(Hurriyet Daily News) — In Laodicea, which was a metropolitan city in ancient times and was home to one of the seven churches mentioned in the Bible, a church was unearthed inside a house, located adjacent to the northern theater. Speaking to the state-run Anadolu Agency, Professor Celal Şimşek said that works have been continuing […]
INDIANAPOLIS (Chicago Sun Times) — Indiana’s attorney general recommended no criminal charges or licensing actions Wednesday after concluding an investigation into more than 2,000 sets of fetal remains found last year at the suburban Chicago garage of a late prolific abortion doctor whom authorities believed acted alone. Attorney General Curtis Hill said his office’s investigation […]
China (International Christian Concern) – On Dec. 31, a Christian street evangelist in China’s Hunan province was again sentenced by the authorities to ten days in administrative detention for “disturbing public order.” Last August, Chen Wensheng, who is a member of the Xiaoqun Church in Hengyang, underwent the same punishment for “illegal evangelism.” Despite his […]
China (International Christian Concern) – The preacher of a house church in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, who was just detained last November, was detained again along with five other members, after their Bible study at the preacher’s home on Dec. 30. More than dozens of local authorities raided the home of An Yankui, the preacher of […]
SAN FRANCISCO — In addition to the $2 million in damages awarded to Planned Parenthood by a jury last year, a federal judge has ruled that the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), led by David Daleiden, must pay more than $13 million in attorneys fees to the abortion and contraception giant. Planned Parenthood had originally […]
LANCASTER, Calif. — A California man has been charged with murder after beating his hospital roommate to death last month in becoming upset that the elderly Roman Catholic man was praying. According to reports, Jesse Martinez, 37, was admitted to Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster after contracting the novel coronavirus and shared a room in […]
HAMILTON, Ala. (ABC 33/40 News) — Pastor Mike Stancil preached the gospel at Fulton Bridge Baptist Church for nine years. This week, his congregation is grieving. “It’s still hard to believe. I still believe Brother Mike should be back here Sunday to get into the pulpit. Hard to get a grasp of it, although this […]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Mexico’s president said on Thursday that women should decide whether the country should legalize abortion, but he declined to take a position on the issue, which is still opposed by many Mexicans. One day after the Argentine Senate voted to make abortion legal, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was asked during […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) — After a record-breaking year of homicides, Louisville church leaders called on city officials and the community to commit to change in 2021. Pastor David Snardon, of Joshua Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church, has spent much of 2020 ministering to crime victims and planning their family members’ funerals. “A number of members or […]
WASHINGTON — “We are a proud abortion provider,” Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson told the Washington Post in explaining that she doesn’t like when people say that abortion is only a small part of their services. She opined that doing so “stigmatizes” and lessens the abortion aspect of Planned Parenthood as being “not a big […]