You might think a candidate’s ouster from the post he is seeking to regain would play a central role in a statewide election. Yet Republican Roy Moore’s forced exit, almost a decade ago, as Alabama’s chief justice over a Ten Commandments monument seems only a murmur on the campaign trail. Voters don’t often ask about [...]

While a Ugandan pastor was fighting to retain sight in his remaining eye after an acid attack, Muslim extremists this month were shooting at his close friend, a leader of another church. Doctors at Sheba Hospital in Tel-Aviv, Israel, are still not sure what kind of chemicals Muslim extremists cast on Bishop Umar Mulinde of [...]

Judges in Turkey’s southeastern city of Malatya have announced the preparation of an indictment in the case of three murdered Christians that is expected to reveal a shadowy network that incited five young men to carry out the crime.   The Third Criminal Court of Malatya is expected to announce the indictment on April 9, [...]

A conservative Brazilian bishop who broke away from his church over the consecration of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire was found murdered with his wife in the northeastern town of Olinda, according to the diocese. Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti and his wife Miriam were found dead on Sunday (Feb. 26). Their adopted son, Eduardo, [...]

Evangelist Franklin Graham apologized tonight to President Obama for questioning his Christian faith and said religion has “nothing to do” with Graham’s decision not to support Obama’s re-election. Graham’s apology came after a group of prominent black religious leaders criticized the evangelist for saying he did not know whether Obama is a Christian and suggesting [...]

Police on Tuesday (Feb. 28) evicted scores of demonstrators from a makeshift tent city they had erected outside historic St. Paul’s Cathedral more than four months ago as part of a global protest against capitalism. After brief skirmishes in the operation that authorities launched before dawn, 20 protesters were arrested but most reacted largely peacefully [...]

By Benjamin O’Loughlin When a journalist gets his data wrong, that’s called bad research. But when a major newspaper weighs in on a nationwide debate and systematically distorts the issues at stake, that can’t be chalked up to human error. A Feb. 16 article in the NY Times (here) is guilty on two counts. First of all, [...]

By Father Nathan Miller Although the over sexualization of our culture has seeped into many a child’s box of toys, parents would continue to answer with an emphatic “NO” to the following 2 questions:“Would you invite a 20-year-old, over endowed model to come into your daughter’s room to be admired for her body and dress? Would you [...]

Tensions are still high in a village near here following Muslims’ attempt to seize land from a Christian family by threatening to accuse them of “blasphemy.” What began on Feb. 19 as a quarrel over a pigeon between Christian and Muslim youths at Nawa Pind Sabu Mohal village, in Sialkot’s Pasroor area in northeast Punjab [...]

There’s a popular saying in church-planting circles: It’s easier to make babies than to raise the dead. That principle applies to denominations as well, said the Rev. Paul Detterman, who helped found the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians in January. “We thought it was easier in the long run to create something new rather than [...]