(The Christian Institute) — A Church of England minister has come under fire for holding an “LGBT+ Service” to mark the city’s homosexual pride celebrations. Canon Dr Neal Barnes, Vicar of Hull Minster, held an evening service on July 21 to coincide with Pride in Hull and the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offenses Act. […]
NEWCASTLE, Okla. — A Walmart cashier is crediting the leading of the Lord after he paid for a foster mother’s groceries when some items wouldn’t go through on her new WIC card. Nicholas Tate, 22, a student at Austin Bible Institute, was working at the Newcastle Walmart recently when a woman came through his line […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The federal government has abandoned its quest for a buffer zone around the last remaining abortion facility in Kentucky, which had initially been created after 11 people blocked the doors to the building on Mother’s Day weekend to keep mothers from committing murder. “The United States has withdrawn its motion for a preliminary […]
(World Watch Monitor) — Vietnam has released a Lutheran pastor and deported him to the United States, reports UCA News. Nguyen Cong Chinh, was serving an 11-year prison sentence for “undermining national solidarity” through religious activities with ethnic groups in the country’s Central Highlands. He was also a director of the Vietnam-U.S. Lutheran Alliance Church. A […]
A report from the Associated Press notes that syringes discarded by heroin users are showing up in parks, playgrounds, baseball dugouts, trails, and alongside beaches and rivers, creating a national public health threat due to the risk of passersby and small children accidentally being stuck. “We started seeing it last year here and there. But now, it’s […]
HENDERSON COUNTY, Tenn. – After receiving a complaint letter from a prominent atheist group, the mayor of a Tennessee county says he has no plans to remove a Bible verse inscription from his county’s courthouse and hopes instead to add an additional verse to the building’s walls. On June 30, attorney Rebecca Markert with the […]
DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. — A school district in Pennsylvania has agreed to an out-of-court settlement to ensure that free speech is protected on the public sidewalks surrounding its schools. The district had been asked to issue an educational memo to employees of Downingtown STEM Academy after the vice president of the school yelled and cursed at two teenage […]
MOSCOW — One of the ringleaders of the “Blue Whale Suicide Challenge” in Russia has been sentenced to three years behind bars after admitting his involvement in the suicide attempts of two teenage girls. Philipp Budeikin, 22, told police following his arrest that he thought he was ridding society of those he considered to be “biological waste.” […]
(The Christian Institute) — People want churches to “keep up with modern attitudes” and carry out same-sex “weddings,” Justine Greening has claimed. The U.K. Education Secretary and equalities minister said she did not want to “prescribe” how faith groups deal with the issue, but that “it is important that the church in a way keeps […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice has filed an amicus brief declaring that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not pertain to homosexuality. “The sole question here is whether, as a matter of law, Title VII reaches sexual orientation discrimination,” it wrote. “It does not, as has been settled for […]