NEW YORK — A Manhattan man has been arrested for seeking to join the barbaric Islamic group ISIS and allegedly expressing support for a plot to carry out an attack in Times Square. Mohamed Rafik Naji, 37, was arrested on Monday and charged with attempting to provide material support to the terror group. According to a news […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — More than 10,000 Indonesians took to the streets of their capital to call for tolerance and unity in the world’s most populous Muslim nation, after police opened a blasphemy investigation into the city’s Christian governor. Earlier this month, Jakarta was rocked by a massive protest by conservative Muslims against the popular […]
KENT, U.K. — A U.K. magistrate that was removed from office last year for telling the media that he believes it is best for adoptive children to be placed with a mother and father will now file suit after also being prohibited from returning to his position on the board of the National Health Service (NHS) Trust. […]
Concerns are being raised about those in Trump’s inner circle as the openly homosexual co-founder of PayPal and billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is serving on the Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee. According to reports, Thiel is sifting through his Silicon Valley network of entrepreneurs as he seeks to build a team of technology experts that will advise […]
(Morning Star News) – A pastor in southwestern China, jailed for nearly a year on fabricated charges and suffering a liver disease, focuses on trusting God in a letter of encouragement to his wife, according to China Aid. Authorities took pastor Li Guozhi, better known as Yang Hua, into custody after a raid on his […]
LOS ANGELES — A refugee woman who wants to transition to a man recently had her eggs frozen prior to beginning hormonal therapy treatments as she plans on converting to a male, marrying a woman someday and having the woman carry her preserved eggs. “I need to do this to be happy,” the woman, who […]
BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Churchgoers at a PCUSA Presbyterian assembly in New Jersey gave President-elect Donald Trump a standing ovation on Sunday as he attended services with Mike Pence, Reince Preibus and others. Trump and his entourage visited Lamington Presbyterian Church in Bedminster Township for worship, which is located just two miles from the National Golf Club […]
LONDON – A judge in the U.K. has granted a dying teenager’s wish to have her body preserved at a facility in Michigan, in hopes that scientists will eventually be able to restore her to life and health. A 14-year-old cancer victim, whose name has not been released, died last month in a hospital in […]
WASHINGTON — The city council of the District of Columbia has passed a bill allowing for physician assisted suicide in the municipality. The “Death With Dignity Act” passed 11-2 on Tuesday and was sent to the desk of Mayor Muriel Bowser for signing. As previously reported, introduced by Democrat Mary Cheh, the Act allows for […]
WENZHOU, Zhejiang (China Aid) — China’s two Christian, state-run organizations forcibly removed a pastor from his position in the coastal province of Zhejiang on Oct. 29 and prohibited him from preaching or evangelizing. The pastor, Zhang Chongzhu, was placed under “residential surveillance in a designated location,” otherwise known as a “black jail,” last September. On Feb. […]