NEW YORK — After Mayor Bill de Blasio cut $1 billion in funding to the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and redirected it to “youth initiatives and social services,” police officers in the city will no longer partner with the Department of Homeless Services to help get the homeless off the street. The department […]
KALISPELL, Mont. — A man in Montana was recently arrested for toppling a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of a county courthouse with a chain and his pickup truck. He is now facing a felony charge of criminal mischief. According to reports, those in the vicinity of the Flathead County Courthouse on the afternoon […]
NEW YORK — The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a foster and adoption agency that is facing an ultimatum from the State of New York to either allow placement in homes where there is not both a mother and a father or discontinue its child placement […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Rapper-turned-gospel artist Kanye West, who is running for president under the “Birthday Party,” held a campaign rally in South Carolina on Sunday, delivering a profanity-laced speech as he spoke about issues such as abortion, slavery, business dealings and opioid use. He said that God stopped him from aborting his own daughter years […]
WILMINGTON, N.C. — The mother of a newborn baby that was found in a trash can behind a North Carolina church last Thursday evening has been arrested. Maryuri Estefany Calix-Macedo, 21, has been charged with first-degree attempted murder after her infant son was discovered in a black garbage bag inside of a trash can at […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Israel has started to implement the prostitution law, which was passed a year and a half ago in the Knesset (the Israeli parliament), but was due to come into effect in mid-2020. The regulation sanctions those who pay for for sexual services, both on the street and in places used to practice […]
(International Christian Concern) – On July 1, four US government agencies issued an advisory warning that American companies sourcing from Chinese manufacturers may be selling products made using forced labor of religious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In their statement, the departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, and Homeland Security cited China’s ongoing human […]
REDDING, Calif. — A coalition of religious liberties legal organizations have filed suit on behalf of several churches in California that seek to challenge the State’s recent ban on singing or chanting during indoor religious services, which serves to reduce the transmission of COVID via aerosol particles. The American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ), […]
LONDON — A judge in the United Kingdom has ruled that while a Christian foster and adoption agency may require applicants to be evangelical Christians, it may not decline to place children in households that identify as both “Christian” and homosexual. Justice Julian Knowles ruled that Cornerstone Adoption and Fostering Service “must change its recruitment […]
After passing the “Amazon Tax,” Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant went on this unhinged rant. She threatens to seize control of the Fortune 500 and overthrow the “racist, sexist, violent, utterly bankrupt system of capitalism.” If you oppose her? “We are coming for you.” pic.twitter.com/2L17D6wScp — Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) July 7, 2020 SEATTLE, Wash. […]