Jersey City, New Jersey — A Muslim man is behind bars tonight and is facing murder and desecration charges after beheading two Egyptian Christians and cutting off their hands. Reports state that 28-year-old Yusuf Ibrahim of Jersey City killed 25-year-old Hanny F. Tawadros and 27-year-old Amgad A. Konds earlier this month by shooting them in the […]
A tenured professor who forced her students to sign pledges that they would vote for President Barack Obama last November should be fired, the college’s president recommended. Sharon Sweet, an associate professor of mathematics at Brevard Community College in Florida, is guilty of electioneering, harassment, and incompetence, according to a three-month investigation into her classroom […]
The government is considering introducing internet filters, such as those used to block China off form the worldwide web, in order to stop Icelanders downloading or viewing pornography on the internet. The unprecedented censorship is justified by fears about damaging effects of the internet on children and women. Ogmundur Jonasson, Iceland’s interior minister, is drafting […]
Rapid City, South Dakota — Government officials in a city in South Dakota are resisting demands from a well-known atheist activist organization to cease presenting a time of prayer before each city council meeting. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) recently sent a letter to officials in Rapid City after a resident complained about […]
Houston, Texas — A teenage girl in Texas has won a legal battle to stop her parents from forcing her to have an abortion. As previously reported, the 16-year-old, who is only identified as R.E.K. since she is still a minor, is two months pregnant. She asserts that both her mother and father “are violating […]
Craryville, New York — Attorneys representing an eighth grade student who was barred from asking God to bless her classmates during middle school graduation have filed an appeal in federal court. The student, who is only being identified as A.M. since she is a minor, served as co-president of her eighth grade class at Taconic […]
Raleigh, North Carolina — A bill seeking to close up loopholes in North Carolina’s indecent exposure law is headed for a full vote in the state legislature, criminalizing any woman who appears topless in public. Current statutes in the state prohibit the display of one’s private parts, but say nothing about breasts. A state court […]
Washington, D.C. — Dozens of members of Congress have signed a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, requesting that he become directly involved in seeking the release of an American pastor imprisoned in Iran. As previously reported, 32-year-old Saeed Abedini of Idaho was taken into custody last September while visiting his homeland of Iran […]
A Chinese preacher who was recently arrested for preaching and singing hymns in a public park without prior government authorization has filed a lawsuit against the police. Cao Nan, 39, regularly conducts charity work in the city of Shenzhen, and also shares the Gospel on the streets. Last December, while preaching and singing hymns with […]
Peoria — Details were slow to emerge in the homicide of a Baptist missionary and mother of three found dead in her Far North Peoria home, leaving neighbors wondering what actually happened in the usually quiet neighborhood. Denise Leuthold, 39, was found dead at 700 W. Mossville Road on Thursday afternoon after police arrived to […]