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Des Moines, Iowa, Oct 17, 2016 / 04:13 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A church’s lawsuit may go forward because it reasonably feared that Iowa’s strict anti-discrimination law would create legal penalties for its preaching and for having single-sex bathrooms and showers, an Iowa court has ruled.“The government acts outside of its authority when it attempts to control churches,” said Steve O’Ban, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom. “Neither the commission nor any state law has the constitutional authority to dictate how any church uses its facility or what public statements a church can make concerning sexuality.”O’Ban represented Fort Des Moines Church of Christ in U.S. district court. The church is suing based on fears the state’s anti-discrimination policy on gender identity and sexual orientation would make it legally liable for preaching and following its views on homosexuality and transgender issues – including havin...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Years of losses have left Democrats at historic lows in state legislatures. But now they're seeking to wrest control of as many as a dozen chambers from Republicans, a key step in gaining more influence in redistricting....
ATLANTA (AP) -- Donald Trump has repeatedly warned of a "rigged" election, saying large-scale voter fraud is happening in the U.S. and suggesting it will affect the outcome of this year's presidential race. There is no evidence that such widespread fraud exists....
NEW YORK (AP) -- NBC News has fired "Today" show host Billy Bush, who was caught on tape in a vulgar conversation about women with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump before an "Access Hollywood" appearance....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A senior State Department official asked the FBI last year to help reduce the classification of an email from Hillary Clinton's private server, according to FBI investigative files made public Monday. It was to be part of a bargain that would have allowed the FBI to deploy more agents in foreign countries, according to the files....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- One of NASA's main delivery companies has launched its first space station shipment from Virginia in two years....
WHITE PLAINS, New York (AP) -- Hillary Clinton is advancing into states the Democrats haven't won in decades, confidently expanding her offensive against Donald Trump and aiming to help her party win back control of Congress....
KHAZER, Iraq (AP) -- The long-awaited offensive to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group began Monday with a volley of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and heavy artillery bombardments on a cluster of villages along the edge of Iraq's historic Nineveh plain east of the militant-held city....
(Vatican Radio) A leader of Russian backed separatists in eastern Ukraine has vowed to retaliate against Ukrainian government forces after a fellow commander died in rebel-controlled Donetsk in an apparent assassination. Arseny Pavlov, who once boasted about killing more than a dozen captured soldiers, died following a bomb attack, authorities said. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Pro-Russian separatists said Arseny Pavlov, a Russian citizen better known by his nickname Motorola, died of serious injuries after an improvised explosive device detonated as he entered the elevator of his apartment building in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in war-torn eastern Ukraine. A bodyguard reportedly also died in Sunday's blast.The attack ended the life of a man who once boosted to have killed as many as 15 prisoners of war. He was the latest among several rebel figures known to have been killed recently amid reports of fighting among the seperatists. However Aleks...
Vatican City, Oct 17, 2016 / 10:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In their forewords to a new book about the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church Patriarch Bartholomew I, Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI praised the faith and goodness of the ecumenical patriarch.“Today, we brothers in the faith and hope that does not disappoint, we are deeply united in the desire that Christians of the East and the West can feel part of the one and only Church,” Pope Francis wrote.The forewords were contributions to the book Bartholomew, Apostle and Visionary by John Chryssavgis, written in honor of the 25th anniversary of the patriarch’s election as head of the Eastern Orthodox Church. It was released Oct. 11.In the messages, Pope Francis and Benedict both reflected on their meetings with Patriarch Bartholomew and on the things which unite them.“My first meeting with my beloved brother Bartholomew took place the same day in which I started my papal ministry, when he honored m...
