The number of congregations that have left the United Methodist Church (UMC) amid the schism over the denomination’s stance on homosexuality has passed the 7,000 mark. The number of churches that have disaffiliated from the UMC since 2019 reached 7,286,
The son of a co-founder of Hamas blasted the terror organization in a blistering half-hour speech at the United Nations. Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, defected from the terrorist group in the late ’90s
Christian persecution is raging across the globe, with a new report finding an estimated 200 to 300 million Christians worldwide face some form of rebuke for their beliefs. Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern (ICC) and one of the
City officials in Bethlehem are taking down Christmas decorations as a show of “solidarity” with Palestinians and the city’s majority Muslim populace. Municipality crews in Bethlehem “announced the dismantling of Christmas decorations installed several years ago in the city’s neighbourhoods
Gender confused men have been banned from playing in international women’s matches, the International Cricket Council has announced. Men who pretend to be women will not be eligible for women’s internationals regardless of any surgery or treatment undertaken under the
A Change in Focus In 2008 Jon Stanhope, the chief Minister of the ACT Labor Government, helped set up the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body. He hoped to improve the lives of Canberra’s 9500 Indigenous population, but
Victoria’s Jewish leaders and community members are questioning why a group of more than 20 neo-Nazis were allowed to march through the streets of Ballarat recently, amid calls to outlaw the “glorification of Nazism” in Victoria. The men, dressed in
The ACT has become the first jurisdiction in the nation to increase the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14, igniting concerns that young teenagers could be “manipulated by adult offenders or serious organised crime syndicates”. ACT Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury
Grade-school children in a Washington state school won’t be taught to honour those who have served our country. Instead of a Veterans Day celebration, the school has a peace and tolerance assembly. The school-wide gathering was scheduled for November 15
In a clip heard ’round the western Christian world, Andy Stanley seemed to suggest in 2018 that believers ought to “unhitch” themselves from the Old Testament. While the megachurch preacher later claimed the widely condemned statement was stripped of its
