WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case surrounding the constitutionality of North Carolina’s ultrasound law, allowing a lower court ruling declaring the regulation a “free speech violation” to stand. As previously reported, lawmakers in North Carolina passed the Women’s Right to Know Act in 2011, which required women to obtain […]
LONDON – The discovery of well-preserved blood and proteins in a supposedly 75-million-year-old dinosaur fossil has stumped secular scientists and led one Christian apologist to herald the findings as evidence of a young Earth. A team of scientists at the U.K.’s Imperial College London carefully examined eight Cretaceous dinosaur bones discovered in North America, scrutinizing […]
LEBANON, Pa. — An estimated 50 teachers from a school district in Pennsylvania recently attended a workshop on Islamic culture and religion, and visited a local mosque for further instruction. According to reports, the training was meant to help teachers understand and accommodate Muslim students in the Lebanon School District. Leaders from the district, including […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — Lawmakers in North Carolina have officially voted to override the governor’s veto of a bill that would allow some judges to opt out of participating in same-sex ceremonies. As previously reported, S.B. 2 was introduced earlier this year by Sen. Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) to allow magistrates to recuse themselves from officiating over […]
EUCLID, Ohio — A robber in Ohio returned the wallet and cell phone that he forcefully took from another man after the victim began praying for the robber out loud and invited him to church. Shaquille Hairston, 21, of Euclid told reporters this week that after he took a bus home in the middle of […]
COVINGTON, Ky. — An eight-year-old girl’s letter to Jesus, found tucked away in her Bible, has led authorities to her rapist, who is now facing sodomy and child sexual abuse charges. According to reports, in October 2013, police were called to a Covington-area elementary school to investigate a report that a child had been sexually […]
BOISE, Idaho — Republicans in Idaho have proposed a resolution calling for support for using the Bible alongside public school curriculum. Resolution 2015-P20 was submitted by Idaho County Chairman Marge Arnzen, and uses state history as the basis of the motion. “[I]n 1782, the U.S. Congress voted this resolution: ‘The Congress of the United States […]
NASHVILLE — A Bible Belt state is among the latest to consider legalizing assisted suicide, in part due to the efforts of an activist who asserts that the choice to end one’s life is the “ultimate civil right.” On Tuesday, those both for and against physician assisted suicide spent two hours presenting their thoughts about […]
An American pastor who has been imprisoned in Iran for over the past two years has again been beaten behind bars. As previously reported, Saeed Abedini, a former Iranian Muslim turned Christian, left Iran in 2005 and moved to the United States with his wife and two children to find religious freedom after facing conflict […]
WASHINGTON — Administrators from Christian and Catholic schools nationwide have signed on to a letter urging Congress to pass a law that would protect religious schools from punishment over their biblical beliefs on marriage. Daniel Egeler, the president of the Association of Christian Schools International, Al Mohler, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, […]