(The Christian Institute) — The Welsh government has announced that it will offer free abortions to women from Northern Ireland through the NHS, despite overwhelming public opposition. This decision follows a consultation in which just 14 people supported the proposal. Welsh Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said women from Northern Ireland, in Wales, should be able […]
MADISON, Wisc. — The two atheist leaders of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) have filed a lawsuit against the attorney general of Wisconsin to challenge the creation of a chaplaincy program for employees at the state Department of Justice (DOJ). The organization is dissatisfied that the program is limited to clergy members and not […]
WASHINGTON — In carrying on a tradition that was reportedly started by then-President George W. Bush and continued by Barack Obama, President Trump hosted a ceremonial lighting at the White House on Tuesday in recognition of the Hindu Festival of Lights, known as Diwali. The holiday rings in the Hindu new year as adherents to […]
BERKELEY, Calif. — A student senator at the University of California at Berkeley is facing pressure to resign after she abstained from voting on a resolution that expressed opposition to an alleged plan by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to legally define sex under Title IX of the Education Amendments of […]
(The Christian Institute) — A woman who has lived for fifteen years as though she was a man has now said she regrets ever having surgery to “change sex.” As a teenage girl, Debbie Karemer, was raped multiple times by her father. This horrendous childhood experience stayed with her, and experts have told her it […]
CHESTERFIELD, Va. — Police in Virginia are looking for a man who vandalized a Chesterfield church last Tuesday night while wearing a hat that reportedly read “I [Heart] Jesus.” Surveillance footage shows the man entering Ironbridge Church just after 11:30 p.m. on Election Day after the location had been closed for polling, and upon finding a […]
TORONTO — An apostate minister with the United Church of Canada who identifies as an atheist will not be defrocked after an agreement was reached just before she was to be put on trial over her rejection of biblical orthodoxy. While the details of the settlement have not been made public, the United Church of […]
(NY Daily News) — The twisted ex-Marine who gunned down a dozen people in a California bar paused to ponder his mental health in two social media posts during the deadly rampage. Ian David Long, 28, noted on Instagram that he was bored, not crazy — and wondered whether people would believe he was […]
PARADISE, Calif. — A fast-moving wildfire raging in Northern California has destroyed the entire town of Paradise, killing nine people and being described as a vision of “Hell.” “Honestly, it looks like Armageddon,” Brian Rice, chairman of the California Fire Foundation, told NBC News. “There’s a part of me that wonders if this city will come […]
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Two lesbians who filed a complaint against a Christian baker after she declined to make a cake for a same-sex celebration wore hidden microphones to record the refusal, according to a press release from the baker’s attorneys. “The evidence shows that this was all a set-up to get money and to destroy […]