Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — A federal judge appointed by George W. Bush has refused to grant an injunction to a Mennonite-owned manufacturing company that sought an exemption from Obamacare’s contraception mandate due to its Christian beliefs. As previously reported, Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation, which has 950 employees at its Arkansas, Maryland, Utah, North Carolina and Pennsylvania locations, […]
Telford, UK — A couple in England is sharing their story about how seeing their developing son smiling on an ultrasound caused them to reject their doctor’s advice to have an abortion. Katyia Rowe and Shane Johnson, both 26, state that they were informed that their son, who they named Lucian, would not likely ever […]
Reports state that an increasing number of young women across the country are signing up for memberships with relationship sites in an effort to find a “sugar daddy” to help pay their way through college, and that over the past year, such arrangements have doubled. A sugar daddy is defined as a slang term referring […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — In a landmark case that experts say will reverberate for generations, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against three out of four U.K. Christians who suffered from discrimination because of their faith. Analysts who spoke with WND had mixed feelings about the verdict, parts of which will be appealed to the ECHR […]
Tallahassee, Florida — A Satanic organization has organized a rally in support of a religious freedom bill signed last year by Florida Governor Rick Scott. The Satanic Temple recently issued a news release about the scheduled event, which will be held on January 25th. “Satanists from all over Florida are scheduled to gather on the […]
Phillipsburg, New Jersey — A school board in New Jersey has voted to fire a substitute teacher that gave a middle school student his Bible during lunch. As previously reported, Walter Tutka, a longtime substitute teacher for the Phillipsburg School District, was placed under possible disciplinary action late last year after it was discovered that […]
Jon Hammar says he read nearly the whole Bible — all of the Old Testament and most of the New Testament — during more than four months in a Mexican prison on a dubious weapons charge before he was freed late last month. Hammar, a 27-year-old Marine combat veteran from Florida, withstood threats, attempts at […]
Brussels, Belgium — Twin brothers who were born deaf have been put to death in a hospital in Belgium after the two realized that they were going blind and did not want to face the reality of never seeing each other again. The 45-year-old men, whose identities have not been revealed, were stated to have […]
Montgomery, Alabama — After being sworn in again Friday as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, known as the “Ten Commandments Judge,” gave a speech to a packed room about the origin of law and justice. “We’ve got to remember that most of what we do in court comes from some Scripture […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California-based Hindu effort called the Pancajanya Project, which is “dedicated to increasing awareness of the glories to Lord Krishna and His teachings,” is working to place one million copies of the Bhagavad Gita in hotels and motels across the nation. Project coordinators state that the idea came after seeing how the […]
