Is faith in God just a holdover from our evolutionary past? . . . Once upon a time on the African Serengeti, our Australopithecine great-great-grandparents heard a rustle in the tall grass. Those who shrugged it off were frequently killed and eaten by lions. But those who got spooked and ran away survived to pass […]
Hundreds of Christian fighters from across Syria have united to defend a biblical Syrian Christian town from being conquered by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant terrorist organization, the head of the Syriac Orthodox church has said. As ISIL militants continue to push west toward the Syrian capital of Damascus, they began an offensive […]
By Sarah Conly China has just announced that it is giving up its infamous one-child policy. While the Chinese government has been creating more exceptions to the one-child rule in recent years, this is the first time officials have announced that all couples may have two children if they so choose. The change is being […]
A comprehensive study released by the Pew Research Center analyzing various questions surrounding Americans’ relationship with religion has found that adults continue to overwhelmingly believe in God, but that support is declining. The poll also found that a majority American Christians now support homosexuality. Statistics from the 2014 Religious Landscape Study, which polled 35,000 American […]
Sister Hayat, a 30-year-old Iraqi nun, lived a quiet life of devotion in a Dominican monastery near Mosul, Iraq. She helped care for children in an orphanage and also taught anthropology at a local university. Then ISIL jihadists overran the city. “When we realized that running was our only option, all the nuns packed a […]
An elderly Christian woman who was stabbed multiple times during a terrorist attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, that left two people dead and at least 16 others injured on Tuesday says she is convinced she is alive today because she called on Jesus as her attacker plunged his blade into her body. According […]
Christian refugees who have managed to flee the Islamic State terror group in Syria have revealed in a testimony video that the jihadists are trafficking captured men and children to a so-called “school of death” where they carry out beheadings and sell young girls at a slave market. “When we were in Syria they put […]
The Pope met privately with Kim Davis and her husband, Joe, at the Vatican Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Sept. 24. [According to published reports, the Vatican reached out privately to Kim Davis who was recently imprisoned for her refusal to issue marriage certificates to same-sex couples.] During the meeting Pope Francis said, “Thank […]
While President Obama was escorting Pope Francis today, cameras captured the president appearing to wear horns, and from more than one angle. This led to a series of blog posts and tweets. Said Ron Dyer: “But ALL things that are reproved are made visible by the Light…” ~, Ephesians 5 : 13 Sometimes a picture […]
Evangelist Franklin Graham has called President Obama’s guest list for Pope Francis’ welcome this week “disgraceful and obviously inappropriate,” even as the Vatican has reportedly objected to the White House’s invitation to transgender activists, an openly gay bishop and supporters of abortion and euthanasia. The guest list for a planned event at the White House’s […]