suing his publisher over the matter. Malarkey says that the tale was fabricated by his father, and is “highly offensive” to him because it […]

LIVERPOOL — Another couple in the UK is fighting for their son’s life after a judge ruled on Wednesday in favor of the hospital’s wishes to remove live support. Tom Evans and Kate James took their then six-month-old son Alfie to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool in December 2016 due to a chest infection. […]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee teacher has sued the Christian school at which she was formerly employed on allegations that her contract was not renewed because she became pregnant out of wedlock. Tabatha Hutson has been a teacher at the Baptist-based Concord Christian School in Knoxville since 2011. Last year, while unmarried, she became pregnant […]

HOUSTON, Texas — A U.S. district judge appointed to the bench by then-President Ronald Reagan has rejected another effort from the City of Houston to have a case regarding “spousal” benefits of homosexual government workers decided in federal court rather than by state judges, and has ordered the City to pay the attorneys’ fees of the pastor […]