The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a public school teacher who was fired for questioning evolution in his classroom. John Freshwater, a science teacher at Mount Vernon Middle School, had approached school officials in 2003 to request that he be allowed to explain to students the various disagreements that exist […]

HOLLY RIDGE, N.C. — A missionary to South Asia was arrested last night while conducting a gospel outreach at an Independence Day celebration in Holly Ridge, North Carolina. Jesse Boyd of Full Proof Gospel Ministries told Christian News Network that he had just returned to his home state from a 13-month missions trip two weeks prior, […]

Two studies that were funded in part by the United States Department of Homeland Security list Christians as “perpetrators of terrorism.” The studies are entitled “Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism” and “Hot Spots of Terrorism and other Crimes in the United States,” and were conducted by the START program at the University of Maryland. START […]

Legislators in North Carolina have voted to defund the abortion provider Planned Parenthood, overturning a veto handed down from the state’s governor. The mainly Republican-run legislature, headed by majority leader Paul Stam, sent over $343,000 back to individual county health departments instead of using it to fund those that provide abortions. Last year, Democratic governor […]

Pro-abortion vandals recently lashed out at members of Personhood USA, and days later, a volunteer with the organization was violently attacked. Keith Mason, the president of Personhood USA, reports that his personal residence was vandalized last week following the publication of an article in Newsweek Magazine that spotlighted his pro-life work. The story was also […]

Concerns are being expressed following test results on the world’s first genetically-modified babies. To date, thirty children have been born through genetic modification, a process which is stated as a “last resort” for women that struggle with infertility. Half of the babies have been born within the last three years. The project is an “experiment” […]

Christians are expressing concern over a new film being produced that they believe is blasphemous. The film, entitled Jesus of Nazareth, is based on a book of the same name written in 2010 Paul Verhoeven, Susan Massotta and Rob Van Sheers. The book was said to be written after Verhoeven spent nearly 20 years studying the […]

A street preacher in Arizona is fighting a jail sentence for holding private worship meetings at his home. Michael Salman says that he has been battling the City of Phoenix for years after code enforcement officials told him that if he was going to hold worship gatherings on his property, it would be considered an […]

WEST WINDSOR, N.J. — Two Christian evangelists were arrested in West Windsor, New Jersey early Tuesday morning after preaching the Gospel without obtaining permission and for attempting to record the encounter with police. Robert Parker and Don Karns state that they have been preaching at the Princeton Junction train station for several years, which is […]

The Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia has handed down a landmark conviction that holds Roman Catholic officials and others criminally responsible for enabling or knowingly overlooking child molesters in their midst. Monsignor William Lynn, 61, of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia was convicted on Friday of child endangerment for allowing priests who were believed to […]