Internationally-recognized actor Will Smith has been given the go-ahead to produce a film based on the Biblical battle of two brothers. However, according to reports, Smith’s “epic re-telling of the Biblical sibling tale” of Cain and Abel will have “a vampire twist.” Many entertainment reporters are scratching their head as to what this exactly means, […]
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — A young Christian girl accused of burning pages of the Koran was freed Saturday from a jail near the capital where she had been held for three weeks, a Pakistani jail official said. The release a day after a judge granted her bail is another step closer to ending an episode […]
Nils Pickert’s 5-year-old son likes wearing dresses. If anyone thinks that’s odd, they can take it up with Nils. He’s the guy in the skirt. The German dad has become a role model not only for his son, but for parents around the world, after a photograph of the pair holding hands in red skirts […]
Dallas, Texas — Former state Rep. Glen Maxey is driving to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte in a van dubbed “Priscilla, Queen of the Convention.” Eight people will travel in the van, decked out in rainbow colors and an 8-foot banner that reads “Gays for Obama,” through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina […]
A federal judge has dismissed Wheaton College’s lawsuit against the Obama administration, objecting over a mandate that requires employee health insurance plans to cover contraception. Wheaton, a Christian liberal arts college in Illinois, filed a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C. in July objecting to a U.S. Health & Human Services directive that employers must offer […]
RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — When Tyler Clementi told his parents he was a homosexual, two days before he left for Rutgers University in the fall of 2010, he said he had known since middle school. “So he did have a side that he didn’t open up to us, obviously,” his mother, Jane Clementi, said, sitting in […]
TAMPA — Missouri GOP delegates are rejecting the heavy-handed push by Mitt Romney and national Republicans to boot Todd Akin from their state’s Senate race, revealing a split among Republicans that could imperil the party’s effort to take back the chamber in the fall campaign. In interviews with POLITICO, delegates argued that Akin could still […]
At least 80 Christian children have been kidnapped from their homes by radical Islamic clerics in Bangladesh, sold to Madrasas and forced to convert to Islam, reports state. According to the organization International Christian Concern (ICC), only 11 of the 80 children that have been missing for more than half a year have been located […]
Two more Christian universities have filed suit against the Obama administration over a policy that forces religious institutions to provide for free birth control. In their complaint, Indiana-based Grace College and Seminary and California-based Biola University argue that covering certain forms of birth control for employees without a co-pay amounts to participating in abortion. “The […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday refused to order the Obama administration to stop funding embryonic stem cell research, despite complaints the work relies on destroyed human embryos. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a lower court decision throwing out a lawsuit that challenged federal funding […]