Florida Teen Charged With Murder After Strangling Mother to Death, Burying Her Under Church Fire Pit

Florida Teen Charged With Murder After Strangling Mother to Death, Burying Her Under Church Fire Pit

ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida teen has been charged with murder after strangling his mother to death following an argument over a bad grade and then burying her under a fire pit at a local church. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office announced on Saturday that Gregory Ramos, 15, provided a full confession to authorities. “Gregory […]

Alaska Women’s Shelter Placed Under Investigation Following Complaint From Man Who Identifies as Woman

Alaska Women’s Shelter Placed Under Investigation Following Complaint From Man Who Identifies as Woman

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Christian women’s shelter in Alaska has filed suit as the Anchorage Equal Rights Commission has not dismissed its investigation into the facility after a man who identifies as a woman filed a complaint because he was not accepted for admittance to the shelter. According to the lawsuit, the Hope Center is […]

US Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Appeal of Ruling Declaring Bladensburg Cross Veterans Memorial Unconstitutional

US Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Appeal of Ruling Declaring Bladensburg Cross Veterans Memorial Unconstitutional

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case surrounding a World War I veterans memorial that had been challenged by the American Humanist Association as being unconstitutional. The nation’s highest court announced on Friday that it had accepted an appeal in the case of The American Legion et al. v. American Humanist […]

Skeletons, Skulls and Altars: ‘Day of the Dead’ Festivals Held Nationwide to Remember Deceased, Welcome Spirits ‘Back for a Visit’

Skeletons, Skulls and Altars: ‘Day of the Dead’ Festivals Held Nationwide to Remember Deceased, Welcome Spirits ‘Back for a Visit’

Festivals and other celebrations for “El Dia De Los Muertos”—or “The Day of the Dead”—are currently underway in cities nationwide and around the world. The annual Latin American-Roman Catholic observance is meant to honor the lives of deceased loved ones, but with the belief that the spirits of the departed temporarily find their way back […]

Illinois Attorney General Sues Bed & Breakfast Owner for Not Paying Damages to Men Denied Same-Sex Ceremony on Property

Illinois Attorney General Sues Bed & Breakfast Owner for Not Paying Damages to Men Denied Same-Sex Ceremony on Property

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The attorney general of Illinois has filed a lawsuit against a Christian bed and breakfast owner for not paying $30,000 in damages to two men who filed a discrimination complaint against him after he declined to allow them to use his property to hold a ceremony celebrating their civil union. Attorney General […]

American Missionary to Cameroon Killed Just Weeks After Arriving in Country, Leaving Behind Wife, 8 Children

American Missionary to Cameroon Killed Just Weeks After Arriving in Country, Leaving Behind Wife, 8 Children

MISHAWAKA, Ind. — An American man who had just moved his wife and eight children to Cameroon to serve as a missionary in the country was shot and killed on Tuesday while driving into town to go shopping. According to reports, Charles Wesco and his wife Stephanie, moved to the African nation two weeks ago […]

‘Churches’ Celebrate Halloween With Zombies, Dancing Skeletons, ‘Haunted Hayrides’ and ‘Spooktaculars’

‘Churches’ Celebrate Halloween With Zombies, Dancing Skeletons, ‘Haunted Hayrides’ and ‘Spooktaculars’

Conservative, Christian-identifying churches nationwide are hosting Halloween-themed events throughout the month of October, some featuring or including Halloween-centered sermons and performances, haunted hayrides, and/or costume contests with children and adults alike dressing up up as skeletons, ghosts, witches and other images of death or evil. Chet Gallagher, a missions pastor who formerly served as a […]

David Platt Prays for Persecuted Church in Demilitarized Zone Between North, South Korea

David Platt Prays for Persecuted Church in Demilitarized Zone Between North, South Korea

David Platt, teaching pastor at McLean Bible Church in Virginia, and former president of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board (IMB), recently prayed for the persecuted Church while standing in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. Platt, best known for his book “Radical,” was standing near the remains of what used to be a […]

Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Identified, Yelled ‘All Jews Must Die’ as He Opened Fire, Killing 11

Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Identified, Yelled ‘All Jews Must Die’ as He Opened Fire, Killing 11

 PITTSBURGH (New York Times) — Armed with an AR-15 assault rifle and at least three handguns, a man shouting anti-Semitic slurs opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday morning, killing at least 11 people and wounding six others, officials said. President Trump described the shooting as a “wicked act of mass murder” that was […]