(The Christian Institute) — A young mother who rejected pressure to abort three times says her little girl is now doing “amazingly well.” Jamie Curtis found out her daughter had a large hole in her heart at 25-weeks pregnant – a discovery she described as “so devastating.” But she wanted to give her unborn baby […]
SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS, Pa. — A Pennsylvania couple has filed a legal challenge after being prohibited from hosting Bible studies, worship gatherings and other Christian retreats and fundraisers on their property without a permit under the threat of fines of $500 per day. According to a lawsuit filed by the Independence Law Center, Scott and Theresa Fetterolf […]
WASHINGTON — Attorneys for the owner of a funeral home in Michigan have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to accept an appeal of a ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals asserting that it was “illegal” under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act for the funeral home to fire a man who wanted […]
(NPR) — Dr. Elliot Tapper has treated a lot of patients, but this one stood out. “His whole body was yellow,” Tapper remembers. “He could hardly move. It was difficult for him to breathe, and he wasn’t eating anything.” The patient was suffering from chronic liver disease. After years of alcohol use, his liver had […]
Mexico (Mission Network News) — Sometimes, sharing the Gospel is as easy as making an announcement. Take a distributor in Mexico working with World Missionary Press. The distributor has been operating in Mexico for several years now. “He started out just going across the border from the US just going back and forth and back […]
A video of a German speaker calling for compassion and understanding toward celibate pedophiles in arguing that “no one chooses to be a pedophile” but that “anyone could be born” that way and “no one can cease being one” has sparked outrage worldwide. Mirjam Heine delivered a lecture at an independently organized TEDx Talk at […]
LONDON — A U.K. magistrate who was removed from office for telling the media that he believes it is best for adoptive children to be placed with a mother and father, and later also prohibited from returning to his position on the board of the National Health Service (NHS) Trust, has been granted an appeal of […]
WASHINGTON — A federal judge appointed to the bench by President Donald Trump has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood challenging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for altering its Title X funding criteria to prefer groups that promote abstinence and work with faith-based entities. The judge said that the lawsuit was premature […]
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Republican governor of Maine has vetoed a bill that would have banned what is often referred to as “conversion therapy” for minors who struggle with homosexual temptation, stating that the legislation was “overly broad,” “bad policy” and could be “interpreted as a threat to an individual’s religious beliefs.” Gov. Paul LePage […]
(Evangelical Focus) — According to the latest statistics, between 16% and 18% of Chile’s population is evangelical, or about 3 million people. So far, there has occasionally been evangelical representation in the country’s politics. Only in recent years a common evangelical project has been created, which has led to the formation of a group of […]