Nearly 1,100 pastors nationwide are expected to participate in an effort today that seeks to challenge government regulations on political speech from the pulpit. The effort is called Pulpit Freedom Sunday, and was organized by the Pulpit Initiative, a project of the Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). As the sixth annual event of […]
BALTIMORE – A famed player from this year’s Baltimore Ravens football team recently turned down an invitation to the White House, citing his disappointment with Barack Obama’s pro-abortion policies. Matt Birk, a 6’4”, 310-pound center for the Ravens, has played professional football for the past 15 years, and has participated in six Pro Bowl competitions. […]
MOUNTAIN HOME, Id.– An Air Force base in southwestern Idaho has removed a Scripture-based painting from one of its dining halls after a complaint was submitted by an activist group that seeks to keep religion out to the U.S. military. Last Friday, the Pentagon received a letter of complaint from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation […]
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – Several Afghan children appeared via video in court Wednesday, recounting the night that an American soldier conducted a raid on their village and shot a number of their friends and family dead. Young boys told the court that when Staff Sergeant Robert Bales entered their village last year with the […]
ST. LOUIS — Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has vetoed a bill that would have prevented judges in the state from using Sharia Law in their judgments, citing fears of endangerment of foreign adoptions and other international concerns. Nixon appeared at a press conference on Monday at the office of Lutheran Family and Children’s Services, where […]
OAK HARBOR, Wash. — Officials in a small Washington town have decided not to prohibit the mentioning of Jesus’ name in city council prayers. This announcement comes almost a month after the city council members of Oak Harbor—an island town of 22,000 residents in western Washington—considered a proposal that would have banned the names of […]
The Salvadoran high court rejected the over-hyped claims of abortion advocates in favor of common-sense protections for mother and child on Wednesday. The ruling upholds El Salvador’s constitutional protection of the right to life beginning at fertilization. Over the past few months, international abortion activists have exploited the case of a 22-year-old Salvadoran woman known […]
AUGUSTA — Members of the Maine House of Representatives recently rejected a bill calling for the legalization of physician assisted suicide in the state. LD 1065, Patient-Directed Care at the End of Life, would have allowed terminally ill patients to ingest lethal medication to hasten their death. “This bill authorizes a patient who is terminally […]
STARKE, Fla. — The first monument in the country dedicated to atheism is set to be displayed in front a county courthouse in Florida later this month. The monument is part of a settlement between officials in Bradford County, Florida and the organization American Atheists of Cranford, New Jersey. Last year, American Atheists sued the […]
BATON ROUGE – Louisiana’s House Education Committee on Wednesday rejected a repeal to a 1981 law which allows both creation science and evolutionary theory to be taught in public schools. The proposed repeal was sponsored by Republican Dan Claitor, and—had it been passed—would have deleted Louisiana’s “Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act.” According to the 1981 […]