Planned Parenthood caught bypassing laws
May 21, 2009
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Planned Parenthood has again been caught seeking to circumvent the law — this time at a Memphis affiliate. Live Action, a California-based
Indonesian mayor revokes church building permit
May 21, 2009
DEPOK, Indonesia — Church members in Depok, West Java, are unable to use their church building after the mayor, citing protests from area Muslims, revoked
Evangelical global-warming skeptics hire lobbyist
May 21, 2009
WASHINGTON — As Congress debates clean-energy legislation, a conservative Christian group is ramping up lobbying efforts to raise questions about the science of climate change.
Maine becomes fifth state to allow gay marriage
May 21, 2009
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. John Baldacci signed legislation May 6 that makes Maine the fifth U.S. state to allow same-sex “marriages” and only the second
Islamic women turn to Christianity, face persecution
May 21, 2009
SINAR, Sudan — When Halima Bubkier of Sinar converted from Islam to Christianity in 2008, her husband initially accepted it without qualms. News of her
Worldwide Church of God receives new name
May 14, 2009
GLENDORA, Calif. — The Worldwide Church of God, which re-examined and later rebuked the teachings of founder Herbert W. Armstrong after his death in 1986,
Appeal by marijuana-smoking ‘ministers’ denied
May 14, 2009
HAMILTON, Ontario — Two self-styled ministers who say smoking marijuana is a church sacrament have lost their bid to use and distribute marijuana while they
Five Catholic Christians shot in Iraqi homes
May 14, 2009
KIRKUK, Iraq — Gunmen in Iraq shot five Chaldean Catholic Christians in their Kirkuk homes April 26 in two separate attacks, killing three and injuring
