JENISON, Mich. – Officials in Ottawa County, Mich. will be restoring a sign citing Scripture to a public park—but with a disclaimer—after it was removed following a complaint from a local resident. As previously reported, the sign at issue quotes from Psalm 19:1, which reads, “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered an appeals court to reconsider its denial of an injunction to a prominent religious university that had challenged the abortion pill mandate in Obamacare. The University of Notre Dame had sued the Obama administration in federal court in 2013, stating that its mandate violated the Catholic institution’s right to religious freedom, […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Days after police tortured 20 Christians in India’s northwestern state of Rajasthan, Hindu extremists in Madhya Pradesh struck two churches in four days. In central India’s Madhya Pradesh, where a law against forced or fraudulent conversions is routinely invoked to harass Christians – though none has ever been found guilty – members […]
WASHINGTON — The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is warning that Islamists who sympathize with the terrorist group ISIS, which identifies itself as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, are present nationwide. “We have investigations of people in various stages of radicalizing in all 50 states,” James Comey told a recent […]
TAYLOR, Mich. — A city council in Michigan has unanimously voted to pass a Muslim-based resolution against religious discrimination and hatred. While the resolution does not specifically mention Islam, Councilman Alex Garza told the News Herald that he introduced the measure to stand in solidarity with the National Network of Arab American Communities’ “Campaign to […]
WASHINGTON — Over 300 prominent Republicans have signed a brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court calling for the legalization of same-sex “marriage” nationwide. The amicus brief, or friend of the court brief, was led by former Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Ken Mehlman, who also served as manager of George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign. “One […]
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden used the Lord’s name in vain on Friday as he spoke at the annual conference for a prominent homosexual activist organization. Biden, who served as keynote speaker at the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) annual spring conference in Washington, was expressing disagreement with recent remarks made by famed neurosurgeon and possible […]
WASHINGTON — A House panel has approved a bill that—among other asylum and immigration concerns—would grant foreign homeschooling families asylum in the U.S. if they face persecution in their native country for opting to teach their children at home. HR 1153, approved 17-13 in the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, was inspired in part by the […]
ARUSHA, Tanzania (AFP) – A court in Tanzania has sentenced four people to death for the murder of an albino woman who was killed so her hacked-off limbs could be used in magic, officials said Friday. The sentencing comes after Tanzania’ President Jakaya Kikwete blasted the wave of killings of albinos, whose body parts are […]
IRVINE, Calif. (NBC) — Southern California apartment complexes that doubled as “maternity hotels” for Chinese women who want made-in-America babies were raided early Tuesday, capping an unprecedented federal sting operation, officials said. NBC News was on the scene as Homeland Security agents swept into The Carlyle, a luxury property in Irvine, California, which housed pregnant […]