YouTube bans video showing abuse at Planned Parenthood

In a censorship that appears politically motivated, the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube has blocked a video critical of Planned Parenthood made by the student-led nonprofit Live Action. The video shows a Planned Parenthood clinic in Birmingham offering to “bend the rules” of Alabama’s parental consent and mandatory reporting laws in order to cover up statutory rape with a secret abortion, and has opened an investigation by the state Attorney General’s Office into the nation’s largest abortion provider. YouTube offered no prior warning or specific explanation for removing the video, which contains no apparent violations of YouTube’s “community guidelines.” After […]

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Reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian decides against abortion

Editor’s Note: The Good News does not promote or endorse the following celebrity or the television shows and magazines discussed in this article. This article is simply meant to inform readers about something of interest to the pro-life community. Last month, News spread that Kourtney Kardashian – the American socialite best known for her family’s reality television shows “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” and “Kourtney and Khloe take Miami” – was pregnant. And according to People magazine, she did her research before making a decision that would affect her and the life of her unborn child. “I was sitting on […]

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Christians reportedly beheaded in Somalia

Four more Christians have been beheaded in Somalia, according to the Washington-based human rights organization International Christian Concern (ICC). The four Christians had been working for a non-governmental organization that aids orphans in southern Somalia. The Islamic extremist group al Shabaab, which has ties to al-Qaida, “kidnapped and eventually beheaded the Christians after they refused to renounce their faith,” ICC reported Aug. 11. According to the ICC report: “On Aug. 4, a junior [al Shabaab] militant notified all the families of the victims that the four Christians had been beheaded for apostasy. He described the Christians as promoters of ‘fitna,’ […]

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Iranian Christians refuse to deny faith

Two Iranian converts to Christianity are standing strong in their faith, according to a report from Iran by the Farsi Christian News Network. The two converts, Marzieh Amirizadeh, 30, and Maryam Rustampoor, 27, were summoned to appear in what FCNN described as “the revolutionary court” in Tehran on Aug. 9. The women have been detained since their arrest on March 5 and have been held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison since a March 18 court hearing. The Farsi Christian News Network, describing the women’s five-month ordeal, said they have “suffered greatly while in prison, suffering ill health, solitary confinement and […]

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A little rebellion now & then is good

“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. … It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”–Thomas Jefferson to James Madison (Jan. 30, 1787). Here’s a breaking News alert for all Americans: if you take part in protest rallies, voice your discontent through picket signs or disrupt events with yelling or intermittent shouts, then you are likely a right-wing extremist or a member of an angry mob, and you must be silenced. At least that’s the chilling message coming […]

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Green means go

Sometimes, God gives us a green light, but we’re too busy texting at the wheel to notice. Have you ever been in your car behind someone at a stoplight when the light turns green, and the person just sits there? The driver has a green light to go, but he goes nowhere. Somehow I always tend to find these people when I come to a light. In my observation, it usually happens because of one or all of the following reasons: –The driver misunderstood the signal. As impossible as it seems to misunderstand a simple green signal, it happens. He […]

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Mark Driscoll’s Training Center

Mars Hill Church’s controversial co-leader Mark Driscoll recently announced the opening of the Resurgence Training Center, a 36-hour graduate program in leadership for future pastors and church planters. Courses will also be taught by John Piper, Sam Storms, Ed Stetzer, Gregg Allison and Bruce Ware. The faculty also includes executive director Rick Melson and Bill Clem, a leadership coach with the Acts 29 Network, a church planting network Driscoll founded. The new school, according to the Mars Hill Web site, is intended to develop pastoral leaders for 100 new Mars Hill campuses and 1,000 churches to be started in the […]

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Churches bring The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry to Florida theaters

Five & Two Pictures is proud to announce the upcoming release of a very special film entitled “The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry.” Coming to theaters Sept. 18, “The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry” is an inspiring film for viewers from 8 years old to 80 years old. Set in 1970, the film follows three 12-year-old boys as they encounter the town bully and an older fellow named Jonathan Sperry (played by Gavin MacLeod) who encourages them to live out what the Bible says. Jansen Panettiere, the younger brother of Hayden Panettiere of “Heroes” fame, and Robert Guillaume also co-star. Fireproof actor […]

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Episcopal Church votes to lift ban on gay bishops

Leaders at the Episcopal Church’s tri-annual convention voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution that opens “any ordained Life ” to homosexuals. The move lifts a moratorium on ordaining gay or lesbian bishops that the church passed three years ago. Biblically orthodox Anglicans, many of whom are part of the newly-formed Anglican Church of North America, decried the move as heretical. “It appears that the Episcopal Church is determined to move its own agenda forward despite calls from various senior levels to respect the order and discipline of the church,” said Rev. Canon Julian Dobbs, canon missioner for the Convocation of […]

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Kennedy Shriver remembered for defense of unborn

Eunice Kennedy Shriver was a lifelong Democrat and member of a political family that largely embraced abortion rights, but on that controversial issue, she was pro-life. Shriver died Aug. 11 at the age of 88 and is perhaps best remembered as the founder of the Special Olympics. But while she was a lifelong advocate of the intellectually disabled she also was an abortion opponent, and she saw her two positions as being closely aligned. More than four decades ago – before the Supreme Court issued its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion – Shriver began fearing that if abortion […]

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