Archive - staff
Obama’s first judicial nominee once ruled against using Christ’s name in prayers
WASHINGTON—President Obama’s first appeals court nominee is being promoted as a moderate, but he’s been at odds with social conservatives in two prominent cases in recent years — one pertaining to abortion and another concerning a state’s legislative prayers. more »
By staff - Mar 19, 2009
Topic: Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Religious Liberty
U.S. endorses homosexuality
Obama admin. OKs U.N. declaration
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration announced March 18 its support for a United Nations declaration urging the global decriminalization of homosexuality three months after the Bush administration refused to endorse it. more »
By staff - Mar 19, 2009
Topic: Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality
Ban on embryo destruction funds renewed for time-being
WASHINGTON—President Obama renewed a ban on federal funding of research that harms human embryos only two days after issuing an executive order that lifted a prohibition on government grants for destructive embryonic stem cell research. more »
By staff - Mar 18, 2009
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research
INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Conduct code threatens Christian schools in Great Britain
LONDON—A proposed new code of conduct for teachers in Great Britain will force Christian schools to actively promote Islam and gay rights, the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has warned. more »
By staff - Mar 13, 2009
Topic: Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Religious Liberty
INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Pakistan Christian threatened over providing prayer rooms
LAHORE, Pakistan—The Christian manager of a nursing school residence hall in Lahore, Pakistan, has been threatened by a Muslim colleague because she provided a prayer room for Christian students. more »
By staff - Mar 13, 2009
Topic: Citizenship, Religious Liberty
INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Venezuela anti-Semitism concerns USCIRF commission
WASHINGTON—The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has appealed to the U.S. State Department and the United Nations to protect Venezuela’s 15,000-member Jewish population from violence in the wake of anti-Semitic rhetoric by the country’s president, Hugo Chávez. more »
By staff - Mar 13, 2009
Topic: Citizenship, Persecution, Issues,
New law may have killed D.C. school choice
The newly enacted, $410 billion omnibus spending measure may have sounded the death knell for the District of Columbia’s school-choice program.
The legislation, signed into law March 11 by President Obama, continues the voucher program for low-income families through the 2009-10 school year but requires it to be reauthorized by Congress and endorsed by the D.C. more »
By staff - Mar 13, 2009
Topic: Family, Education, Citizenship, Church and State, Legislation
Land: Climate bill may get Senate push
The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is warning that Senate Democrats appear to be preparing to push climate-change legislation, which the ERLC says would further burden the economy. more »
By staff - Mar 13, 2009
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, Science, Environment
Porch encourages Tennesseans to oppose Senate Bill 120
NASHVILLE — James Porch, executive-director of the Tennessee Baptist Convention, announced his opposition to a new legislative bill — Senate Bill 120 — that will deregulate Tennessee’s liquor laws. more »
Topic: Family, Addictions, , Citizenship, Legislation
Congress refuses to ban funding of forced abortions
WASHINGTON—Congress has rejected attempts to retain a pro-life policy that bars federal funding for organizations that support coercive abortion programs overseas. more »
By staff - Mar 11, 2009