August 31, 2001
• Author Admits Gay Propaganda in Kids' Book - Family News in Focus
A new children's book featuring a spotted dog appears to tell a positive story about learning to get along. But the homosexual author says he has a hidden motive.
• Very premature babies may need pain relieving drugs - London Telegraph
The unborn child may be able to feel pain as early as 20 weeks into pregnancy, a finding that suggests pain relief should be considered for the 2,500 extremely premature babies born each year who may be subjected to painful procedures.
• Astrology School Becomes Nationally Accredited - Fox News
The stars were favorably aligned this month for the Astrological Institute, says founder Joyce Jensen, whose students learn to write horoscopes and give advice about the future.
• Survey: Students Hold Mostly Pro-Gay Views - Reuters
U.S. high school seniors hold more liberal views on gay issues than the rest of the country's adult population, but schools remain a ``hostile environment'' for gay students, a survey released on Monday found.
• Children seduced by forces of Satanism on the Internet - London Times
Increasing numbers of children are spending hours alone browsing the Internet in search of satanic websites.
• Study: Moderate Childhood Spankings Cause No Lasting Harm - Fox News
A study released Friday suggests that spanking has been getting a bad rap and that it may, in fact, be a satisfactory way to discipline young children.
• Teenagers jump to their deaths - London Times
The suicides of three teenagers who leapt together to their death from a bridge, their bodies daubed with pentangle symbols, have increased concern among officials in Germany about the spread of Devil-worship among disaffected, often unemployed, young people.
• FDA: Mouse contact may not block stem cell use - USA Today
The fact that colonies of human embryonic stem cells are grown with the help of mouse cells won't block their eventual use in people as long as scientists meet well-known federal safety rules, regulators said Friday.
• Researchers Face Embryo Shortage - Int'l Herald Tribune
If scientists want to develop new supplies of embryonic stem cells, they may have to take the bold and controversial step of creating human embryos expressly for research, many leading fertility experts say.
• Religious slavery persists in Ghana despite ban - Nando Times
Awlesi Amegawi lost both her freedom and her will to live 40 years ago when she was given away as a slave to a Ghanaian priest to atone for the sins of a family member.
• Harry Potter Starting a Debate in Latin America: Is It Good or Evil? - NCM Online
As "Harry Potter" arrives in bookstores throughout Latin America, a debate emerges: Are Harry Potter’s adventures unchristian?

August 25, 2001
• Baby Seized by State Police from Mother’s Hospital Room - Massachusetts News
State seizes newborn, hands the baby over to homosexuals for foster care but this isn't even the beginning of the story. Read so much more...
• Scouts Targeted By Homosexuals In Nationwide Protest - CNS News
The Boy Scouts of America is taking fire on several fronts this week from a homosexual activist organization and its teenage leader.
• Lawsuit Filed To Protect Right to Display Graphic Images of Aborted Children - Worthy News
Several pro-life advocates and their minor children filed a federal lawsuit today against an assistant city attorney and two police officers who ordered them to remove signs displaying images of aborted children.
• Porn 101: The Perversion of America's Colleges - CNS News
As students head to college this fall, many will be receiving an education they could have never imagined. Several newspapers have reported a growing trend of using pornography as a hot topic for discussion in the classroom.
• Terrebonne To Consider Bible Study In Schools - Yahoo/WDSU
Supporters say that special classes designed to study the bible as historical literature are popular in other school districts, and insist that they do not violate the separation of church and state.
• Scientist to proceed with human cloning efforts in next two months - AFP
A researcher engaged in a controversial effort to clone humans said Sunday his team could produce cloned human embryos within the next two months.
• Thomas More Law Center Sues Planned Parenthood Over Abortion - Breast Cancer Link - Worthy News
Three California women are suing Planned Parenthood to force the nation's largest provider of abortions to reveal scientific evidence of a substantial link between induced abortion and increased risk of breast cancer.

August 21, 2001
• Porn Sites Scoop Up Christian Sites - Family News in Focus
People intending to surf to Gary Bauer's former presidential campaign Web site are winding up being offered X-rated videos. What's going on here?
• Witches To Get Grants To Study Sorcery (England) - Sunday Mail
Would-be witches are being offered Government grants to learn how to cast spells.
• Manufacturing Human Beings in Worcester? - Massachusetts News
The cloning of human embryos is continuing at the offices of Advanced Cell Technology, a private firm located just off Route 9 in Worcester across from the UMass Medical Center.
• Cloning effort hidden in West Virginia town - Washington Times
Mr. Hunt said he lost confidence in Miss Boisselier recently because she became "a press hog," giving many international news interviews on behalf of the cloning project, and on behalf of the Raelian religion.
• Planned Parenthood Faces Abortion Lawsuit - San Diego Channel
Attorneys for three people, including a Chula Vista woman, filed a lawsuit in San Diego Wednesday accusing Planned Parenthood of withholding information linking abortions to breast cancer.
• Abortion-breast cancer link still ignored - World Net Daily
Even though 27 out of 35 studies published since 1957 have linked abortion with breast cancer, pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood continue to deny such a link exists and refuse to inform prospective abortion recipients of the studies.
• Potter books: Wicked witchcraft? - World Net Daily
As kids around the world anxiously await the fall opening of Warner Bros.' film "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," an occult expert has released a documentary video claiming the Harry Potter phenomenon is incompatibility with Christianity.
• Australians make stem cell breakthrough - CNN
Researchers have successfully harvested stem cells from mouse brains, a breakthrough which could reduce the need to use human embryos for this purpose.
• Ten Commandments in Alabama Judicial Building Reviving Debate - Fox News
It’s a 2.5-ton, 4-foot-high monument of a scroll bearing the Ten Commandments.

August 15, 2001
• Decision on stem-cell research divides abortion opponents - Worthy News
President Bush's decision on stem-cell research is dividing the pro-life religious community.  According to a New York Times article published Aug. 12, the split doesn't fall along religious or theological lines, pitting, for example, Catholics against Protestants. Instead, it appears to be tactical: pragmatist versus purist.
• Most Civil Unions Go to Out of State Residents - CNS News
A year after Vermont became the first state to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples in the form of civil unions, a state review commission found that most unions went to out-of-state residents, and at least one is being used to challenge marriage laws in another state.
• Cloning humans 'easier' than animals - BBC
A group of scientists carrying out research into human genetics say cloning humans may actually be easier than cloning animals.
• Working On Sperm-less Embryos - LA Times
As the nation grapples with the use of human embryos in stem cell research, scientists in Los Angeles and Massachusetts are about to bring a new twist to the debate.
• Rival Camps Prepare For Fight Over Embryonic Stem Cell Research Funding - CNS News
Members of Congress are gearing up for a battle over the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, just as the appropriations process is slated to begin in September.

August 13, 2001
• Bush would veto stem cell bill - Washington Times
President Bush yesterday vowed to veto any congressional bill that allows embryos to be destroyed in the name of science.
• Lutheran group to study gay rights for clergy, unions - Washington Times
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America yesterday voted to begin its first official study of homosexuality, which in four years will recommend whether to ordain active homosexuals and bless same-sex unions.
• Dolly's doctors hit cloning of humans - Washington Times
The doctors responsible for cloning the sheep Dolly say they are outraged by scientists who plan to press ahead with attempts at human cloning, calling any such attempt intolerable. Top
• No Turning Back - London Times
The future of human reproduction may soon reach its final frontier. A colourful Italian embryologist, who has helped thousands of childless couples to conceive, claims he has the science, funding and volunteers to undertake the creation of the world's first human clone before the end of the year.  Is this research being conducted in West Virginia?
• Bush Was Under Fire for Embryonic Stem Cell Decision - CNS News
Pro-life activists and some high-profile GOP leaders put the heat on President Bush to make a decision to prevent the funding of stem cell research that involves the killing of human embryos. Their argument was that the embryos are going to be thrown away; using them for research could someday save lives.
• Decision likely headed for courts, Hill - Washington Times
President Bush's decision on embryonic stem cells has created a deep rift in the Republican Party and pushed the contentious issue to the courts, where opponents of federal funding for such research vow to force the federal government to halt all funding.
• Mixed Pro-Life Response to Bush Stem Cell Decision - CNS News
President Bush's decision to allow federal funding of stem cell research that involves existing lines of the reproductive cells has resulted in a split decision among some of the nation's largest and most influential pro-life groups.

August 10, 2001
• Europeans Want UN To Draw Up Global Cloning Ban - CNS News
Two European countries, alarmed at the news that scientists may attempt to clone a human this fall, have asked the United Nations to negotiate an international treaty banning human cloning.
• ACLJ Applauds Bush Decision on Stem Cell Research - Worthy News
The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm and educational organization, said President Bush’s decision to prohibit the use of federal funds to destroy human embryos to obtain stem cells for research is the “correct” decision on this critical issue.
• Cloning clash - SF Gate
Rejecting pleas for caution, a group that says space aliens seeded Earth tells a key science panel it will create human copies.
Be sure to read the Worthy News Feature: "What's Real about Raelism?"
• Bush allows limited stem cell studies - UPI
President George W. Bush on Thursday said he would allow federal funding for limited research involving cells from human embryos, reversing a campaign pledge after months of mulling the controversial issue.
• Bush Will Permit Limited Stem-Cell Research - Reuters
President Bush announced on Thursday he will allow federally funded research on embryonic stem cells on a strictly limited basis in a compromise decision that kicked off a debate over whether he had gone too far or not far enough.
• Text of Bush's Stem Cell Speech - AP
Text of President Bush's announcement Thursday in Crawford, Texas, that he will allow federal funding for research on existing stem cell lines.
• Embryonic Stem Cells May Be Second Best - CNS
As President Bush announced his decision on Thursday on the question of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, at least one for-profit research company says another source of stem cells offer greater potential for combating illness and disease.

August 8, 2001
• Fleecing the Faithful: Church Cons Defraud Followers in the Name of God - CNS News
The pitch was perfect, the dividends divine, and the church-goers just didn't know any better.
• Human cloning sparks fierce debate - BBC
The doctors behind the project to produce the world's first human clone have sparked an intense debate about the ethics of their work.
• Germany, France Want Cloning Banned - AP
Germany and France have formally presented to the United Nations an initiative for a treaty that would ban human cloning, the German Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
• Germans seek ideal joining together for gay marriage - London Telegraph
Germans have been asked to devise a new word to apply to homosexual marriage, a week after the law was changed to allow same-sex couples to wed.
• Feds Bust 100 in Internet Child Porn Ring - Fox News
In a crackdown on what might be the largest commercial child-pornography ring ever uncovered, federal authorities have arrested 100 producers, consumers and distributors of kiddie porn.
• Satanists suspected in double killings - London Times
Eight double murders attributed to the so-called Monster of Florence were masterminded by a Satanic sect involving “wealthy and respected citizens above suspicion”, according to police.
• Atlanta Braves Play Ball with Homosexuals - CNS News
While most fans attending Wednesday night's baseball game between the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros were focused on the pennant races, others had a special incentive - watching the Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus deliver the national anthem prior to the game.

August 7, 2001
• Cloning labs already in place and set for human experiments: Zavos - AFP
Greek-Cypriot born scientist Panos Zavos told US media Tuesday that the infrastructure for human cloning experiments planned by his Italian colleague Severino Antinori were already in place at two labs in undisclosed locations.
• Lutherans brace for debate on gay issues - Washington Times
The nation's largest Lutheran body today begins a seven-day assembly to debate new rules on homosexual clergy and "unions," school vouchers, and a new ecumenical agreement that gives bishops sole power to ordain pastors.
• US Scientists Hear of Imminent Human Cloning Attempt - CNS News
A controversial Italian fertility expert will tell a gathering of American scientists Tuesday that he plans to launch a human cloning experiment in the fall, and expects the first cloned baby to be born next year.
• Cloning Experts Gather for Controversial Talks in Washington - Fox News
As the probability of — and the hysteria surrounding — human cloning increases, the National Academy of Sciences is hosting an international conference of researchers in Washington Tuesday to discuss the technology and ethics of creating cookie-cutter people.
• Religious Conservatives Protest Removal of 'So Help Me God' From Oath - CNS News
Religious conservatives are concerned that the recent removal of the phrase "so help me God" from the oath given to witnesses during confirmation hearings held for several Bush nominees since the Democratic takeover of the Senate, is evidence of the Democratic Party's hostility towards religion.
• Pentagon urged to seperate sexes - Washington Times
Pro-military groups are pressing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to follow through on a George W. Bush campaign promise to re-examine the practice of training male and female recruits in the same units and barracks.
• Regulators Warn About Religious Investment Schemes - Fox News
Forrest Bomar, a retiree with most of his life savings in brokerage accounts, was tired of the market's swings and attracted by the 6.7-percent return offered on investments by the Baptist Foundation of Arizona.
• Witnessing To A Gay Friend - CBN News
In this era of gay rights, many of us know someone who is gay, whether a co-worker, neighbor, or friend. We are often asked, "How do I witness to this person?" The answer is simple: The same way you share God's truth with anyone else.

August 5, 2001
• Italian plans mass human cloning - Washington Times
A controversial Italian embryologist is preparing to impregnate up to 200 women with cloned embryos in the world's first attempt to produce a human clone.
• Lesbian Music Festival Raises Fears of Child Sexual Abuse - CNS News
Thousands of women and girls are gathering in Hart, Mich., Monday for the beginning of a music festival that one volunteer describes as "a unique empowering event for women."
• Chinese region 'must conduct 20,000 abortions' - London Telegraph
A CHINESE county has been ordered to conduct 20,000 abortions and sterilisations before the end of the year after communist family planning chiefs found that the official one-child policy was being routinely flouted.
• Protestant church doors starting to open for gay clergy - SF Chronicle
Gays have been fighting for a place behind the Protestant pulpit for more than two decades, but the summer of 2001 could be the turning point in that crusade.

August 3, 2001
• Faith-based role is seen for gay churches - Washington Times
The leader of the nation's association of homosexual churches yesterday said the Bush administration's faith-based initiative was so likely to pass that its congregations should prepare to request funds for work in AIDS ministries.
• Half of stem-cell money could go to royalties - USA Today
If President Bush allows federal funding of research on human embryonic stem cells, half the money might be diverted to the University of Wisconsin and a biotechnology company to pay royalties and licensing fees on patents.
• Canadians Flee in Spanking Dispute - Washington Post
More than 100 women and children from a fundamentalist church in Canada have fled their homes for rural communities in the Midwest over fears that authorities will seize their children because church members administer spankings with switches and paddles.
• Senate Committee OKs Abortion Bill - AP
A bill to overturn the administration's policy banning federal aid for groups that advocate abortion rights was approved by a Senate committee Wednesday.
• Chief Justice unveils Ten Commandments in Supreme Court building - AP
Armed with quotations from U.S. history, the ``Ten Commandments judge'' unveiled a monument to the Commandments in the Alabama Supreme Court building Wednesday morning.
• German gays exchange vows after disputed law takes effect - ABC News
German gays exchanged vows at partnership ceremonies Wednesday, gaining rights previously reserved for married couples as a new law went into effect despite fierce opposition from some conservatives.
• Creationism fight looms - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
(Hawaii) The Board of Education has to decide whether to teach the biblical version in science classes...
• Reform Party delegates take anti-abortion stance - Dallas Morning News
The national Reform Party continued its march lock step behind 2000 presidential nominee Pat Buchanan, adopting a controversial anti-abortion platform plank.
• Honduran Police Investigating Cult Child Sacrifices - Reuters
Police in Honduras were investigating local gangs suspected of kidnapping children and then sacrificing them in satanic rites, an official said on Tuesday.

August 1, 2001
• Judge's Decision Defies California Law and Paves the Way For "Spouse" Benefits to Same-Sex Couples - Worthy News
The recent decision by Judge A. James Robertson II to allow a wrongful death lawsuit to go forward in a case filed by a surviving same-sex partner defies not only California law...
• Getting Harry: A Review of 'Harry Potter and the Bible' - CBN News
Are the Harry Potter books harmless fantasy, or are the tales a step toward a deadly fascination in the occult for today's children and teens? How does the series line up with Scripture?
Buy the book "Harry Potter and the Bible: The Menace behind the Magick" in the WorthyNews Bookstore.
• Human Cloning Bill Passes in the House - CNS News
In a vote of 265 to 162, the House Tuesday passed a bill that would ban all human cloning, including for scientific research.
• BOE plan would add creationism - Honolulu Advertiser
Some members of the state Board of Education are open to discussing the introduction of creationism in Hawai'i's public schools even though the proposal will likely ignite a firestorm in the community.
• Bible class in public education? - World Net Daily
A group dedicated to bringing the Bible back into public schools is continuing its mission to convince local school districts to offer an elective course on the Bible to high-school students by approaching 12 more school districts this month.