Loud Public Opposition to Legalized Prostitution Effective in Tasmania
October 26, 2005
A pro-family group in Australia is celebrating a major victory after government officials in one state announced that all brothels will be shut down. Full Story...Bioethics Center Takes Pro-Life Message to College Audiences
October 26, 2005
Fletcher Armstrong, the Southeast Regional Director of the pro-life Center for Bioethical Reform (CBR), says the organization is making an effort to bring the realities of abortion to college campuses through the Genocide Awareness Project, or GAP. The most recent leg of the project is currently taking place in Kentucky. Full Story...
Notre Dame's Pro-Homosexual Focus Deserving of Criticism, Says Catholic Group
October 26, 2005
A Catholic pro-family group is protesting several programs at the University of Notre Dame that encourage students to declare their homosexuality. Full Story...
Campus Paper's Publications Targeted by Anti-Conservative Vandals
October 25, 2005
The publisher of a conservative student newspaper at the University of Georgia says he finds it ironic that liberal students who champion tolerance on campus have apparently demonstrated extreme intolerance by vandalizing his fliers and newspapers. Full Story...
Will Evangelical Leaders Sit in Senate Judiciary 'Hot Seat'?
October 25, 2005
Will some evangelical leaders be called to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee as it considers the nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court? If Senator Arlen Specter's statements on national television this weekend carry any weight with the Committee, it could happen. Full Story...
Lawsuit Charges Public Officials Violated Christian Activist's Free-Speech Rights
October 25, 2005
Officials in one Pennsylvania borough are being accused of violating the free-speech rights of a local Christian. The legal representative for a religious leader who was ejected from a public meeting after he tried to read from the Bible says his client is suing. Full Story...
Alternative 'Ethical' ESCR Approaches Still Present Problems, Says Christian Doc
October 25, 2005
The associate executive director of the Christian Medical Association says two recent developments offering supposedly "more ethical" alternative embryonic stem-cell procedures miss the ethical mark. Full Story...
Indian Court Deliberates Dalit Christians' Equal Rights Demand
October 25, 2005
The Supreme Court of India could soon decide to forward a case to the nation's Parliament -- a case the outcome of which may extend civil rights to Christians in that society's lowest social class. Full Story...
Christian Novelists Campaign on Two Fronts
October 25, 2005
Since I first met Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the 1950s, I've been an avid fan of fiction. Unfortunately, recent decades have seen popular fiction take a path parallel to that of film and TV -- more gratuitous sex, more profanity, more unchristian values. More of everything I don't find entertaining. Full Story...
Legal Advice to U.S. Schools: Don't Be a Grinch About Christmas
October 25, 2005
A Christian educators group is teaming up with a Christian legal group as part of a national campaign to warn schools against prohibiting celebration and discussion of Christmas. Full Story...
Cuba's Religion Minister Calls Gospel Printing Operation 'Dangerous'
October 24, 2005
Cuba's Minister of Religion claims a Christian pastor in that country was engaged in subversive and dangerous actions. The church leader's alleged crime, apparently, was printing the Gospel of John. Full Story...
FRC Warns Against Anti-Christian Bias in Post-Hurricane Education Funding Bill
October 24, 2005
A pro-family leader says a new U.S. Senate bill designed to aid hurricane-displaced students contains language that assails private and religious education. The measure sponsored by Republican Mike Enzi and Democrat Ted Kennedy would allow both public and private schools to seek up to $6,000 reimbursement for each displaced student served; however,... Full Story...
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