WASHINGTON — The annual International Religious Freedom Report released by the U.S. Department of State on Wednesday finds that in 2014, the greatest persecutors of Christians and other groups worldwide were Islamic terror groups like ISIS and Boko Haram, but also cites that local governments often failed to provide adequate protection to dissenters. The report, which is […]
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — An abortionist arrested in South Carolina last week for running a mobile abortion business is believed to be notorious Florida abortionist James Pendergraft, according to reports. As previously reported, the arrest occurred during a week-long drug bust that included 578 traffic stops. Police didn’t expect to find an abortionist on wheels in […]
During an interview this week with Fox television talk show host Bill O’Reilly, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson outlined that he doesn’t subscribe to young Earth beliefs as it is possible that the planet is billions of years old. “Are you really a creationist?” O’Reilly asked during Monday night’s “O’Reilly Factor.” “Do you subscribe to Adam […]
WILMORE, Ky. — The mayor of a city in Kentucky is refusing to remove a cross from a water tower that belongs to the city but is on private property despite demands from an atheist organization to remove the crucifix. The Madison, Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) recently emailed Wilmore Mayor Harold Rainwater to state […]
WASHINGTON — While criticizing opponents for seeking to end abortion, the president of Planned Parenthood wrote in a letter this week that the organization will stop receiving payments for the body parts of aborted babies in the midst of a Congressional investigation into its practices. In writing to Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — Following release of interview footage with Barack Obama and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson, some are expressing concern about Obama’s remarks regarding those of the Christian faith. “Tell me a little bit about how your interest in Christianity converges with your concerns about democracy,” Obama asked Robinson, being the interviewer. “Well, I […]
KANEOHE, Hawaii — A Marine Corps base in Hawaii is refusing to relocate or remove a sign that asks God’s blessing on the Armed Forces following receipt of a complaint from a group that seeks to separate God from the military. As previously reported, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) sent an email last month to […]
WASHINGTON — A Yazidi woman who serves in Iraq’s parliament is expressing her disappointment in the Obama administration over its lack of aid to refugees in the country, sharing a number of gruesome accounts of the suffering in the nation, including that ISIS allegedly fed a hungry mother her own son’s body. Vian Dakhil recently sat […]
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — While conducting drug busts across the state of South Carolina this week, officials uncovered a mobile abortion facility illegally performing in-home abortions. “We got a guy and a girl early in the week that was a traveling abortionist,” Sheriff Chuck Wright told local television station WYFF. “He traveled around the state of […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The governor of California has signed a bill into law that requires pro-life pregnancy centers to inform all clients that they can obtain an abortion at state-funded facilities. As previously reported, the bill is known in the legislature as the Reproductive FACT Act, but to pro-lifers, it is dubbed the “bully bill.” The text of […]