Author Archive: gary

Weighed in Wikipedia’s balances and found wanting

Weighed in Wikipedia’s balances and found wanting

Internet encyclopedia erases entry for notable paleontologist after he advocates intelligent design By Julie Borg   (WNS)–Wikipedia has deleted a paleontologist’s page because he...
Free speech win for pro-life students in California

Free speech win for pro-life students in California

By Leigh Jones   (WNS)–A pro-life student group at Fresno State University won its fight this month against a professor who told a student she had no free speech rights on a college...
Replacing Jesus with Xi Jinping

Replacing Jesus with Xi Jinping

By Onize Ohikere   (WNS)–Chinese officials asked Christians in southeast China’s Yugan county to replace their religious icons with portraits of President Xi Jinping—the Communist...
Indian Christians accused of kidnapping, forced conversion

Indian Christians accused of kidnapping, forced conversion

By Julia A. Seymour   (WNS)–A court allowed seven Christian children in India to return to their families a week after Hindu radicals falsely accused their chaperones of kidnapping them to...
Canada rejects Christian couple for adoption

Canada rejects Christian couple for adoption

Their Biblical beliefs on sexuality and gender conflict with the government’s official position By Kiley Crossland   (WNS)–A married Canadian couple is suing the Alberta government after...
Lebanon caught in regional squeeze-play

Lebanon caught in regional squeeze-play

The fight for dominance between Iran and Saudi Arabia threatens to overtake their less powerful neighbors By Onize Ohikere   (WNS)–Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s resignation...
EU considers redefining marriage for all member states

EU considers redefining marriage for all member states

By Kiley Crossland   (WNS)–The Court of Justice of the European Union held a hearing on Nov. 21 in a case that could result in the EU redefining marriage for all 28 member states.   The case,...
U.K. remembers persecuted Christians

U.K. remembers persecuted Christians

Parliament, churches light up red to raise awareness for martyred believers By Julia A. Seymour   (WNS)–On Nov. 22, the British Houses of Parliament and more than 30 churches and schools,...
World Briefs

World Briefs

  Taliban attacks on the rise in Afghanistan (WNS)–The Taliban claimed responsibility for two attacks in Afghanistan that killed at least 15 police officials at checkpoints, officials...
Jokes November 2017

Jokes November 2017

   It Takes a Thief When John returned to the house one evening, his wife announced that the new cleaning woman they had hired had stolen two towels. “Yeah,” said Dewey very...