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Apple has approved a gay social networking app that claims to be safe for children as young as 12, and aims to lead adults, teens and tweens to places that are “clean, ...

Saeed Abedini’s Health Deteriorates, U.S. Government Silent   By Tiffany Owens | Naghmeh Abedini, the wife of imprisoned American pastor Saeed Abedini has cancelled plans to pray in front of the White House ...

Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2014, (CHRISTIAN NEWS SERVICE) –The new (DOD) directive ordering accommodation of religious apparel and beards is an important development in protecting religious liberty. The directive incorporates provisions of ...

Millions tuned in Friday night to watch, on their TV, tablet, or computer, the most anticipated documentary of 2014. Netflix premiered the Sundance documentary winner “Mitt”, which follows Republican nominee Mitt Romney ...

Opens Doors releases its annual list of persecutors   By J.C. Derrick | (WNS)–A U.S.-based group tracking persecution around the globe has named North Korea the worst country in the world for Christians. ...

Legislation Would Award Congressional Gold Medals Kansas City, Mo.– As excitement builds for the release of the Sony film The Monuments Men, Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is recognizing six real-life ...

by Alan R. Jones, C.P.A. |  Well, Christmas has come and gone, and now the thoughts of many families and small businesses turn to their “favorite” time of year, tax filing season. ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 2014 (Christian News Service) In a letter to Congressman Jeff Miller (R-FL), Chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, Military-Veterans Advocacy Inc, requested hearings into religious liberty violations within ...

Has Hollywood gone too far? By Dwight Widaman | Countries around the world are editing, or down right banning the movie, The Wolf of Wall Street. In the U.S. the movie’s director, ...

by Phil Boatwright |  KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The 2014 Academy Award nominees should be very grateful that only the technical and artistic merits of their work will be judged. Whatever positive ...

By Michael Cochrane | (WNS)–The Senate passed a defense bill with strong bipartisan support last week that includes important language to strengthen and protect the religious freedom of military members and chaplains. The 2014 ...

By Patricia Smith | In his immortal speech “I Have a Dream”, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. paints a disturbing scene of a nation that had compromised its fidelity to the Declaration ...

By Connie Hougland | When the calendar rolls over to a new year, one of the last things we may want to think about is charitable giving. We are just coming off ...

By Mickey McLean (WNS)–Tim Tebow is back in football—but he’ll be behind a mic instead of under center. The former pro and college quarterback will be an analyst for the SEC Network, a ...

We believe everyone reading this article should engage in some self-examination and answer this question: In a world of broken relationships and trust deficits, when people hear or see your name, does ...

Women from Kansas City and beyond are encouraged to imagine a “new you” at the Arise 2014 Women’s Conference, Jan. 30 — Feb. 2. “The conference will offer inspiration and positive life-coaching ...

They have many tag names; Invisible People, Hidden Homeless or the Forgotten Many. But one truth rings clear — they are all homeless men, women and children. In the Kansas City Metro ...

As death tolls continue to rise during the brutal Syrian civil war, 1.9 million refugees (including 1 million children) are fleeing their decimated country. It was revealed that Israel is quietly coming to the ...

Summer evangelism opportunities The Greater Kansas City Area Child Evangelism Fellowship is inviting people to take an active role in the lives their neighborhood children. One way to do this is by ...

Lenexa Baptist Church hosted a Missions Conference October 20-21 designed to inspire and encourage anyone passionate about missions and church planting. Under the leadership of Senior Pastor Steve Dighton, the church has ...

By Jerry Newcombe |  If you were a casual observer of our culture, you’d assume that the progressives are the ones full of compassion. But is that really the case? Here we ...

What can calamity, like that in Joplin, teach us? By Chuck Colson It is natural to try and make sense of out terrible events such as a tornado. Some people will see ...

Rep. Jeff Grisamore toiled to find bi-partisan support By Dwight Widaman | Metro Voice Later this month, a historic bill will take effect. A bill that took five years of negotiating, thousands ...

Central Nigeria’s lethal Christmas Eve attacks were religiously motivated despite the African nation’s complicated past of economically and socially fueled infighting, says a mission organization. “There are always disputes over land,” said ...

Several church leaders and heads of faith-based organizations applauded the recent White House decision to ease travel restrictions between the United States and Cuba for religious, educational and cultural exchanges. The Rev. ...