Christian Newswire

Planned Parenthood Runs for Cover

NOCROSS, Ga., -- Today, National Personhood Alliance (NPA) President Molly Smith accused Planned Parenthood of a desperate attempt to further hide the truth about abortion.

NRB Concerned by Private Deal for Church Scrutiny

MANASSAS, Va., -- NRB expressed concern today with reports that the IRS has struck a private deal that could lead to censorship of free speech and religious expression in churches and other houses of worship.

Concerned Catholics Tell Knights of Columbus Annual Convention: Expel Your Pro-Abortion Politicians Now

"Why do the Knights of Columbus keep refusing to expel the pro-abortion, pro-homosexual-agenda politicians they harbor in their midst?" asks Kenneth M. Fisher, head of Concerned Roman Catholics of America. Says Fisher, "The Knights' 132nd Annual Supreme Convention, in Orlando this August 2-7, is the perfect time for them to live up to their Catholic ideals, and their own rules, by deciding to kick out the bad guys." However, perhaps the reason they won't abide by their own Constitutions Article 162-7 is that it may cost them their tax exemption that would endanger their Supreme Officers lucrative salaries including Supreme Knight, Carl Anderson's over 2.1 Million dollar/yr. compensation!

War on Real Christianity Spreading, U.S. Seen as Chief Facilitator

CRANE, Mo., -- In January this year (2014), the Pew Research Center (PRC)--a prestigious think tank based in Washington, DC (which provides information on social issues and demographic trends shaping the world)--published its report, "Religious Hostilities Reach Six-Year High."

Civic Center OKs Satanic Black Mass: Protest Swells Past 37,000

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., -- The long-standing notion that America is "one nation under God" is under attack in Oklahoma City after city officials okayed a satanic black mass at the Civic Center on September 21.

Meriam Unshackled; Flies to Freedom After Long Wait

SANTA ANA, Calif., -- The long, torturous wait is over.

Caught on Camera: Jackson, MS Police Stand By as Protester Dismantles and Steals Pro-Life Display

COLUMBUS, Ohio, -- On Thursday July 17, 2014, Created Equal visited Jackson, MS, site of the state's last remaining abortion facility as part of Day 4 of our Summer Justice Ride. Upon arrival, and despite several attempts by Created Equal's Mark Harrington to convince police to intervene, our property was stolen while police stood idly by.

Open Doors Providing Food, Water for Christians, Others Fleeing Mosul

SANTA ANA, Calif., -- The occupation of the Iraqi city of Mosul by violent extremist Muslims of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) forced up to 3,000 Christian families out of their houses on June 9. Most of them fled to the safer northern Kurdish area.

U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Pro-Life Sidewalk Counseling

WASHINGTON, -- America's foremost grassroots pro-life activist organization is applauding today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in McCullen v. Coakley. The nation's high court struck down the restrictive Massachusetts abortion clinic buffer zone law, allowing pro-life sidewalk counselors to resume sharing life-saving alternatives with abortion bound women.

WWII Memorial Prayer Act Passes U.S. House of Representatives, Now on its Way to the President's Desk

AKRON, Ohio, The U.S. House of Representatives passed by a bipartisan majority The WWII Memorial Prayer Act (S1044). The Ohio Christian Alliance would like to commend the bill's sponsors, Senator Rob Portman (OH) and Senator Mary Landrieu (LA), and Congressman Bill Johnson of Ohio's 6th District, who was the House sponsor for their support of this historic legislation that will add FDR's D-Day Landing prayer to the WWII memorial in Washington D.C.

SF Archbishop Schools Pelosi on Marriage Tolerance

Prime opportunity to model how to defend marriage from the vicious methods of pro-homosexual activists

Christians in Jordan and Lebanon Embrace Syrian Refugees Despite Opposition

Bible Society of Jordan

Impact of 2001 U. S. Supreme Court Ruling on Public Schools

WARRENTON, Mo. -- It has been thirteen years since the Supreme Court ruling permitting Good News Clubs to meet after hours in public schools. What circumstances led to this case and has the ruling proven beneficial to our public school children?

Pro-Life Political Speech Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court

WASHINGTON,-- Today the United States Supreme Court upheld the First Amendment right to free speech as applied to pro-life political speech in Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus. The controversial case sprung from the Ohio election commission's decision that the pro-life advocacy organization's statements about an incumbent Congressman's voting record were a violation of state law.

Strip Club in Nuns' Backyard Violates Illinois Zoning Law

CHICAGO, -- The Thomas More Society has filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo, the Village of Melrose Park, and Melrose Park residents against Get It/Club Allure and the Village of Stone Park. The Club Allure strip club opened across the back fence and adjacent to the convent and, as the suit filed Friday alleges, in violation of Illinois zoning law.

Iraq: Christians Join Massive Exodus from Mosul

SANTA ANA, -- "If this continues, Mosul soon will be emptied of Christians. This could be the last migration of Christians from Mosul."

Black, Franks Lead Bipartisan Effort to Call on Harry Reid to Bring the 'Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act' to a Vote

WASHINGTON, -- Today, Reps. Diane Black (R-TN-06) and Trent Franks (R-AZ-08) led a bipartisan effort of 105 Members of the House to send a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) urging him to allow for a vote in the Senate on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

D-Day 70th Anniversary Prayer Storm

HIDDEN VALLEY LAKE, Calif., -- On Friday, June 6, 2014, many of "His people, called by His name" in over 30 nations will be part of a "Prayer Storm" to "scale the cliffs and attack evil" -- in their lives and in their nations -- in the same way that thousands of brave men took the cliffs of Normandy in WWII.

Bogus Trespass Charges Dismissed Against Pro-Life Advocate in Sioux City, Iowa

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, -- Attorneys from the Thomas More Society successfully defended pro-life sidewalk counselor Peggy McGinty against spurious trespass charges brought by the Sioux City Planned Parenthood. McGinty has been providing peaceful, pro-life sidewalk counseling outside Planned Parenthood's Sioux City, Iowa facility for 14 years. In December 2013, Planned Parenthood persuaded city authorities to bring criminal trespass charges against her after she drove into its parking lot and quickly turned around. Thomas More Society attorneys won a dismissal of her case last week, on May 22, without trial, when Planned Parenthood's witness failed to appear.

Legal Defenders of Traditional Marriage Back Nebraska's Refusal to Grant Same-Sex Divorce

OMAHA, Neb., -- Yesterday, the Nebraska Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Nichols v. Nichols, a same-sex divorce appeal that challenges Nebraska's marriage law. Attorney Martin Cannon of the Thomas More Society-Omaha branch, filed an amicus brief earlier this month in support of Nebraska's Constitution. In 2000, Nebraska citizens voted with a 70-30 margin, to amend the Constitution to reserve marriage to unions between a man and a woman.