Barack Hussein Obama became the country’s first ever African-American president Tuesday, January 20, at an inauguration in the nation’s capital attended by as many two million people.
Preparations were underway for the first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church to pray, without using a Bible, at the start of ceremonies leading up to the inauguration of Barack Obama as the United States’ first black president on Tuesday, January 20.
Survivors of a spectacular crash landing into the Hudson River thanked God on Friday, January 16, that the right pilot at the right time guided a crippled US Airways jetliner safely into the Hudson River — saving all 155 people aboard.
A US Airways Airbus A320 plane came down in the Hudson River in New York City, Thursday, January 15, and ships rushed to the scene to rescue passengers.
There was more flooding in several parts of the northwestern U.S. state of Washington Friday, January 9, where previous floods, mudslides and avalanches already kept tens of thousands of people from homes and endangered drinking water supplies.
Scientists were watching the United States’ famous Yellowstone National Park, Tuesday, January 6, after hundreds of earthquakes there late December and last week — prompting fears they are the prelude to the world’s most powerful volcanic eruption.
The United States Treasury Department says it has supplied another $15 billion to seven banks through its Capital Purchase Program to help them overcome the worst economic crisis in a generation.
The United States faces a financial “time bomb” as its national debt is to jump by $2 trillion this year and United States President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats consider a massive spending package, economists have warned.
United States President-elect Barack Obama was scheduled to meet with congressional leaders from both political parties Monday, January 5, to discuss a stimulus package aimed at ending America’s worst economic crisis in decades.
Five Democratic governors have presented a plan to Obama’s transition team and congressional leaders to pass a $1 trillion stimulus package to help states facing severe budget shortfalls. This year 41 states as well as the District of Columbia are facing deficits totaling $42 billion this year, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in a report seen by Worthy News Monday, January 5.
Tupelo, MS — June 1, 2005 (American Center for Law and Justice) – The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld the constitutionality of a federal law requiring state prisons to accommodate inmate religions. In a unanimous decision, the Court ruled that Ohio inmates, including a witch and a Satanist, were improperly denied the right to worship and to access religious literature ceremonial items.
WASHINGTON (BP)–The U.S. Supreme Court should reverse lower-court decisions that struck down a ban on partial-birth abortion and rejected the Boy Scouts of America’s prohibition against homosexual leaders, according to friend-of-the-court briefs signed onto by the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
(Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, said today it will work to defend the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) – a new federal law that requires public libraries to use computer software to block pornography – from a legal challenge by the ACLU.
(Bridgeport, CT) – The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, said today a federal judge has issued a Preliminary Injunction against the Town of New Milford, Connecticut prohibiting the town from blocking a Connecticut family from continuing to hold prayer meetings inside their private residence.
(Boston, MA) — The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, announced today it has filed a federal lawsuit charging religious discrimination against a school district in Massachusetts that has refused to permit a Christian organization to use its facilities after-hours – just days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that such discriminatory action is unconstitutional.
McMINNVILLE, Ore. (BP)–If a city were to display a manger scene on the courthouse lawn or post the Ten Commandments in the council chambers, the American Civil Liberties Union would threaten a lawsuit. However, let a community depict a pagan goddess in a public arena and the ACLU is strangely silent.
OKLAHOMA CITY, April 4 – Feed the Children today announced the formation of The Emergency Military Family Fund to assist in the war at home for thousands of American military families who have been plunged into instant poverty while their breadwinners are away fighting for freedom.
For background information, see The UN Plan for Your Mental Health.
Notice the international focus on “prevention.”
“Role playing is an excellent tool to highlight the hidden influences… or… the hidden commandments of the family….” [1] Robert Hawley, Value Exploration Through Role Playing, 1975.
WASHINGTON (BP)–The U.S. Supreme Court used the final day of its term to issue a quartet of decisions on moral and church-state issues, including deeply divided rulings upholding a private organization’s freedom to bar homosexuals from its leadership and striking down a state’s ban on an especially gruesome method of abortion.
WASHINGTON (BP)–The Boy Scouts of America should be free as a “voluntary association to choose its own leaders,” the U.S. Supreme Court was told April 26 in a case that could have a far-reaching impact on private organizations, including even religious bodies.