Superb Acting Marks the GRACE Nominees for 14th Annual Faith & Values Awards
March 1, 2006
- The Christian Film & Television Commission is preparing to recognize and honor both television and movie actors for performances best displaying the grace of God. Appropriately, the award is known as the Grace Award. Full Story...Pro-Family Groups Celebrate SCOTUS Victory, Pro-Life Protesters' Vindication
March 1, 2006
- The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that federal extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used to ban pro-life demonstrations in front of abortion clinics. Pro-life groups are celebrating the high court's decision declaring that peaceful demonstrators for their cause cannot be prosecuted under RICO statutes designed to fight organized crime. Full Story...
Dubai-Based American: No Call for Concern Over Ports Deal
February 28, 2006
- An American legal consultant living in the United Arab Emirates says the U.S. has no reason to be suspicious of the controversial deal that would give management control of six U.S. seaport operations to a company owned by that Middle Eastern nation. Full Story...
Is IRS Investigation Intended to Protect -- or Prohibit -- Churches from Politics?
February 28, 2006
- The IRS is warning some churches and non-profit groups that their tax-exempt status may be in jeopardy for taking part in prohibited political activity. The chief counsel for a non-profit ministry in Mississippi says that announcement is alarming. Full Story...
Evangelical University Considers Changing Lifestyle Policy for Employees
February 28, 2006
- A conservative evangelical university in Michigan is considering whether to discontinue its policy barring employees from drinking alcohol, smoking, and gambling. A team of five faculty members at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids has been reviewing the school's "Personnel Lifestyle Statement" for 18 months and has crafted a new draft state... Full Story...
Porn Industry Stoops to New Low
February 28, 2006
- In what is further evidence of the porn industry's disdain of Christianity, an Internet-based sex toy company has begun selling items modeled after religious icons. Full Story...
Families Sue to Opt Their Kids Out of School-Mandated Pro-Homosexual Seminar
February 28, 2006
- A federal judge has prohibited students from opting out of mandatory pro-homosexual diversity training in one Kentucky school system. District Judge David Bunning says students in Boyd County Schools have no religious or free-speech right to opt out of a yearly seminar aimed at preventing anti-homosexual harassment. Full Story...
Baptist University Considers Changing Personnel Lifestyle Policy on 'Vices'
February 28, 2006
- A conservative evangelical university in Michigan is considering whether to discontinue its policy barring employees from drinking alcohol, smoking, and gambling. A team of five faculty members at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids has been reviewing the school's "Personnel Lifestyle Statement" for 18 months and has crafted a new draft state... Full Story...
Medical Records Link Abortion With Death
February 28, 2006
- Several new studies reveal an unprecedented accuracy in linking women's medical records to their death certificates when comparing abortion and childbirth mortality rates. Such findings could possibly change the application of the 33-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling -- which legalized abortion -- while alerting medical professionals to common risk fa... Full Story...
Christian Leader Sees Roe v. Wade Collapsing, But Pro-Lifer Urges Patience
February 28, 2006
- A pro-life activist believes the momentum has finally shifted in the battle to end legalized abortion in America. He is describing a decision last week by South Dakota lawmakers just one more indication that Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that made abortion on demand legal in the U.S., is starting to crumble. Full Story...
Israeli Activist Wants Christians Represented in Israel's Parliament
February 28, 2006
- A conservative Israeli activist notes that, thanks to immigration, the Christian population of Israel has grown to a politically significant percentage. That is why he wants to form a new political party to place Christian representatives in Israel's Parliament, the Knesset. Full Story...
Christian Leader Criticizes White House's Silence on Church Arsons
February 28, 2006
- A Christian activist says the White House needs to get its priorities straight when it responds to the bombing of an Islamic place of worship in the Middle East while remaining silent in the wake of serial arson attacks on Christian sanctuaries in the United States. Full Story...
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