Vanderbilt University, which has been aggressively taking steps to remove Christian student organizations from their campus, has a professor who says that the Bible played a “prominent” role in arguments for starting the American Revolution.
James P. Byrd writes in his new book Scared Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution that the origins of the American Revolution are not purely secular as some modern day activists wish to claim. Continue reading
A student at Somona State University was ordered to remove a necklace she wore containing a cross because it “might offend other students.”
Audrey Jarvis, 19, is filing a religious accommodation request with the school after a supervisor with Associated Student Productions ordered her to remove the necklace during a student orientation. Continue reading
The anti-Christian Freedom From Religion Foundation was dealt a blow by a federal judge who denied their demand that a statue of Jesus be removed from a government plot in Montana.
The statue of Christ, part of a monument built to honor World War II soldiers, is located in the Big Mountain ski resort in Whitefish, Montana. The anti-Christians said that the simple existence of the statue constitutes government endorsement of Christianity. Continue reading
Idaho senator James Risch is making an appeal to the Iranian people for Christian Pastor Saeed Abedini, jailed in Iran’s brutal Evin prison for his faith. Abedini has been in prison for nearly 300 days suffering long periods in solitary confinement, beatings and torture at the hands of Iranian jailers.
Abedini traveled to Iran to help build an orphanage. He had lived in Iran prior to becoming a U.S. citizen and had been a key people in the home church movement. He was arrested in 2009 and released after pledging to stop organizing house churches. Continue reading
A pro-life organization has released a recording of an IRS agent telling them that they have to remain neutral on the issue of abortion and then attacked the president of group for “forcing” religious beliefs on others.
“You have to know your boundaries,” IRS agent Sherry Wan told the president of Pro-Life Revolution. “You have to know your limits. You have to respect other people’s beliefs.” Continue reading
The Pentagon has banned a video that pays tribute to First Sergeants because the video mentioned God and could be offensive atheists or Muslims.
The tribute, made by a chaplain at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurt, was based on a poem titled “God Created A First Sergeant”. The video was a take-off of the Dodge Ram Super Bowl commercial “God Created A Farmer”. Continue reading
The anti-Christian Freedom from Religion Foundation attacked a teenager for his “open defiance” of their edict that Liberty High School in Pickens, South Carolina have no Christian content in their graduation ceremony.
Roy Costner, valedictorian of the 2013 class, threw away the speech he had prepared and submitted to the school and led everyone in The Lord’s Prayer. A video of the speech posted on YouTube has gone viral showing the crowd cheering as Costner set aside his speech. Continue reading
According to the U.S. State Department, anti-Semitism is on the rise around the world.
The annual report showed a rise in anti-Semitism in the Middle East and parts of South America. Continue reading
A judge has sided with a group of cheerleaders at a Texas high school who wanted to display banners at football games with Bible verses.
“[No law] prohibits cheerleaders from using religious-themed banners at school sporting events,” State District Judge Steve Thomas ruled Wednesday. Continue reading
A U.S. Appeals Court has ruled that a student who was denied the chance to hand out invitations to classmates to a church Christmas party had her rights violated by the school district.
The child, identified as K.A., should have been allowed to hand out the invitations in a way that did not cause a “substantial disruption” to the class. Continue reading
