NAIROBI, Kenya, January 25, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Muslim policemen on Saturday (Jan. 19) beat and arrested a Christian man on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya in retaliation for refusing to recant Christianity, sources said. 

Accompanied by two Muslims of Somali descent who had attacked him previously, the policemen arrived at the home where Hassan (surname withheld for security reasons) lives with his widowed mother, and the officers along with the two others punched, kicked, trampled and struck him with blunt objects, relatives said. 

“The police arrived and carried Hassan away with blood flowing from his body,” his mother told Morning Star News, adding that one of the officers was a Muslim relative of Somali descent who has habitually joined other Somali Muslims resident in Nairobi in attacking her son. In Saturday’s attack, Hassan lost teeth and suffered leg, chest and back injuries, she said. 

Initially, police took him to Ngong police station, where his mother’s pleas compelled them to take him to a medical clinic for treatment. The next day they transferred him to a police jail in Nairobi’s Industrial Area. His mother visited him there on Wednesday (Jan. 23) and said he was in bad condition. 

“My son’s leg is bruised, he has serious chest and back pain, he is unable to walk and some of his teeth were removed,” she said. “My family is in…

The Trump administration granted South Carolina’s largest foster care agency a religious exemption wavier ensuring them that they can continue to place foster kids in Christian homes. 

According to the Christian Post, last year, South Carolina’s governor Henry McMaster reached out to President Trump to ask for an exemption for Miracle Hill Ministries from the Health and Human Services rule that forbids foster-care organizations which receive federal funding to have a religious preference.

After almost a full year of conversations between the HHS and McMaster and an investigation into Miracle Hill’s religious convictions, the HHS concluded that forcing the ministry to adhere to the Obama-era regulation would be a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act was passed in 1993 and assures the protection of religious freedom.

In a letter to McMaster’s the HHS Office for Civil Rights wrote, “OCR specifically found that Miracle Hill’s sincere religious exercise would be substantially burdened by application of the religious nondiscrimination requirement” and would, therefore, be granted the exception. 

The letter goes on to note that for the ministry will, however, have to adhere to anti-discrimination laws by referring non-Christian families to one of the nine other foster care agencies in their…

Some conservatives are worried that the liberal Left and some upcoming Texas state bills may try “to ban Christianity in Texas.”

Erick Erickson, a conservative blogger and radio host, writes in The Resurgent, that some half a dozen bills will ban Christianity “in all but name.”

This continues a long line of thought first advocated by the Obama Administration, which sought to restrict the ‘free exercise’ clause of the First Amendment to a ‘freedom of worship’ standard. In other words, be a Christian in church on Sunday, but nowhere else,” he says.

“Christianity is not a religion of the church pew, but of the town square. Texas progressives are trying to ban it from anywhere outside the church,” he added in his column.

Erickson was referring to Texas bills, including HB 224, HB 254, HB 850 and SB 151, all which would prohibit the discrimination of sexual orientation or gender identity by businesses, including Christian-owned ones. Previously, Christian businesses have claimed they have the right to refuse service based on their religious beliefs.

Two other bills are also being considered. HB 517 would require Christian counselors to affirm transgenderism and SB 154 would force doctors to create birth certificates retroactively for patients who gender transition.

Dave Welch, president of the Texas Pastors Council, also said the…

Some Catholics are calling on the church to excommunicate New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the wake of his signing a bill into law legalizing abortion up until the moment of birth.

Cuomo is Catholic. The Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law states in Law No. 1398 that “A person who procures a completed abortion incurs alatae sententiae excommunication.” The question is: Would that law apply to Cuomo, who signed a law that will result in the death of unborn babies, even though he didn’t perform them himself? 

Several media outlets, including the Catholic News Agency and The Washington Post, have tackled the question.

Matthew Schmitz, a Catholic who is senior editor of First Things Magazine and a columnist at the Catholic Herald, believes Cuomo should be excommunicated. In a Tweet, he called on Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York to take action 

“If we Catholics really believe what we say when we talk about heaven, hell, and the dignity of the unborn, @CardinalDolan should, after exhausting all other means of correction, excommunicate @andrewcuomo,” Schmitz wrote in a Tweet. 

An excommunicated person cannot participate in the church’s sacraments. 

Others believe the church in New York could stop short of excommunication and instead consider Cuomo “obstinate perseverance” in grave sin. This would prevent him from participating in communion in…

Former informal advisor to President Trump, Roger J. Stone, Jr. was arrested early Friday morning for being a part of the Wikileaks scandal which led to the release of tens of thousands of stolen emails from Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, during the 2016 election campaign. 

According to the New York Times, Stone was arrested in the early morning hours in his Fort Lauderdale, FL home, and charged with seven counts by special counsel Robert Muller who is investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and the Trump campaign’s ties to that interference. The indictment states that Stone is being charged with five counts of making false statements, one count of obstructing proceedings and one count of witness tampering. 

According to the indictment, “Stone spoke to senior Trump Campaign officials about Organization 1 and information it might have had that would be damaging to the Clinton Campaign.” Organization 1 is the name the media group WikiLeaks – which was responsible for releasing stolen, private documents from Hillary Clinton and the DNC – is referred to by. 

After Stone spoke with Trump Campaign officials in the Summer of 2016, Muller found that he “was contacted by senior Trump Campaign officials to inquire about future releases by Organization 1,” the indictment states.

Reportedly, Stone publicly claimed to…