Lutheran membership grows in Third World
April 5, 2007
GENEVA — Lutheran church membership soared in Africa and Asia between 2005 and 2006 but continued its steady decline in the modern West, according to
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Britain allows schools to ban full-face veils
April 5, 2007
LONDON — Amid growing debate over religious tolerance, the British government said March 20 that schools will now be allowed to ban pupils from wearing
Missionary ministers to poverty-stricken of Arkansas
April 5, 2007
When the North American Mission Board and the Arkansas Baptist Convention appointed Diana Lewis as state ministry evangelism director in Little Rock, Ark., almost 15
Michigan diocese to sell Episcopal cathedral
April 5, 2007
PORTAGE, Mich. — The landmark cathedral for the Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan will be sold after church officials determined they cannot afford upkeep on
Vermont lawmakers block assisted suicide bill
April 5, 2007
Montpelier, Vt. — The Vermont House of Representatives has turned back an attempt to make the New England state the second in the country to
Judge strikes down Internet anti-porn law
April 5, 2007
PHILADELPHIA — On March 22, a federal judge in Philadelphia struck down a federal law that prohibits commercial Web sites from making sexually explicit material
Faith-based program lowers prisoners’ return rates
April 5, 2007
WASHINGTON — Government officials said a pilot prisoner-entry program that partners government and faith-based groups may have helped reduce the percentage of former prisoners who
Concept of believer’s baptism gets wide-ranging defense in new book
April 5, 2007
Is the doctrine of baptism a minor theological issue that matters little in the greater scheme of biblical teaching? Adoniram and Ann Judson, famed Baptist
