A national anti-Christian organization is demanding an Oregon city remove a Vietnam War memorial because it contains a cross.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation says government officials in Coos Bay, Oregon are violating the mythical separation of church and state by creating the memorial to Vietnam veterans 41 years ago. Continue reading
An American imprisoned in Libya for more than a month for spreading the Gospel is going to be freed.
U.S. diplomats have withheld the American man’s identity but reports say the man also holds Swedish citizenship. He was arrested with an Egyptian man and South Korean man along with a South African woman just days before a priest was almost assassinated in Tripoli. Continue reading
The leaders of the BRICS nations are discussing the creation of a development bank that would be in direct competition to the World Bank.
The heads of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have long complained about a western bias in the decisions made by the World Bank. The fund would develop infrastructure projects in developing nations. Continue reading
The worst plague to hit Madagascar since the 1950s is threatening to destroy crops and create food shortages.
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) says the swarm of locusts could cover 2/3 of the nation by September. A cyclone damaged the efforts of the Locust Control Centre in Madagascar to control the locust population. Continue reading
A new report by the Centers for Disease Control shows 13 times as many Americans contracted a sexually transmitted infection in 2008 than obtained a college bachelor’s degree.
The rate of new infections in 2008 was 19.7 million, bringing the nation’s total to 110,197,000 total infections. By contract, the number of Americans who obtained a bachelor’s degree that year was 1,524,092. In the 15-to-24 age range, the ratio of infections to degrees was 6 to 1. Continue reading
United Nations head Ban Ki-moon has said that at least 11,000 peacekeepers will be needed in Mali to ward off threats from Islamic terrorists.
The peacekeepers would be backed up by a second force, lead by African troops, that would concentrate on combat operations against the remaining terrorists hiding in the northern mountains. French forces that are scheduled to leave at the end of April currently head combat operations. Continue reading
The U.S. has sent stealth bombers to South Korea in what the Defense Department is calling a “military exercise.”
The move comes one day after North Korea severed a hotline to South Korea. The line was the last official link between North and South. Continue reading
A photo circulating the internet is showing the body of a seven-month old fetus that died after Chinese officials forced an abortion upon his mother.
The woman, identified at Ms. Lu, was seized by “local family officials” who forced her into a vehicle that went to a local hospital where they injected her with chemicals to force the abortion. She went into labor and delivered the dead baby two days later. Continue reading
North Dakota governor Jack Dalrymple has signed the nation’s most restrictive abortion bill with an aim to test the boundaries of the Roe v. Wade decision.
In addition to the bill that would ban abortion after six weeks, Dalrymple signed a second law banning abortion based on generic abnormality and a third that requires doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting procedures. Continue reading
Despite reservations by a European Commission report regarding corruption and organized crime in Croatia, the EC has given permission to the nation to join the EU on July 1st.
Croatia would become the EU’s 28th member state and the first to join since Bulgaria and Romania in 2007. Croatia has been trying to negotiate membership in the EU for a decade. Continue reading