Nearly 1,500 pastors nationwide are expected to participate in an effort today that seeks to challenge government restrictions against political speech from the pulpit. The effort is called Pulpit Freedom Sunday, and was organized by the Pulpit Initiative, a project of the Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). As the seventh annual event of […]
The Islamic terrorist group ISIS, also identifying themselves as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has released a fourth beheading video, executing another British aid worker who had been providing humanitarian assistance in Syria. The video, entitled “Another Message to America And Its Allies,” begins with footage of a news report outlining the British Parliament’s […]
DALLAS — Officials in Liberia may prosecute a man who brought the Ebola virus to the United States after he allegedly lied on a questionnaire before boarding a plane out of the country, reports state. Binyah Kesselly, chairman of the board of directors of the Liberia Airport Authority, told reporters this week that Thomas Eric Duncan answered […]
NEW ORLEANS — An appeals court has upheld a Texas law that is expected to result in the closure of most of the state’s abortion facilities, overturning a lower court ruling that found the statute to be unconstitutional. As previously reported, the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights had filed suit earlier this year to challenge […]
A new reality show set to air on TLC this month will feature the lives of a family who move from Florida to launch a new congregation in the Bible Belt that preaches “unconditional love and tolerance.” “Preaching Alabama,” produced by Ryan Seacrest Productions, will launch next Tuesday, October 7th at 10 p.m. following the […]
BIRMINGHAM — A 911 dispatcher is Alabama is thanking God for being with those who responded to a recent workplace shooting at a UPS facility near Birmingham. On the morning of September 23rd, shots were fired at the UPS customer service center and warehouse in Inglenook. According to reports, 45-year-old Kerry Tesney of Trussville officially […]
WASHINGTON – Officials with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have confirmed that a Liberian man visiting family in America has been diagnosed with the Ebola virus, making it the first diagnosis of the deadly disease on U.S. soil. In a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, CDC Director Thomas Frieden explained that the unnamed individual arrived in […]
The month of September saw numerous sex trafficking arraignments and sentencings nationwide, as both local and federal law enforcement continue to expose child prostitution rings from shore to shore—a growing problem that reports state are inadequately addressed in most states. On September 11th, Coy Klinger, 37, was indicted in Lower Paxton Township, Pa. with running […]
WASHINGTON — In an interview with CBS on Sunday, while repeating his assertion that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) does not represent the Islamic religion, Barack Obama acknowledged that the group seeks to kill those who “worship a different God” than Allah. Obama was interviewed by correspondent Steve Croft for the “60 […]
OKLAHOMA CITY — A second Muslim man in Oklahoma has been arrested after allegedly threatening to behead his co-worker with a blade. Jacob Mugambi Muriithi, 30, was taken into custody on Friday after his unidentified female co-worker told police that he threatened to cut her head off. Both work at Bellevue Nursing Home in Oklahoma […]