Faith-centred gym shuts down after nixing a gay pride event
If you ‘live, move, and breathe in God’s world’ a warm welcome would have awaited you at CrossFit Infiltrate, an Indianapolis gym. But on June 6 the gym’s Jesus-lovin’ management shut down its premises...
View ArticleCanadian law school ruling is a ‘blow to religious freedom’
When the Supreme Court in Canada recently ruled that the law societies of Ontario and British Columbia are now permitted to deny Trinity Western University’s (TWU) proposed law school accreditation...
View ArticleChristian baker Jack Phillips sues over alleged harassment
Phillips, above, owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver, this week filed a lawsuit against Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission, alleging that it was on a ‘crusade to crush’ him. The...
View ArticleBanned Bible classes: retirement home accused of hostility to religion
Hardly a week goes by without the media reporting on Christians being ‘persecuted’ by nasty secular organisations or institutions. Latest of these reports concerns Bible study classes held at...
View ArticleChristian propaganda movie Gosnell hits a few bumps in the road
Last week the religious press was cock-a-hoop over the release of Gosnell: the Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer, a film about Kermit Barron Gosnell, an American physician and abortionist who...
View ArticlePrejudice, not pride: London school targeted for its inclusive agenda
Heavers Farm school in South Norwood holds a series of events that encourage pupils to be proud of themselves and their families, but this year’s ‘Proud to be Me’ unleashed fury among some Christian...
View ArticleLondon hospital accused of anti-Christian bias for the second time
Back in 2015 the John Howard Centre sacked a therapist for bringing Jesus into the workplace. Victoria Wasteney was given the boot for attempting to convert a Muslim colleague to Christianity. Wasteney...
View ArticleEuropean court rules against Christian homeschooling family
EUROPE’S top human rights court has ruled against a Christian family who defied a German law outlawing homeschooling. Thursday’s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights said that German...
View ArticleChristian bigot may face probe for refusing to print a gay brochure
THE owner of a print shop in Chicago may face an investigation by the Illinois Department of Human Rights for refusing to produce a brochure for the city’s LGBT Community Fund. The proprietor of the...
View ArticlePrint firm cries ‘foul’ after being fined for turning away a gay client
ALL Jonathon Brennan wanted when he went into Beulah Print and Design, a Christian-run outfit in Drogheda, Ireland, were some invitations for his upcoming same-sex union with his partner John Kierans....
View ArticleChristian Legal Centre loses yet another ‘persecution’ case
FOR months Christian Concern, which incorporates the Christian Legal Centre (CLC), has been calling on faith-heads to pray that a sacked homophobic magistrate wins his appeal against unfair dismissal....
View ArticleChristian doc is being probed for foisting religion on patients
THE UK’s General Medical Council (GMC) is reportedly investigating a GP who allegedly brought his Christian faith into consultations with patients. Dr Richard Scott, 58, has “involved a spiritual...
View ArticleAzerbaijan deals harshly with those who impose religion on kids
THE mainly Muslim country of Azerbaijan, headed by President Ilham Aliyev, above, has a rather surprising and eminently sensible law that prevents religion of all stripes being imposed on children....
View ArticleChurch alleges ‘persecution’ after hazardous Jesus sign is removed
THE Jesus Christ Open Altar Church in Hawkins, Texas, has accused local authorities of a religious ‘hate crime’ after a garish Jesus sign was torn down last Friday. The sign was erected by the church...
View Article‘Persecuted’ Christians jubilant over rare UK court victory
ANDREA Minichiello Williams, Chief Executive of Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Centre – an outfit that has suffered defeat after defeat in cases involving Christians sacked for their mainly...
View ArticlePoland’s Justice Minister enters the fray over a ‘persecuted’ Christian
POLAND’s Justice Minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, inset, has reportedly ordered the national prosecutor’s office to investigate the ‘unlawful’ sacking of a Christian worker by a branch of Ikea in Krakow....
View ArticleSenate hearing told YouTube restricts access to Ten Commandments
DENNIS Prager, above – right-wing commentator, climate-change denier and all-round hater of all things gay – complained to a Senate hearing this week that his crappy videos are being ‘restricted’ by...
View Article‘Gay bus’ row: Christian Legal Centre enters the fray
EARLIER this month a bus driver in the UK city of Norwich was suspended for refusing to drive a bus that ‘promotes homosexuality’ by having its service number displayed in rainbow colours. We now learn...
View ArticleChristian Concern seizes on fresh ‘persecuted Christian’ case
BRITISH actress Seyi Omooba, 25, above, lost her lead role in a stage production of The Color Purple earlier this year because of an anti-gay comment she posted on Facebook in 2014. In March she...
View ArticlePompeo butters up Christians; angers Jews, Muslims, Humanists
AMERICAN Secretary of State Mike Pompeo keeps a Bible open on his desk because he’s besotted with fairy stories. This we know because Pompeo recently spoke at the American Association of Christian...
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