IRMO, S.C. — A South Carolina woman is crediting the grace and mercy of God after she and her grandson survived the raging floodwaters by clinging to a cross outside a local church until they could be reached by rescuers. Clara Gantt attempted to travel to church last Sunday from her home in Blythewood when […]
WASHINGTON — A Yazidi woman who serves in Iraq’s parliament is expressing her disappointment in the Obama administration over its lack of aid to refugees in the country, sharing a number of gruesome accounts of the suffering in the nation, including that ISIS allegedly fed a hungry mother her own son’s body. Vian Dakhil recently sat […]
NASHVILLE – Nearly half of atheists, agnostics, and those with no religious preference in the U.S. see evidence in the universe for a creator, according to just-released polling data from a major research organization. LifeWay Research is a Nashville-based polling group that frequently surveys Americans on matters of faith and culture. The group’s latest report, […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (Morning Star News) – Two of the three suspected Muslim extremists who tried to cut the throat of a pastor in northwestern Bangladesh last week met with him in mid-September and feigned interest in converting, the church leader told Morning Star News. Luke Sarker, the 52-year-old pastor of Faith Bible Church in Ishwardi, Pabna […]
WICHITA, Kansas — A university in Kansas is under fire after it made alterations to its Christian chapel to accommodate Muslims. According to reports, the Grace Memorial chapel at Wichita State University was renovated this past spring after Muslims on campus stated that they wanted a better place to say their prayers. The student Senate passed […]
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — While conducting drug busts across the state of South Carolina this week, officials uncovered a mobile abortion facility illegally performing in-home abortions. “We got a guy and a girl early in the week that was a traveling abortionist,” Sheriff Chuck Wright told local television station WYFF. “He traveled around the state of […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The governor of California has signed a bill into law that requires pro-life pregnancy centers to inform all clients that they can obtain an abortion at state-funded facilities. As previously reported, the bill is known in the legislature as the Reproductive FACT Act, but to pro-lifers, it is dubbed the “bully bill.” The text of […]
(Radio Free Asia) — Ethnic Montagnards who have fled Vietnam for Cambodia say they are forced to leave after enduring relentless persecution by authorities in their home country, but regularly face difficulties when they apply for asylum across the border. About 200 Montagnards have entered Cambodia illegally from Vietnam’s Central Highlands since late last year, […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A Bangladeshi pastor survived an attempt on his life by three men who came to his home pretending to want to learn about Christianity, police and the victim said Tuesday. The attempt follows two killings of foreigners last week in the predominantly Muslim country grappling with violence claimed by hard-line Islamic […]
WASHINGTON — A group of over 60 legal scholars have signed a statement calling upon American citizens and public officials alike to reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion declaring that states must legalize same-sex “marriage.” “We stand with James Madison and Abraham Lincoln in recognizing that the Constitution is not whatever a majority of Supreme […]