“I killed my daughter as she had insulted all of our family by marrying a man without our consent, and I have no regret over it,” police investigator Rana Mujahid quoted him as saying. Parveen was attacked as she and her husband, Mohammad Iqbal, arrived at the gates of the Lahore High Court. They went... Continue Reading

“In several countries throughout the world, men, and especially women, are victimized regularly by Islamic and Sharia-inspired law,” said ICC’s Cameron Thomas. “Meriam, the pregnant wife of an American citizen and mother to an infant toddler, epitomizes innocence, and so the abominable charges leveled against her and others stand out even more so when leveled... Continue Reading

The thing is that activists can redefine pregnancy all they want and it won’t change the central issue at hand — the question of whether it’s ok to end the life of a genetically distinct human. We won’t resolve that debate any time soon, but obscuring the facts on when and how human life begins... Continue Reading

“The house churches are not legally protected, so authorities can tolerate them one day and shut them down the next, if political orders came down to tighten up. The Party is under increasing pressure to change the way it regards the desire for faith; China today has sixty to eighty million Christians, a community as... Continue Reading

Ryan Bomberger, the founder of the pro-life group Radiance Foundation, wrote an article on LifeNews.com in January 2013 entitled “NAACP: National Association for the Abortion of Colored People,” which pointed out the organization’s ongoing support for pro-abortion groups. The cause is personal to Bomberger, who was conceived through rape.   (WNS)–A U.S. district court judge... Continue Reading

The United Nations Human Rights Council estimates that more than 140 million girls will be married before their 18th birthdays over the next decade and that almost 50 percent of these child brides are in South Asia. Child marriage can have devastating consequences for these women.   Lahore, Pakistan (RNS) When police raided a marriage... Continue Reading

What really happened here was when we were announced in New York City at the upfront—our show was announced, we weren’t in attendance, but our show was announced—that’s when the Right Wing Watch and GLAAD (formerly the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) decided we’re going to go on a smear campaign and try to... Continue Reading

Boko Haram’s campaign against Christians dates back to at least 2005, when the group began kidnapping pastors. In 2009, militants beheaded Nigerian pastor George Ojih after he refused to convert to Islam. The years that followed brought more attacks on government buildings, schools, and churches, and more executions of Christians, particularly men with large families.... Continue Reading

Christians form the largest non-Muslim religious minority in the Middle East, totaling about 15 million. The majority of those live in Egypt, Iraq, and Syria, which is why the group chose to highlight those three countries, said Nina Shea, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom. “What is happening in Egypt,... Continue Reading

The problem with trying to eliminate metaphysics from science is that, as the French philosopher Émile Meyerson argued a century ago, history never exhibits such a tidy distinction between “metaphysics” and “science.” Newton invoked divine intervention to explain his concept of an invisible force acting instantaneously across great distances, considered space to be an attribute... Continue Reading