As the year comes to a close, many like to reflect on the significant stories that shaped the past twelve months. A number of major events affected Christians throughout 2015, from the U.S. Supreme Court decision opining that states should legalize same-sex “marriage,” to the struggle that resulted to uphold rights of conscience—such as the […]

BOSTON — A Massachusetts urologist has lost his appeal of his expulsion from a Boston hospital for making statements on an internal online portal expressing concern about the health dangers of same-sex sexual activity. As previously reported, Dr. Paul Church serves as a urology professor at Harvard University and has also had admitting privileges at Beth Israel […]

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — The longtime friend of the Muslim jihadist that killed 14 earlier this month in an attack on a holiday party in San Bernardino was indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury on terrorism and other charges. Enrique Marquez Jr., 24, was arrested earlier this month following the Dec. 2 attack after he […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A prominent newspaper for Roman Catholics led by independent laymen has named two of the plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court’s “gay marriage” case that was ruled upon in 2015 as being among their “persons of the year.” “For their historic roles as plaintiffs in Obergefell v. Hodges and for their […]

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Christian owners of a bakery in Oregon who paid over $135,000 in state-ordered “emotional damages” for two lesbian women who filed a complaint after being told that the couple could not provide a cake for their “wedding” ceremony say that the state emptied all three of their personal banking accounts earlier this month—including money […]

GRANDVILLE, Mich. — A professing atheist in Michigan delivered a secular invocation during his city’s public meeting this week. Steven Belstra presented what read more like a speech or exhortation to the Grandville City Council on Monday. “I request from the council and our community that we don’t turn towards faith or religion to guide government […]

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Christian owners of a bakery in Oregon have paid over $135,000 in state-ordered “emotional damages” for two lesbian women who filed a complaint after being told that the couple could not provide a cake for their “wedding” ceremony due to their convictions not to be a partaker in other’s sins. (1 […]

WASHINGTON – A newly-released report by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America shows that the organization performed nearly 324,000 abortions in 2014—the latest figures on record, with business dropping by almost a million women from the year before. The abortion giant releases the report each year to tout its achievements, which include services largely centering around […]

BLADENSBURG, Md. — A humanist group in Washington, D.C. has filed an appeal of a recent ruling declaring a veterans memorial in the shape of a cross to be constitutional. As previously reported, the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial, also known as the “peace cross,” was erected in 1925 by the American Legion to […]

HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas mother says that she intends to continue to fight to have a state law repealed that allows hospitals to stop providing life-sustaining treatment to patients after her son passed away last week just days before doctors planned to pull the plug. As previously reported, Christopher Dunn, 46, had been in Houston […]