The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the United States Justice Department to respond to a rehearing request filed by attorneys for a Christian homeschooling family that is seeking asylum in the states. As previously reported, the Sixth Circuit ruled against Uwe and Hannelore Romeike last month, opining that the requirement that their children […]
GRAND PRAIRIE – The discovery by Canadian researchers of well-preserved dinosaur remains has proven to be a direct challenge to longstanding evolutionary assumptions. In June of last year, a group of scientists with Canadian Light Source (CLS)—a research team dedicated primarily to studying the composition of matter via synchrotron science—unearthed a fascinating dinosaur fossil in […]
(CNN) – Pope Francis said a ‘gay lobby’ exists inside the Vatican, a surprising disclosure from a pope who has already delivered his share of stunners, and a resurrection of church conflicts that had bedeviled his predecessor’s papacy. “In the Curia,” Francis said, referring to Catholicism’s central bureaucracy, “there are holy people. But there is […]
Sex workers and their supporters marched and rallied in several Canadian cities Saturday to call for the decriminalization of prostitution, days before a Supreme Court hearing on whether laws restricting the sale of sex should be tossed out. Dozens of demonstrators brandished red umbrellas — a symbol for sex workers’ rights — and chanted “Sex […]
The Belgian Federal Parliament is reportedly about to expand its controversial “right to die” policies to include access to euthanasia for some gravely ill children. A consensus among members of the legislative body has reportedly formed in support of legislation to allow children to choose to undergo euthanasia in certain dire cases, according to a […]
AMMAN — A Syrian watch group is reporting that a 15-year-old boy was executed in front of his parents on Sunday after arguing with another individual about the Islamic religion. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in Britain states that an Islamic group linked to al Qaeda shot Mohammad Qataa in the face and neck […]
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – Several Afghan children appeared via video in court Wednesday, recounting the night that an American soldier conducted a raid on their village and shot a number of their friends and family dead. Young boys told the court that when Staff Sergeant Robert Bales entered their village last year with the […]
The Salvadoran high court rejected the over-hyped claims of abortion advocates in favor of common-sense protections for mother and child on Wednesday. The ruling upholds El Salvador’s constitutional protection of the right to life beginning at fertilization. Over the past few months, international abortion activists have exploited the case of a 22-year-old Salvadoran woman known […]
GENEVA — The wife of an American pastor imprisoned in Iran for planting house churches in the country over a decade ago is scheduled to speak before the Human Rights Council of the United Nations on Monday. Naghmeh Abedini and the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) have been meeting with various countries and […]
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress are urging the U.S. Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder to grant asylum to a Christian family who came to America to homeschool their children. Representative Marlin Stutzman of Indiana is leading an effort with 26 other U.S. Congressmen to request that Holder use his authority to stop efforts […]