SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A prominent Christian legal organization has sent rebuttal letters to two public universities that recently decided to remove all Gideon Bibles from their hotel rooms in response to complaints from an atheist activist organization. As previously reported, the University of Wisconsin and Iowa State University were contacted by the Freedom From Religion […]
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Police did not have to look long for a suspect wanted in a stabbing case earlier this week when a woman walked directly up to a news camera and confessed to stabbing her mother, claiming that her mother was a powerful leader in a Satanic cult and had to be stopped. Katie Nichols told WVLT-TV that she […]
An Australian Christian missionary was arrested this past Sunday by North Korean authorities for distributing Gospel literature. John Short, 75, who has lived in Hong Kong for 50 years, was arrested in his Pyongyang hotel, a day after arriving in the North Korean capital. “[John] was carrying Korean literature on his person and that could be the reason, but I don’t […]
NASHVILLE — A Christian pharmacist in Tennessee has sued the national drugstore chain Walgreens for allegedly firing him after he refused to sell the morning after pill against his religious convictions. Philip Hall of Jamestown, who also serves as a deacon at a Baptist church, has worked at his local Walgreens since 1997. For a […]
WASHINGTON — Christians are the most persecuted group in the world, but most in the West don’t identify with the persecuted Church, a Congressional hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee contended this week. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) opened the hearing by outlining various reports of Christian persecution in Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Nigeria. He […]
LAKE ZURICH, Ill. — A Christian couple in Illinois is sharing the story of their newborn terminally ill son, their determination to allow him a chance at life, and the life-changing way that he graced the world for ten days. At approximately 20 weeks into her pregnancy, Robbyn Blick and her husband Josh, a youth […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Christian legal organization has filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking that it reinstate an injunction against a California law that bars licensed therapists from helping homosexual youth to overcome temptation. As previously reported, in 2012, as the ban was being contemplated in the legislature, Governor Jerry Brown remarked […]
STOCKTON, Calif. — A Christian legal organization is poised to file a lawsuit against a California hospital after officials continue to ban the use of the phrase ‘God bless America’ in email signatures. As previously reported, Dameron Hospital employee Boots Hawks was called into his supervisor’s office last November and asked to remove the phrase from […]
LONDON – Christian leaders are defending the historicity of the biblical Great Flood account after an ancient Middle Eastern tablet that contradicts the Genesis narrative was exhibited at the British Museum. Late last month, the British Museum put on display a cell-phone-sized clay tablet which experts say is nearly 4,000 years old. Though the relic […]
NEW YORK — Scores of Christians from across the country have touched down in New York City to share the word of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ with the thousands that have arrived to attend Super Bowl XLVIII as the Seattle Seahawks take on the Denver Broncos. Bill Adams of Sports Fan Outreach […]