CINCINNATI, Ohio (NBC News) — A suburban Cincinnati gay rights activist was charged with a misdemeanor early Tuesday after police say he falsely claimed online that he was kidnapped and thrown in the trunk of his car, NBC affiliate WLWT reported. In a post on Facebook and Twitter just before 12:30 a.m. ET, Adam Hoover […]
NEW YORK — Public schools in New York City will now close for two major Muslim holidays, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday. de Blasio had expressed support for the move in 2013 while running as a mayoral candidate, stating that that schools should close on both Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. The first celebrates […]
CINCINNATI — A California-based group that was ousted from an Arab festival when attendees began turning violent in response to their antagonism obtained a rare appeal hearing on Wednesday after two federal courts previously threw out their free speech lawsuit. As previously reported, U.S. District Court Judge Patrick Duggan ruled last year that men with an organization […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — City Council members in Charlotte, North Carolina voted down a proposal Monday night that would have provided protections for homosexuals and transgendered persons in the city. As previously reported, council members had been considering additional wording for its existing non-discrimination ordinance that would add sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, marital status and familial status […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court has issued a historic order halting the issuance of same-sex “marriage” licenses in the state. “As it has done for approximately two centuries, Alabama law allows for ‘marriage’ between only one man and one woman,” the 148-page order reads. “Alabama probate judges have a ministerial duty not to […]
RIO GRANDE DO NORTE, Brazil — Brazilian police have arrested an American child rapist who claimed to be “Christ in the flesh” after he was discovered living as a fugitive in the country. Victor Barnard, 53, was taken into custody on Friday at a home in Rio Grande Do Norte, where he had been staying […]
PENSACOLA, Fla. – An imprisoned creation science evangelist and Baptist minister who refuted evolutionary theory and who has served eight years of a ten-year prison sentence faced trial in Florida today as he fights a new charge that could put him behind bars for life. Kent Hovind, the founder of Creation Science Evangelism out of Pensacola, Florida, […]
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – After a five-year court battle, a U.S. evangelist singled out by Turkey’s Ministry of the Interior for deportation because of his outreach activities has been granted a residency permit to stay in Turkey. David Byle was issued a residency permit at the end of January after five years of living […]
A team of astronomers who jubilantly announced last year that they had found proof of the Big Bang have now retracted their statements, admitting that their evidence was faulty. In March of last year, astronomers using the BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole announced the discovery of “primordial gravitational waves” from the universe’s beginning. Proponents […]
ORLANDO, Fla. — The wife of an American pastor imprisoned in Iran for conducting missionary and humanitarian work in the nation spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday, urging her country to do more to free her husband. “My question is—as I’m proud to see my husband stand up for his faith in the […]