ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities have arrested a young Christian girl after hundreds of furious neighbors gathered outside her house and accused her of violating the country’s strict blasphemy laws by burning pages of the Muslim holy book, police and neighbors said Monday. The girl’s age was not immediately clear, with reports ranging from 11 […]
Baltimore’s ordinance for pro-life pregnancy centers, or “deceptive” crisis pregnancy centers, is going back to court for another hearing, even though federal judges have ruled that it violates the centers’ constitutional rights. Continue Reading This Story >>
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — The Alabama Democratic Party disqualified Harry Lyon as its nominee for chief justice after a hearing today over online comments the Pelham lawyer made that party officials deemed improper for a judicial candidate. Lyon said afterward he would file a lawsuit and seek criminal charges against the party chairman, Mark Kennedy, alleging […]
Sacramento, California — A first-of-its-kind state law that would restrict parents from trying to “cure” their minor children’s same-sex attractions seems headed to the governor’s desk. If both state houses can agree on the final language, the legislation, which would ban all sexual orientation change effort (SOCE) treatment for minors, will be sent to Democratic […]
A Ten Commandments monument at the courthouse in Dixie County, Fla. will remain in place for now after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals today sent an ACLU lawsuit back to a lower court, according to court records. The lawsuit filed by the ACLU, on behalf of a part-time resident of a neighboring county, asks […]
WASHINGTON – Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It’s a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740 new stars a year. By comparison, our Milky Way galaxy spawns just about one […]
Political analysts are noting that Joe Biden recently made some serious gaffes on the campaign trail. On Tuesday, while stumping for the Obama administration, Biden declared to an enthusiastic crowd of supporters, “We need you to go out there and make sure, ladies and gentlemen, that with you — and I mean this — with […]
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Tuesday, a Good Samaritan and the local street preacher he helped were reunited. Kenneth Cushman shook hands with Gene Duffy Sr., just one day after being released from the hospital with multiple stab wounds. “The goodness of god is just all over that man,” said Duffy. Continue Reading This Story >>
Missouri voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment that supporters said will protect religious freedom. The measure — Amendment 2 — says Missourians’ right to express religious beliefs can’t be infringed. It protects voluntary prayer in schools and requires public schools to display a copy of the Bill of Rights. With all but two […]
A small church in Mississippi is fighting a local zoning ordinance that prohibits churches from leasing space in the town square. Last year, officials in Holly Springs, Mississippi denied the request of Pastor Telsa DeBerry to utilize a building in the town square for his small eighteen-member congregation, known as Opulent Life Church. They reportedly […]