GILBERT, Ariz. — A nationally-recognized Christian legal organization has filed a petition with the United States Supreme Court, asking that it agree to hear a case surrounding an Arizona municipal law that indirectly forces churches to display their signs at night, while allowing other types of signs to remain displayed 24/7. As previously reported, in 2008, Good […]
A new study might reveal why a majority of Christian teens abandon their faith upon high school graduation. Some time ago, Christian pollster George Barna documented that 61 percent of today’s 20-somethings who had been churched at one point during their teen years are now spiritually disengaged. They do not attend church, read their Bible […]
TRENTON — The governor of New Jersey has decided to end his fight to defend marriage between one man and one woman, directing his attorneys to drop their appeal of a lawsuit that sought to force state officials to permit homosexual “marriages.” As previously reported, the Supreme Court of New Jersey unanimously ruled on Friday […]
TEHRAN — A pastor from California was arrested on Monday while conducting a protest in Iran surrounding five Christians that he believes have been unlawfully imprisoned in the country. Eddie Romero of La Puente was taken into custody as he spoke outside of Evin Prison, where the Christians are being held. Reports state that he […]
NEWARK — The mayor of Newark, New Jersey ordered the removal of a Christian man from city hall on Monday for raising an objection in the name of Jesus Christ against one of the first-ever homosexual ‘weddings’ in the state. As previously reported, the Supreme Court of New Jersey unanimously ruled on Friday to uphold […]
FLORENCE, Colo. — A nationally-recognized Christian legal group is demanding that a Colorado high school protect female students students from a boy who is using the girls’ restroom and allegedly making harassing comments. The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), based in Sacramento, California, recently sent a letter to officials at Florence High School to ask that […]
NEW YORK — Both the Republican and Democratic candidates for mayor of New York City are expressing their support for adding two Islamic holidays to the academic calendar. Republican Joe Lhota and Democrat Bill de Blasio state that schools should close on both Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, two major Muslim holy days. The first […]
STERLING, Co. — A city in Colorado has agreed to allow the name of Jesus to be engraved on a tombstone for a local pastor’s wife after the cemetery director refused the inscription and stated that it could be offensive. Linda Baker, wife of Mark Baker, the pastor of Harvest Baptist Church in Ovid, Colorado, […]
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — A non-denominational church in Arizona was targeted by vandals this past week in what is being considered a hate crime, leaving an estimated $20,000 in damage. Desert Springs Community Church in Goodyear discovered on Thursday that someone had broken into the building the previous night and vandalized the premises. Glass jars were […]
ST. PETERSBURG — A orphaned boy who has been in foster care all of his life recently made a desperate plea before a local church for anyone in the congregation to adopt him as their son. 15-year-old Davion Navar Henry Only was born while his mother, La-Dwina Ilene ‘Big Dust’ McCloud, was in prison on theft […]