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January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was designated as such by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005 to mark the date when the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated sixty years prior. The hope is that the day of remembrance can commemorate the victims of the Nazi regime, promote education about the […]
Steve Parker | Screenshot: Facebook/Steve Parker Just over a year ago, as he was pictured on Facebook officiating a wedding, Washington pastor and grandfather Steve Parker was praised as an “amazing man of God.” Earlier this month, however, detectives in Skagit County arrested Parker, who allegedly had a stockpile of guns and drugs, after getting a […]
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 27, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A church pastor and three other Christians were killed in Sudan on Monday (Jan. 23) when suspected Islamic extremists shot them to death, an area source said. Four of the victims’ traveling companions were wounded when the assailants opened fire on the team at the facility […]
The Houck family | Give Send Go The jury in the case of pro-life advocate Mark Houck ended in a “deadlock” after two-and-a-half hours of deliberation Friday. Jurors will reconvene on Monday as the pro-life advocate awaits his fate in the case that could see him imprisoned for up to 11 years if found guilty […]
A sign hangs above a Planned Parenthood clinic on May 18, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois. | Scott Olson/Getty Images A Catholic priest was found guilty in federal court of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for placing locks on the entrance to a Long Island Planned Parenthood abortion facility in July […]
Enneagram figure with numbers from one to nine concerning the nine described types of personality around a rainbow gradient sphere. | Getty Images Responding to claims that the Enneagram personality test has demonic origins, Pastor John Starke has insisted that it’s a helpful tool for counselors and pastors and doesn’t believe churches and Christian groups […]
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives to watch U.S. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 20, 2015. | Reuters/Joshua Roberts A sculpture of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg atop a New York […]
A few months ago, a group called Humanists International updated their “defining statement of World Humanism.” Though they explicitly state that the statement “is not a creed,” it is—and it serves as an update to what’s known as “the Amsterdam Declaration,” the official statement of World Humanism, last updated in 2002. In that edition, […]
Brittney Marie Reynolds, 35, was accused of vandalizing St. Mary’s Cathedral of Fargo, North Dakota, while being topless and barefoot. | Screengrab: wsaw.com A woman has been accused of vandalizing a North Dakota church building while topless and barefoot, allegedly damaging a statue of Jesus in the process, according to authorities. Brittney Marie Reynolds, 35, […]
LAHORE, Pakistan, January 26, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Pakistan’s lower house of parliament has passed legislation to make the country’s blasphemy laws stricter even as their blatant misuse again came to light in a threat to falsely charge a Christian woman. The woman, a Catholic widow, was terrified after a Muslim colleague threatened to […]