Boy Scouts now allow transgender boys

February 12, 2017

IRVING, Texas — The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced Jan. 30 it will accept transgender children who identify as boys into its historically boys-only

Suspects charged with burning homes acquitted

February 11, 2017

LAHORE, Pakistan — A judge in Pakistan recently acquitted all 115 suspects charged with burning more than 150 homes belonging to Christians in 2013, according

Trump’s LGBTQ support unsettles conservatives

February 11, 2017

WASHINGTON — On Jan. 31, President Donald Trump announced he was continuing the executive order by former President Barack Obama that protects gay and transgender

Missing assistant pastors found in Burmese prison

February 11, 2017

MAE SOT, Thailand — Two Baptist pastors who had disappeared Dec. 24, 2016, after visiting a military base in northeastern Burma have been located. On

Mexico Christian jailed for refusing to deny faith

February 11, 2017

RANCHERIA EL ENCANTO, Mexico — A Christian in Mexico’s Chiapas State was summarily jailed for three days the evening of Jan. 7 for refusing to

Several missing after Muslim mob attacks prayer meeting

February 10, 2017

KATIRA, Uganda — A pastor in eastern Uganda and eight other Christians are missing two weeks after a Muslim mob attacked a church prayer meeting,

Steve Marshall appointed Alabama attorney general

February 10, 2017

MONTGOMERY (TAB) — Steve Marshall of Marshall County has been appointed Alabama’s new attorney general, according to a late afternoon Feb. 10 news release from Gov. Robert Bentley’s