UK Birth Coach ‘Ostracized,’ Labeled ‘Transphobic’ for Stating Only Women Give Birth

UK Birth Coach ‘Ostracized,’ Labeled ‘Transphobic’ for Stating Only Women Give Birth

(The Christian Institute) — A woman says she felt forced to resign from Doula UK after being labeled “transphobic” for saying only women can give birth. Lynsey McCarthy-Calvert was working for the charity — which provides women with “birth coaches” to assist them during pregnancy and childbirth — when she criticized Cancer Research UK for […]

Finnish Politician, Pastor’s Wife Accused of ‘Incitement of Hatred’ Over Booklet ‘Male and Female He Created Them’

Finnish Politician, Pastor’s Wife Accused of ‘Incitement of Hatred’ Over Booklet ‘Male and Female He Created Them’

HELSINKI — A lawmaker and pastor’s wife in Finland who was already being probed by police over a social media post in which she questioned the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland’s partnership with a Helsinki Pride event is now also facing a preliminary “incitement” investigation over a booklet that she wrote 15 years ago entitled “Male […]

Appeals Court to Hear Legal Challenge of Christian Adoption Agency Forced to Change Placement Policy or Close

Appeals Court to Hear Legal Challenge of Christian Adoption Agency Forced to Change Placement Policy or Close

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Second Circuit Court of Appeals will soon hear the case of a New York foster and adoption agency that is facing an ultimatum from the State to either allow placement in homes where there is not both a mother and a father or discontinue its child placement services altogether. The court […]

HHS Proposes Rule to Protect Convictions of Govt. Funded Faith-Based Foster, Adoption Agencies

HHS Proposes Rule to Protect Convictions of Govt. Funded Faith-Based Foster, Adoption Agencies

WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed a rule that would provide protections for faith-based foster and adoption agencies that otherwise might lose federal grant funds for operating in accordance with their religious convictions — namely in declining to place children in households where there is not both a mother […]

Charges Against Disabled Man Arrested for Praying Outside UK Abortion Facility Dropped

Charges Against Disabled Man Arrested for Praying Outside UK Abortion Facility Dropped

 LONDON (Christian Concern) — A Christian man who was arrested and prosecuted for peacefully praying outside a London abortion clinic has seen the charges against dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service, thanks to support from the Christian Legal Centre. The arrest and case raise the question of whether praying in a public space now […]

Research: Britons No Longer See Euthanasia, Pornography, Drugs as ‘Immoral’

Research: Britons No Longer See Euthanasia, Pornography, Drugs as ‘Immoral’

(Evangelical Focus) — Abortion, pornography, drugs, homosexual relationships — these are some of the issues which most British people no longer consider to be “immoral.” Kings’ College in London compared figures of 1989 with opinion polls conducted this year on a range of moral issues. In the last 30 years later, there has been a […]

Beto O’Rourke, Who Said He Would Revoke Tax Exempt Status of Churches, Drops Out of Presidential Race

Beto O’Rourke, Who Said He Would Revoke Tax Exempt Status of Churches, Drops Out of Presidential Race

Beto O’Rourke who said he would make it a “priority” of his administration, if elected, to revoke the tax exempt status of Christian churches and organizations that oppose “same-sex marriage” or deny “full human rights” and “full civil rights” to those who identify as LGBTQ+ has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race. O’Rourke, a […]

Kentucky Supreme Court Dismisses Suit Against Screen Printer Who Declined Order for ‘Gay Pride’ T-Shirts

Kentucky Supreme Court Dismisses Suit Against Screen Printer Who Declined Order for ‘Gay Pride’ T-Shirts

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit against an expressly Christian screen printing business accused of discrimination for declining to print shirts for a “gay pride” parade. While the court did not rule on the merits of the issue, it rather found that the suing organization lacked standing in the case […]

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