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.
A recent survey testing Americans’ knowledge of religion found that non-Christians did better than Christians in answering questions about major faiths, while many could not even explain their own faith.
U.S. researchers in Boston say they have developed a technique that effectively converts human skin cells into stem cells, a development that could have both medical and political implications.
A pending bill that bars government funding for non-profits having religious requirements in their hiring process is a “serious assault” on faith-based charities, according to the senior vice president of the National Religious Broadcasters.
A jury acquitted four Christian missionaries accused of inciting a crowd while videotaping themselves proselytizing Muslims at the Dearborn Arab International Festival in June.
A Christian concert open to the public will be held at Fort Bragg despite protests from a national group that claims it’s a violation of the so-called separation between church and state.
House Republicans will unveil a “Pledge to America”, an ambitious and sweeping set of proposed changes, which proposes to shrink the size of government and reform Congress, Worthy News has learned.