NORFOLK, Va. (BP)–Six U.S. sailors are dead, 36 injured and 12 missing after an apparent terrorist attack on a U.S. Navy destroyer today in the Middle Eastern port city of Aden, Pentagon officials said. Meanwhile, local Southern Baptist churches are mobilizing relief efforts to minister to the families of the sailors aboard the USS Cole.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP)–Gridlock struck Asheville, N.C., when thousands gathered for a “We Still Pray” rally — and thousands more were stuck in traffic trying to reach the high school football stadium.
ORANGE, CA (ANS) – When Darrel Fritts, 68, worked on the Space Shuttle program, he never dreamed that, when he retired, it would result in putting his high-flying experience to work helping Bible translation around the world.
Washington, DC – Traditional Values Coalition has just published “A Gender Identity Disorder Goes Mainstream,” for parents, pastors, school officials, media outlets, and for other concerned citizens.
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, I sat up an took notice. Unlike many UFO buffs, law enforcement personnel are credible, trained observers. The FBI and the National Institute for Discovery Science are following up on the as yet undetermined phenomenon.
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.
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.”
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.
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)–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.
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.
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 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)–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.
(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.