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International soccer player Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite - known as Kaká – has agreed to play for a new Major League Soccer (MLS) expansion franchise in Orlando, Florida. He announced his plans to leave Italian professional football league AC Milan Monday, and plans to spend six months on loan at Sao Paulo FC prior to joining the Orlando City club in January 2015.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being asked by her liberal colleagues to resign from the Supreme Court before November. Justice Ginsburg, who is one of the most liberal justices who has served on the Supreme Court for 20 years, wrote a 35-page dissent full of vehement speech in opposition to the Court’s 5-4 majority ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby on Monday.

The Supreme Court met today to deliver its ruling on Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby, wherein the Christian family-owned business opposed complying with the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate of the Affordable Care Act, which requires that employers provide employees with cost-free contraception and abortive measures. ABC News reports that the 5-4 majority ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby this morning, stating that for-profit, family-owned corporations can choose not to offer such measures to their employees if it would violate the owners’ religious beliefs.

Meriam Ibrahim and her family is reportedly taking shelter at the United States embassy in Khartoum, Sudan after being prevented from leaving the country. The wife of American Daniel Wani and mother of two had been re-arrested while trying to leave Sudan one day after being released from prison.

“Duck Dynasty” stars Jase and Willie Robertson plan to join professional golfer Bubba Watson to play in The Greenbrier Classic tournament in West Virginia on Wednesday, July 2.

Miriam Ibrahim was rearrested Tuesday while at a Sudanese airport with her husband and two children. CNN reports that the family was about to leave the country when officials detained and interrogated them at the security headquarters in Sudan’s capital.

In his address to the Faith and Freedom Coalition on Saturday, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said he is ready to take a stand for Christian freedoms in America. Jindal believes that the Obama Administration has been waging a “silent war” on religious liberty and on education, and he says he is prepared to lead an insurrection against this.

Pope Francis, whose widespread popularity has attracted much attention in the media, recently spoke against legalizing recreational drugs, such as marijuana. "Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise," the Pope told participants of the International Drug Enforcement Conference on Friday.

The Islamic month of Ramadan begins on Saturday, June 28 and ends on July 28, 2014. Fasting from sunrise to sunset is mandatory for most adult Muslims during Ramadan, though exceptions are made for those who are ill, travelling, breastfeeding, or pregnant.

"Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson's nephew, 36-year-old Republican Zach Dasher, plans to run for the 5th District seat in Louisiana's House of Representatives this November. "I want to help restore America to what she once was - a nation that builds freedom and prosperity on the anchor of God," Dasher told The News-Star.

Google has notified its advertisers that they will no longer accept ads containing explicit sexual content.

Several Christian student organizations are being removed from college campuses because their leadership positions are filled with Christians. Groups are now being forced to sign anti-discrimination statements at several universities allowing any student - regardless of their religious background or affiliation - to be a leader of a Christian organization.

Jeremy Lin interviewed with HuffPost Live Tuesday about his role with the Houston Rockets, and also touched on how leaving New York had been a bit of a surprise to him. The NBA guard isn’t bitter about being let go, however, and has faith that God is sovereignly guiding his life for good - “I would just say I think God has a perfect plan for me, and I ended up in Houston,” Lin says.

A new season of “Duck Dynasty” will premiere this Wednesday on A&E. Season Six promises to include classic Robertson family antics, and patriarch Phil will devote a large portion of his time to eliminating beavers from the family’s land in the first episode. John Luke will also get some public speaking tips from Wille and Uncle Si, and Jase and Missy’s oldest son Reed will graduate from high school. Miss Kay will endeavor to take up couponing, and will attempt to involve a reluctant Phil in picking out her outfit for a special guest appearance.

Joel Osteen preached to over 50,000 attendees in New York City during this Saturday’s “A Night of Hope with Joel and Victoria,” selling out the legendary Yankee Stadium. The pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, interviewed with Fox News before the event took place.

In the midst of the many trade rumors regarding Houston Rockets guard Jeremy Lin, one source close to the inner-workings of the Rockets franchise says the team has confidence that they could move Lin's contract in order to free up some of the salary cap for another free agent.

Thomas Nelson and members of the “Duck Dynasty” family have teamed up to create a unique Bible that focuses on faith, family, fellowship, forgiveness, and freedom. “The Duck Commander Faith and Family Bible” bears the theme of the Robertson’s Duck Commander business, and will be based on the New King James Version of God’s word.

The Gospel Herald was given the opportunity to speak with Missy Robertson this afternoon, and we asked her a few questions about marriage, her family’s faith, and the Robertsons’ work with the Mia Moo Fund for children with cleft lips and palates.

Tim Tebow was recently hired to co-host “SEC Nation,” a joint ESPN-SEC network which is scheduled to air on Saturdays beginning in August. Tebow, who has not played in a regular NFL season since 2012, is still hopeful that he will be signed as a quarterback in the future. "I'm training every day and feel like I'm the best that I've ever been," he told The Tennessean recently.

Stoney Lake Entertainment is remaking “Left Behind,” a movie based on the Biblical prophecies of the rapture and the end of the world, to be released in fall of 2014. The film is action-packed and will star Nicolas Cage as Rayford Steele, Chad Michael Murray as Buck Williams, and Cassi Thomson as Cage’s daughter.

Justin Timberlake tweeted a photograph of himself leaning against the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem on Wednesday, outraging several of his Palestinian fans when he used #Israel in the picture’s caption.

Australian officials confirm that the Boeing 777 which disappeared on its way to Beijing in early March with 239 passengers and crew on board has not been found by their extensive search efforts in the Indian Ocean. Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had been tracked by satellite to the southern Indian Ocean, and pings which might have come from the plane’s black boxes were heard off the western coast of Australia in early April.

Mars Hill Church pastor Mark Driscoll says he regrets hiring a marketing company to buy copies of a book he released in 2012 in an attempt to help it make the New York Times’ best sellers list. He has also decided to step away from social media altogether for the remainder of the year in order to refocus his attention on Christ, his family, and on pastoring his church.

Americans will celebrate Memorial Day on May 26. The federal holiday has its roots in the American Civil War era, and honors the more than one million men and women who have died while serving our country. Those who have sacrificed their lives in the United States Armed Forces to protect American liberty are remembered with gratitude by displays of patriotism around the nation.

Some believe that abortion clinics like Planned Parenthood specifically target minority communities – most notably African American and Hispanics – for their clientele. LifeSiteNews reports that while African Americans make up roughly 13% of the population in the United States, they have about one-third of all abortions. Tragically, one in four children in the Black community have been aborted since the Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973.