CAMBRIDGESHIRE, U.K. — A Christian prison worker who was barred from participating in chapel services after quoting a Scripture that references homosexuality will have his case heard by an employment tribunal today. Barry Trayhorn has been employed as a gardener at HMP Littlehey since 2011, and since 2012 he has volunteered to help with the chapel […]
CHICAGO — A school district in the Chicago area is remaining steadfast in its refusal to allow a male student who identifies as female to change in the girls’ locker room despite an opinion from the U.S. Department of Education that the district is violating federal law. According to reports, an unidentified high school student within Township […]
MONTGOMERY — A federal judge who ordered the removal of a Ten Commandments monument at the Alabama Supreme Court in 2003 has ruled that officials must restore the state’s contract with Planned Parenthood because canceling it denied women their choice in medical providers. As previously reported, Gov. Robert Bentley’s office wrote a letter to Planned Parenthood Southeast […]
NEWARK, N.J. — A Muslim man in New Jersey plead guilty this week to conspiring to provide material support to the barbaric terror group ISIS by helping to recruit a “small army” to join the organization. Alaa Saadeh, 24, of Rutherford admitted his guilt on Thursday in federal court. He was arrested in June after […]
BREMERTON, Wash. — Members of the Satanic Temple of Seattle were met with chants of “Jesus” by students and others after they were spotted last night outside of a football game where they had sought to pray on field. The move was in response to the controversy over Bremerton High School Coach Joe Kennedy, who prayed […]
BEIJING (New York Times) — Driven by fears that an aging population could jeopardize China’s economic ascent, the Communist Party leadership ended its decades-old “one child” policy on Thursday, announcing that all married couples would be allowed to have two children. The decision was a dramatic step away from a core Communist Party position that […]
CINCINNATI — The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the free speech rights of a controversial California-based group that was ousted from an Arab festival in 2012 when attendees began turning violent in response to their antagonism. As previously reported, U.S. District Court Judge Patrick Duggan ruled last year that men with an organization identifying […]
DENVER — A Christian baker in Colorado has appealed an order requiring him to provide service for “gay weddings” despite his biblical beliefs not to be a partaker in other men’s sins. (1 Timothy 5:22) As previously reported, in August, the Colorado Court of Appeals upheld a lower court order against baker Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cake […]
ALBANY — The highest court in New York has overturned the conviction of a woman who was charged with manslaughter after her unborn child died due to injuries sustained in a drug and alcohol-influenced accident, stating that the law doesn’t consider the unborn as people. In 2008, Jennifer Jorgensen, then eight months pregnant, crossed into oncoming traffic […]
Donald Trump defended his comments about Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s Seventh-Day Adventist religious beliefs on Sunday, stating that he said nothing bad about them and reiterated that he doesn’t know “about it.” “I know nothing about it really. I’m a Presbyterian and I had mentioned that, and I did say I don’t know about it. […]