• Tim Tebow Signs With New York Mets, New Book 'Shaken' Set for October Release

  Former NFL quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow traded a football for a baseball by signing a minor league contract with the New York Mets on Thursday (Sept. 8), the team announced in a news release. This son of missionaries will participate in the club's instructional league in Port St. Lucie, Fla.

  

• Sex Change Started On Pre-Kindergarten Child in Australia

  A 4-year-old Australian child has begun the process of having a sex change with financial assistance from the New South Wales Department of Education. The child hasn't yet started kindergarten, and many critics warn the child is way too young to make such a consequential life decision.

  

• Muslim Group Protests New York Town's 9/11 New Memorial

  Members of a New York Muslim group called the Islamic Organization of the Southern Tier took offense to a new Owego, New York, memorial created to honor Americans who died in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. IOST representatives fired off a letter to Owego city leaders, communicating they believe words engraved in the granite memorial would encourage hatred toward Muslims.

  

• Pastor Fatally Shoots Other Pastor In Presumed Religious Argument in Chicago

  Just as Chicago topped 500 homicides for this year, the city's Labor Day Monday began with the surprising violence of one retired minister fatally shooting another retired pastor, both of whom were residents of a Rainbow Beach senior suites. Police have the shooter in custody. Residents said they believe the two men were once again arguing about religion. Chicago was almost set to have the least violent holiday weekend of 2016 when over a 24-hour period between early Monday and Tuesday, more tha

  

• Mexico’s Religious Conservatives Seek Anti-LGBT Constitutional Amendment

  An evangelical organization, For Life and Family, recently gathered 300,000 signatures in support of a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex couples from getting married in the country. The signatures were presented to the Chamber of Deputies after a march. The initiative also would add bans against abortion and sex education in schools into the constitution.