DALLAS (BP)–The Baptist General Convention of Texas is openly discussing whether or not to sever ties with the Southern Baptist Convention and leaders have raised the possibility that the BGCT could create a new Baptist denomination at its annual meeting in October.
WASHINGTON (BP)–Religious leaders issued two documents April 17 rejecting radical environmentalism and supporting a biblical approach to ecological stewardship.
(AgapePress) – One of the biggest cities in the United States has voted to cut its ties with the Boy Scouts. In a unanimous vote last night, the Los Angeles City Council said it will no longer support the Scouts because of the group’s exclusion of homosexuals and atheists.
(AgapePress) – The national spokesman for the Boy Scouts of America says his organization will continue to stand up for values, despite recent decisions in the nation’s two largest cities.
“It is obvious that PFLAG has a NAMBLA, North American Man Boy Love Association, problem.”
Washington, D.C. Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, Chairman of Traditional Values Coalition, is appalled to learn of the immoral and illegal lifestyle of the crusader leading opposition to the Boy Scouts. On Monday, August 21 protestors in Toledo, Ohio assembled outside the Erie Shores Boy Scouts of America offices to take part in a national demonstration schedule for 36 locations around the nation. The processional was lead by John Hemstreet, President of the Toledo chapters of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) and Scouting for All; an organization dedicated to forcing the Boy Scouts to accept homosexuals.
Baptist Press) — George Walker Bush was sworn in as the 43rd president of the United States Jan. 20 and began his first full day of his presidency with a prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral and a declaration of Jan. 21 as a National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving.
AgapePress) The California State Board of Education has voted in favor of pushing homosexuality on children and teachers in public and private schools.
SAN FRANCISCO (BP)–A statewide day of prayer and fasting has been called in California for supporters of a proposition that would legally define marriage.
HIGHLAND, Calif. (BP)–Pro-family and religious groups across California are claiming victory after voters overwhelmingly approved a measure to legally define marriage as only “between a man and a woman.”
HIGHLAND, Calif. (BP)–Pro-family and religious groups across California are claiming victory after voters overwhelmingly approved a measure to legally define marriage as only “between a man and a woman.”
The latest edition of Biblical Archaeology Review asks an interesting question: Did some ancient Jews observe the Zodiac and worship Helios, the Greek sun god? Raiders News Update believes 2 Kings 23: 11 and similar verses prove this to be true–but what does this mean?
(Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm and educational organization, said President Bush’s decision to prohibit the use of federal funds to destroy human embryos to obtain stem cells for research is the “correct†decision on this critical issue.
Ebenezer Scrooge returns to TV This Christmas
What: Scrooge & Marley—a dramatic comedy and modern parable
When: Airs Christmas Week 2001
Where: Nationwide
WASHINGTON, D.C. (ANS) — Congress has passed a bill to recognize a National Day of Reconciliation. The day will be observed on Tuesday, December 4, 2001.
Despite assurances from Muslim and government rulers in northern Nigeria that Sharia law would not be enforced on the Christian population living there, VOM sources in Nigeria report that several incidents point to the fact that this is not taking place.
ORLANDO, FLORIDA (ANS) — In 1995 God gave Eddie and Alice Smith an instruction to launch “PrayUSA!” which was 40-days of prayer and fasting for revival and spiritual awakening in the U.S. The first PrayUSA! was in 1997. Later, CBN News declared that it was the largest fasting and prayer initiative in history.
The overwhelming defeat of Amendment 01-A, a proposed constitutional amendment that would have allowed the ordination of practicing homosexuals and invalidated all previous General Assembly declarations that homosexual activity is sinful, was being called “a victory for Biblical morality” Wednesday.
Enterprise, Utah – An elementary school in Enterprise, Utah was recently caught pedaling a book to elementary school students entitled, “The Wizards Handbook”. The Scholastic Book Club order form promotes the book by stating, “Find the Wizard Inside YOU!” and “Make your own magic wands, cast spells, predict the future, and lots more!”
Washington, DC – With a profound sense of gratitude and deepest appreciation for his selfless sacrifices on behalf of grassroots Christian citizens across America, the Christian Coalition Board of Directors today accepted the resignation of Founder and President Dr. Pat Robertson and elected him the organization’s first President Emeritus. Roberta Combs, who had been Executive Vice President, was elected to succeed Robertson as President.
(Ann Arbor, Michigan) – A lawsuit brought by the Indiana Civil Liberties Union (ICLU), on behalf of two plaintiffs, to take down a Ten Commandments monument that has stood in front of the Knox County Courthouse since 1958 was recently dismissed by a federal judge.