Mississippi Lawmakers Propose Designating Bible as State Book

Mississippi Lawmakers Propose Designating Bible as State Book

JACKSON, Miss. — Lawmakers in Mississippi have again proposed designating the Bible as the state book. H.B. 840 was recently re-proposed by Rep. Tom Miles, D-Forest, and has nine co-sponsors, including Rep. Michael Evans, D-Preston, who joined him in the first effort last year. “Me and my constituents, we were talking about it and one […]

Vietnam’s Minority Groups Are Hungry for the Gospel

Vietnam’s Minority Groups Are Hungry for the Gospel

(Open Doors) — Vietnam is home to more than 50 ethnic minorities. Each has its unique language and culture, but such diversity has often presented challenges for the government leaders, whose Communist ideals are averse to individuality, private ownership and religion. The Kinh group is the largest, making up about 86 percent of the country’s […]

New Mexico Committee Kills Bill Banning Abortion After 20 Weeks

New Mexico Committee Kills Bill Banning Abortion After 20 Weeks

SANTA FE, N.M. — A legislative committee in New Mexico has killed a proposed bill that would have banned abortion after 20 weeks—five months gestation—if the abortionist believed that the child was viable. Sen. Bill Sharer, R-Farmington, had introduced S.B. 243 to stop the murder of children past what he considers to be the point […]

Tennessee Becomes Fifth to Call for Convention to Give Power Back to States

Tennessee Becomes Fifth to Call for Convention to Give Power Back to States

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee has become the fifth state to call for a Convention of States that would amend the U.S. Constitution in an effort to take back states’ rights and limit the power of the federal government. The Tennessee House of Representatives voted 59-31 on Feb. 4 in favor of SJR 0067, a resolution “to make […]

Wheaton to Invite Muslim, Jewish Scholar to School in Parting Agreement With ‘Same God’ Professor

Wheaton to Invite Muslim, Jewish Scholar to School in Parting Agreement With ‘Same God’ Professor

WHEATON, Ill. — Officials at Wheaton College have announced that their parting agreement with an associate political science director who will be leaving the college following controversy over her assertion that Christians and Muslims worship the same God will include an annual visit from a Muslim or Jewish scholar. “Each year we will invite a scholar […]

Chelsea Clinton Says She Finds It ‘Insulting’ When Others Question Her Mother’s Faith

Chelsea Clinton Says She Finds It ‘Insulting’ When Others Question Her Mother’s Faith

During a recent fundraiser for her mother’s presidential campaign, Chelsea Clinton told supporters that she finds it “insulting” when others cast doubts on her mother’s claims of being a Christian. “My mother is very deeply a person of faith,” she said of her mother, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. “It is deeply authentic and real […]

Kirk Franklin to Appear on Kanye West’s Blasphemous ‘Gospel Album With a Whole Lot of Cursing’

Kirk Franklin to Appear on Kanye West’s Blasphemous ‘Gospel Album With a Whole Lot of Cursing’

Grammy Award-winning gospel artist Kirk Franklin recently joined blasphemous rapper Kanye West in the studio as he is set to appear on the rapper’s seventh release, which is self-described as a “gospel album with a whole lot of cursing.” A photo surfaced online days ago showing Franklin with the profanity-laden West, alongside other secular artists such […]