WMU to launch program to fight human exploitation
April 1, 2010
How could the exploitation of a human being go unnoticed? It’s easy. Just ask Jean Roberson. About five years ago, Roberson, ministry consultant and leader
Bessemer ‘bingo’ committee seeks new ordinance, sues mayor May
April 1, 2010
Bessemer City Council’s bingo committee is suing Mayor Edward May to validate an electronic bingo ordinance he vetoed last year. But instead of waiting on
Cohabitation — normative but harmful, study says
April 1, 2010
ATLANTA — Cohabitation is increasingly becoming the first co-residential union formed among young adults, a new study has found, but those who practice some facets
Americans don’t see poverty relief as duty of faith groups
April 1, 2010
RICHMOND, Va. — Americans believe childhood poverty is a problem that demands urgent attention, but rank faith-based groups last when asked who should be responsible
Sen. Bedford’s new ‘bingo’ gambling bill ‘even worse’
April 1, 2010
As predicted, pro-gambling legislators have not given up their fight to legalize and expand the state’s “slot machine gambling” referred to as electronic bingo. Sen.
Baptists have rich legacy of religious liberty, church-state separation, Land says
April 1, 2010
An individual’s right to religious expression is a “sacred zone” that no other man should breach, Richard Land said March 4 at Truett-McConnell College in
Christians refuse to let officials close church
April 1, 2010
BEKASI, Indonesia — Efforts by local officials in Bekasi, West Java, to close a church met with stiff resistance as a defiant lawyer and weeping
Morocco begins expulsion of foreign Christians
April 1, 2010
RABAT, Morocco — Moroccan authorities deported more than 40 foreign Christian aid workers during one week in an ongoing nationwide crackdown that included the expulsion
