Last year, New Orleans’ Mayor Mitch Landrieu approved a ban prohibiting loitering on Bourbon Street “for the purpose of disseminating any social, political or religious message between the hours of sunset and sunrise.”
A joint report by Liberty Institute and the Family Research Council shows that anti-Christian persecution is not only increasing in America, but that it’s coming from our own government.
Arizona Pastor Michael Salman is looking at more than three years of probation along with monthly inspections because of the Bible study he led in his Phoenix home.
The city of Buffalo has agreed with a court order preventing its officials from removing a Christian from this year’s Italian Festival for speaking about his faith.
A federal judge in Virginia proposed that a dispute over the display of the Ten Commandments at a public high school be resolved by removing the four Commandments that mention God.
About 100 high school students stormed-out of a national journalism conference after an anti-bullying speaker became belligerent, attacking the Bible and calling anyone who walked-out on his rant “pansy assed.”
While participating in a Halloween parade dressed as “Zombie Muhammad,” the Pennsylvania State Director of American Atheists was assaulted by a Muslim male. Although the attack was videotaped and witnessed by police, the charges were dismissed by Judge Mark Martin.
The Barna Group recently surveyed Americans who attended church and reported on their worship experiences.
Christians around the world were among those remembering the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States, but pastors expressed concerns that in New York no clergy-led prayer was included in a ceremony near where the World Trade Center towers collapsed.
Yet another case of academic alien-ation in Roswell, New Mexico?
A lawsuit by Liberty Counsel alleges that the Roswell Independent School District retaliated against a school Christian group by suspending its members after giving Krispy Kreme doughnuts with Bible verses to their teachers; one student was sent home and two others spent a Saturday morning alone in a classroom for four hours.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Pastor John Hagee and radio personality Glenn Beck all spoke to Israel’s Christian supporters during the sixth annual “Christians United for Israel” summit at the Convention Center in Washington, D.C..
Although a memo circulated by the Alliance Defense Fund assured scrupulous New York State license clerks that they can delegate the issuance of same-sex marriage licenses to another clerk, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice disagreed.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the economy will face “calamity” if congressional Republicans and President Obama cannot reach an agreement to raise the legal limit on borrowing.
Ohio Republicans recently passed a bill that prohibits abortions if a fetal heartbeat is discernible.
Texas will soon become the largest state to defund Planned Parenthood after its Republican majority legislature recently passed Senate Bill 7, a health care bill that prevents the nation’s largest abortion provider from receiving state family funds.
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has formally launched her campaign for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. Bachmann is not the best known Republican running for president for next year, but she does have a growing national following among conservative voters who are looking for an alternative to the current front runner, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
This past Friday, Planned Parenthood’s request to block a provision of an Indiana law that requires doctors to tell women who are seeking abortions that “human physical life begins when a human ovum is fertilized by a human sperm” was denied by U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt.
The first American evangelist to openly preach in Vietnam since 1975 says thousands of people have “committed” their lives to Jesus Christ at meetings that were nearly halted by Vietnamese authorities.
The Centers for Disease Control has recently published a report stating that two more women in the United States have died as a result of using the abortion drug RU 486. The report was issued mere days after the 10 year anniversary of the FDA’s approval of the drug.
New numbers posted today on the Treasury Department website show the National Debt has increased by more than $3 trillion since President Obama took office.