(Reuters) — Indonesian police arrested five people, including a leader of a hardline Islamist group, for suspected treason on Friday before a protest by thousands of Muslims demanding the sacking of Jakarta’s Christian governor, a police spokesman said. Religious and political tensions have been running high ahead of the second and final round of the […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Members of Southard Baptist Church in Columbus, Ohio are grieving after learning that their pastor had been found dead in his home on Tuesday. “It was definitely a homicide,” Columbus Police Detective David Sicilian told the Columbus Dispatch. “He was killed at the hands of someone else.” Joseph McDowell, 81, was found […]
Two U.S. women were sentenced on Friday for allegedly raising funds for the terror group al-Shabaab online. Muna Osman Jama, 36, of Reston, Virginia, and Hinda Osman Dhirane, 46, of Kent, Washington, were sentenced to 12 and 11 years in prison on charges of providing material support to a terrorist organization. According to a press […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California attorney general who charged the pro-life investigator behind the 2014-2015 undercover Planned Parenthood videos with 15 felonies this week had previously been praised by the abortion and contraception giant and received campaign donations from the organization for many of his House re-election bids. Democratic Congressman Xavier Becerra had been appointed by Gov. […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A judge appointed to the bench by then-President Barack Obama has issued a temporary injunction against the enforcement of a compliance order that would result in the closure of the last abortion facility in Kentucky. “Plaintiffs have laid out specific facts in their verified complaint showing that the rights of their patients would […]
PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon judge has granted a man’s request to be identified as “genderless” and to have no last name. Multnomah County Judge Amy Holmes Hehn granted Patrick Abbatiello a “General Judgment of Name and Sex Change” on March 10, allowing him to be listed as “a-gender” and to legally change his name […]
Tajikistan (Mission Network News) — A network of churches in Tajikistan is under heavy scrutiny. Their crime? Having children and teens under the age of 18 at religious services. In Tajikistan, it’s illegal for underage minors to engage in religious activities, even if they’re with their parents. Several security officers attended Sunday services in two […]
SAN ANTONIO (Fox News) — The driver of a pickup truck that crossed the center line and crashed into a church minibus in Texas told a witness that he had been texting while driving. Jody Kuchler told The Associated Press he was driving behind the truck and had seen it moving erratically prior to the […]
MUNCIE, Ind. — An Indiana man broke a police officer’s hand during a scuffle as he was arrested on Saturday after he allegedly strangled a thrift store employee who sought to intervene as he went berserk in his quest to convert those present to Islam. Reports state that he repeatedly yelled “Allahu Akbar” as he fought being […]
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate has given its initial stamp of approval to a bill that would require preborn babies killed at abortion facilities to be buried or cremated instead of being discarded as medical waste. The move comes just months after a federal judge appointed to the bench by then-President George W. Bush […]