BURLINGTON, Vt. — During an event announcing Planned Parenthood’s endorsements for political office in Vermont, Gov. Peter Shumlin asserted that residents should feel “blessed” to have the “extraordinary work” of the abortion provider within its borders. “Vermont is unusual. We should be blessed to live here with a Planned Parenthood that does extraordinary work, and a […]
WASHINGTON – Officials with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have confirmed that a Liberian man visiting family in America has been diagnosed with the Ebola virus, making it the first diagnosis of the deadly disease on U.S. soil. In a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, CDC Director Thomas Frieden explained that the unnamed individual arrived in […]
The month of September saw numerous sex trafficking arraignments and sentencings nationwide, as both local and federal law enforcement continue to expose child prostitution rings from shore to shore—a growing problem that reports state are inadequately addressed in most states. On September 11th, Coy Klinger, 37, was indicted in Lower Paxton Township, Pa. with running […]
(Morning Star News) – Local officials in Laos arrested seven Christians for meeting for worship on Sunday (Sept. 28), according to a rights group. The chief of Boukham village, in Atsaphangthong District, Savannakhet Province, along with village security officials and police arrested the Christians as they ate lunch after meeting for worship in the home […]
WASHINGTON — In an interview with CBS on Sunday, while repeating his assertion that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) does not represent the Islamic religion, Barack Obama acknowledged that the group seeks to kill those who “worship a different God” than Allah. Obama was interviewed by correspondent Steve Croft for the “60 […]
OKLAHOMA CITY — A second Muslim man in Oklahoma has been arrested after allegedly threatening to behead his co-worker with a blade. Jacob Mugambi Muriithi, 30, was taken into custody on Friday after his unidentified female co-worker told police that he threatened to cut her head off. Both work at Bellevue Nursing Home in Oklahoma […]
A renowned Christian apologist is responding to a recent article in the Washington Post that promotes the concept of gender neutrality, that is, identifying neither as male or female. The article, entitled “When No Gender Fits: A Quest to Be Seen as Just a Person,” tells the story of a 18-year-old woman named Kelsey from […]
DANIELSVILLE, Ga. — A prominent atheist activist organization and a nationally-recognized humanist group are demanding that a Georgia school district remove two Scripture verses from a sculpture that sits outside of the field house of a local high school. The Madison,Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) and the Washington, D.C.-based American Humanist Association (AHA) recently […]
Laws banning incest between brothers and sisters in Germany could be scrapped after a government ethics committee said that they were an unacceptable intrusion into the right to sexual self-determination. “Criminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve a social taboo,” the German Ethics Council said in a statement. “The fundamental right of adult […]
CONCORD, N.H. — A Republican Senatorial candidate from New Hampshire has rejected his party’s recent adoption of a pro-life platform that expressed the personhood and subsequent right to life of unborn children, and is instead declaring his support for “a woman’s right to choose.” Scott Brown, a former Massachusetts senator who now resides in New Hampshire, […]