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
One person has died from Tropical Storm Chantal it blew past the southern cost of the island of Hispaniola in the Dominican Republic. A fireman who had been trying to clear a storm drain was washed away by flood waters and later found drowned. Continue reading
In McAllen, Texas, just a few miles from the Mexican border, there is an open-air flea market where you can buy anything you want. You can have your car windows tinted. You can buy a goat. You can get that CD you’ve been searching for since 1996.
And you can also buy pills to have an abortion. Continue reading
Extremists Muslim have used the ouster of Mohammed Morsi as an excuse to kill and torture Egyptian Christians according to civil rights activists.
Muslim mobs have shot a priest dead in the middle of the street, marked Christian businesses with painted black X’s to target them for arson and churches have been besieged by mobs. Four Christians were slaughtered with machetes and knives in one village last week by an Islamic mob. Continue reading
The Texas House of Representatives passed strict abortion restrictions including a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
The bill passed 98-49 but will need a second, final vote from the house before it can head to the State Senate. The bill is the same one that the House had sent to the Senate during a previous special session but was killed by a Democratic Senator’s filibuster and protesters who disrupted the Senate’s session and ability to vote on the bill. Continue reading
The head of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, is now the subject of an arrest warrant from Egypt’s state prosecutor.
Warrants were also issued for many other leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. Badie and the other officials are accused of inciting the violence against a military compound Monday that resulted in the deaths of at least 50 people. Continue reading
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Agency has downgraded Italy one step as the EU nation’s economy continues in a downward spiral.
S&P said the continued weakness of the Italian economy was the reason behind the cut from BBB+ to BBB. The ratings agency said that their expectation of the Italian economy had downgraded to a 1.9% contraction, significantly worse than previously forecasts. Continue reading
Heavy rain in China’s Sichuan province has led to a landslide that has buried at least 30 people under mud and debris.
Rescuers with search dogs are on the scene of the slide in the city of Djiangyan. Officials on the scene say there could be as many as 40 buried under the landslide. A local official said “11 families” were buried under the dirt. Continue reading
Chinese officials have caused concern in world markets with a surprise announcement that both imports and exports fell in June.
China had been trying to maintain that the country’s economy was not slowing down but a 3.1% downturn in exports from a year prior is leading economists to watch for a slowdown. Continue reading
Canadian police say that sixty people are now missing and feared dead after a freight train carrying crude oil exploded in Lac-Megantic, Quebec.
Officials ruled out terrorism as a cause of the runaway train but said that criminal negligence is under investigation. The entire downtown area of Lac-Megantic is considered a crime scene. Continue reading