“I don’t think this is the kind of decision that makes or breaks a civilization, but I don’t want to underestimate what it means symbolically,” said Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a popular evangelical commentator. “It’s further evidence of the loss of a commitment to the natural family that will... Continue Reading

While North Korea remains No. 1 because of its total repression of faith, the organization reports in its 2011 listing of dangers, “the most dangerous countries in which to practice Christianity are overwhelmingly Islamic.” North Korea, that reclusive, violent nation where dictator Kim Jong-il demands his subjects worship him and often executes those who don’t,... Continue Reading

“So many have said abortion must be rare. 87,000 abortions in this city is not rare. It’s an abysmal failure…” The report, recently released by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, said that of 225,667 pregnancies in 2009, there were 87,273 abortions. A new report has found that 41% of babies... Continue Reading

Last April, the U.S. Supreme Court permitted a war memorial cross to remain at the Mojave National Preserve and told a lower court to further consider a congressionally approved transfer of the cross to private land. A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday (Jan. 4) a veterans’ memorial featuring a 43-foot cross on California’s Mount Soledad... Continue Reading

At stake is whether a parent gets to decide the method of schooling free from interference from a court about an inquiry into one’s religious beliefs, he told The Christian Post. “If you hold those religious beliefs too firmly or if [the court] believes those beliefs are too rigid then [it] will make that decision... Continue Reading

Dan Isett, director of public policy for the Parents Television Counsel, said it was clear the court had an agenda, which was to “obviate” the law. “If anything, it bolsters the case for why the Supreme Court needs to review these cases.” PTC wants the FCC to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, but... Continue Reading

“…unlike urban poverty, rural poverty has many guises, including “impoverished rural hollows in the Appalachian Mountains, former sharecroppers’ shacks in the Mississippi Delta, desolate Indian reservations on the Great Plains, and emerging colonias along the Rio Grande.” The phrase “poverty in America” conjures images of urban blight and plight, but in reality, rural poverty rates... Continue Reading

Cantor’s wife…once told The Washington Post that she was shocked, on their first date, when her future husband revealed his affinity for the GOP. “I said, `I thought you were Jewish?’ I’d never met someone who was Jewish and Republican,” she remembered telling him. When Virginia Republican Eric Cantor becomes House Majority Leader next month,... Continue Reading

The attack was claimed by Al-Qaeda’s Iraq affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq, which said its purpose was to force the release of the two women in Egypt. “All Christian centres, organisations and institutions, leaders and followers, are legitimate targets for the mujahedeen (holy warriors) wherever they can reach them,” the group said. President Hosni... Continue Reading

Mr. Beisner, a former professor of theology and a ruling elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, argued that the science is still unsettled on whether greenhouse gases are warming the climate and that projections of dangerous human-driven warming in the future are flawed and unreliable. Over the last decade, many evangelical Christians have embraced the... Continue Reading