Christian Newswire

‘NAACP Forsakes Tonya Reaves and Natural Marriage, Favors Reproductive Genocide,’

ATLANTA, -- "In the wake of seemingly endless moral debacles such as Planned Parenthood's slaughter of Tonya Reaves, a young Chicago mother, and Washington's almost manic stronghold tactics to weaken natural marriage, thousands of African Americans are outraged by the NAACP's support of abortion and homosexual marriage," says civil rights activist and minister Dr. Alveda King.

Poll Finds More than 8 in 10 Americans Favor Significant Abortion Restrictions

NEW HAVEN, Conn., -- Four decades after the Supreme Court's controversial decision in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion throughout the United States, a new KofC-Marist Poll shows that more than 8 in 10 Americans (83 percent) favor significant restrictions.

PFL Secures Religious Freedom Exemption

WASHINGTON, -- Priests for Life has scored a victory in its challenge to the religious-freedom-busting HHS mandate. Lawyers for the Obama administration stipulated that the pro-life organization would not have to offer contraception, sterilization services and abortifacient drugs through its employee health insurance plan.

Planned Parenthood: More Dead Children and Largest Budget Ever

FRONT ROYAL, Va., -- "For decades now, Planned Parenthood has operated the most proficient killing machine in the United States," said Douglas R. Scott, Jr., president of the Planned Parenthood watchdog organization Life Decisions International (LDI). "And the machine has set yet another record."

Catholic Health Insurance Company Granted Temporary Relief from HHS Mandate

CHICAGO, Yesterday Triune Health Group, Inc., a Roman Catholic health care service company based in DuPage County, Illinois, won a preliminary injunction against the Obama Administration's Health and Human Services mandate for group insurance coverage of sterilization, abortifacients, and contraception. Triune, recently named by Crain's Chicago Business as the Best Place to Work for Women in the Chicago metro area, will be permitted to offer its employees a healthcare plan without having to violate its leaders' sincerely held religious beliefs.

Terrorists Slashing Throats of Nigerian-Christians

NEW YORK, -- We had warned that Boko Haram would continue its tradition of killing Nigerian Christians on Christmas day. Last week marked the third straight year that the terror group has murdered Nigerian Christians in the church on a Christmas day.

Civil Rights Attorneys for Roman Catholic Owners of Healthcare Management Business

CHICAGO, -- Attorneys for Jubilee Campaign's Law of Life Project and Thomas More Society await decisions by federal and state courts on their motions for preliminary injunction to stop the State of Illinois and the Federal Government from imposing confiscatory fines and other legal sanctions on a Roman Catholic health management company for exercising their state and federal free exercise of religion rights not to be forced to pay for abortifacients, sterilization, contraception and the related counseling now being imposed upon non-exempt businesses by state and federal law.

Syrian Christians Preparing for Somber Christmas

SANTA ANA, Calif., -- "Silent night, Holy night, all is calm, all is bright..." Many Christians all over the world will sing this Christmas carol in the next few days. Millions look forward to Christmas. What about the Syrian Christians in the midst of a terrible civil war? Will they have the "heavenly peace" this Christmas classic speaks about?

ChinaAid Obtains Secret Central Committee Document Ordering Crackdown on Evangelism

BEIJING, -- ChinaAid on Tuesday released a secret Communist Party Central Committee document it had obtained that contains detailed instructions for a nationwide crackdown on evangelism on college and university campuses and among students, confirming that China's leadership at the highest levels is behind the increased Christian persecution of recent years.

Human Trafficking Border Interception Programs Greatly Exceed Expectations

FRANKLIN, Tenn., -- Free for Life International is pleased to report that the results for their partner border monitoring interception programs for the current year are in. They can now share that 150 girls were rescued from slavery in combined efforts between their two existing border stations. Free for Life Intl, along with their partners Peace Rehabilitation Center, operate these programs along the Nepal border. They also are celebrating the capture of 17 traffickers this year through this project. These border stations are among the most effective anti-trafficking programs in this part of the world.

Pro-Life Action League Goes Christmas Caroling at Chicago-Area Abortion Facilities

CHICAGO, -- Sometimes a song can save a life. That's what happened one year during the Pro-Life Action League's annual "Empty Manger" Christmas Caroling Day at abortion facilities in Chicago and the western suburbs.

A Clash of Organizations in the War on Christmas and the Good Guys Win—Nativity Returns

ANN ARBOR, Mich., -- On Saturday morning, December 15th, John Satawa with the help of family and friends and the Boy Scouts once again erected the Nativity on a public median in Warren, Michigan. The joyous occasion was the culmination of a four year legal battle in defense of the Nativity waged by the Thomas More Law Center against the County Road Commission and the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Charities Hold Their Collective Breath Wondering if They’ll Go Over the Cliff

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., -- All over the country, charities are holding their breath and hoping they don't get pushed over the fiscal cliff and possibly die a slow death. Joy Junction, New Mexico's largest homeless shelter, is no different.

Rape Conception Panel Formed

HOUSTON, -- CHOICES4LIFE, founded February 2012 is devoted to bringing awareness to the rape conception issue and has formed a panel addressing the issues of rape pregnancy. This powerful team speaks personally on every aspect of this issue in a private or public forum. One woman speaks on regretting aborting her baby, another was pregnant by her father at twelve, another was conceived in incest, still another mother raised her child and Juda Myers, founder of CHOICES4LIFE was conceived in an eight man gang rape. No longer does society have to speculate what mothers and children of rape conception think or feel. They can hear it straight from the victims.

Coptic Solidarity Calls for a Protest on December 8 Against Morsi’s Dictatorial Grab of Power

WASHINGTON, -- The Egyptian Front for National Salvation and Coptic Solidarity call for a demonstration in Washington, D.C., on Saturday December 8 to condemn the power grab and other illegitimate measures taken by President Mohammad Morsi of Egypt.

Groups to Display Nativity Scene in Palisades Park, Santa Monica, Saturday, December 8th

SANTA MONICA, Calif., -- Faith groups to set up "Live Nativity" in Palisades Park after the City of Santa Monica and a federal judge banned Nativity Displays that had been in the park for 59 consecutive years.

Extreme Rescuer Launches Nationwide

ATLANTA, -- Extreme Rescuer will launch this Friday at 8am on INSP (The Inspirational Networks, Inc.). The first ever docu-reality series captures the rescue of children in remote regions around the world.

Why is the United Nations Foundation Bashing Pro-Life Advocates?

WASHINGTON, -- The United Nations is singing Attorney General Eric Holder's praises, both inaccurately and inappropriately, via its United Nations Foundation blog, Reproductive Health Reality Check (also known as RH Reality Check). The blog is authored by Jessica Mason Pieklo, RH Reality Check, Senior Legal Analyst, who identifies herself online by the handle "Hegemommy," and confesses, "My feminism [is] not always on target, and my politics [are] not always appropriate. I sometimes behave badly." Pieklo's November 26 opinion piece on Holder confirms the blogger's self-admitted shortcomings.

Senate Rejects UN Disability Treaty

WASHINGTON, -- Today the U.S. Senate rejected ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), having been involved in the negotiations of the Disability treaty at the UN in 2006, alerted senators to numerous problems with the treaty, specifically its threat to unborn children and to U.S. sovereignty.

Senate Expected to Vote on Tuesday to Surrender U.S. Sovereignty

PURCELLVILLE, Va., -- Senate offices confirm that Majority Leader Harry Reid will move to a final vote at noon this Tuesday on a U.N. treaty that will give up our sovereignty to unelected, unaccountable UN bureaucrats.