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HYDERABAD, India, August 24, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Police in India have issued questionnaires to at least 40 churches in Indore, Madhya Pradesh state seeking information that Christians fear will be used by Hindu extremists to attack them, sources said. The questionnaires are intrusive and discriminatory, as they were sent only to Christians, church […]
Debt collection services, not religious beliefs, fueled decision, bank says A Bank of America branch in Austin, Texas, August 13, 2011. | iStock/robwilson39 Did Bank of America discriminate against a Tennessee ministry over its Christian views or was it simply a business matter? Steve Happ, board member and founder of Indigenous Advance, a Memphis-based charity […]
Father Kent (Owen Wilson) is confronted by two spirits in “Haunted Mansion.” | Screenshot: YouTube/@DisneyMovieTrailers The Bible precludes Christians from engaging in divination (supernatural attempts to retrieve information), necromancy (communicating with the dead), and other such antics. Yet these themes and practices are apparently alive and well in “Haunted Mansion,” a new Disney film in […]
Getty Images/Kevin Winter Are aliens real? Do UFOs really exist? These questions, once relegated to the confines of conspiratorial enterprises, are now legitimately being pondered among some scientists, academics — and even in the halls of Congress. It’s an issue Dr. Hugh Ross, an astrophysicist and apologist, has long researched and explored. “I became a […]
Are aliens real? Do UFOs really exist? These questions, once relegated to the confines of conspiratorial enterprises, are now legitimately being pondered among some scientists, academics — and even in the halls of Congress. It’s an issue Dr. Hugh Ross, an astrophysicist and apologist, has long researched and explored. “I became a UFO expert, but […]
Everett Osborne stars in “Sweetwater” | Briarcliff Entertainment In 1950, Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, became the first black man to sign a contract in the NBA, breaking the longstanding color barrier and forever changing the game of basketball. Despite his undeniable impact on sports, Clifton’s story — and the pivotal role his faith played in his […]
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 23, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims at an open-air evangelistic event in eastern Uganda on Aug. 11 assaulted a preacher and more than 20 other Christians for his teaching about Christ’s divinity, sources said. Robert Faisali Miya, a 34-year-old father of four, was also struck with a thorny object and […]
NBA star Jonathan Isaac speaks at the UNITAS launch in Orlando, Florida, on July 29, 2023. | UNITAS NBA player Jonathan Isaac is combatting the mainstream rhetoric against Christianity by launching his clothing brand UNITUS to celebrate faith, family and the power of people coming together in the name of “true greatness.” Isaac, a 25-year-old […]
Summerville-based Dorchester School District Two executive session, Aug. 14, 2023. | Screengrab: ddtwo.org A Christian conservative legal group is encouraging a South Carolina school board to continue allowing members to open meetings with prayer after a secular legal organization demanded that the tradition be halted earlier this month. The First Liberty Institute, a legal nonprofit […]
Flickr Commons/Joe Gratz A jury in Maryland has awarded more than $1 million in damages to the family and estate of a pastor who died from an injury due to negligence on the part of a nursing home. In a decision entered last week, a Baltimore County jury awarded the family and estate of Pastor […]