BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Officials at a shopping mall in California have agreed to allow a grandmother to offer gospel tracts to shoppers after initially prohibiting her from “soliciting” without first obtaining a costly permit. Attorneys with the Sacramento-based Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) had filed suit against the Valley Plaza Mall in Bakersfield in May after […]
(The Christian Institute) — Proposals to radically alter divorce law will create a “conveyor belt” that will be extremely difficult for couples to get off, the Coalition for Marriage has warned. The pro-marriage group spoke out as the UK government’s Divorce, Dissolution and Separation bill began its parliamentary stages on Tuesday. The Ministry of Justice […]
MISHAWAKA, Ind. — A teenager in Indiana was sentenced to 65 years in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to killing his pregnant girlfriend because she waited past the legal abortion limit to tell him that she was with child. “You took her life in one of the most savage and violent manners I have […]
HUDSON, Fla. – Deputies in Pasco County arrested a man who admitted to intentionally running over a pedestrian because he was “looking for someone to run over so he could see what it’s like to kill.” Investigators said 21-year-old Justyn Pennell of Hudson called 911 on Thursday afternoon just before 3 p.m., telling dispatchers he had just […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — The Arkansas Baptist State Convention is being sued on accusations that it ignored warnings that a pastor was allegedly sexually abusing underage boys. A lawsuit filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court claims that Teddy Hill, former senior pastor at Millcreek Baptist Church in Hot Springs, repeatedly raped a teen boy […]
SPOKANE, Wash. — Prosecutors in Washington State have decided to appeal to the Superior Court of Spokane after a lower court judge dismissed charges against a pastor who was arrested in June for refusing to move across the street from the South Hill Public Library in exercising his free speech against a “Drag Queen Story […]
(The Christian Institute) — Heterosexual civil partnerships can now take place in the United Kingdom, and the first ceremonies took place last week. The law was changed after the Supreme Court ruled in June 2018 that civil partnerships should not only be available to same-sex couples. The government agreed to change the law, and it […]
WASHINGTON — The abortion and contraception giant Planned Parenthood has released its annual report, which shows that the organization performed a record number of abortions during the 2018-2019 fiscal year, as 345,672 babies were murdered in their mother’s womb, up 12,915 from the year prior and up 24,288 from two years ago. Government funding was also […]
TRENTON, N.J. — The Democratic governor of New Jersey has signed a bill into law that grants $9.5 million to family planning groups in the state, including the abortion and contraception giant Planned Parenthood, after the organization declined to comply with new Health and Human Services (HHS) rules and consequently lost federal Title X funding. […]
LEAWOOD, Kan. — Citing that the United Methodist Church (UMC) is at an “impasse” on the issue of homosexuality, a proposal has been put forward to mutually agree for “traditionalist” United Methodists to leave and form their own denomination, so that those remaining can remove the biblical prohibition on homosexuality as encompassed in the Book of […]