Reports state that violent crime is on the rise in United States, increasing 18 percent just last year after the crime rate was thought to have begun to decline 20 years ago. In 2012, the nation has seen a string of deadly rampages like no year before. As yesterday’s shooting spree at an elementary school […]
Barack Obama issued a public statement Friday regarding the tragic shooting that took the lives of 20 children and 6 adults at a Connecticut elementary school, in addition to the gunman and his mother. As previously reported, at approximately 9:30 a.m. yesterday morning, police received a 911 call that notified them that a “masked man” […]
Fort Worth, Texas — A Texas man is facing criminal charges after carving a pentagram into his six-year-old son’s back in recognition of 12-12-12. The man, identified as 39-year-old Brent Bartel of Richland Hills, called 911 after using what is believed to be a box cutter to carve the five-pointed star into his son’s flesh. […]
Six Christians who were cited for evangelizing in a public park in New Jersey are expressing concern after a cell phone that was confiscated by police remains in government custody. As previously reported, the Christians were cited as they witnessed this past October to passersby in Journal Square in Jersey City. Richard Corniel of Paterson, […]
A university in Michigan has agreed to pay damages to a student who was expelled for refusing to receive homosexual sensitivity training because she would not affirm a fellow student’s sexual relationship. As previously reported, Julea Ward, a high school teacher, was enrolled in Eastern Michigan University’s counseling program in 2009 and was just a […]
Despite recent comments that he would never again make statements on political matters that could be construed as public declarations, Rick Warren, author of the best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life and pastor of Saddleback Church in California, recently posted a message on Twitter to his 800,000 followers reinforcing his opposition to a largely church-supported homosexuality bill […]
A federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan has ordered the state of North Carolina to stop producing pro-life license plates unless it also makes available plates that favor abortion. U.S. District Court Judge James Carroll Fox said that the current “Choose Life” plates amount to “viewpoint discrimination” and are therefore unconstitutional. “This court concludes … […]
A nationally-known atheist activist group is demanding that a central Kansas city shut down its police chaplaincy program after it received a complaint from an area resident. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wisconsin, recently sent a letter to city officials in McPherson, Kansas, claiming that the existing chaplaincy program violates the U.S. […]
A school district in Pennsylvania is continuing its battle against a well-known atheist group over a Ten Commandments monument that has been on display at a local middle school for over 50 years. Officials with the Connellsville Area School District in Southwest Pennsylvania filed paperwork in court this week to defend the monument, despite accusations […]
Four Christians in Minnesota that were recently barred from evangelizing during an annual event in Duluth known as the Tour of Lights have regained their right to share the Gospel in the public park. As previously reported, last month, Steve Jankowski and three other friends were forced to move to a “free speech zone” outside […]