PHILADELPHIA — The City of Philadelphia has suspended, pending an investigation, its partnership with two faith-based foster agencies after learning that both decline to place children in homes without a mother and father. The Philadelphia Department of Human Services recently discontinued any new placements by Bethany Christian Services and Catholic Social Services following a report […]
(The Christian Institute) — A stay-at-home mother of four was interrogated by the police for referring to “male to female” transgender surgery as castration on Twitter. Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull was reported to the police in July 2017 by Susie Green, the CEO of transgender charity Mermaids, who took her son to Thailand for the surgery. However, […]
(Fox News) — A New Jersey man has been arrested and accused of kidnapping and murdering a man trying to buy a PlayStation video game console that was advertised online, according to multiple reports. Rufus Thompson, 29, was arrested Saturday morning in Trenton. He is charged with murder, felony murder, robbery, kidnapping and weapons offenses […]
RAPID CITY, S.D. — A South Dakota woman accused of beating her two-year-old son to death in 2016 for wetting his bed has pleaded guilty to murder. Katrina Shangreaux, 30, of Porcupine, reportedly made a vulgar gesture at her sister-in-law as she left the courtroom on Friday, according to the Rapid City Journal. She said in a written […]
(Washington Free Beacon) — The gag order against undercover videographer David Daleiden will remain in place. On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to lift a federal judge’s gag order suppressing the Center for Medical Progress from releasing undercover footage of abortion industry insiders discussing their organ harvesting operations. The National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood […]
WASHINGTON — Following receipt of an appeal from a religious liberties organization, as well as supportive correspondence from Congress, the secretary of the Air Force has announced the reversal of adverse actions against a Christian colonel who was punished for declining to sign an optional document that would have affirmed an airman’s same-sex “marriage.” The colonel […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio and the transgender advocacy group Lambda Legal have filed a lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Health and the Office of Vital Statistics in an effort to force the State to allow those with gender dysphoria to change the sex on their birth certificate. […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old who killed 17 people in February and wounded almost 20 others after opening fire in a public high school, is receiving “piles” of “fan letters” in jail, his defense attorney mourns. Officials will not read Cruz such material, but will only share the very few that extend […]
YAKIMA, Wash. — A Washington man who took the life of a missionary student in 2016 in a random drive-by shooting has been sentenced to 27 years behind bars. Saul Rios, 29, was sentenced on Thursday after entering a guilty plea on March 8. In October 2016, Trae Oyler, 20, was returning from working with […]
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Justice are considering their options after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Friday ordering the Trump administration to cease denying abortion access to teenagers who enter the country illegally and unaccompanied by an adult. “The Department of Health & […]
