Houston-area pastors took to the witness stand in district court Tuesday in what is expected to be a two week trial to decide if a citizen petition drive to put the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) gathered enough valid signatures or if city officials wrongly invalidated the petitions. Annise ...
Colorado Governor John Hickenloper, a Democrat who opposed a ballot initiative that legalized marijuana in 2012, told CNBC Friday \"the jury is still out\" about the legalization of pot in his state.\"We don\'t know what the unintended consequences are,\" he said, pointing out to Squawk Box host ...
The Issachar Training event held today and The Response scheduled for tomorrow, January 24, were both endorsed by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.Jindal and American Renewal Project\'s founder David Lane invited 100,000 pastors to the Friday event at the Baton Rouge River Center – the invitation ...
In Houston a coalition is gearing up for a new court date that will allow citizens to overturn the city\'s disqualification of thousands of signatures on petitions thousands of ballots -- thrown out by the city attorney who resigned in order to be able to testify on behalf of the activist mayor. ...
Darrell Segura was a Believer and pro-life in his views, but it took a gruesome picture of an aborted baby about to be burned in a animal disposal furnace to convince him he needed to do something to stop abortion in America.\"They were fixing to incinerate that aborted baby the same way you\'d ...
A massive training for 1,000 pastors considering a run for political office is set for Friday, Jan. 23 at the Baton Rouge River Center Friday, Jan. 23 -- marking the first of its kind of training event in Louisiana.
Christian Examiner presents a special package of news stories about and related to Martin Luther King Jr., the famed civil rights leader who was born January 15, 1929 and who was assassinated April 4, 1968.
Tampa born Cuban-American Sergio Rodriguez, born the same year as Martin Luther King Jr., at 21 was shot in the back by an off-duty New York City police officer on a dirty sidewalk in Harlem. His niece tells the story of the pain and shock her mom suffered after his tragic death, and how the family ...
As a child, Leroy Fountain, now church health strategist for the New Orleans Baptist Association, endured a cross burning and a torched home, not for being activists in the growing civil rights movement, but simply for being Black. But the Fountain family drew strength from their faith and ...
Robert Jointer is founding pastor of Bethesda Baptist Church in Portland, Oregon, but his memories as a child in Mississippi are not far from his thoughts. Crosses were burned in front of his parent\'s home and his uncle\'s home, likely because both were active in the local chapter of the National ...
Martin Luther King, Jr.\'s \"I have a dream\" message is reprinted in its entirety. A video is embedded to allow viewers to listen to him call America to follow spiritual and moral righteousness.
Sixty years ago, a relatively unknown pastor with a vision and a gift for public speaking led a 13-month-long bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregation.The nonviolent movement resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court decision that segregation on public buses is illegal, and Martin Luther ...