AUSTIN, Texas — Officials in Texas have decided to defund the abortion giant Planned Parenthood, declaring that the state is pulling its Medicaid funding out of belief that the organization is “no longer capable of performing medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal, and ethical manner.” The Texas Health and Human Services Commission sent […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Three California churches filed suit against the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) on Friday over a directive that was issue last year that would force all faith-based employers to offer abortion coverage regardless of their religious beliefs. As previously reported, DMHC issued a letter in August 2014 requiring all insurance companies […]
JERUSALEM — An elderly Christian woman in Israel is crediting her survival to calling on the name of Jesus during an Islamic terror attack in Jerusalem last week. For the past 32 years, Marike Veldman, 78, has operated a foster home for Arab children in Jerusalem, raising 20 and adopting a number of the children […]
Cambodia (MNN) — You’ve probably heard the phrase, “Desperate times call for desperate measures.” Pregnant single moms in Cambodia live it out day after day. Many vulnerable women end up having abortions because they feel like they have no other choice. Extreme poverty drives them to eke out an existence in the muddy slums outside […]
A well-known Christian apologist has spoken out about the “evolutionary indoctrination” in Disney-Pixar’s latest animated film, saying parents should be aware of the unbiblical presuppositions permeating the movie. Ken Ham, president of Christian apologetics ministry Answers in Genesis-USA, has expressed concern about Disney-Pixar’s latest film, “The Good Dinosaur.” In a blog post last week, Ham […]
KANEOHE, Hawaii — A group the seeks to separate God from the military is demanding that additional boards be created and erected near a sign that asks God’s blessing on the Armed Forces after a Marine Corps base in Hawaii refused to relocate or remove the display. As previously reported, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation […]
NOVA SCOTIA — Two homosexual men recently “divorced” under Canadian law so that they could include a third man in their relationship, and now plan to have their sisters serve as surrogates to bear their children. “We just want to say that love is love. It should be multiplied not divided,” Adam Grant told the […]
WASHINGTON — The annual International Religious Freedom Report released by the U.S. Department of State on Wednesday finds that in 2014, the greatest persecutors of Christians and other groups worldwide were Islamic terror groups like ISIS and Boko Haram, but also cites that local governments often failed to provide adequate protection to dissenters. The report, which is […]
ACEH SINGKIL, Indonesia (Christian Solidarity Worldwide) — Violent clashes broke out after a demonstration on October 6th by an Islamic youth group demanding that the local government tear down a number of churches that they claimed had been built illegally without permits. They threatened to tear down the churches themselves if their demands were not met. […]
The international hotel chain Hyatt has announced that it will no longer offer on-demand pornography among its guest room channel choices. “This content will not be introduced to any new Hyatt hotels, and it will be discontinued or phased out at all hotels,” the company said in a statement this week. It said that “in-room programming […]