Short Takes from the Associated Press Wire – March 20, 2010
Topics: Art depicting Christ’s wounds; Sex scandal in Brazil RC churches; California city requires permit for Home Church; Ralph Reed will not run in Georgia; Imam calls for US Muslim revolt Artists view Christ’s pain By Brett Zongker (AP) Depictions of Jesus Christ’s wounds and suffering on the cross are on rare display at the... Continue Reading
Follow-up: German Homeschoolers Granted Political Asylum in Tennessee
The case was intended not only to help the Romeike family stay in a country where they can freely homeschool their children, but also to raise worldwide awareness of the restrictive German policies and to push reform in the German system. A judge in Tennessee has granted asylum to a German family that came to... Continue Reading
No Internet .XXX addresses – yet, says assigning board
“The .XXX domain will increase not decrease porn on the Internet,” FRC President Tony Perkins had noted. The board of the international body that manages Web addresses will not decide until June whether or not to approve the latest proposal for an “.xxx” top-level domain. On Friday, the last day of its 37th International Meeting... Continue Reading
Attorney General Claims Illinois Constitution Contains Right to Abortion
“Illinois parents have a right to know before their kids are taken for abortions. If the Attorney General won’t defend the parental notice law vigorously, we will do so” Reacting to the recent claim by the Attorney General that the Illinois Constitution contains a right to abortion, attorneys from the Thomas More Society will appear... Continue Reading
Short Takes from the Associated Press Wire
Topics: One Missionary Remains in Jail in Haiti; Top Home School Texts dismiss Evolution; Hundreds Flee Religious Violence in Nigeria; Catholic Church Slams Mexican Mayor; Police Make 3rd Arrest in California Church Shooting; Oregon Faith Healer Jailed in Son’s Death Saying that The Aqulia Report is operated on a bootstrap is the understatement of the... Continue Reading
Nigerian Christians fear more retaliation after Muslim gangs brutally kill as many as 500
Experts fear more retaliation could lead to another round of violence, a harrowing prospect for hundreds of Christians still burying their dead. Scores of Christian villagers in the Plateau State of Nigeria awoke on Sunday morning to a chilling sound: gunfire filling the pre-dawn air. When some left their homes to find the source of... Continue Reading
Supreme Court to hear anti-gay protest case; ACLU backs Fundamentalist Baptists
A three-judge panel for that circuit ruled last September that (Pastor) Phelps’s anti-gay messages – on placards and a Web site – are protected speech The U.S. Supreme Court continues its unpredictable foray into LGBT-related legal conflicts, this week announcing that it will decide whether a protester has a First Amendment right to use a... Continue Reading
Virginia Governor reverses Attorney General; Colleges may protect gay rights
(AG) Cuccinelli argued that only the General Assembly could bar such discrimination and since it had not done so, the public colleges couldn’t. Virginia’s public colleges and universities may be able to ban anti-gay discrimination after all. Days after the state’s attorney general told the institutions that they couldn’t ban discrimination against gay people, the... Continue Reading
Australian Regional Board bans Christian schools from teaching creationism
Christian school administrators are concerned that the South Australian board decision to stop the teaching of creationism as part of science lessons will precipitate similar action across the country. The South Australian Non-Government Schools Registration Board has published a new education policy that states it requires the ”teaching of science as an empirical discipline, focusing... Continue Reading
A drive to fight abortion
A mainstream media newspaper publishes a positive pro-life story Last year Dave Wilkinson asked God for guidance. He wanted to know what he could do to better fight abortion. Wilkinson, an evangelical pastor, runs three Ventura County pregnancy clinics that encourage women to choose alternatives to the procedure. He believes the prevalence of abortion is... Continue Reading
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