LONDON — Christian street evangelists could be caught under new antisocial behavior legislation currently being debated in the House of Lords, a senior peer and campaigners have warned. The new antisocial behavior bill, if successful in the House of Lords, would replace current antisocial behavior orders (ASBOS) with injunctions to prevent nuisance and annoyance (IPNAs) that […]
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — The wholesale retailer Costco has issued an apology after a pastor in California Tweeted a photograph of a Bible at his local store being marked as “fiction.” On Friday, Pastor Caleb Kaltenbach of Discovery Church posted the photo on Twitter after shopping for a gift for his wife at his Simi […]
SPRING CITY, Pa. – A United Methodist minister from Pennsylvania has been given an ultimatum before the Eastern Pennsylvania Methodist Conference to repent of officiating same-sex ‘weddings’ or lose his ministerial license. As previously reported, Frank Schaeffer, 51, who oversees Zion United Methodist Church of Iona in Lebanon, was found guilty on Monday of “conducting a […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Voters in the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, also known as the ‘late-term abortion capital’ of the nation, have voted to strike down a proposed ban on late-term abortions in the city. As previously reported, the “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance” was presented by the local pro-life organization Project Defending Life […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has decided by a narrow margin to reject a request from Planned Parenthood to block a new Texas abortion law that went into effect on October 31st. As previously reported, last month, a federal judge appointed by then-President George H.W. Bush struck down portions of the law, declaring the regulations […]
COLUMBUS, OH — The Supreme Court of Ohio has upheld the firing of a teacher for refusing to remove Christian symbols from the classroom, while also ruling that the teacher had a right to place his personal Bible on his desk. As previously reported, John Freshwater, a science teacher at Mount Vernon Middle School, had […]
LYNCHBURG, Va. — A Liberty University student was shot dead at an off campus dormitory early this morning after he reportedly attacked a campus officer with a sledgehammer. The incident occurred at approximately 4:00 a.m. at Annex II, a dormitory that houses an estimated 200 female students. Details have yet to be provided as to […]
SPRING CITY, Pa. – A United Methodist minister from Pennsylvania has been found guilty before the Eastern Pennsylvania Methodist Conference for officiating his son’s same-sex ‘wedding’ against the denomination’s prohibitions against it. As previously reported, Frank Schaeffer, 51, oversees Zion United Methodist Church of Iona in Lebanon. In 2007, he traveled to Massachusetts to officiate […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Democratic governor of Missouri has issued an executive order allowing homosexuals in the state who were ‘married’ in other states to file joint tax returns. “Missouri is one of a number of states whose tax code is directly tied to that of the federal government, and under Missouri law, legally […]
MACON, GA — Funeral services were held on Saturday for a Georgia pastor who shot himself in the driveway of his home on November 10th as his family and congregation awaited his arrival to lead Sunday services. Teddy Parker, 41, was the senior pastor of the 800-member Bibb Mount Zion Baptist Church in Macon, Georgia […]