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Pro-Christian remarks bring condemnation

Jody Brown — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

A California mayor has been formally condemned for remarks he made about "growing a Christian community."

Pastor: Threats against Rifqa serious

Jody Brown — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

A former Muslim who is now a Christian pastor is convinced that 17-year-old Christian convert Rifqa Bary, if returned to her parent's custody, would be on the first plane back to her native Sri Lanka.

DoD reflects Obama's view on abortion

Jody Brown — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Conservative military watchdog Elaine Donnelly is personally troubled about a recent Defense Department decision to allow military health facilities to stock the "morning-after pill."

Vote and stay sought in DC marriage debacle

Jody Brown — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

The Alliance Defense Fund is appealing the latest pronouncement denying voters in Washington, DC, the opportunity to vote to overturn a decision by the city council to approve homosexual "marriage."

Baptist missionaries get new attorney

Jody Brown — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

The new attorney for ten Baptist missionaries charged with kidnapping in Haiti insists they had correct papers allowing the children to be taken into the Dominican Republic.

Science teacher accused of religion lessons

Jody Brown — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

The American Civil Liberties Union says a science instructor at Fresno City College is illegally teaching religious views on homosexuality and abortion as fact.

Can same-sex attraction be changed?

Jody Brown — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Thanks to a mainstream media that values political correctness more than truth, some subjects are virtually off-limits.

Homosexual family law

Jody Brown — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Homosexuality is what a person does, not who a person is -- and failing to understand that has tragic implications for both the family and society at large.

Commandments display ignores GA law

Jody Brown — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Officials in Georgia's Tattnall County say they didn't know they were running afoul of state law when they let members of a Baptist church hang a framed copy of the Ten Commandments inside the county courthouse last week.

U.S. should promote religious rights abroad

Jody Brown — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Members of Congress have been told that U.S. foreign policy should place greater importance on whether nations respect their citizens' religious rights.

India rebuffs IPCC, goes solo

Jody Brown — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

India is establishing its own body to monitor the effects of climate change, claiming it "cannot rely" on the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Some 'vegetative state' patients have active minds

Jody Brown — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Research now shows that people diagnosed in a vegetative state may not necessarily be in that condition after all.

Churches torched, spirits unquenched

Jody Brown — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

A series of church fires across Texas have been ruled the result of arson.

Muslim man wins discrimination case in Sweden

Jody Brown — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Sweden's unemployment agency has been found guilty of discrimination for expelling a Muslim man from a job training program because he refused to shake hands with a woman.

Inmate denied access to sermon CDs

Jody Brown — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

The Rutherford Institute has filed suit against the Virginia prison system it says has violated an inmate's constitutional right to practice his religion.

On the gaming front in Illinois, Alabama

Jody Brown — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

A national anti-gambling group is focusing on an Illinois proposal to tax local governments that have rejected video gambling. At the same time, a group that supports an expansion of gambling in Alabama is being accused of airing dishonest and slanderous ads.