BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UK — Humanist Lindsay van Dijk has been selected to lead Buckinghamshire’s team of hospital chaplains, a move that has left Christian groups baffled. “It’s a further move away from the Christian principles upon which the NHS was founded,” Tim Dieppe of Christian Concern told Premiere News Hour this week. “The whole reason we have chaplains […]
WASHINGTON (Fox News) — During his secretary of state confirmation hearing, CIA Director Mike Pompeo refused to say whether he thinks same-sex relationships are a “perversion” when pressed multiple times and said he stood by his earlier views against gay marriage. Referencing a past speech Pompeo gave, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., asked the former Kansas […]
(Sci News) — The 1.5-cm (0.6 inch) bronze coins are well preserved, probably because they were in use for a short time. “The coins were left behind by Jewish residents who hid in a large cave for four years (66-70 BC) — from the Roman siege of Jerusalem, up until the destruction of the Second […]
LIVERPOOL — Another couple in the UK is fighting for their son’s life after a judge ruled on Wednesday in favor of the hospital’s wishes to remove live support. Tom Evans and Kate James took their then six-month-old son Alfie to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool in December 2016 due to a chest infection. […]
(The Christian Institute) — Ealing Council’s ban on peaceful pro-life campaigners has been described as a “sad day for women.” Councillors voted unanimously to introduce the UK’s first ever abortion clinic Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO), in a move celebrated as “a landmark decision” by pro-abortion campaigners. Pro-lifers have spoken out against the council’s decision. […]
HOUSTON, Texas — A U.S. district judge appointed to the bench by then-President Ronald Reagan has rejected another effort from the City of Houston to have a case regarding “spousal” benefits of homosexual government workers decided in federal court rather than by state judges, and has ordered the City to pay the attorneys’ fees of the pastor […]
(ABC News) — A pastor at an Illinois church that serves more than 25,000 worshipers at eight locations stepped down more than six months ahead of his scheduled retirement amid allegations of inappropriate behavior with parishioners. Bill Hybels, founder of the Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, resigned on Tuesday after an internal investigation […]
EAST RIDGE, Tenn. — A Tennessee man who confessed on social media to murdering his mother and a friend on Sunday claimed before killing himself that “nothing happens after death, but if there is a Hell, I’m going to be in the lake of ice at the bottom.” Casey Lawhorn, 22, had shared a number of posts […]
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. — A newborn baby with her umbilical cord still attached was placed inside of a safe haven box at an Indiana fire station on Sunday, and is now safe and being cared for at a local hospital. Coolspring Township Volunteer Fire Department Chief Mick Pawlik says that first responders’ pagers went off at approximately […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Voters in Anchorage, Alaska have narrowly rejected a proposal that would have mandated restroom use in buildings that are owned by the city to correspond with one’s birth gender. Proposition 1 would have required “all multiple occupancy changing facilities and restrooms that are owned or operated by the municipality to be designated […]