ROSELLE PARK, N.J. — The borough council of one New Jersey municipality has resisted a humanist group’s demand to remove what was deemed a religious veterans display from the lawn of the public library, voting instead to keep the figure in its place. The American Humanist Association (AHA) recently sent a letter to Carl Hokanson, […]
SHANGQIU, Henan (China Aid) — Amid escalating pressure to join state-run churches, a house church in China’s central Henan province rejected a government order to stop its religious activities by July 20. On July 15, the Zhecheng County Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau issued a notice to Proclaiming Christ Church, citing provincial religious affairs regulations […]
WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. — Apologist Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis recently rebutted a liberal ELCA Lutheran minister who asserted in a published column that the biblical account of the global flood is “not history,” noting that the man is also calling Jesus a liar, for He spoke of Noah and the Flood. Steve Hammer is leads Esperanza […]
BALTIMORE, Md. — Two psychiatrists from Johns Hopkins University assert in a new report that there is no scientific evidence to support that people are born homosexual or innately oriented to have sexual relations with the same gender. The report, Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences, was written by Dr. Lawrence Mayer […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A chancellor at the University of New Mexico was recently recorded acknowledging that a staff member acquired the brains of aborted babies to use for dissection at a high school summer camp. New Mexico Alliance for Life recently uploaded a short video in which Dr. Paul Roth, the chancellor of the University of […]
(Christian Institute) — People wanting to be euthanized are traveling to Belgian accident and emergency departments and asking to be killed. Last year, more than 2,000 people were euthanized in Belgium—more than double the number five years earlier. Belgium legalized euthanasia for adults in 2002 and for children in 2014. Continue reading this story >>
COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. — An Air Force major who had been criticized by a church-state separation activist who wanted him “aggressively punished” for long displaying an open Bible on his desk has been officially cleared of wrongdoing. “We have concluded that no abuse of liberties has occurred,” Lt. Col. David Fruck told reporters on Tuesday. “Therefore, Maj. Lewis […]
WILLIS, Texas — The attorney general of Texas has upheld the practice of a local justice of the peace who has been under fire from a professing atheist organization for allowing chaplains to deliver daily invocations in his courtroom. According to reports, Judge Wayne Mack of Willis opens each day with a ceremony that includes an invocation. The […]
AUSTIN, Texas — Five states have filed a legal challenge against the Obama administration over its recently-released healthcare rules, which some believe might be used to force doctors to perform sex change operations or other services that may violate their conscience. Texas, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Nebraska and Kansas are all a part of the suit, as well […]
(Christian Institute) — Abortion group Marie Stopes International has suspended some types of abortion across all its English facilities after a health watchdog’s investigation uncovered “patient safety” concerns. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) raised issues over Marie Stopes’ “corporate and clinical governance arrangements and patient safety protocols in specific areas” following inspections. As a result, […]