Apologist Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis commented this week on women’s speaker and author Jen Hatmaker’s recent podcast “in honor of Pride Month” in which she revealed that her daughter is lesbian, stating that she is “glad” her daughter is homosexual and that it is one of her “greatest regrets and sorrows” that she […]
WASHINGTON (Kaiser Health News) — The Supreme Court Wednesday settled — at least for now — a decade’s worth of litigation over the women’s health provisions of the Affordable Care Act, ruling 7-2 that employers with a “religious or moral objection” to providing contraceptive coverage to their employees may opt out without penalty. The Trump administration […]
Russia (Mission Network News) — “I’m already a Christian.” This is the response Christians in partnership with Slavic Gospel Association often hear when they share the Gospel with families in the former Soviet Union. Eric Mock says many Russians consider themselves to be Christians, especially as part of the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest denomination in […]
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — The city council of Somerville, Massachusetts has unanimously passed an ordinance recognizing “polyamorous” domestic partnerships as they could not find a “good reason” to limit romantic relationships to two people. “It validates their existence. It validates the way they love,” council member Lance Davis told NBC Boston. Polyamory is defined as “the practice […]
CHICAGO — It was a bloody Fourth of July weekend in Chicago as dozens were shot and 15 were killed by ongoing gun violence. Two of those fatalities were minors. “You gotta stop this killing. … These are innocent kids. She was only seven years old. She always said, ‘I love you,’” Shelley Fulton told […]
(The Christian Institute) — More than 6,600 abortions were carried out in the Republic of Ireland last year, following the vote to repeal its pro-life laws in 2018. Abortion is now available on demand up to twelve weeks, once a three-day reflection period has passed. Prior to the law change, abortion was only permissible if […]
(Evangelical Focus) — The annual statistics of the Evangelical Church of Germany (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, EKD, the mainline Protestant church) show that 221,338 members announced their departure in 2018, 12.2% more than in the previous year. The EKD had already mentioned the provisional number of around 220,000 withdrawals, and it now confirms that the […]
NEW YORK — Controversy is stirring over a humanistic comment CNN anchor Chris Cuomo recently made at the end of his “Cuomo Prime Time” broadcast, as he told viewers that “you don’t need help from above” in making the U.S. a better place as the ability to “do the right thing” lies “within us.” Cuomo […]
(Christian Solidarity Worldwide) — The Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) has reported that Boko Haram terrorists carried out over “fifty different attacks on different communities between the end of 2019 to June 2020,” most of which were “unreported or under reported by both the print and electronic media.” In […]
HAVANA — A pastor in Cuba who has spent a year incarcerated and in labor camps for homeschooling his children has been released on probation, a U.S.-based homeschooling organization reports. “[T]hank you and all of you who have been praying for us and who supported us. Your prayers were answered, because I am with my […]