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“Please join me in praying that the Outer Banks and all the other communities in the hurricane’s path are spared from major damage,” asked Tom Crabtree, anchor at WSPA-TV News in Spartanburg, S.C., Thursday night. “My heart goes out to the beautiful Outer Banks of my native North Carolina. I pray the impact of Hurricane Irene this…

As Hurricane Irene continues to churn northward along the Atlantic coast, the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief network is at work, alerting volunteers and planning how and where to deploy Southern Baptist DR units even before the hurricane slams into the East Coast, reports Mickey Noah for the Baptist Press news service. Staff members at the…

Priests and church members in China’s immense underground Catholic Church were arrested this weekend in the community of Tianshui — as the Chinese government continues its persecution of Christians. Among those rounded up were the administrator of the underground diocese, Father John Baptist Wang Ruohan, retired Bishop Casmir Wang Milu, Father John Wang Ruowang, as well as several other priests…

Although abortion is frequently labeled an essential component of women’s health care, a newly published study casts new light on the procedure’s actual acceptance level among America’s obstetricians and gynecologists . According to a study published in Obstetrics and Gynecology Journal, 97 percent of obstetricians and gynecologists have met with patients wanting an abortion, but only 14…

With the unveiling of the new Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Washington this week, it’s important to take a moment to understand the profound impact Dr. King has on the Christian conservative movement, writes Jordan Sekulow in the Washington Post‘s On Faith section. “No one can question Dr. King’s commitment to fighting for the…

A social studies teacher who was suspended from the classroom due to comments he made on his private Facebook page condemning same-sex “marriage” is now being allowed to return to his teaching duties. Jerry Buell’s re-instatement was announced in a press release issued by Liberty Counsel, the non-profit legal organization that represented him when the…

The Department of Justice is under fire for taking the bold step of sending armed agents into the factories of Gibson Guitar in Nashville and Memphis to seize what it is convinced is  illegal ebony, according to the news website Red States. Gibson explains: The Federal Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. has suggested that the…

Ahmad Shaja’i, the country’s chief of forensic medicine, has told the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) that suicides increased nearly 5 percent since last year, with 952 Iranians taking their lives during the first quarter of the Iranian year, which began in March, compared with 870 the same time last year. More than 70 percent…

“We grow up learning that some things are just bad: child labor, ticket scalping, price gouging, kidney selling, blackmail,” writes ABC journalist and 20/20 co-host John Stossel. “But maybe they’re not.” How can anybody defend child labor? Stossel seems to enjoy challenging political correctness. “What I love about economics is that it can show that what seems harmful is actually…

Using familiar tactics of threatening small school districts with expensive litigation, the American Civil Liberties Union has launched a new campaign to force schools to give students access to internet pornography. The ACLU has made its mark in American history campaigning to force Christianity out of the schools. Now, it is pressuring public schools to disable web filters…
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