A coalition of pastors has delivered a petition with 31,000 signatures to Houston’s city hall to call for a referendum to repeal the city’s new non-discrimination ordinance. Pastors say the ordinance would infringe on religious liberties and create untenable and potentially…

He was a child born on South Sudan’s first day as a new nation. He was the first child born at a Juba hospital shortly after midnight, July 9, 2011. The child, like the country, was full of hope and promise. His parents gave him the full name Moses Independence.

Rising death tolls in Iraq and Syria, where Muslim extremists are killing in the name of their faith, represent a stark contrast to the relative lack of religiously motivated killing among modern Christians – a contrast that seminary professors say is attributable to the principle of religious liberty.

Barry Creamer was elected as Criswell College’s seventh president in a unanimous trustee vote July 7. He has served as Criswell’s vice president of academic affairs since 2011 and as professor of humanities since 2004. He will begin his presidency at the Dallas college on Aug. 1.

President Obama’s faith-based advisers are coming down on different sides of a debate over a pending executive order that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation among federal contractors.