WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case from a former student at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) who sued the educational institution after his attempts to preach the gospel on campus were twice shut down. Lower courts had declared the case moot as the college changed its free speech policy after […]
NEW YORK — During an episode of “CNN Tonight” this week, host Don Lemon claimed that Jesus Christ was not perfect when He walked the Earth. “Jesus Christ — if that’s who you believe in — Jesus Christ admittedly was not perfect when He was here on this earth,” Lemon asserted to colleague Chris Cuomo, […]
(Evangelical Focus) — The gender field will soon no longer appear in the identification cards (IDs) of citizens, the government of the Netherlands has announced. Education Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven — who is also in charge of emancipation issues — said identifying the gender in ID cards is “unnecessary” and hurts people who identify as […]
Apologist Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis commented this week on women’s speaker and author Jen Hatmaker’s recent podcast “in honor of Pride Month” in which she revealed that her daughter is lesbian, stating that she is “glad” her daughter is homosexual and that it is one of her “greatest regrets and sorrows” that she […]
WASHINGTON (Kaiser Health News) — The Supreme Court Wednesday settled — at least for now — a decade’s worth of litigation over the women’s health provisions of the Affordable Care Act, ruling 7-2 that employers with a “religious or moral objection” to providing contraceptive coverage to their employees may opt out without penalty. The Trump administration […]
(The Christian Institute) — One of the first couples to be married in England following the easing of lockdown restrictions on July 4 told the BBC why their Christian faith made the ceremony so important. Phil Hobbs and Beth Johnson had originally planned to be married three months ago. They were finally able to […]
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — The city council of Somerville, Massachusetts has unanimously passed an ordinance recognizing “polyamorous” domestic partnerships as they could not find a “good reason” to limit romantic relationships to two people. “It validates their existence. It validates the way they love,” council member Lance Davis told NBC Boston. Polyamory is defined as “the practice […]
CHICAGO — It was a bloody Fourth of July weekend in Chicago as dozens were shot and 15 were killed by ongoing gun violence. Two of those fatalities were minors. “You gotta stop this killing. … These are innocent kids. She was only seven years old. She always said, ‘I love you,’” Shelley Fulton told […]
(The Christian Institute) — More than 6,600 abortions were carried out in the Republic of Ireland last year, following the vote to repeal its pro-life laws in 2018. Abortion is now available on demand up to twelve weeks, once a three-day reflection period has passed. Prior to the law change, abortion was only permissible if […]
(Evangelical Focus) — The annual statistics of the Evangelical Church of Germany (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, EKD, the mainline Protestant church) show that 221,338 members announced their departure in 2018, 12.2% more than in the previous year. The EKD had already mentioned the provisional number of around 220,000 withdrawals, and it now confirms that the […]