LITTLE ROCK — The attorney general of Arkansas has given the go-ahead to a homosexual rights group to begin collecting signatures for a petition to place the revocation of the state marriage amendment on the 2014 ballot. Dustin McDaniel approved the wording of the proposal, which was submitted by Christina Harrison of Arkansans for Equality. […]
OKLAHOMA CITY — Four Christian universities in Oklahoma have filed suit against the Obama administration to challenge the requirement that they provide insurance coverage for sterilizations, contraception and drugs that they believe induce abortions. Southern Nazarene University, Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Oklahoma Baptist University and Mid-America Christian University are being represented by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), […]
Thousands are expected to attend prayer gatherings this Thursday for an American pastor who has been imprisoned in Iran for one year. As previously reported, Saeed Abedini, who fled Iran in 2005 and moved to Idaho with his wife and two children, was arrested last year for allegedly threatening the national security of Iran by […]
CORNWALL — The Christian owners of a bed and breakfast in Cornwall, England are selling their business, which also served as their home, after legal costs and harassment from opponents drove them to close their doors. Peter and Hazelmary Bull have placed the Chymorvah Hotel on the market as they state that circumstances have devastated […]
WASHINGTON — A homosexual activist who had plotted to carry out an armed massacre at the headquarters of a prominent Christian lobbying organization has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. As previously reported, last August, Floyd Corkins III entered the offices of Family Research Council (FRC) in Washington, D.C. with a 9 mm Sig […]
ALBUQUERQUE — In what is being characterized as potentially the first-ever municipal late-term abortion ban, city council members in Albuquerque, New Mexico have voted to place a measure prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks on the ballot in the November elections. “By 8 weeks after fertilization, the unborn child reacts to touch. After 20 weeks, the […]
DARMSTADT, Germany — The four homeschooled children of a couple in Germany have been returned to their parents upon the condition that they attend public school as per German law. As previously reported, approximately 20 social workers, police officers and special agents swarmed the home of Dirk and Petra Wunderlich last month and forcefully removed all […]
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has filed an appeal to the United States Supreme Court in an effort to force the popular craft chain Hobby Lobby to comply with the abortion pill mandate in Obamacare. The 251-page petition was filed on Thursday by U.S. Solicitor General Donald B. Verilli, and bears the name of other […]
SASKATOON — A Canadian bridal boutique has reached a settlement with a man who identifies as a woman after the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission ruled that the owner broke the law by refusing to allow him to try on a gown for his wedding. The incident occurred in April of this year as Rohit Singh, […]
PERTH — A street preacher in Scotland was arrested this week for ‘breach of the peace’ and advised that the content of his sermon was illegal after an anonymous bystander complained to police about his activities. Josh Williamson of Perth states that he was preaching from Scripture about man’s enslavement to sin when he was […]