NEW YORK – A federal appeals court last week pressured an atheist group to better explain why what has become known as the ‘Ground Zero Cross’ should be kept out of the National September 11 Memorial Museum and why the artifact, which was removed from the rubble of the 2001 attack on the World Trade […]
OWASSO, Okla. — An acclaimed high school baseball coach is under fire from a prominent atheist activist organization for allegedly leading his team in prayers before games. Larry Turner, 56, was named the best high school baseball coach in the United States last year as he was dubbed the 2013 National Baseball Coach of the […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The wife of Alabama’s chief justice, who became known as the ‘Ten Commandments judge,’ is defending an Alabama police chief from atheist attacks and is demanding that efforts from the church-state separation group cease and desist. As previously reported, the Madison, Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) recently sent a letter to Birmingham Police […]
HARLEM, Ga. — A police chief in Georgia has discontinued writing about Christianity on the department’s Facebook page following pressure from atheists. Chief Gary Jones with the Harlem Public Safety Department had been posting alerts and encouragement on the department’s page, from updates about criminal matters to admonishments about parenting. However, when the Wisconsin-based Freedom […]
SAN DIEGO — A group of atheists in San Diego, California has taken to the streets to speak to the public about their denial of the deity. According to local news outlet KPBS, the San Diego Coalition of Reason has been setting up a booth every other weekend in Balboa Park, a location that features […]
WASHINGTON — A nationally-recognized Christian legal organization has submitted an amicus brief on behalf of over 230,000 Americans who have expressed support of a steel beam cross that is under fire from a prominent atheist group. As previously reported, the group American Atheists stated that the cross, which was found in the rubble following the […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A prominent atheist organization states that it plans to sue an Alabama city that was recently in headlines surrounding the launch of a new program that unites area pastors and police in reaching the hurting in the community. As previously reported, this past summer, the Montgomery Police Department launched Operation Good Shepherd […]
NEW YORK CITY — A prominent atheist activist group has purchased billboard space in Times Square to counter an advertisement from a nationally-recognized Biblical Creation organization. As previously reported, Ken Ham’s Answers in Genesis launched a billboard campaign last week in prominent locations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, including in the heavily-trafficked Times […]
PETERSBURG, Ky. — A nationally-recognized Biblical Creation and apologist organization has launched a national billboard campaign in an effort to reach atheists for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Ken Ham’s Answers in Genesis launched the campaign this week in prominent locations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, including in the heavily-trafficked Times Square. […]
ROME — Controversy is again stirring over recent comments made by Pope Francis, this time surrounding a letter penned to the Italian publication La Repubblica in response to a question regarding whether God forgives atheists and those who do not wish to seek Him. The founder of La Repubblica, Eugenio Scalfari, an atheist, had written […]