EAST ORANGE, N.J. — Two female ministers with the United Church of Christ recently “wed” each other despite being warned by the father of one of the women that doing so was unbiblical. He did not attend the ceremony. “My father would not come here because he does not believe in same-sex marriage,” Twanna Gause told […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A “church” in New Mexico has become the first in the Mennonite Church USA to appoint an open lesbian as “lead pastor.” Albuquerque Mennonite Church, which affirmed homosexual relationships a decade ago, made the announcement on Monday that it had chosen Erica Lea as its new leader. It remarked that Lea has […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Virginia-based group known as “Negative Population Growth” (NPG), which seeks to combat “overpopulation” in the U.S. and abroad, recently released a report expressing why it opposes the Trump administration’s desire to repeal Obamacare and defund the abortion and contraception giant Planned Parenthood. “If the U.S. is to be an international leader […]
(ACLJ) — Christian South Sudanese refugee children are denied food in Sudan’s refugee camps unless they recite Islamic prayers. The U.S. Department of State includes three nations on its “State Sponsor of Terrorism” list. Sudan is one of them, along with Syria and Iran. Sudan was designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1993. Countries on this list are “determined […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Democratic mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina has acknowledged that confusion has arisen following her announcement on Monday night that the city council would no longer present prayers during public meetings. “Last night, at the open portion of our dinner meeting, the council agreed to end the invocation for our meetings, based on […]
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Democratic governor of Oregon held a signing ceremony on Monday to celebrate the enactment of a law that that requires insurance companies in the state to cover the murder of the unborn at no cost. While Gov. Kate Brown already signed H.B. 3391, also known as the “Reproductive Health Equity Act,” into […]
ATLANTA, Ga. — Police fatally shot a student who identifies as “non-binary” on Saturday at the Georgia Institute of Technology after he failed to drop a multi-tool knife after repeatedly being ordered to do so. Scott “Scout” Schultz, 21, was a computer engineering student at the school and also served as the president of Georgia […]
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — An employee at a California McDonald’s has been charged with attempted murder after she allegedly tried to flush her newborn child down the toilet. The baby miraculously survived and is now in stable condition. According to prosecutors, Sarah Lockner, 25, complained of abdominal pain while at work at the Redwood City […]
In a recent scientific presentation and subsequent journal article, a well-known evolutionary biologist noted that a “rising number of publications” believe that the standard theory of evolution might need to be revised or even replaced because it has shortcomings and has failed to account for recent trends in evolutionary biology. Gerd B. Müller is a […]
(World Watch Monitor) — A 21-year-old Malaysian man has been arrested on suspicion of planning to attack non-Muslims and their places of worship, having reportedly been ordered to do so from Islamic State militants in Syria. The man, who was not named, “received instructions from a Malaysian Da’esh [IS] member in Syria to buy a […]