PHILADELPHIA — Federal charges have been dropped against a couple that was handcuffed on the public sidewalk this week while distributing flyers near the Liberty Bell. A YouTube video has gone viral showing Mark and Barbara Passio surrounded by park rangers and sitting on the ground with their hands behind their back after they were […]
KOUNTZE, Tx. – Just over three weeks ago, cheerleaders in a small Texas town won a widely-publicized court battle against their school district, allowing them to continue displaying Bible verses at school games. Now, however, the school district is prolonging the fight as it has filed an appeal of the legal ruling. In Kountze, a […]
JERUSALEM – Nearly 70 years after their initial discovery, several fragments of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls are being sold to the general public. Even though many are excited that the ancient relics are finally being made available to private collectors, the decision to auction off the scrolls has brought heavy amounts of criticism, controversy and […]
LONDON – A popular conference-organizing company has stopped distributing one of its videos after being criticized by a handful of disapproving atheists. Since 1984, TED Conferences, LLC has facilitated and promoted hundreds of public symposiums worldwide, which are designed to expose viewers and audience members to new, innovative and inspirational thoughts and ideas. Due in part […]
A newborn Chinese baby was rescued from a toilet pipe after he was flushed away by his parents, state TV reports. Chinese firefighters found the tiny boy lodged in a sewage pipe below a squat toilet in an apartment building in Jinhua, Zhejiang province. His placenta was still attached. Firefighters sawed out an L-shaped section […]
ISTANBUL (Morning Star News) – Security forces arrested an Iranian pastor in Tehran after raiding his house and pressuring his church to close as a crackdown on Christians intensified ahead of June elections. Robert Asserian was arrested Tuesday during a prayer meeting at his Central Assemblies of God Church after authorities entered his house and […]
Sharofat Allamova, a Protestant from north-western Khorezm Region, has been given one and half years of corrective labor after being convicted under criminal charges of the “illegal production, storage, import or distribution of religious literature.” Fines have also been imposed on people for meeting in a private home and having Christian literature, as well as […]
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania — A Christian preacher who engaged in street preaching to patrons of a Pennsylvania bar district last month has been found guilty of disorderly conduct for his activities. Jim MacPherson told Christian News Network that he joined other local Christians on a Saturday night to share the Gospel on the streets of […]
Richmond, Virginia — An outspoken pro-life and pro-family pastor has accepted the Republican nomination to run for Virginia Lieutenant Governor. Bishop E.W. Jackson has been known across the country for his strong rebukes to the Democratic Party, especially during the 2012 presidential election. “The Democrat Party has made an unholy alliance between certain so-called civil […]
STAFFORD, N.J. — The pastor of a local evangelical church wants to turn a house of porn into a house of the Lord. On the outskirts of a neighborhood known as Mud City, the Rev. Patrick J. Sharkey of Victory Christian Fellowship has found a wholly American solution for dealing with an adult bookstore he believes […]