LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–What makes a bomber strike, or a mom kill her kids?
Newsweek magazine asked that question recently for a cover story analyzing the nature and the root of evil. Its answer, though, fell short of a biblical definition of sin, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said during a nationwide broadcast of the radio program “Janet Parshall’s America” May 18.
DALLAS (ABP) — Does God intend to give his children certain blessings but only if they ask?
Does reciting the same prayer to God every day provide power?
MINSK, BELARUS (ANS) — Viktor is paralyzed down one side due to a stroke. His wife is dead, so he cares for their 6 and 9-year-old children on his own, doing whatever he can around the house with his one good hand. They live in a remote village in Belarus, and struggle to survive on Viktor’s very small pension.
ISTANBUL, TURKEY (ANS) — Operation Mobilization workers in Istanbul, Turkey, report that Bible distribution efforts have been well received in that country.
A new concept in supporting native missionaries from around the world has just been introduced by XtremeMissionsTM, a division of Christian Aid Mission. Called “The Xtreme Team,” this concept enables college-age believers to receive exclusive monthly reports from similar age missionaries in foreign nations.
(Virginia Beach, VA) – The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, said today it will defend the City of Plattsmouth, Nebraska which has been sued by the ACLU to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments which has been displayed in a park since 1965.
WASHINGTON (BP)–Contrary to a report casting a cloud over its United Nations status as a non-governmental organization (NGO), the Baptist World Alliance remains optimistic that it will be reaccredited as an NGO, a position it has held with the UN since 1975.
Rutherford Institute Attorneys Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court Citing Free Speech Violations
WASHINGTON – Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of several residents of the city of Fargo, North Dakota, who were arrested while participating in a peaceful residential “prayer walk.”
NDIAGANIAO, Senegal (BP)–The 8-year-old boy waits impatiently, peeking around his mother’s skirt, as she buys a loaf of French bread. When he sees the merchant wrap it in newsprint with a large picture of bread on it, a huge smile breaks out.
SEATTLE (BP)–Today’s scientific advances owe their genesis to Christianity, and every new discovery of the cosmos is an affirmation of God at work in the universe he created, noted scientists and educators said in addressing a “Cosmos and Creator” conference at the Discovery Institute public policy think tank in Seattle.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA-Cutting edge technology combined with up-to-the-minute reports from indigenous missionaries around the globe is enabling Christians to experience their own “Macedonian Call” via their computer desktops.
PHOENIX, AZ (ANS) – Bibles Unlimited, a Phoenix-based ministry that grew out of the New Life League, has been able to distribute some 7,500 Christian Resource Libraries to new believers and “seekers” in Ukraine over the past three years.
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Abuses of religious freedom worsened last year in China and the Sudan, according to the second annual report of a government commission set up to monitor religious persecution abroad.
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (BP)–I can’t believe I waited 41 years for this,” exclaimed Frank Ingram, pastor of Westside Baptist Church in Boynton Beach, Fla. about the Passover Seder his church celebrated with Kol Dodi Messianic Congregation on Palm Sunday.
LAKE STEVENS, Wash. – Rutherford Institute affiliate attorneys have successfully intervened on behalf of students at Lake Stevens High School who were denied their rights to establish an officially recognized extracurricular Bible club.
TULSA, Okla. – Rutherford Institute affiliate attorneys have settled a lawsuit brought on behalf of two students and one teacher who were denied their constitutional rights to form an extracurricular Bible club at McLain High School Career Academy. The lawsuit charges that McLain school officials violated the students’ and teacher’s First Amendment rights of free speech, freedom of association, and freedom from discrimination on the basis of religion as well as their Fourteenth Amendment right of equal protection, and the Federal Equal Access Act.
ISTANBUL, July 5 (Compass) — An Assyrian Christian arrested a month ago for taking home videos in an ancient churchyard in Turkey’s heavily militarized Southeast was ordered released today by Diyarbakir’s State Security Court.
Five officers of Turkmenistan’s secret police, the KNB (former KGB), raided the Baptist church in the western town of Balkanabad (formerly Nebit-Dag) during a service on July 7, Protestant sources have told Keston News Service.
(Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, said today the country is standing at a “cultural crossroads†on this National Day of Prayer as religious expression – including prayer – is under attack by groups like the American Civil Liberties Union.
WASHINGTON D.C. (HSLDA) – Your calls have made the difference! Please STOP calling your congressman! Home schoolers are now fully protected from federal control in H.R. 1. Praise the Lord!