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 a prominent international figure.
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.
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 Jackson in 1983 for most trophies in a single night.
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.
WASHINGTON (BP)–The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a lower-court decision preventing a Christian club for children from meeting after hours at a New York public school.
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 graduation speech deemed too religious by a California school district.
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.
WASHINGTON (BP)–The U.S. Supreme Court wrestled March 29 with whether student-led, student-initiated prayers at public-school football games are permissible under the First Amendment.
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.
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, N.C., during the annual Carver-Barnes Lectures, Sept. 24-25.
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 Next Generation. “This is the Borg Collective,” they said menacingly. “Prepare to be assimilated. We will add your biological and technological distinctives to our own. You will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.”
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.
WASHINGTON (BP)–The federal government has approved the abortion drug RU 486, ending a controversial effort that required nearly all eight years of the Clinton administration to complete.
WASHINGTON (BP)–The latest congressional attempt to block RU 486 from approval by the federal government did not even get out of the House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON (BP)–The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation Sept. 26 to provide legal protection to all newly born infants, including those who survive abortions.
WASHINGTON (BP)–The U.S. Supreme Court expressed skepticism a state ban on partial-birth abortion would prohibit only that grisly procedure in oral arguments before the justices April 25.
WASHINGTON (BP)–Both houses of Congress adopted legislation July 27 to provide protection for religious liberty in two arenas where discrimination has been a particular problem in recent years.
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.
WASHINGTON (BP)–The U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in striking down Nebraska’s ban on partial-birth abortion removed all doubt whether the court, with its current membership, will permit any meaningful limit on an abortion technique, no matter how vile.
“The United States will sponsor the creation of hemispheric centers for teacher excellence. These centers will provide teacher training for improving literacy and basic education, both in person and over the Internet.”[1] President George W. Bush, remarks at Summit of the Americas, Working Session, Quebec City, Canada (April 21, 2001).