SPRINGBORO – Following complaints from a national atheist organization and various community members, a school district in southwestern Ohio announced it will be pulling two controversial community education courses that outline America’s Christian heritage. From July 9th through September 24th, faculty at Springboro Community Schools had planned to facilitate two courses on the U.S. Constitution. One […]
CAIRO – A court in Egypt has sentenced a radical Muslim preacher to 14 years in prison for repeatedly offending Christianity. Ahmed Abdullah, also known as Abu Islam, is a firebrand Islamist who has drawn heavy criticism for his controversial statements, many of which are specifically directed against Christians. In an anti-American rally last September, […]
FRANKFORT — A nationally-recognized Christian legal organization has sent a letter to school districts throughout the state of Kentucky in an effort to combat an attempt by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to end the distribution of Gideons Bibles in public schools. William Sharp of the ACLU had sent a three-page letter to 174 […]
Pastors across the country passionately expressed their opinion over the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin on Sunday, with some taking to the pulpit in outrage and others calling for national and personal repentance. Zimmerman was found not guilty on Saturday of second-degree murder in a case that has gripped […]
FAIRFAX — An abortion facility in Virginia that performed over 3,000 abortions a year has closed its doors after being unable to comply with new regulations in the Commonwealth. NOVA Women’s Healthcare of Fairfax County, which opened in 2006, has decided to call it quits as it reportedly cannot comport with mandates that it meet […]
AUSTIN — Texas Governor Rick Perry is expected to sign a controversial abortion bill into law this week following its passage in the Senate late Friday night. As previously reported, the battle over late-term abortion and other similar restrictions has been raging in Texas in recent weeks as pro-life and pro-abortion residents have clashed over […]
LONDON – A senior judge in the U.K. has ruled that the owner of a bed and breakfast ‘directly discriminate[d]’ against two homosexual men by not allowing them to spend the night together in a bedroom. For six years, Susanne Wilkinson has been the owner of the three-room Swiss Bed and Breakfast in Cookham, England. […]
SAN FRANCISCO — A nationally-recognized Christian legal organization has filed a petition with the California Supreme Court asking that it order county clerks throughout the state to uphold Proposition 8 and not issue “marriage” licenses to homosexuals. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has been one of the main legal entities defending Proposition 8 in the courts, […]
BATON ROUGE – Thanks to legal support from a religious rights advocacy group, a Sunday school ministry in Louisiana can once again hold events in a public park after being forced by officials in 2010 to stop the public meetings. In 2005, after receiving permission from Baton Rouge’s Recreation and Park Commission, Voices of Mercy […]
As Delaware recently became one of the latest states to enact what is known as the ‘bathroom bill,’ which permits males who identify as females to use the womens’ restroom and vice versa, Christians in the state are warning others across the country that similar legislation is sweeping the nation and may come to their […]