WASHINGTON — The abortion and contraception giant Planned Parenthood has sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for altering its Title X funding criteria to prefer groups that promote abstinence and work with faith-based entities. The organization points to language in HHS’ 2018 Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), which states that applicants should encourage […]
Several so-called “drag queens” in the United Kingdom are organizing a protest to coincide with President Trump’s visit to the country in July as they believe he hasn’t lived up to his campaign promise to be “gay friendly.” “Calling all drag kings, queens, queers and our allies to march against President Donald Trump’s UK visit,” a description […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — An amendment to a dismemberment abortion ban bill that would have outlawed any method of abortion in South Carolina—with exceptions—was sent back to committee early Friday morning following an hours-long filibuster by opposing Democrats. The Senate initially voted 28-10 in favor of the amendment on Wednesday, but the following day, Democrats stalled the matter by […]
ATLANTA, Ga. — Concerns are being raised as Atlanta’s Embassy Church has announced that it plans on making aerialists a “full part” of its “normal worship experience.” Bryan Meadows, who leads Embassy, recently posted photographs and a video from the CreativeCon Conference, which included a time of worship that incorporated a female aerialist suspended from […]
The internationally acclaimed secular rock group U2, led by the Irish-born Bono, has come out in favor of repealing Ireland’s Eighth Amendment, a pro-life law that “acknowledges the right to life of the unborn” and “guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.” […]
(National Geographic) — Evidence for the largest single incident of mass child sacrifice in the Americas— and likely in world history—has been discovered on Peru’s northern coast, archaeologists tell National Geographic. More than 140 children and 200 young llamas appear to have been ritually sacrificed in an event that took place some 550 years ago on […]
NEW YORK (New York Post) — For 108 years, the Boy Scouts of America’s flagship program has been known simply as the Boy Scouts. With girls soon entering the ranks, the group says that iconic name will change. The organization on Wednesday announced a new name for its Boy Scouts program: Scouts BSA. The change […]
EDMONTON, Alberta — A group comprised of parents whose children attend a Christian school in Alberta, Canada have gone to court seeking an injunction against a recent decision from board members of the local school division to shut down the academy. The school had been in a discussion with the division after officials asked them to keep “offensive” […]
(BreakingNews.ie) — A coroner has criticized “repeated failures” at a high-profile abortion clinic following the death of a mother of one, hours after she had her baby aborted. Dr. Sean Cummings said the case involving Aisha Chithira, 31, who traveled to England from Ireland to have a termination at a Marie Stopes clinic in Ealing, was “desperately […]
GALLATIN, Tenn. — A young woman who was killed on April 22 when a gunman opened fire at a Tennessee waffle house had been singing gospel songs with a friend before the attack took place, reports state. The funeral for DeEbony Groves, 21, was held on Saturday at First Baptist Church of Gallatin, and hundreds […]