A prominent homosexual advocacy group is calling upon the U.S. Department of Education to release the names of religious schools that it believes are “using faith as a guise for discrimination” by seeking exemptions from a federal law that has recently been interpreted to pertain to homosexuality and transgenderism. “There is an alarming and growing trend […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service has provided a preview of its new stamp designs for 2016, which include a stamp commemorating the Islamic holidays Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. While Islamic holiday stamps are not new, being first released in 2001, the design for the 2016 stamp is among those revamped for the new year. […]
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A man walked into a North Carolina church with a semi-automatic assault rifle on Thursday, but the pastor says that he left a new creation in Christ. The incident happened as the congregation of Heal the Land Outreach Ministries in Fayetteville as they were holding their year-end prayer service, which included a time […]
AUSTIN, Texas — A false teacher and minister in Texas who says that He doesn’t believe in the literal resurrection of Christ recently mocked the gospel and those who told him that he is subsequently not a Christian, making fun of having an eternal destiny in Hell. “Apparently, because I don’t believe in a literal resurrection, […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii — A federal appeals court has ruled that it was not unlawful for a university to deny a teaching certificate to a man who aspired to be a high school teacher after he expressed views in support of adults having sexual relations with children. In 2011, the University of Hawaii had declined to […]
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — A federal appeals court has granted the abortion giant Planned Parenthood an emergency injunction to stop officials in Utah from stripping the organization of its Medicaid funding. “We conclude an injunction is appropriate pending the court’s determination of the merits,” the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday. As […]
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Muslim man in New York has been arrested and charged with offering material support to terrorists after officials foiled a terror plot that he planned to carry out at a restaurant Thursday night. Emanuel Lutchman, 25, was arrested on Wednesday by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force after his plan to attack […]
(Reuters) — Nearly 200 workers, mostly Somali immigrants, have been fired from a meat-packing plant in Colorado after staging a walkout to protest what they said were insufficient prayer accommodations, the company and Islamic advocacy groups said on Thursday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the workers were treated in a “discriminatory manner” by […]
Officials in Norway have moved to place five children that were seized from their parents on charges that included “Christian radicalization and indoctrination” up for adoption, reports state. As previously reported, on Nov. 16 and 17, Norway’s child welfare services, the Barnevernet, seized Marius and Ruth Bodnariu’s two daughters, two sons and their baby, Ezekiel. The […]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. — The Air Force Academy has upheld the prayer practice of its football team after a prominent activist group that seeks to separate God from the military lodged a complaint. As previously reported, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) recently contacted the academy in stating that it had been been told by a number of […]