OKLAHOMA CITY — Nearly a dozen Texas Christians rode 100 miles to Oklahoma City this week to deliver a tablet engraved with the Ten Commandments after a Decalogue display was removed from the grounds of the capitol building earlier this month. “We’re riding for the law of God today,” John Riggs, pastor of the Texoma […]
TAVARES, Fla. — A South Florida man is threatening to sue Lake County if officials pray during a commission meeting but don’t allow him to give a satanic invocation. Chaz Stevens, a self-described atheist, tells local news outlets his request this week is part of his “Satan or Silence Project.” His goal is to persuade […]
CINCINNATI, Ohio — The Ohio Senate has voted to defund the abortion giant Planned Parenthood, now sending the bill to the House for passage. “We are moving that money to organizations that are life-affirming organizations,” Sen. Bill Coley, R-West Chester Township, told reporters. Senate Bill 214 was approved 23-10 on Wednesday, mostly along party lines. […]
NORTH MIDDLETON TWP, Pa. — Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed has spent nearly 20 years as a prosecutor, but he admitted Wednesday that the case involving an HIV positive Harrisburg man arrested for raping a 6-year-old child was difficult to process. “I’m reminded today that after nearly 20 years as a prosecutor and having seen […]
AUSTIN, Texas — Officials in Texas have decided to defund the abortion giant Planned Parenthood, declaring that the state is pulling its Medicaid funding out of belief that the organization is “no longer capable of performing medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal, and ethical manner.” The Texas Health and Human Services Commission sent […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Three California churches filed suit against the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) on Friday over a directive that was issue last year that would force all faith-based employers to offer abortion coverage regardless of their religious beliefs. As previously reported, DMHC issued a letter in August 2014 requiring all insurance companies […]
BREMERTON, Wash. — A Washington football coach was surrounded by members of his football team, the opposing team and scores of supporters throughout his community on Friday as he knelt briefly to thank God at the conclusion of his school’s homecoming game. As previously reported, Joe Kennedy, the assistant head coach for the varsity team at […]
KANEOHE, Hawaii — A group the seeks to separate God from the military is demanding that additional boards be created and erected near a sign that asks God’s blessing on the Armed Forces after a Marine Corps base in Hawaii refused to relocate or remove the display. As previously reported, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation […]
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 […]