DARMSTADT, Germany –– German officials raided the home of a homeschooling family this week and seized all four children, declaring that the parents would not see them ‘anytime soon.’ The Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) reports that the incident took place on Thursday morning, as approximately 20 social workers, police officers and special agents swarmed […]
WASHINGTON — United States Secretary of State John Kerry issued a statement this week calling upon the Iranian government to release an imprisoned American pastor, as well as two other American citizens who are believed to be unlawfully held in the country. As previously reported, Saeed Abedini, who fled Iran in 2005 and moved to […]
CONNELLSVILLE, Penn. — A Pennsylvania pastor is responding to a lawsuit filed by a prominent atheist activist group surrounding the presence of a Ten Commandments monument at a local junior high school by installing numerous other monuments throughout the community and surrounding area. As previously reported, Thou Shall Not Move, led by Pastor Ewing Marietta of […]
SAN FRANCISCO — The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously upheld California’s ban on providing therapy or counseling to youth struggling with homosexuality. As previously reported, last year as the ban was being contemplated in the legislature, Governor Jerry Brown remarked that he hoped reparative therapy would be forever heaved into “the dustbin of […]
ALLENTOWN — A Pennsylvania woman is facing criminal homicide charges after her newborn son was found dumped in the toilet tank in the women’s restroom at a local bar. Reports state that 26-year-old Amanda Hein hid her pregnancy from virtually everyone–including her grandmother, whom she lived with–and concealed the fact that she was in labor […]
TRENTON — The New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles has approved a vanity license plate that was initially rejected by the Commission over its reference to atheism. David Silverman, the president of American Atheists headquartered in Cranford, recently applied for a vanity plate bearing the moniker “ATHE1ST” (with the number 1 instead of the letter […]
BILLINGS — A public protest is scheduled outside of a county courthouse in Montana today after a Yellowstone County judge issued a 30-day jail term, plus 15 years supervised probation, to a teacher who raped a teen that later committed suicide while proceedings were underway. District Judge G. Todd Baugh has come under heavy criticism […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of State has announced that it will be sending a special envoy to North Korea this weekend in an attempt to secure the release of an American missionary that has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in the country. The government announced the visit on Tuesday, outlining that […]
SIOUX FALLS — A businessman in South Dakota is using Scripture to counter atheist billboards that have been erected in the city of Sioux Falls. The South Dakota Coalition of Reason had purchased billboard space in seven locations throughout the state, including in Rapid City, Brookings and Sioux Falls. The simple billboards read, “Don’t believe […]
SEATTLE — Washington Attorney General Robert Ferguson and Deputy Solicitor Alan Copsey recently released an opinion outlining that state law requires publicly-funded hospitals to provide abortion services if they also offer maternity care. “I fully expect all public hospital districts to comply with this opinion,” Ferguson stated at a recent news conference. The opinion was […]