Real‑time updates on legislation, court rulings, religious freedom cases, and cultural shifts that affect the Church in America.
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.
Supreme Court declines review of banned valedictory address
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Declining to intervene in the gray area between free-speech rights and the Constitution's ban on establishment of religion, the U.S. Supreme Court has turned down the appeal of a high-school student barred from giving a…
ACLJ Applauds Decision on Ohio’s “God” Motto
Posted on Monday, September 3, 2001
(Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, said today a decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declaring Ohio’s motto “With God, all things are possible†constitutional…
Partial-birth abortion ban approved, faces third veto
Posted on Monday, September 3, 2001
WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. House of Representatives again voted overwhelmingly to prohibit a gruesome procedure known as partial-birth abortion, but a third, and final, veto from President Clinton apparently awaits.
Presidential candidates statements on Israel are under scrutiny
Posted on Monday, September 3, 2001
LOUISVILLE -- With the U.S. presidential campaign in full swing, both major-party candidates are talking about the most potent foreign-policy question in domestic politics: Israel. While Republican candidate George W. Bush has said more so far, Al Gore,…
