A Birmingham, Alabama brain surgeon is being hailed as a hero after he defied the harsh winter storm that shut down the town to answer the call for an emergency.
Dr. Zenko Hrynkiw received a call while attending patients at Brookwood Medical Center that he was needed miles away at Trinity Medical Center for emergency surgery. Dr. Hrynkiw is the only brain surgeon on staff for Trinity Medical Center.
The neurosurgeon rushed to his car and attempted to drive to the other hospital only to find he was trapped a few blocks away by abandoned cars and traffic because of the massive snowstorm that blanketed the city.
So the doctor called Trinity on his fading cell phone and said that he would be walking.
The charge nurse at Trinity called local police to have them on the lookout for the doctor but despite a few reported sightings no one was able to find him. Hours later, the doctor called from inside the hospital after making the over 6-mile trek.
Dr. Hrynkiw rushed to the family’s side to get health information and then rushed in to complete the surgery for a traumatic brain injury. Hospital officials say that the patient would have most likely died if it wasn’t for the doctor arriving when he did to perform the surgery.
An Alabama man born in Syria says a brain aneurysm suffered when he was a Muslim resulted in his starting on a path to accepting Christ as Lord.
Karim Shamsi-Basha grew up in Syria and were practicing Muslims. Shamsi-Basha told the Christian Post he was “very serious” and prayed five times a day. He said he would go to mosque before sunrise and fasted during Ramadan.
He moved to the U.S. when he was 18 to attend the University of Tennessee and stayed because he was not a fan of President Bashar al-Assad’s government. In 1992 he fell into a month-long coma after a brain aneurysm.
After he woke, a doctor told him that he needed to find out why he survived the aneurysm. He accepted Christ in 1996 but then faced a decade of struggles from divorce to homelessness before he fully realized his position in Christ.
Shamsi-Basha tells his life’s story in a book called “Paul and Me”. He says most of his family are still Muslim and he never told his father, who died in 2005, that he had become a Christian.
He says he’s been struggling to get his sister out of Syria since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War but U.S. officials have denied her visa.
The anti-Christianist group Freedom From Religion Foundation is threatening the Cullman (Alabama) County Board of Education with a lawsuit if a group of citizens is allowed to pray for the schools the weekend before schools open for the year. Continue reading →
An Alabama law that requires abortion doctors in the state to have staff privileges at a local hospital is being challenged in court by the pro-abortion group Planned Parenthood and the ACLU.
The pro-abortion activists say the law is unfair because a few abortion clinics will have to close because of the law to increase safety for women who choose to engage in killing their babies via abortion. Continue reading →
The Centers for Disease Control has conducted tests on the nine Alabama patients suffering from mysterious illnesses and has found that no single germ seems to be the cause. Continue reading →
A mysterious respiratory illness in southeast Alabama has killed two of the seven people infected.
All of the victims are adults. They have symptoms of fever, cough and shortness of breath. So far, authorities have not been able to confirm the cause of the illnesses. Special respiratory precautions are being taken by medical personnel. Continue reading →
A large fire that began with explosions aboard two fuel barges in Mobile, Ala., was rocked by a seventh explosion early Thursday and fire officials said they planned to let the fire, which has injured three, burn overnight. Continue reading →
An Alabama church is stepping out on faith and sponsoring a billboard aimed at making men think twice about their decision to patronize a local strip club.
The Rock Church in Birmingham, Alabama has placed a billboard directly behind a strip club that reads “Strip for me. – Jesus” along with the scripture reference Hebrews 12:1. Continue reading →
The Alabama state house has passed legislation that would toughen restrictions for abortion clinics in a move that pro-abortion advocates have screamed is unfair.
The bill would require abortion clinics to have the same standards as any other location in the state that performs a surgical procedure. Continue reading →
Sylvania, Alabama government officials are vowing to fight the anti-Christian organization Freedom From Religion Foundation over their threats to sue over town signs that quote Scripture.
“We as Christians have got to stand up regardless of what the world might say about us,” acting Sylvania mayor Max Turner told Fox News.