By: Allie Martin

Seminaries in Texas have won what is being called a landmark religious freedoms case. Last week’s unanimous ruling by the Texas Supreme Court overturned two lower-court opinions and a Texas law that gave the state power over seminaries and their training of pastors and ministry leaders.

By: Rusty Pugh

Wesley Busch is a kindergarten student at Culbertson Elementary School in Newton Square, Pennsylvania — and all he wanted to do was have his mother read aloud from his favorite book, the Bible.

By J. Lee Grady

My cell phone was jammed this week with messages from friends who had just heard shocking news reports about several prominent Christian leaders. All the callers asked the same question: “What in the world is happening to the church?”

Pastor Clive A. Porter, Sr. is the Senior Pastor of the Greater Fort Lauderdale New Testament Church of God in Lauderhill, Florida. He is a native Jamaican and carries a deep passion for the retired servants of God. In 2005, Bro. Porter shared with his congregation the burning God-given desire to contribute to the betterment of daily living of the retirees of the New Testament Church of God in Jamaica.

By Chad Groening, OneNewsNow.com

A pro-family activist and former presidential candidate says he’s glad that former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson is officially throwing his hat in the ring for the GOP presidential nomination.

By Allie Martin, OneNewsNow.com

The president of Liberty Legal Institute says a federal judge was correct when he denied a request by an atheist couple to remove the phrase “one state under God” from the Texas pledge.

Hurricane Dean wreaked havoc on the Corozal and Orange Walk districts of Belize. Conditions are improving, but the damage is extensive. The sugar cane, papaya, bananas and vegetable crops were almost completely destroyed. Many people also lost the roof of their house.

Crown Financial Ministries Names New CEO Crown Financial Ministries , the world’s largest financial ministry, has appointed Chuck Bentley as its new CEO following a succession process initiated by Cofounder and CEO Howard Dayton with the ministry’s board of directors two years ago.

By Jeff Johnson, OneNewsNow.com The voice of the man known as “most listened-to Presbyterian minister in the world” is now silent. Officials with Coral Ridge Ministries confirmed to OneNewsNow.com Wednesday morning that Dr. D. James Kennedy passed away at around 3 a.m. Kennedy’s retirement from his position as senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida was announced August 26.