CHIBOK, Nigeria — The Nigerian military has announced that it has located the hundreds of schoolgirls that were kidnapped in April by Islamic militants, but is considering its rescue strategy carefully out of fears that the use of force could place the teens in danger. As previously reported, the notorious Muslim group Boko Haram had stormed an […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan – A Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death by hanging for refusing to convert to Islam has given birth in prison, reports state. As previously reported, Meriam Ibrahim, 27, was officially sentenced on May 15th after she was convicted of apostasy against Islam for professing to be an Orthodox Christian. Ibrahim was born to […]
JANESVILLE, Wis. — A school district in southern Wisconsin has publicly apologized for a highly controversial film promoted to students that endorses same-sex marriage while disparaging those who disagree. Last month, students at Craig High School were shown the short video Kids React to Gay Marriage. Controversial statements in the film include calling those who do […]
A group of 80 pastors is suggesting that the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination is facing an imminent split over its inability to resolve long-standing theological disputes about sexuality and church doctrine. But more than lamenting the current divisions, the pastors indicated there is little reason to think reconciliation — or even peaceful coexistence — could […]
A company known for publishing books of interest to Christians has generated criticism for agreeing to publish a memoir from Jennifer Knapp—a former contemporary Christian singer who now describes herself as a lesbian. Jennifer Knapp, now 40, was a popular Christian singer who won Dove Awards and a Grammy Nomination during the late 1990s and […]
SYDNEY — A woman who refused to abort her conjoined twins, diagnosed with a rare condition in which they share the same head, has given birth. As previously reported, Renee Young and Simon Howie have seven children, and were excited about their new pregnancy when they were informed in January that their unborn baby, a girl, […]
PIMA, Ariz. — Students from a high school in Arizona recently joined together in prayer of their own accord after their local school district discontinued its long-held practice of presenting invocations during graduation ceremonies. According to reports, Esperanza Gonzales and Calleigh Summers led students in an invocation and benediction informally last week after the Pima Unified […]
DETROIT — A new report about the high number of abortions in Detroit, considered by many to be a failed city because of its financial devastation, reveals that an estimated 31 percent of pregnancies there end in abortion, what one doctor compared to the worst rates on earth. “We’re seeing a picture that looks more like […]
GREENSBORO, N.C. — An 89-year-old war veteran is sharing his story of how a pocket Bible that he carried near his heart saved his life during WWII. Greensboro News-Record reporter Jeri Rowe recently sat down with Doc Long, who will turn 90 on Wednesday, to hear his story. Long joined the Army at age 19, and was […]
MT. DORA, Fla. — A school board in Florida has reversed its decision to disallow the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) equal access to school facilities and benefits. In April of this year, the Christian legal organization Liberty Counsel had filed suit on behalf of FCA of Lake County, Florida after officials at Mount Dora High School allegedly […]