NEW YORK CITY — A prominent atheist activist group has purchased billboard space in Times Square to counter an advertisement from a nationally-recognized Biblical Creation organization. As previously reported, Ken Ham’s Answers in Genesis launched a billboard campaign last week in prominent locations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, including in the heavily-trafficked Times […]
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A woman has filed a federal lawsuit saying she was wrongly fired from her job at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship because her marriage broke down. Alyce Conlon said she was aware of at least two men at the nonprofit who divorced their spouses and were not disciplined or fired. Conlon had worked […]
GRIMES, Iowa — A Mennonite couple in Iowa has filed suit against the state’s Civil Rights Commission as they fear pending punishment for declining to host a same-sex ‘wedding’ at their business. As previously reported, Dick and Betty Odgaard operate The Gortz Haus Gallery, a bistro, floral and arts shop, and wedding facility in Grimes, […]
MONTGOMERY — A homeschooling family from Montgomery, Alabama is wowing many across the nation as six of their ten children have enrolled in college by the age of twelve, and the four remaining hope to do the same. Kip and Mona Lisa Harding state that they are simply raising the “average family,” but credit their […]
As the deadline looms for American citizens to comply with the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, many Christians are scrambling to understand their enrollment options. But many may be unaware of the fact that Obamacare provides a heath insurance exemption for people of faith who enroll in a Biblically-based healthcare sharing program. On […]
In an interview this week on British television, a Christian couple defended their decision to deny a room to two homosexual men—even though it ended up costing them their livelihood. As previously reported, Peter and Hazelmary Bull of Cornwall, England are selling their business, which also served as their home, after legal costs and harassment from […]
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A nationally-recognized Christian legal group has mailed letters to school districts throughout Tennessee in an effort to defend the practice of prayer at school football games. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) crafted the letters as a counter to correspondence recently sent by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which complained about the prayers […]
Thousands of youth from across the nation gathered this past Wednesday to challenge each other to read and live out the Scriptures in their everyday lives in an annual event known as “Fields of Faith.” The event, organized by Fellowship of Christian Athletes, is held every second Wednesday in October. Its mission is to see […]
SODDY-DAISY, Tenn. — A pastor in Tennessee is refusing to apologize for speaking about God at a public school assembly last month, where he gave a speech in memory of the 9/11 attack on American soil. “Did I mention God in the speech that day?” Pastor Alan Stewart of Rechoboth Baptist Church in Soddy-Daisy asked […]
SACRAMENTO — The governor of California has signed a bill into law that would allow nurses and other ‘non-physicians’ to perform abortions on babies up to twelve weeks in gestation. As previously reported, AB 154, which was sponsored by Democratic Assembly Member Toni Atkins of San Diego, aims to make abortion more accessible in the state, especially […]