Partial-birth abortion ban approved, faces third veto

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.

ACLJ Applauds Decision on Ohio’s “God” Motto

(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 is both encouraging and constitutionally sound.

Casualty Figures Released in Kaduna, Nigeria

LAGOS, Nigeria (Compass) — The head of the Nigerian Bible Society recently released the casualty figures of Christians killed and churches destroyed during the February and May religious clashes between Muslims and Christians in Kaduna, the capital city of northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state.

Diplomatic Wheels Turning To Produce Peres-Arafat Meeting

Saluted on Monday as “a one-man peace process,” Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres continues to press on with plans to meet with PLO chief Yasser Arafat in Italy on Friday, despite the on-going violence and the Palestinian leader’s broadside against Israeli “war crimes” at the UN conference on racism in Durban.

Iraqi Chemical Weapons Drill Turns Deadly

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is back on everyone’s radar screen again, after his forces reportedly ventured into Saudi territory and killed a soldier, while a recent training exercise using chemical weapons turned deadly for at least 20 elite Iraqi commandos.

Official Israeli Statement at Durban Conference

Following is the official statement by Rabbi Michael Melchior, deputy Foreign Minister of Israel, delivered by Ambassador Mordecai Yedid on Monday at the Durban conference on racism.

It’s God’s Time for Christian Radio in Papua New Guinea

PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, April 7, 2001 (ANS) – Papua New Guinea (PNG), a country where more than 700 different languages and dialects are spoken, will soon have Christian radio in the two main languages – English and Tok Pisin, a pidgin language based on English, German, and Melanesian languages.

Christian Leader Murdered in Mozambique

Antonio Manuel Chilaule had just returned to his parked vehicle after participating in a church service in Maputo when gunmen who demanded keys to the vehicle accosted him. Chilaule turned over the keys, but because he saw the faces of his assailants they shot and killed him on the spot. An assistant, Mrs. Mafalda Cossa, who accompanied him also was mortally wounded and died later in a Maputo hospital.

Millions of North American Viewers Can Share the Excitement of 9th Annual Movieguide(R) Awards Gala

HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. (ANS) – Millions of North American viewers will be able to share the excitement of the 9th Annual MOVIEGUIDE(R) Awards Gala hosted by Cheryl Ladd on Easter Sunday, April 15. A one-hour version of the gala, which celebrates Hollywood’s best family and inspirational movies and television programs, will air on PaxTV at 6 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, and 5 p.m. Central time.

Morality in Media Says Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ Approach to Fighting Porn Won’t Prot

NEW YORK (20 March 2001) — On March 20, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on a motion to create a Commission on Child Pornography. The new Commission would have authority to combat child pornography, but unlike the Commission that the Supervisors disbanded on February 20, the new Commission would be powerless to address the floodtide of obscenity engulfing our culture — except when “directed towards minors.”

Mongolia gives local Christian 13-year Prision Sentence

ISTANBUL, April 7 (Compass) — A Mongolian citizen of ethnic Kazakh descent has been sentenced to 13 years in a prison labor camp in western Mongolia on charges of propagating the Christian faith.

Molding Human Resources for the Global Workforce

“…all of us, including the ‘owners’, must be subjected to a large degree of social control… The major function of the school is the social orientation of the individual. It must seek to give him understanding of the transition to a new social order.”1 (Willard Givens, Executive Secretary, National Education Association, 1934)

Mission to Mars Discovers Origin of Life on Earth

The movie is “Mission to Mars.” The year is 2020, and NASA sends Commander Luke Graham (Don Cheadle) with a crew of four astronauts to the red planet. While exploring strange geological formations on the martian landscape, the truth about the Face on Mars and the origin of mankind is discovered.

Miracle Teen Program Launched

An alarming 24% of U.S. high-school students in 1995 thought seriously about committing suicide, according to a report published by the Center for Disease Control. Particularly at risk were females in the 11th grade. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry indicates that teen suicide has increased dramatically in recent years and each year in the U.S. thousands of teens commit suicide, making it the third leading cause of death for 15-to-24 year olds, and the sixth leading cause of death for 5-to-14 year olds.

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