PITTSBURGH, Pa. (Post-Gazette) — A new type of fetal surgery to repair the most common and severe type of spina bifida has been done for the first time in Pittsburgh and now three months after being born, the little patient is showing almost completely normal leg function. Surgery was done by a team of specialists […]
(New York Post) — A Dutch teen who was sexually assaulted at age 11 and raped at 14 chose to end her life because she couldn’t deal with the anguish anymore. Noa Pothoven, 17, who lived in the Netherlands, wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post about her heartbreaking decision to stop eating — leading to […]
LEANDER, Texas — A self-described “open and affirming church” in Texas has decided to host a “Drag Queen Story Time” for children at a local public library after city officials canceled an initial event, in part, due to opposition from residents. Open Cathedral, a member of the United Church of Christ, rented out a room […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — During a recent pro-life rally at the Alabama capitol building, Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation talked about the value of every life as he shared his story of being conceived in rape, but being adopted into a large, loving family and now being an adoptive father himself. “The circumstances of our […]
CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. (FOX 5 Atlanta) — An Acworth church is attempting to clean up the damages after an act of vandalism and robbery Monday morning. Cherokee County Sheriff’s deputies said someone or a group of people broke into the Faith Family Church on the Bells Ferry Road and stole a cash from a secured tithe […]
VIENNA, Va. — David Platt, the Virginia pastor who prayed over President Trump during Sunday’s church service as he personally visited in light of Friday’s workplace massacre in Virginia Beach, has issued a statement to explain his decision to pray for Trump on stage after some church members were reportedly “hurt” over the matter. “[S]ome […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A United Methodist “church” in Alabama has decided to host a “wedding party” featuring a free screening of the “Arthur” episode surrounding the same-sex “wedding” of Mr. Ratburn after Alabama Public Television said that it would not air the broadcast. The screening is a joint effort between The Sidewalk Film Festival, the […]
OSHKOSH, Wisc. — A Lutheran minister called out what he called the “hypocrisy” of Republican lawmakers in their opposition to abortion during the recent Wisconsin Republican State Convention. James Reiff, who leads St. John’s Lutheran Church of Nekimi, had been invited to deliver the invocation for the convention, which was held on May 18 in […]
(Heavy) — Ryan Keith Cox was a hero of the Virginia Beach mass shooting, said survivors who credit their lives to him. Cox, an account clerk at Virginia Beach Public Utilities, saved the lives of seven women who were also in building 2 of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center Friday when a suspect began “firing indiscriminately” […]
VIENNA, Va. — David Platt, the former president of the Southern Baptist International Missions Board (IMB) and current pastor of McLean Bible Church in Virginia, prayed over President Trump on Sunday after he made an unannounced visit to the church to meet with Platt and pray for the victims of Friday’s mass shooting in Virginia […]