SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The pro-homosexual Greater Purpose Community Church in California says that it has sold its former building and plans to open a public brewery in the now-closed Logos Bookstore in Santa Cruz. The brewery, which will also be used as meeting space for Sunday services, will donate part of the proceeds to Planned Parenthood, among other…
Jerry Falwell Jr. to Pen Political Book With ‘Gay Marriage’ Advocate, Evolution Adherent Jimmy Carter Aug 07, 2018 08:58 pm
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Jerry Falwell, Jr., the president of Liberty University, which hails itself as the world’s largest Christian university, says that he is writing a book with former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, the specifics of which have not yet been announced. Carter, who has publicly expressed his support for “gay marriage” and says that he believes in…‘I Don’t Like the Demon’: Parkland School Shooter Told Police Detective He Heard ‘Voice’ Telling Him to ‘Burn, Kill, Destroy’ Aug 07, 2018 02:05 pm
PARKLAND, Fla. — A newly-released transcript of the police interrogation of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz reveals that Cruz repeatedly asserted that he had been hearing a “voice” or a “demon” inside of himself instructing him to “kill destroy” and to hurt other people and himself. Cruz, 19, told Broward County Sheriff’s Office Detective John Curcio in…Violence Erupts in Argentina After Plans to Legalize Abortion Rejected Aug 09, 2018 01:45 pm
(Sky News) — Protesters have lit fires and thrown bottles at police after Argentina’s Senate rejected a bill to legalize abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. Thousands of pro and anti-abortion protesters in rival colors gathered in heavy rain outside Congress in Buenos Aires as politicians debated the proposal for 15 hours. Officers fired tear…Man Found With 11 Children on Filthy New Mexico Compound Accused of Training Them to Commit School Shootings Aug 10, 2018 09:27 am
(ABC News) — The man who was arrested on a filthy New Mexico compound with 11 abused children was training the children to commit school shootings, according to court documents obtained by ABC News. The documents allege that 39-year-old Siraj Wahhaj was conducting weapons training at the property in Amalia, near the Colorado border. A foster parent of one of…New York Governor Calls for Investigation After Town Clerk Rejects Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ License Aug 06, 2018 11:05 pm
Photo Credit: Pat Arnow ALBANY, N.Y. (USA Today) — A town clerk’s decision to reject a marriage license for a same-sex couple prompted New York’s governor to call for an investigation. Dylan Toften of Root, N.Y., wrote Monday on Facebook that Root Town Clerk Laurel “Sherrie” Eriksen would not issue a marriage license to him and his fiancé when they…Real Estate Company Removes Billboard Containing Bible, Preaching Imagery Following Complaints, Threat Aug 09, 2018 08:48 am
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — A real estate developer in Southern California has removed a billboard containing a Bible and preaching imagery from outside a shopping mall after reportedly receiving a number of complaints, as well as a threat, in objection to the religious nature of the sign. Harvest Christian Fellowship, led by Greg Laurie, had recently contacted the…Army Investigator Recommends Chaplain Be Found ‘Derelict in His Duties’ Surrounding Lesbian Who Wanted to Attend Marriage Retreat Aug 08, 2018 04:49 pm
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — An investigator with the U.S. Army has recommended that a Southern Baptist Army chaplain be found “derelict in his duties” surrounding a matter in which he declined to lead a marriage retreat after learning that a lesbian had signed up to attend the event with her partner. The investigator argues that the chaplain, who rescheduled the event so…Argentinian Doctors Take to Street in Opposition of Abortion Bill: ‘I’m a Doctor, Not a Murderer’ Aug 05, 2018 11:13 pm
Photo Credit: Evangelical Focus (Evangelical Focus) — Hundreds of Argentinian doctors recently took the streets to protest against the abortion bill that passed the lower house in June and will be debated on August 8. During the protests, many doctors held signs with the message, “I’m a doctor, not a murderer.” Some said they would rather go to jail…‘We Can’t Cut Ladies’ Hair’: Irish Barbershop Fined After Declining to Cut Hair of Woman Who Identifies as Man Aug 05, 2018 05:45 pm
DUBLIN — A barbershop in Ireland has been fined 5,000 Euro after an employee declined to cut the hair of a woman who identifies as a man, as he noted that the business has a lease agreement to only cut men’s hair. According to reports, the woman, who goes by the name Lee McLoughlin, arrived at Charlie’s Barbers in the Nutgrove Shopping Centre last September and…
Photo Credit: John Nichols/FreeImages.com BRUSSELS — A new report out of Belgium shows that among the 4,337 Belgians who opted to die by euthanasia in 2016-2017, three were ill children, and hundreds of other cases were listed as “polypathology,” or the suffrage of a combination of health issues commonly related to aging, such as blindness, hearing loss,…
CHANDLER, Ariz. — A 30-year-old Arizona man has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder after slashing the throat of his grandmother with dementia and telling investigators that he did so—amid frustration that he was the only family member caring for her—because he didn’t want her to “live like this anymore.” According to reports, police arrived at…
MILWAUKEE, Wisc. — A Wisconsin police officer who was killed in the line of duty this week was a Christian who would share the gospel with those he arrested and pray for their salvation. Michael Michalski, 52, of the Milwaukee Police Department was killed on Wednesday while among a group of officers with the Special Investigations Division pursuing Jonathan…
PONTE VEDRA, Fla. — A federal judge appointed to the bench by then-President George W. Bush has placed an injunction on a school policy that prohibits a girl who identifies as a boy from using the mens’ restroom, declaring that under the law, she must be “treated like any other boy.” Judge Timothy Corrigan ruled on Thursday that the St. Johns County School…
TORONTO — A Canadian man who was among a half dozen professing Christians who dressed in skin-tight green spandex with rainbow accents to disguise themselves as the “Gay Zombies Cannabis Consumers Association” in order to infiltrate the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade is facing a hate crime charge for distributing “zombie safe sex” pamphlets that turned out to be warnings…
Public domain (World Watch Monitor) — The Rwanda Governance Board continues to close churches it says fail to meet requirements laid down at the beginning of the year. New requirements set in place for those congregations that want to continue ministry are also complicating efforts to comply. Many see the closures as part of an effort by the government to make…
DETROIT, Mich. — After the case was remanded by the Michigan Supreme Court, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a Midland-area woman has a valid Consumer Protection Act claim against Planet Fitness in that representatives failed to inform her before she signed up for membership that the company has an “unwritten policy” allowing men who identify as women to…
HURST, Texas — A woman in Texas is facing an attempted capital murder charge for allegedly giving birth at her place of employment and then placing her newborn son in a garbage bag and leaving him in the dumpster. Alyssa Baker, 28, is accused of leaving her baby for dead on the morning of June 15. According to reports, Baker used the restroom at Souper Salad…
(International Christian Concern) – “All that the Hindu radicals want is for Sangameshwar to be a ‘Christian-free’ village,” Pastor Srinivas Sapa, a 42-year-old Christian resident of Sangameshwar, told International Christian Concern (ICC). “Of all the 50 odd Christians who are native to Sangameshwar, most were born in the village and are now panicked…
VAN BUREN, Ark. — An Arkansas man who destroyed a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the state capitol building in June 2017 says that he heard something inside impress on him, “Destroy it tonight.” Local television station KARK recently sat down with Michael Tate Reed II after he was released from the state hospital, where he was receiving treatment for…
SYDNEY — An Australian man who identifies as a woman who attempted to kill people with an axe at a 7-Eleven store last year while under the influence of drugs says that he heard voices telling him to “kill and maim” and to “start the rise of Hell on Earth.” According to SBS News Australia, the 26-year-old who goes by the name Evie Amati stood on trial this past…
LA HARPE, Ill. — A school district in Illinois has reportedly advised one of the nation’s most conspicuous Church-State separation groups that it has disallowed a local Christian from distributing Bibles on a street near an elementary school and told the man that the police will be called should he come on campus. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion…
Photo Credit: MRFF CHEYENNE, Wy. — A commander at an Air Force base in Wyoming has decided to replace a Bible on a “missing man” table meant to honor prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action with a “generic book of faith” filled with blank pages following receipt of a complaint lodged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). According to a…
(Morning Star News) – Three Christians in Iran were arrested from their homes today and yesterday following the violent arrest of pastor Yousef Nadarkhani on Sunday (July 22), according to advocacy group Middle East Concern (MEC). Pastor Nadarkhani, a convert from Islam like the others arrested, was awaiting a summons to begin a 10-year prison sentence after his…
(PEOPLE) — An Alabama man who attacked his pregnant ex-girlfriend two years ago, killing their unborn child, told a friend afterward, “I didn’t want to hurt her, just the baby,” prosecutors said at the man’s trial this week in Birmingham. Christopher Ammons Kemp, 31, did not deny the March 2016 assault that capped weeks of separation between him and…
CHEVIOT, Ohio — A restaurant in Ohio says that it will continue offering its church bulletin discount on Sundays despite receipt of a complaint from one of the nation’s most conspicuous professing atheist groups. Starters Cafe, a new eatery in Cheviot, recently began offering a 10 percent discount to any patrons who brought in a church bulletin on Sundays. The…
Photo Credit: Vince Mig/Public Domain Pictures PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal judge in Oregon has rejected a lawsuit filed by concerned parents who challenged a school district’s policy allowing those with gender dysphoria to use the restroom and locker room that aligns with their gender identity, stating that if parents object, they have a right to remove their…
ALBANY, N.Y. — A federal judge has ruled against a lawsuit by the Office of the Attorney General of New York, which sued 13 pro-life Christians last year in alleging that they had engaged in repeated “harassment” of women outside an abortion facility in seeking to persuade the mothers not to kill their unborn child. Judge Carol Bagley Amon, appointed to the bench…
PHOENIX, Ariz. — The popular pharmacy chain CVS says that an Arizona pharmacist is “no longer employed” with the company after he declined to fill prescriptions relating to a gender “transition” for a man who identifies as a woman. On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) shared a story written by the customer, who goes by the name Hilde Hall. He…
XINYU, Jiangxi (China Aid) — Churches across Jiangxi received a warning from local authorities in early July, demanding that they dismantle their crosses, replace them with either an image of Chinese President Xi Jinping or the national flag, and keep their children away from church. In Xinyu—a city within Jiangxi—alone, more than 100 churches received this…
Photo Credit: Tim Evanson/Flickr/Wikipedia Commons (Christian Institute) — Hormone therapy for people attempting to “transition” from male to female carries major health risks, a new study suggests. Published by the American College of Physicians, it indicated that men who took female hormones for two years were over five times more likely to develop a…
FERRYHILL, U.K. — The mayor of a town in the United Kingdom has resigned after being harassed with threatening and profane comments over his Facebook posts on the issues of homosexuality and transgenderism. Richard Smith was elected in May to serve as the mayor of Ferryhill in Northeast England. He has served as pastor of Immanuel Christian Fellowship since 2003,…
A video of a German speaker calling for compassion and understanding toward celibate pedophiles in arguing that “no one chooses to be a pedophile” but that “anyone could be born” that way and “no one can cease being one” has sparked outrage worldwide. Mirjam Heine delivered a lecture at an independently organized TEDx Talk at the University of Wurzburg in Germany…
New York clergyman Rob Schenck, known for his activism against abortion with Operation Rescue in the 1990s, has released a new book in which he outlines what he calls his “three conversions” in his lifetime. While still identifying as “pro-life,” Schenck now believes that the government should stay out of the issue of abortion and leave safe “space” for the woman…
Photo Credit: ABCDZ2000/FreeImages.com SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS, Pa. — A Pennsylvania couple has filed a legal challenge after being prohibited from hosting Bible studies, worship gatherings and other Christian retreats and fundraisers on their property without a permit under the threat of fines of $500 per day. According to a lawsuit filed by the Independence Law…
(Morning Star News) – In further anti-Christian hostilities in eastern Uganda, Muslims knocked a pastor unconscious at a debate and Islamist threats in another village put a halt to worship services. Threats by Muslims in Mazuba village, Namutumba District, stopped worship services in a half-constructed church building and led the pastor to send his children to…
(International Christian Concern) — International Christian Concern (ICC) has documented at least 15 separate anti-Christian incidents across India in the past 14 days. These incidents include physical assaults, a church demolition, forced conversions, false accusations of forced conversions, and social boycotts. On July 2, 35 Hindu radicals attacked 150…
Photo Credit: ChinaAid GUANGZHOU, Guangdong (China Aid) — On Sunday, 30-40 government agents broke into a Bible Reformed Church in China’s southern Guangdong province for the third time in a month, taking a number of the Christians into questioning. The church’s pastor, Huang Xiaoning, told a ChinaAid reporter at 11:00 that morning, “We had just begun…
WASHINGTON — A federal judge appointed to the bench by President Donald Trump has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood challenging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for altering its Title X funding criteria to prefer groups that promote abstinence and work with faith-based entities. The judge said that the lawsuit was premature as the…
Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore AUGUSTA, Maine — The Republican governor of Maine has vetoed a bill that would have banned what is often referred to as “conversion therapy” for minors who struggle with homosexual temptation, stating that the legislation was “overly broad,” “bad policy” and could be “interpreted as a threat to an individual’s religious…
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (Yahoo News) — Jeremiah, 10, sees his predicament with wisdom and clarity beyond his years: Time is running out for him to be adopted, and if a family doesn’t come along soon, he may never leave the group home where he says some of the other kids have beat him up. The Oklahoma Department of Human Services took custody of Jeremiah three years…
Photo Credit: YouTube/Idoma Television screenshot PLATEAU STATE — Church leaders in Plateau State, Nigeria are calling on the government to intervene as a reported 6,000 people in Christian-identified communities have been either killed or maimed by Fulani Muslims in 2018 alone. “What is happening in Plateau state and other select states in Nigeria is pure…
Photo Credit: Screenshot YouTube/Bethany Christian Services PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — A well-known professing Christian charity has agreed to work with homosexuals seeking to foster or adopt children after its contract with the City of Philadelphia was suspended for a time due to its policies on child placement. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Bethany…
Trump U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who has served on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for the past 12 years, once stated during his confirmation hearing that he would “follow Roe v. Wade faithfully and fully” as it is “binding precedent.” He had been asked by Sen. Chuck Schumer during the 2006 hearing if he believes Roe v. Wade is “an…
(Business Insider) — President Donald Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. “There is no one in America more qualified for this position, and no one more deserving,” Trump said of Kavanaugh on Monday night. Trump announced his pick fewer than two weeks after Kennedy said he would end his…
Photo: Public Domain DAVAO CITY — In the latest of a number of controversial statements about the divine, and in venting his frustration with the Roman Catholic Church, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte stated during a speech on Friday that if anyone can prove that they have talked to God personally or saw Him face-to-face, he will resign. “I just need…
MILWAUKEE, Wisc. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a professor who was suspended two years ago for publicly criticizing a teaching assistant who forbade a student in her ethics class from speaking against same-sex “marriage” in the classroom. “We conclude that the university breached the contract by suspending Dr. McAdams for exercising…
GREENVILLE, S.C. — An abortion facility in South Carolina and a branch of the nation’s largest medical waste company have been leveled with thousands in fines after abortion facility representatives were captured on camera transporting “infectious waste” to a gas station, where they would meet up with their hauler, Stericycle, to transfer the boxes for…
(The Himalayan Times) — The government has deported two foreigners to their respective countries on charges of forceful religious conversion, which is a crime in Nepal. Philippine national De Vera Richard and his Indonesian wife Rita Gonga, who were staying in Nepal on the business visa, allegedly converted Nepali Hindus to Christianity. The two, who were…
Photo Credit: Stephen Pouliot/FreeImages.com (The Christian Institute) — Nearly 200,000 unborn babies were aborted in England and Wales in 2017, latest official figures show – that’s one approximately every three minutes. Over 3,000 abortions were due to the “risk” of disability. Women aged between 20 and 24 accounted for the highest abortion…
Photo Credit: The Root/Facebook Screenshot NEW YORK — A profanity-laced video posted to social media on Monday features an interview with the woman behind the “Thank God for abortion” float that appeared at the NYC Pride Parade on June 24. The woman, who claims that she was “blessed” to have two abortions, says that she is trying to push back against the…
Photo Credit: Johnny Marou JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – An Assemblies of God Nigerian pastor, his wife and son were among at least 218 people killed in Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacks on predominantly Christian areas near Jos on June 23-25, a denominational leader said. Two days after the general superintendent of the AG-Nigeria denomination, Pastor…
A viral video of a 10-year-old boy who identifies as a “LGBTQ activist and advocate” and a “drag kid” is raising concern as some state that children being taught about drag and homosexuality is inappropriate and a reflection of ungodly parenting. “I was born in Pride Month,” the child, who identifies as “Desmond Is Amazing,” stated in the video shared by The…
Photo Credit: YouTube screenshot/HillsongUnitedTV Joel Houston, band member and songwriter with Hillsong United and worship leader at Hillsong NYC, drew numerous questions among followers last week in claiming that evolution, being pursuant to God’s authority and creative Word, “is undeniable” and was “created by God.” The matter has left some confused, and some…
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A California woman allegedly had her boyfriend repeatedly punch her stomach to end the life of their 30-week-old (7 1/2 month) baby girl, but charges against the two are not yet certain as under California law, residents cannot be charged with the murder of an unborn child if “the act was solicited, aided, abetted, or consented to by the mother…
CARSON CITY, Nev. — A Nevada strip club owner who runs five brothels recently won in the Republican primary (Republican vs. Republican) for a state assembly seat, in part due to evangelicals who were willing to back the candidate despite his unscrupulous profession. The outcome has left some scratching their heads as to why professing Christians would compromise…
Jahi McMath, the teenage girl who had been at the center of a five-year debate on whether or not her condition met the clinical definition of brain death, has died following complications from liver failure. According to reports, McMath was recently removed from life support after suffering internal bleeding that stemmed from her liver condition. She died on…
Photo Credit: Gary Bridgman AUSTIN, Texas — A committee tasked with hearing desired revisions to the Book of Common Prayer listened to remarks on Wednesday from Episcopalian leaders and others who want to make the historical book’s text more gender-neutral by removing masculine nouns and pronouns for God and mankind. Some Episcopalians disagree, and have…
Photo Credit: China Aid ZHONGDIAN, Henan (China Aid) — Shi Xinping, leader of a house church in the city of Zongdian within Henan Province’s Qi County, received an administrative penalty notice and a fine of 50,000 yuan, which amounts to approximately $7,500. Authorities from the the ethnic and religious affairs committee in Henan Province’s Qi County…
(The Christian Institute) — Marmite has sparked criticism for launching a “spread love not hate” jar with a percentage of proceeds going to Stonewall. The Unilever-owned brand is donating up to £5,000 to the organization. On Twitter, one user asked, “Why is it deemed as hate to have a different opinion?,” while a Christian Institute supporter…
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