(Reuters) — PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL.O) on Tuesday canceled plans to open a global operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina and invest $3.6 million in the area after the state passed a controversial law targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) citizens. The digital payment company’s protest is the first by a major business after […]
HOUSTON, Texas — The longtime senior worship leader for megachurch self-help author and motivational speaker Joel Osteen says that he was not fired after announcing his divorce last month and being photographed this month kissing a woman not his wife. Lakewood has classified the arrangement as “indefinite leave.” As previously reported, on February 22, Houghton, a five-time […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The governor of Alabama and a female staffer are no longer members of the First Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa following the release of audio footage in which the governor engaged in sexually-charged talk with the woman that suggested they had been physical with each other. While it is unknown exactly when the church […]
HOUSTON, Texas — The longtime senior worship leader for megachurch self-help author and motivational speaker Joel Osteen is raising concerns after he was recently photographed in Mexico with a woman not his wife just weeks after announcing his divorce. On February 22, Houghton, a five-time Grammy Award Gospel singer known for his songs “Friend of God,” […]
PYONGYANG — Officials in North Korea have sentenced a Virginia student to 15 years hard labor for stealing a political poster from a hotel—an act that the student claims he was urged to do as a “church trophy” in exchange for a car. Otto Warmbier, 21, a University of Virginia undergraduate, was charged with subversion and sentenced […]
TULSA, Okla. — The leader of a pro-life identifying organization in Oklahoma says that he will not support an effort to abolish abortion in the state as he believes that the timing for such a move is not right—that America must first wait for the proper appointments and climate in the U.S. Supreme Court. As previously reported, Sen. […]
Leslie Ludy, author of books such as “Set-Apart Femininity” and “The Lost Art of True Beauty,” recently released a new book in her set apart series entitled “The Set-Apart Woman,” in which she encourages women to live each day “fully consecrated to Jesus Christ.” Christian News Network recently asked Ludy, a busy mother of six, pastor’s wife and leader […]
WHEATON, Ill. — Officials at Wheaton College, who have been in headlines in recent months surrounding controversy over a professor who claimed that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, are now denying that they sought the resignation of a former lesbian employee who says she was forced out over her views that it is “good” […]
ROME — Roman Catholic leader Jorge Bergoglio, also known as Pope Francis, recently nominated over 1,000 priests to be “super confessors” and forgive sins that only top level officials would normally claim authority to forgive. As the Vatican has declared 2016 as being the “Jubilee Year of Mercy,” the pontiff selected 1,142 priests that he dubbed “missionaries of […]
Hundreds of congregations are honoring Charles Darwin’s birthday today by observing “Evolution Weekend,” but a number of other churches instead are celebrating “Creation Sunday” and “Stop Darwin Day” to honor and acknowledge God as the author of life and all creation. As previously reported, numerous assemblies celebrate Darwin’s February 12th birthday with “Evolution Weekend” or […]