Rome, Italy — White smoke arose from the Sistine Chapel this evening in Rome, signaling to those watching that a new pope had been selected to lead the Roman Catholic religion. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, was announced as being the successor of Pope Benedict XVI, a Jesuit Argentinian who was elevated to the role of […]
London, England — An elementary school teacher in London is facing disciplinary action after she refused to read a book to her class about gay penguins. The teacher, who is only going by “Mrs. A” in the media in order to protect her identity and her job, had begun to read And Tango Makes Three […]
Washington, D.C. — A Congressional hearing that is set for this week will include testimony on an American pastor that is serving a sentence of eight years in a notoriously brutal Iranian prison. According to the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress has scheduled […]
Islamic clerics are expressing outrage following comments made by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that deceased Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez will come back to earth at the return of Jesus Christ. Chavez, a Roman Catholic, passed away on Tuesday following a two-year battle with cancer. “Give me Your crown, Jesus. Give me Your cross, Your thorns […]
Lahore, Pakistan — Hundreds of Muslims took to the streets in a Christian neighborhood in Pakistan today to ransack and torch dozens of homes after it was reported that a man from the area had spoken against Islam’s prophet, Mohammad. According to reports, the incident began on Friday, when a young Muslim man accused a […]
The U.S. Justice Department is fighting in court against a German family that came to America to homeschool their children. Uwe and Hannelore Romeike fled to the United States in 2008 after German authorities demanded that they stop homeschooling their six children. Homeschooling was made illegal in the country in 1938 under the dictatorship of […]
A toilet paper company in Finland recently decided to discontinue a line of its printed rolls following complaints from Christians over the business’s placement of Scripture on toilet tissue. Metsa Tissue says that it never intended on offending anyone when it posted Bible verses from Matthew and First Corinthians on its potty paper, but that […]
Geneva, Switzerland — An atheist organization is petitioning the United Nations to reject proposals from Muslim nations to enact international blasphemy laws. The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), which represents atheists in 45 countries around the world, recently sent a letter to the UN headquarters in an effort to draw attention to what they […]
Ottawa, Ontario — The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Biblical speech opposing homosexual behavior, including in written form, is essentially a hate crime. On Wednesday, the court upheld the conviction of activist William Whatcott, who found himself in hot water after distributing flyers regarding the Bible’s prohibitions against homosexuality throughout the Saskatoon and […]
In an effort to protect children from being exposed to inappropriate images, the government of Iceland is preparing to pass a law banning some forms of pornography in the nation. Interior Minister Ogmundur Jonasson, who introduced the bill, says that the legislation is necessary in order to shield children from violent sexual images. “When a […]