On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed written by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. 

In the op-ed, Kavanaugh apologizes for some of his responses during last Thursday’s hearing which was set up to look into sexual assault accusations made by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford against the judge. Kavanaugh wrote, “I was very emotional last Thursday, more so than I have ever been. I might have been too emotional at times. I know that my tone was sharp, and I said a few things I should not have said.”

The judge then goes on to urge people to remember that he is human, and that he was there not only to defend himself, but also to defend his family. He wrote, “I hope everyone can understand that I was there as a son, husband and dad. I testified with five people foremost in my mind: my mom, my dad, my wife, and most of all my daughters.”

Kavanaugh also reiterated that he is an impartial, independent judge and plans to maintain that status. Judges he said, “make decisions because the law and the Constitution compel the result.”

“Over the past 12 years, I have ruled sometimes for the prosecution and sometimes for criminal defendants, sometimes for workers and sometimes for businesses, sometimes for environmentalists and sometimes for coal miners,” he continued. 

“In each case, I have followed the law. I do not decide cases based…

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – In a surprise move, Sudan has released shipments of Bibles long held in port, including one detained nearly six years ago, according to the head of the Bible Society in Sudan.

 

The Rev. Ismail Abdurahman Kenani, Khartoum-based director of the Bible Society in Sudan, said port authorities had been delaying several shipments of Bibles in Port Sudan, on the Red Sea. Besides the shipment detained after Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir began a crack-down on Christian institutions in 2012, another one detained a little over three years ago was among those released in early August, Kenani said.

The estimated 2 million Christians in Sudan have endured a critical shortage of Arabic-language Bibles, he said.

 

“We are even planning to put an order for another shipment, because the need is still great here for the Bibles,” Kenani told Morning Star News.

 

Port authorities have long given no official explanation for detaining the shipments, though one official told the Bible Society they were held up because they exceeded the limit of one container at a time. Intentional bureaucratic barriers also seem to have been erected.

 

“We came to learn that proper documents for the shipments were intentionally misplaced by one of the officers of the port authority,” Kenani said.

 

The church leader told Morning Star News that…

WASHINGTON (RNS) — As senators remain embroiled in a contentious battle over Brett Kavanaugh’s potential elevation to the U.S. Supreme Court, faith groups are increasingly voicing both passionate opposition to and support for the nominee.

On Wednesday (Oct. 3), the National Council of Churches — which boasts 38 member denominations with 40 million members — unveiled a sternly worded statement demanding Kavanaugh withdraw from consideration. The group argued the federal judge “exhibited extreme partisan bias and disrespect towards certain members” of the Senate Judiciary Committee during his testimony last week. As a result, the NCC said, Kavanaugh “demonstrated that he possesses neither the temperament nor the character essential for a member of the highest court in our nation.”

The statement also claimed Kavanaugh made “several misstatements and some outright falsehoods” during his remarks. An NCC representative later told Religion News Service that the group is concerned about the allegations against Kavanaugh: “We are deeply disturbed by the multiple allegations of sexual assault and call for a full and unhindered investigation of these accusations.”

The NCC letter sparked a surge of traffic that crashed the organization’s website and was quickly followed by news of another letter opposing Kavanaugh, this time from a group of Catholic nuns — the Benedictine Sisters of Baltimore.

“We urge you, plead with you to vote NO on the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh,” the letter read. Authors railed against the additional FBI…

Seven South Carolina police officers were shot in the line of duty on Wednesday when a Vietnam veteran opened fire while they were attempting to serve him a warrant.

The suspect, 74-year-old Frederick Hopkins, is now in custody. Hopkin’s wounded six officers and killed one, 52-year-old Sergeant Terrence Carraway.  

When officers arrived at Hopkin’s home on Wednesday, he reportedly barricaded himself inside his home before he opened fire on the officers. 

The standoff lasted for two hours, and CBN reports that it was so dangerous that officers had to use bullet-proof vehicles to rescue the wounded.

Florence County Sheriff Kenney Boone said at a press conference, “Officers went there unknowing the firepower the suspect had.”

“Fire was being shot all over. The way this suspect was positioned, his view of fire was several hundred yards. So he had an advantage,” Boone told reporters. “The officers couldn’t get to the ones who were down.”

Authorities have found that Hopkins, a disabled veteran and disbarred lawyer, has several charges on his record, including one for disorderly conduct.

In the wake of this tragedy, evangelist Franklin Graham has taken to Facebook to invite people to pray with him for the victims and families.

Graham wrote, “Would you join me in praying for the six law enforcement officers who were wounded and for the…