Ugandan sect commits fiery mass suicide
March 30, 2000
KANUNGU, Uganda — Ugandan authorities said March 20 the death toll from an apparent mass suicide March 17 in southwestern Uganda by a doomsday sect
‘Contact points’ used to reach Kenyan natives
March 30, 2000
MARALAL, Kenya — A new church-planning method has resulted in more than 150 “contact points” among the Samburu people of northern Kenya according to Don
Bail refused in ‘religious slander’ investigation
March 30, 2000
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Two Turkish Christians arrested March 1 while selling and distributing Christian literature near the southern port city of Izmir were refused bail
India riled by criticism of religious intolerance
March 30, 2000
DELHI, India — The Indian government Feb. 27 rejected a United States report on religious freedom that criticized the ruling Bharatiya Janatha Party (BJP) for
High Court refuses Good Friday hearing
March 30, 2000
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court said March 6 it will not hear an Indiana man’s challenge to the governor’s designation of Good Friday as
Reversals sought in controversial cases
March 30, 2000
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court should reverse lower-court decisions that struck down a ban on partial-birth abortion and rejected the Boy Scouts of America’s
Seventh-day Adventists object to use of name
March 30, 2000
SILVER SPRINGS, Md. — Leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have asked a federal judge to block a Florida “breakaway church” from using the church’s
Students suspended after attending concert
March 30, 2000
SAN ANTONIO — Four students at a private Christian school in San Antonio were suspended after attending a concert by the pop group Backstreet Boys.
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