DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. — A school district in Pennsylvania has agreed to an out-of-court settlement to ensure that free speech is protected on the public sidewalks surrounding its schools. The district had been asked to issue an educational memo to employees of Downingtown STEM Academy after the vice president of the school yelled and cursed at two teenage […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Pastors, evangelical leaders and Christian politicians gathered last weekend in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, to publicly express their rejection of the inclusion of gender ideology in the sex education classes that the Ministry of Education wants to put into effect. With the motto #aMisHijosLosEducoYo (I educate my children), thousands […]
CHICAGO – Northwestern University, a private institution in Chicago, has announced the installation of a gender-neutral, multi-stall restroom, and hopes the new facility will influence other universities to install similar restrooms on their campuses. Northwestern University’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH) said in a recent press release that they were “thrilled to announce” the […]
HAVANA, Cuba — A Cuban appeals court has overturned a prison sentence leveled against a pastor who was punished in May for homeschooling his children. “This is a far better outcome than I had expected,” said Mike Donnelly of the Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) in an update on Wednesday. “Based on my understanding of […]
GREEN BAY, Wisc. — A Wisconsin teacher has resigned from her job in providing emotional testimony about the increasingly out-of-control violent and sexually harassing behavior of students, which she believes is a threat to the safety of both students and staff. “I must resign even though I have a broken heart, because I cannot survive in […]
(The Independent) — Evolution will no longer be taught in Turkish secondary schools after being described as a “controversial subject” by the government. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has personally approved the change, which will be part of a new national curriculum being published later this month. The head of the education ministry’s curriculum board, Alpaslan Durmuş, said a section on […]
ADA, Okla. — A university in Oklahoma has—at least temporarily—halted its initial decision to remove Christian symbols and Bibles from its chapel, a move spawned by a complaint from a prominent church-state separation group. East Central University in Ada had been contacted by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which asserted that the cross atop […]
The popular children’s television show “Sesame Street” recently expressed its support for “lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgendered” persons on its official Twitter page, generating a range of public responses, from positive to negative. “Sesame Street is proud to support families of all shapes, sizes, and colors,” it wrote on June 23, posting a heart next to […]
EDMONTON, Alberta — A Christian school in Canada says that it is shocked after recently being told by the local school board that it should not teach any “offensive” Bible verses to children, particularly those those that refer to homosexuality. Cornerstone Christian Academy in Kingman, approximately an hour outside of the provincial capital of Edmonton, says […]
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A Christian school in California has reportedly fired a preschool teacher after giving her the choice of leaving the pornography industry or losing her job working at the faith-based institution. Nina Skye told Fox11 News this week she was informed by the school, which has not been identified, that her lifestyle […]