Turkey removes soccer flags because they contains symbols of a cross
Turkish police in Istanbul removed the flags of football (soccer) fans sporting the symbol of a cross. The football match between Mönchengladbach (Germany) and Basaksehir (Turkey) occurred on October 3rd as part More...
Court rules Lehigh County seal with cross can stay, doesn’t violate the first amendment
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the official seal of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania can remain on government property, despite efforts from the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) to have it More...
New Mexico Community College succumbs to atheist threats, ‘banishes’ ‘divisive’ crosses
New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs has been forced by Wisconsin’s Freedom From Religion Foundation to remove several Christian crosses that were previously displayed throughout the public school campus. The More...
Lesbian Lutheran Bishop Eva Brunne removes crosses, ‘less offensive to Muslims’
The world’s first lesbian bishop of a mainstream Christian denomination in Sweden moved to remove its crosses as to make it less offensive to Muslims. Bishop Eva Brunne of the Lutheran Church of Sweden has proposed More...
Tennessee approves plan to dig up, remove the remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest
A city council Memphis, Tennessee unanimously approved the plan to dig up the remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest grave from under his statue at the Health Sciences Park on Union Avenue. The More...
China: Journalist detained after reporting on destruction of crosses
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang detained and questioned a Hong Kong journalist who went to cover a story about the demolition of church crosses in the region. Jiang Yannan, a reporter for More...
ASU football players get crosses back on helmets to honor
Arkansas State University football players will once again be permitted to place cross decals on their helmets to honor two teammates who died. The change in school policy was quick after thousands contacted the More...
Christian pastor Huang Yizi in China sentenced to 10 years in jail for protesting
A Christian pastor in China could receive a 10-year prison sentence for protesting China’s cross removal campaign. The official charges against Huang Yizi is “gathering to assault a state organ.” Huang More...
Appeals court rules that Ground Zero cross can stay at 9/11 Museum
A cross-shaped beam from the devastation at Ground Zero will be permitted at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum. The three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit More...
Cross burned at Tennessee church, police say it was a ‘hate crime’
A burned cross was found Tuesday morning at a Baptist church in Tennessee after a church member saw the fire and contacted police. Sgt. Charles Gill, of the Clarksville Police Department, said the incident was a More...
Intolerant atheists still fighting Ground Zero Cross, can’t enjoy ‘freedom to be offended’
America is great because you have the freedom to be offended. Homosexuals are executed in Muslim countries, the woman in Sudan has been re-arrested for marrying a Christian man, but here in America a cross-shaped More...
US Supreme Court now may hear cases against crosses at war memorials
After last week’s 5-4 decision upholding Christian prayer at government meetings, courts are taking on cases that challenge crosses displayed in public places. Two primary cases are in question: the Memorial More...
Chinese officials return to demolish church, the protest grows as tension rises
Hundreds of Christians returned have returned their blockade around the Sanjang Church in China to protect the facility from demolition by government officials. ICC, International Christian Concern, says that number More...
Marco Gusmini, Italian crushed by giant crucifix
A giant crucifix honoring Pope John Paul II collapsed onto an Italian man, crushing him to death. The incidient occurred just days before the pontiff is to be canonized. Marco Gusmini, 21, died on the spot when More...
Church in China set to demolished for not removing the cross from the top of the building
A Three-Self Patriotic Movement church in China’s coastal Zhejiang province is facing demolition after refusing to remove the cross that tops the building. Sanjijang Church CCL Facebook photo “When the Party More...
Atheist group still battling to remove World Trade Center cross from 9/11 Memorial
American Atheists has threatening to sue if the 17-foot crossbeam found at Ground Zero is not removed or modifited to include an “atheist monument,” the National Post details in a Mar. 11 report. A group More...
California judge rules veterans monument with cross is unconstitutional
A federal judge in California has ruled that a Veterans monument which includes a cross is an unconstitutional endorsement of Christianity. As previously reported by Christian News, the city council of Lake Elsinore More...
Arkansas police chief Jeremy Clark refuses to remove cross from police department lawn after atheist group complains
An Arkansas police chief is refusing a Wisconsin atheist group’s demands to remove a cross from the lawn of the police department. Searcy Police Chief Jeremy Clark told reporters that the cross was planted in More...
Cross at Mount Soledad war memorial must be torn down: ‘unconstitutional government endorsement of Christianity’
The cross at a historic war memorial must be torn down as a federal judge has ruled it is an unconstitutional government endorsement of Christianity. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been fighting against More...
Fan complains and St Louis Cardinals GM orders cross and Stan Musial ‘6’ to be removed from mound
St. Louis Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak has ordered a small cross etched in the pitching mound be removed. Mozeliak Post-Dispatch he had been unaware of the marks until they were featured in news reports. “Once More...
