Pakistan urged to repeal death penalty for blasphemy

September 24, 2009

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is calling on Pakistan to repeal the mandatory death penalty for blasphemy in the country’s penal code. The WCC’s

Young street preacher wins free speech case

September 24, 2009

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Jesse Morrell, a 24-year-old with a ministry of traveling to college campuses to preach the gospel, has won a settlement with

Washington voters to have say in same-sex ‘marriage’

September 17, 2009

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Voters in Washington state this November apparently will get to decide whether to keep or overturn the state’s same-sex “everything-but-marriage” law, which

Former Rwandan pastor tried for genocide

September 17, 2009

HELSINKI, Finland — A former Rwandan Baptist pastor accused of genocide in the African country’s 1994 massacres is standing trial in Finland. Francois Bazaramba, 58,

Alleged child sex tourists arrested thanks to law Baptists support

September 17, 2009

The prosecution of three alleged child sex tourists arrested in Cambodia demonstrates the benefit internationally of a six-year-old federal law, a Southern Baptist public policy

Bingo gambling in Alabama

September 17, 2009

What’s the latest news Bessemer: The Bessemer Police Department returned to the area American Legion Hall Sept. 8 to seize the nearly 280 electronic bingo