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Daily Archives: January 17, 2002

India’s prime minister denounces social work

January 17, 2002

MUMBAI, India — Newspapers in India have published comments by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, in which he allegedly said that Christian missionaries are using

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Group disputes missionaries’ executions

January 17, 2002

MANILA, Philippines — New Tribes Mission (NTM) is dismissing recent reports that Muslim rebels executed one or both of the missionaries they are holding hostage.

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German law seen as threat to religious freedom

January 17, 2002

BERLIN — The Institute on Religion and Public Policy (IRPP) in Washington, D.C., reports that Otto Schily, the Federal Minister of Interior of Germany, proposed

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Alabama Baptists, other denominations call for tax reform

January 17, 2002

Alabama Baptist Convention president Mike McLemore joined top leaders from three other denominations in an unprecedented show of ecumenical unity in a campaign for tax

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Endowment encourages full-time ministry

January 17, 2002

  INDIANAPOLIS — More than $55 million will be given to 28 colleges and universities by the Lilly Endowment to fund programs that encourage students

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40 million orphans expected by 2010 due to AIDS epidemic

January 17, 2002

The elderly woman sits in silence just outside the hospital’s open door. The electricity is off, but she doesn’t notice the darkness. For the past

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Famed Baptist pastor Criswell dead at 92

January 17, 2002

W.A. Criswell, a legendary Texas Baptist pastor who influenced a generation of Southern Baptist preachers and was a central figure in Dallas and national religious

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Churches have special reasons to rejoice

January 17, 2002

Because of Christ’s promise to ­always be with us, all believers can look forward to opportunities in a new year. Some churches in ­Alabama have

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