CHICAGO — The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a temporary injunction to two religious-owned businesses who had sought relief from the abortion pill mandate in Obamacare. The court ruled 2-1 on Friday that plaintiffs Korte & Luitjohan Contractors and Grote Industries may challenge the mandate, taking issue with the government’s insinuation that faith […]
A national billboard campaign is seeking to remind Americans of their accountability to the law of God simply by posting the Ten Commandments with the overarching declaration “Thus saith the Lord.” Joseph Farah is the co-founder of the news outlet WND and the mastermind behind the Ten Commandments Project, which has been working over the […]
JACKSON, Miss. — A guard who works at the last remaining abortion facility in Mississippi was found guilty of four counts of simple assault this past week for pepper-spraying several Christians who were praying and singing hymns on the public sidewalk. As previously reported, the incident took place in January of this year as the […]
STOCKHOLM — Christians around the world are being asked to help plead for the release of an 11-year-old boy who was abducted by government officials because his parents chose to homeschool the child. As previously reported, Domenic Johansson was seized by the Swedish government in 2009 as he and his parents, Christer and Annie Johansson, were […]
A number of international Christian relief agencies are reaching out to provide food, medicine and shelter to the many Filipinos affected by super typhoon Yolanda as death tolls are expected to climb into the thousands in the days ahead. As many as 10,000 people are feared dead in the aftermath of of the disaster, which […]
EATONTOWN, N.J. — A retired police officer was arrested and charged with trespassing this week for witnessing to patrons of a New Jersey mall. David Wells is a former corporal with the Long Branch Police Department, and over the past year, he has spent time sharing his faith at the Monmouth Mall in Eatontown. Wells […]
SAN DIEGO — Two California chaplains have filed suit against the secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), alleging that they had been forced out of a training and placement program because of their Christian faith. Chaplains Major Steven Firtko and Lieutenant Commander Dan Klender state that they were repeatedly harassed and threatened […]
ALBEQUERQUE — Attorneys for a Christian couple in New Mexico who were told by the courts that they may not refuse to shoot homosexual ‘weddings’ in the state have appealed the ruling to the United States Supreme Court. As previously reported, Elane Huguenin and her husband Jon run Elane Photography in Albuquerque. In 2006, when Vanessa Willock, […]
DARMSTADT, Germany — Four homeschooled children who were seized by German officials earlier this year are now attending government schools after their parents agreed to the condition in order to have them returned home. As previously reported, approximately 20 social workers, police officers and special agents swarmed the home of Dirk and Petra Wunderlich in […]
Christians and others in the Philippines—including an NGO meteorologist—have been crying out to God in prayer throughout the day as a super typhoon has made landfall and is expected to wreak great havoc. Typhoon Yolanda, also known as Haiyan, is the strongest storm to pass through the region this year. Surging at speeds of 195 […]