Real‑time updates on legislation, court rulings, religious freedom cases, and cultural shifts that affect the Church in America.
Arab Press Coverage of Terror in America – Part 2
Posted on Saturday, September 15, 2001
The liberal Lebanese intellectual Hazem Saghiya, who resides in London, wrote a column in the Al-Hayat daily placing some responsibility for the attacks in the US on the Arab world, and calling for the extradition of the terrorists:
Bush Team Backs Israel, Set Conditions For Meeting Arafat
Posted on Monday, September 10, 2001
US Secretary of State Colin Powell has affirmed that Israel's use of American-supplied weapons in pre-emptive strikes against Palestinian terrorists is not a breach of the contractual terms of sale, while other Bush administration officials continue to stand…
Could the United States be mentioned in Prophecy?
Posted on Saturday, September 8, 2001
With the events happening in the Middle East transpiring at an alarming rate, I am placed into a situation I care not to be in. As the editor of Worthy News, I am placed into a position where…
UFOs: Prelude To Invasion By New Age Deity?
Posted on Friday, September 7, 2001
When news came across the wire recently that police officers in several Illinois counties witnessed an unidentified flying object the size of a three-story house, and that one of them had snapped a Polaroid of the triangular object,…
International religious summit at U.N. receives criticism
Posted on Friday, September 7, 2001
NEW YORK (BP)--Nearly 2,000 religious and spiritual leaders from throughout the world gathered for the Aug. 28 opening of a United Nations-affiliated conference on world peace amid controversy over the nature of the meeting and the exclusion of…
Unborn victims bill in Congress again
Posted on Friday, September 7, 2001
WASHINGTON (BP)--A measure to provide legal protection for unborn children who are harmed during the commission of a federal crime was reintroduced Feb. 7.
“Resistance Is Futile.
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001
The Borg ("Cyborg") are considered by Star Trek fans to be the greatest villains ever introduced to television audiences. The biological and technological terrors made their debute on May 8th, 1989 in the "Q, Who?" episode of The…
Who Bewitched Carlos Santana
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001
On Wednesday night Carlos Santana walked away with 9 Grammy's and eleven nominations at the American Music Awards. With top honors, album and record of the year, Santana's Supernatural album (1999, Arista) tied the record set by Michael…
Senate OKs trade status for China despite deteriorating rights record
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001
WASHINGTON (BP)--Congress' annual review of China's human rights record before granting the Beijing government favored trade status came to an end Sept. 19 when the Senate resoundingly approved permanent relations with the communist giant.
Southern Baptists to discontinue discussions with Roman Catholics
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--North American Mission Board (NAMB) officials have announced plans next year to conclude a series of talks with representatives of the Roman Catholic Church about the Bible's role in the Christian faith.
Piper says prayer is essential in battling spiritual warfare
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--Just as Olympic athletes are at war with their bodies, so in the spiritual realm "life is war" for Christians, a prominent evangelical author and minister told students at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest,…
State cannot include ‘God’ in motto, U.S. court rules
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001
CINCINNATI (BP)--The Sixth U.S. Court of Appeals ruled April 25 that Ohio's state motto, "With God, all things are possible," violates the U.S. Constitution and must be thrown out.
Supreme Court to review case on ‘virtual’ child pornography
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001
WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide the constitutionality of a federal law that bans child pornography depicting computer-generated images that appear to be of actual children.
