WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian is refusing to remove a bust of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger from its “Struggle for Justice” exhibit despite opposition from a group of African American pastors who pointed out Sanger’s advocacy for eugenics. Earlier this month, a coalition called “Ministers Taking a Stand” wrote to officials with the National […]
MANCHESTER, England — A city councilman in the U.K. who is seeking to crack down on street preachers, buskers and those who engage in commerce in the public streets says that preachers are wrong to talk about morality in the open air and to make their hearers feel “insecure” with their preaching. The Christian Institute […]
BRANDON, Miss. — A high school band was nixed from the halftime show of the season-opening football game on Friday after district officials said that the band’s plans to perform “How Great Thou Art” violated a federal court order against school promotion of religion. “The Rankin County School Board and District Office are very saddened […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The founder of Iraq’s only Christian radio station is praising God for his protection after he and a deacon from his church walked away unharmed from a recent bomb blast in the ISIS-occupied nation. “The situation here in Baghdad is not only bad, it is very bad,” Maher Fouad, pastor of New […]
Thousands of Americans took to the streets and public sidewalks outside of their local Planned Parenthood facility on Saturday to demand that the federal government defund the abortion giant. According to reports, Christians and other pro-lifers gathered at over 320 locations across the nation, holding signs, praying and calling out to women not to murder […]
After a California court denied a preliminary injunction on Friday against the release of undercover video footage featuring executives of StemExpress, a fetal tissue company that does business with the abortion giant Planned Parenthood, the Center for Medical Progress released the transcript of a forthcoming video with the company CEO. In the text released, CEO […]
WASHINGTON — Following the massive data dump of the spouse-cheating website Ashley Madison, it has been learned that hundreds of employees with the Obama administration had paid accounts with the site and used their federal offices to access it. The Associated Press (AP) outlines that it has traced hundreds of the 37 million Ashley Madison […]
KNOXVILLE, Iowa — A prominent church-state separation group is seeking the removal of a veteran’s memorial in Iowa because it considers the cross grave marker included in the display to render the memorial religious. Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) recently sent a letter to officials with the Iowa Department of Parks […]
MADISON, Wisc. — A prominent atheist activist organization is seeking to “permanently bench” university chaplains nationwide out of its belief that their presence suggests the endorsement of Christianity at secular institutions. The Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) released a 25-page report this week in which it takes issue with the idea of football chaplains, […]
Reality show star Josh Duggar of the former hit TLC television show “19 Kids and Counting” admitted to adultery and a pornography addiction Thursday following the massive data dump of the spouse cheating website Ashley Madison. “I have been the biggest hypocrite ever,” he wrote in a post on the Duggar family website this morning. […]