An estimated 60,000 Kurds fled Syria for Turkey within a 24-hour span this weekend, as Islamic savages known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) seized dozens of Syrian villages near the border. “ISIS came and attacked, and we left with the women, but the rest of the men stayed behind,” 24-year-old Abdullah of […]
PORTLAND — A former Portland-area teacher who was escorted from his local high school by police over his continued opposition to Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit against his school district after his teaching contract was terminated following internal scrutiny. As previously reported, Bill Diss, an 11-year math and computer science teacher at Benson High […]
INDIAN SPRINGS, N.V. — The United States Air Force has decided to allow an atheist airman to omit the phrase ‘So help me God’ from the reenlistment oath after a prominent humanist organization threatened to file a lawsuit about the matter. As previously reported, according to the American Humanist Association (AHA), the unidentified serviceman stationed […]
VENTURA, Calif. — At least two Christian legal organizations have sent a letter to a California principal after she banned her school’s booster club from selling Chick-fil-A sandwiches for its football fundraiser due to the company’s stance on the institution of marriage. As previously reported, Val Wyatt, principal of Ventura High School, recently told the Ventura […]
JONESBORO, Ark. — Following a firestorm of controversy over the issue, officials at Arkansas State University (ASU) have decided to allow members of the university’s football team to wear a cross decal on their helmets—as long as the players personally choose to affix them and pay for the stickers themselves. As previously reported, the decal […]
ORLANDO — A prominent Satanist organization plans to distribute pamphlets and other materials to public school students in Florida after an atheist group that took issue with the distribution of Christian materials was given the green light to also share its printed publications. As previously reported, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) learned last year that […]
Christian groups across the country are angered after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report this week, which outlines that many Americans are indeed paying for abortion through Obamacare. The report, Health Insurance Exchanges: Coverage of Non-Excepted Abortion Services by Qualified Health Plans, was posted to the organization website on Monday and features extensive information […]
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Yemen-born man living in New York is among the latest being charged with aiding the Islamic terrorist group ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in federal court. Mufid Elfgeeh, 30, has been leveled with a seven-count indictment via a grand jury in Rochester. […]
JONESBORO, Ark. — A member of the Arkansas State University (ASU) football team is fighting back against a recent decision to order players to remove a cross decal from their helmets over a complaint that the symbol is unconstitutional. As previously reported, the decal was meant to serve as a memorial to former player Markel Owens […]
Recently released video footage of a sermon delivered at the Huda Mosque in Gaza shows a Muslim sheikh weilding a rifle while declaring that weapons are the only way that Palestinians can establish an Islamic state. The video, shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), provides clips of the message delivered by Sheikh […]