Majority of Americans say moral values getting worse
June 15, 2006
More than eight in 10 Americans say the country’s moral values are getting worse, a new Gallup Poll shows. The 81 percent of adults who
Vietnam authorities use force with church
June 15, 2006
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Police and other officials used overwhelming force to address an alleged building permit violation by the Vietnam Mennonite Church.
Villagers in India rape two Christian women
June 15, 2006
SIRVIL, India — Two Christian women were gang-raped by villagers in India’s north-central state of Madhya Pradesh May 28 after the husband of one refused
Nepal declares itself secular, ends Hindu rule
June 15, 2006
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nepal, which until recently proclaimed itself the world’s only official Hindu kingdom, has proclaimed itself a “secular state” with equal rights for
Appeals court rejects ruling on textbook stickers
June 15, 2006
ATLANTA — A federal appeals court May 25 rejected U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper’s ruling on the constitutionality of stickers serving as evolution disclaimers in
Decency bill passes Congress, to be signed by president
June 15, 2006
The U.S. House of Representatives approved overwhelmingly June 7 a bill that will produce a tenfold increase in fines for indecency on television and radio.
Suspect arrested after Kentucky church burns
June 15, 2006
DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. — Lafayette Baptist Church, a rural Kentucky congregation that dates back to the late 1800s, lost its church facility in an apparent
Prison program in Iowa ruled unconstitutional
June 15, 2006
DES MOINES, Iowa — Prison Fellowship officials plan to appeal a district judge’s ruling that declared their faith-based program in an Iowa prison unconstitutional. Chief
