U.S. News

(Washington, DC) –– The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, said today the list of nominees announced by President Bush for federal appellate court judgeships is both “”balanced”” and “”diverse”” and urged the U.S. Senate to begin the confirmation process without delay.

(Boston, MA) – The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, announced today that the City of Newburyport, Massachusetts has replaced two commemorative brick pavers that were removed by the city from a city park because they contained religious messages.

The news that 30 babies were born in the US through “genetic modification” has revived an ethical debate as to whether humans should be genetically modified or cloned.

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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (HSLDA) —”All in favor of the Hoekstra amendment say ‘aye.'”

“AYE.”

“All opposed, ‘NO.'”

Silence . . .

(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. (HSDLA) – According to Congressional Daily, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said yesterday that most outstanding disagreements with Democrats over a rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (S. 1) were worked out over the weekend.

WASHINGTON (BP)–San Francisco has become the first city in the nation to offer insurance coverage for men who want to become women, and vice versa.

GARDEN GROVE, CA (ANS) – The weekly five-minute “Window on the World” radio show, produced by ASSIST Ministries of Garden Grove, California, can now be heard on the worldwide web at www.assist-ministries.com.

WASHINGTON (BP)–The House of Representatives passed a measure April 26 to provide legal protection for unborn children who are harmed during a violent crime against their mothers.

(Washington, DC) — The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, today applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for approving the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which makes it a federal crime to harm an unborn child.

The future of federal funds for embryonic stem cell research remained uncertain after the Bush administration canceled the first meeting of a committee to review applications for grants for the controversial experimentation.

SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA (ANS) — A unique group of South Dakotans has been reaching out by broadcast television to the people of Mongolia.
The AMONG Foundation (American MONGolian) started in 1991 as a random group of Christian business people who came together to pray for the country of Mongolia, which was just then coming out of Communism.

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Supreme Court, without comment, declined April 16 to hear the appeal of New Jersey anti-abortion protesters challenging a federal law that guards access to clinics where abortions are performed.

ORLANDO, FLORIDA (ANS) — Ben Jennings, PrayWORLD! International Coordinator with Campus Crusade for Christ has issued a statement thanking Christians worldwide for participating in PrayWORLD!2001 and outlining further prayer initiatives for 2001.

Santa Rosa, CA – This week, several concerned parents of Santa Rosa High School students contacted the Pacific Justice Institute after they had learned that the school had put on a general assembly for all the students called “Sex and Stuff”. The assembly included vulgar, inappropriate sex scenes and recommended alternative sex acts instead of abstinence. Also discussed were topics such as sexual molestation, rape, unwanted pregnancy, and the HIV virus.

Palestinians fired additional mortar shells this morning at an Israeli civilian settlement and army positions in the Gaza Strip, just hours after Israeli forces began pulling out of a small portion of Palestinian-controlled land in the northeast portion of the strip.

In his latest “consultation” with Middle East leaders, US President George W. Bush hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah at the White House on Tuesday to discuss bilateral ties and how to keep the Palestinian uprising from spilling over into the Hashemite Kingdom.