By Nima Elbagir and Faith Karimi KHARTOUM, Sudan (CNN) – A Sudanese appeals court has started deliberating the case of a woman sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith, her husband said. Mariam Yehya Ibrahim, 27, was condemned to die by hanging last month after she declined to profess she is a…
By Heather Clark TEHRAN – An appeals court in Iran has rejected an appeal on behalf of an American pastor incarcerated in one of the most notorious prisons in the country, and has refused to reduce his sentence despite growing international pressure. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which has been fighting for…
By Ann Rodgers / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A state appeals court heard a Presbyterian church property dispute from Washington County on Wednesday that could impact other Pennsylvania churches that have split. In 2007, members of the Peters Creek United Presbyterian Church voted 207-26 to leave the Presbyterian Church (USA) for the more conservative Evangelical Presbyterian Church. The congregation…