DES MOINES, Iowa — A number of Christians countered a pagan prayer delivered on Thursday before the Iowa state legislature by a local Wiccan priestess. “We call this morning to God, goddess, universe—that which is greater than ourselves to be here today,” Deborah Maynard, 43, a Unitarian Universalist and the leader of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, opened […]
LONDON — A mother in the UK is expressing thankfulness that she refused to listen to doctors who advised her to obtain an abortion two years ago after asserting that her then unborn daughter was “incompatible with life.” Michelle Macaulay and her husband learned in late 2012 that they were pregnant with their second child. […]
WASHINGTON — A Christian legal organization has filed a federal lawsuit against the IRS for failing to release documents surrounding a purported settlement it reached with a prominent atheist organization surrounding the enforcement of tax rules for churches. As previously reported, the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, sued the IRS in […]
NETANYA, Israel — A new website has been launched that shares the video testimonials of Jews in professional business who have all received Jesus as the Messiah. Launched by Eitan Bar, a Messianic Jew himself, IMetMessiah.com is an evangelistic effort to speak to Jews curious about Jesus. “As Jewish people, most of us grow up without […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Residents in Springfield, Missouri have voted to repeal a law that provided special protections to those who identify as homosexuals and transgenders as local pastors have spoken out on their concerns about the issue. The Springfield City Council had added the protections to the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance last fall, which allow for […]
MADISON, Wisc. — A Wisconsin man has been arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support for the barbaric Islamic group ISIS, joining nearly 20 other Americans who have been taken into custody on similar charges over the past year. Joshua Van Haften, 34, was arrested Wednesday night by the Federal Bureau of Investigations […]
LONDON — An employment tribunal in the United Kingdom has ruled against an occupational therapist who was suspended for nine months after her Muslim co-worker alleged that she was trying to convert her. Victoria Wasteney, 38, had developed a friendship with her colleague Enya Nawaz, 27, as they worked at the St. John Howard Center in London. […]
TOPEKA, Kansas — The governor of Kansas has signed a bill into law that bans dilation and evacuation abortions, which involve dismembering babies during their removal from the womb, becoming the first state in the nation to prohibit the practice. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, a Roman Catholic, signed SB 95 into law on Tuesday, banning what is termed […]
WACO, Texas — A controversial new documentary that takes “a hard and honest look at the way we do healthcare in America” and aims to present a biblically-based approach to healthcare has been released online for public viewing. Colin Gunn from Gunn Brothers Productions, maker of the “IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity […]
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — In a recent article for Salon, a Rutgers University professor who claims to be a Christian trashed other Christians as she claimed that Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) was meant to give license to “terrorize” blacks and homosexuals, and to stop women from having sex outside of marriage. “The right’s made-up God: How […]