ISTANBUL, May 15 (Compass Direct News) – Algerian authorities have charged six Christians with distributing illegal religious material after detaining them as they left a prayer meeting in a western city last week.

"More disappointed than surprised" -- that describes the feelings of a California pro-family coalition working to place a marriage amendment question of the fall general election ballot.

Peter Sprigg with the Family Research Council says the California Supreme Court's decision on Thursday overturning the state's voter-approved ban on same-sex "marriage" was wrong both procedurally and substantively.

Christian attorney Steve Crampton says the California Supreme Court abandoned the rule of law and common sense with its decision today that re-defined marriage.

Pro-family activist Matt Barber says the California Supreme Court betrayed "We the People" and engaged in the "worst kind of judicial activism" earlier today by overturning the state's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in March 2000.

The California Supreme Court has ruled that homosexual marriage must be legalized in that state.

In a recent speech, GOP presidential candidate John McCain attempted to distance himself from President George Bush on the controversial subject of "manmade climate change."

Relief supplies continue to flow into China's disaster area after this week's earthquake, and Christian organizations are among those helping out.

ISTANBUL, May 14 (Compass Direct News) – All five culprits arrested last spring for the savage murder of three Christians in eastern Turkey have proclaimed their innocence, declaring they did not personally kill any of the victims.

Kristen Fyfe of the Culture and Media Institute claims ABC made some rather shady history in the season finale of the popular television series Brothers and Sisters.