Christian News Brief Monthly Archive - Mar 2004
1 Mar 2004
Christian History Magazine Renamed to "Christian History & Biography"
After 80 quarterly issues, a Christian magazine is changing its name to reflect its commitment to accurately report on historical events and the people who were involved in those events. Christian History, a publication of Christianity Today International, is re-launching under a new banner: Christ ...
1 Mar 2004
Using ICJ to Stop Israel Barrier Construction Akin to "Anti-Israel Hate"
"Anti-Israel hate." That's how one conservative observer is describing the efforts on those who are trying to use the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to stop Israel's construction of an anti-terrorist barrier in the West Bank. Josh Block of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee say ...
1 Mar 2004
Seniors Concerned about Social Security This Election Year
A seniors group is denouncing a proposal by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan that the only way to save the Social Security program is to cut its benefits. The group also has deep concerns over how Senator John Kerry has responded to the suggestion. President Bush was quick to react to Green ...
1 Mar 2004
Tom Tancredo Calls for Investigation Into Illegal Aliens Getting Tax Credits
The chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus and five other lawmakers are asking Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate the IRS and private tax preparers who assist illegal aliens in getting tax credits. Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo and the others are concerned about news ...
1 Mar 2004
Ralph Nader has Company in Presidential Race in Michael Peroutka
Ralph Nader isn't the only third-party candidate seeking the presidency this fall. Also appearing on the ballot in 40 states will be Michael Peroutka of the Constitution Party. The Maryland attorney believes both of the major parties have moved away from the idea that the purpose of government is ...
2 Mar 2004
MTV Period of Repentance Comes to an End
There are signs that MTV's short period of repentance from raunchy videos has come to an end. Just after the infamous Super Bowl incident, MTV moved its raciest videos to the overnight hours. But after just a few weeks, they are back in all hours of the day. Britney Spears explicit video "Toxic ...
2 Mar 2004
Pennsylvalia Pro-Family Activist Calls on Libraries to Install Internet Filters
A Pennsylvania pro-family activist says the American Library Association (ALA) is more concerned with providing access to pornography than protecting children from sexual predators. Dianne Gramley, president of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania, is spearheading a campaign to convince ...
2 Mar 2004
Very Close and Very Tough Election Ahead
It's going to be a very close and very tough election. That's the assessment coming from a leading Republican strategist as the country prepares for the all-out campaign wars. Terry Nelson is the national political director of the Bush-Cheney campaign. Since most current polls indicate the elec ...
2 Mar 2004
American Culture Saturated with Media Consumption
Yet another study is confirming that America has become a culture saturated by media consumption. Studies on media consumption generally gather data two ways: phone surveys or diaries. Both are dependent on a participant's recollection. Ball State researchers shadowed more than a hundred partici ...
3 Mar 2004
Bill Frist Calls on Congress to Act and Pass a Federal Marriage Amendment
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says homosexual marriage is "likely to spread thorough all 50 states" in the coming years, adding that "it is becoming increasingly clear that Congress must act." Frist was referring to the need for a Federal Marriage Amendment -- and he was reacting to the lat ...
3 Mar 2004
New York AG Says He'd Like to See Law Changed, but for Now No Gay Marriage
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer says he'd like to see the law upholding traditional marriage changed -- but for now, he says the existing law must be obeyed. Spitzer says New York's law contains references to "bride and groom" and "husband and wife" and does not authorize same-sex "m ...
3 Mar 2004
New Paltz Mayor to Appear in Court Wednesday
The mayor of New Paltz, New York, is expected to appear in court on Wednesday to face 19 counts of performing "marriage" ceremonies for same-sex couples without a marriage license. The Ulster County district attorney charged 26-year-old Jason West yesterday after the young mayor violated New York ...
3 Mar 2004
John Kerry Shows Strong on Super Tuesday - Rated Number One Liberal in Senate
John Kerry swept nine of the ten primaries on Super Tuesday, sewing up the Democratic nomination for president. His only remaining opponent, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, is expected to drop out of the race on Wednesday. Edwards congratulated Kerry on Tuesday night, calling him "an extr ...
3 Mar 2004
Democrat Attack Groups Accepting Soft Money
The McCain-Feingold Act, otherwise know as the Campaign Finance Reform Law, has led liberal Democrats to a new strategy that could spell trouble for President George W. Bush. Liberal Democrats have settled on a new strategy since the passage of campaign finance reform. Paul Weyrich of the Free Con ...
3 Mar 2004
Seniors Denounce Greenspan Comments on Cutting Social Security Benefits
A seniors group is condemning a proposal from Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan to cut benefits in the Social Security program. Jim Martin of the 60 Plus Association has been around Washington for decades -- and he says he is not thrilled with Greenspan's suggestions. According to Martin, G ...
4 Mar 2004
Marlin Maddoux, Found and President of USA Radio Network Died Thursday
A pioneer in Christian radio has passed away. Marlin Maddoux, the founder and president of the USA Radio Network, died just before noon on Thursday at Baylor Medical Center in Irving, Texas. Maddoux died due to complications following recent heart bypass surgery. He founded USA Radio Network in 1 ...
4 Mar 2004
Senate Subcommittee Hears Testimony About Devastating Effects of Abortion
A Senate subcommittee has heard testimony about the devastating effects that women suffer after they have had an abortion. Georgette Forney, founder of the national Silent No More Awareness Campaign for women suffering after abortions, says the negative post-abortion effects are being ignored today ...
4 Mar 2004
FOX TV Program Helps Nab Child Pornographers
Thanks to a popular FOX television program, two "John Doe's" whose images were collected during an investigation of alleged child pornography are now in custody and being charged with production of child porn. In February, America's Most Wanted aired the images of two unidentified men who the F ...
4 Mar 2004
In Wake of The Passion, New Christian Movie Review Site Launched
A recently launched Christian website is capitalizing on the public's reaction to Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ by offering movie reviews as well as movie-related articles, features, and interviews. ChristianityTodayMovies.com, a new resource from Christianity Today magazine, reports mor ...
4 Mar 2004
Seniors Advocate Predicts Chaos if Kerry Elected
One of the nation's leading seniors advocates is predicting financial chaos for the U.S. if John Kerry becomes the next president. Charlie Jarvis of the United Seniors Association is not pleased by thoughts of a Kerry presidency for a couple of reasons. He thinks the whole country will suffer und ...
5 Mar 2004
Report Says FCC About to Overturn F-Word Ruling
Sources say the Federal Communications Commission is about to reverse a recent decision involving the broadcast of a very vulgar term. Consultant Pat Trueman of the Family Research Council (http://www.frc.org) says FCC sources indicate action is near on what can and cannot be said on the public air ...
5 Mar 2004
Massachusetts State Workers Dealing with Reality of Homosexual Marriages
State workers in Massachusetts are struggling with the growing reality that they will soon be forced to comply with court-ordered homosexual "marriages." While much of the media attention right now is on all the illegal homosexual marriages going on around the country, town clerks in Massachusett ...
5 Mar 2004
Wisconsin and Kansas Legislatures Approve State Constitutional Amendments Banning Gay Marriage
Pro-family forces in two states are celebrating today. Legislatures in both Wisconsin and Kansas have voted to approve proposed state constitutional amendments banning homosexual marriage. Jeanne Gawdin with Kansans for Life says while her state already has a law defining marriage between a man an ...
5 Mar 2004
Pat Robertson New Book "The Ten Offenses: Reclaim the Blessings of the Ten Commandments
The founder and chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network says it's time for Americans to reclaim their spiritual roots. In his new book The Ten Offenses: Reclaim the Blessings of the Ten Commandments, Pat Robertson asserts that America was founded as a Christian nation, and that recent effor ...
5 Mar 2004
Churches Must do More to Show They're "In The World" but Not "of The World"
An Alabama pastor says churches must do more to show that they are "in the world" but not "of the world." Jeff Noblit is senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Muscle Shoals. The Alabama preacher says many pastors are so concerned with building membership roles that they fail to ensure if a ...
5 Mar 2004
Signs of the Times Reveal God's Plan
The senior pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, says the signs of the times already reveal God's plan for bringing His people into full redemption. In his newest book Unveiling the End Times in Our Times, Dr. Adrian Rogers says although many people view the Book of Revelation a ...
5 Mar 2004
Mothers in Bush's Home Town Pull Daughters from Girl Scouts
Some moms in the same town where President Bush has his ranch have decided they don't want their daughters associated with pro-abortion advocacy and anti-family sex education -- so they yanked the girls from their local Girl Scouts troops in Crawford, Texas. Several weeks ago, the group Pro-Life W ...
5 Mar 2004
Tom Tancredo Considering Run for Senate
The chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus says he is definitely considering making a run for the Colorado Senate seat being vacated by Ben Nighthorse Campbell. But Tom Tancredo says there are many questions that must be answered before he commits one way or the other. The Colorado congre ...
5 Mar 2004
Texas Homosexual Students Have No Right to Meet on Campus
In what many Christians will see as a refreshing change, a judge in Texas has decided that community standards should still count for something. In Lubbock, Judge Sam R. Cummings has ruled that a group of homosexual high school students does not have a legal right to meet on campus. Last summer, t ...
8 Mar 2004
Boy Scouts Under Siege
Four years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court told the Boy Scouts they had the right to prohibit openly homosexual men from holding positions as troop leaders. But today the high court refused to hear an appeal from the Scouts in a Connecticut case, effectively telling states it is okay to discriminate ag ...
8 Mar 2004
Pro-Family Leader Urges Continued Pressure on FCC
A pro-family leader is urging continued public pressure on the Federal Communications Commission because it is a tactic that is obviously working. Family Research Council consultant Pat Trueman says there is a clampdown happening on the broadcast airwaves, and it is coming from a public outcry for a ...
8 Mar 2004
Lutheran Social Services Accused of Promoting Homosexual Adoption
Lutheran Social Services is under fire for promoting homosexual adoption. The agency says it is complying with a nondiscrimination policy, but at least one pro-family advocate is not buying that excuse. While the Lutheran social agency does not place kids in adoptive homes, they do forward recommen ...
8 Mar 2004
Abstinence Only Policy Triumphs Over Homosexual Student Club
An abstinence-only policy is being credited for a court victory in Lubbock, Texas, against a proposed homosexual student club. In July 2003, the student club took the Lubbock Independent School District to court claiming the district violated student's rights by not allowing them to meet or post inf ...
8 Mar 2004
Conservative Leader says Renegade Liberal Activist Judges Should be Recalled
A conservative leader is offering some suggestions on how to deal with activist judges. Notra Trulock of Accuracy in Media feels something has to be done to rein in the arrogant, runaway jurists. He says many liberal judges in America are increasingly "behaving like unelected legislators, accountab ...
8 Mar 2004
Vacated Colorado Senate Seat a Hot Contest
A conservative Republican congressman who is considering a run for the Colorado Senate seat being vacated by Ben Nighthorse Campbell says there are sure to be some high-profile politicians seeking the seat. "Open seats just do not come along very often," says Representative Tom Tancredo," and whe ...
9 Mar 2004
Michigan Attorney General Praised for Endorsing Proposed Marriage Ammendment
A family values group in Michigan praised state Attorney General Mike Cox's endorsement of a proposed Marriage Protection Amendment to the state constitution, which he says is necessary to protect from legal challenges the existing state law that defines marriage as exclusively between a man and a ...
9 Mar 2004
Tennessee Capitol Scene of Pro and Anti Abortion Activists
Tennessee pro-abortion activists increased their presence and visibility at the Capitol in Nashville in efforts to oppose an important pro-life bill that came up before the State Senate this week. SJR 127 is a resolution that calls for a public vote on the restoration of several pro-life protections ...
9 Mar 2004
NAACP May Need to Include a Morals Clause in Guidelines for "Image Award"
Members of black conservative organization Project 21 are applauding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for realizing that it may need to include a morals clause in the guidelines for future NAACP "Image Award" nominations. The goal of the annual Image Awards pr ...
10 Mar 2004
President Bush Should be Praised for Cutting Costs
Roy Blunt of Missouri, the majority whip in the U.S. House of Representatives, says despite record-setting spending in Congress, President Bush should be praised for actually cutting costs in all areas of spending not related to national homeland security or defense. "The president has taken that c ...
10 Mar 2004
Bush Wants to Expand Healthcare Benefits for Veterans
Despite the budget battle with Congress over areas to cut, the White House is holding firm on one important item. President Bush wants Congress to expand the health-care benefits of veterans. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony J. Principi says the Bush Administration is working hard to ...
10 Mar 2004
Many Upset Over Bush's Amnesty Program for Illegal Immigrants
Last weekend's visit of Mexican President Vicente Fox with President Bush in Texas has served to re-ignite concerns over Bush's amnesty program for illegal immigrants. The controversial amnesty plan has many people upset for various reasons. Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum is particularly upset by ...
10 Mar 2004
Former Congressman Supporting Bush
A former congressman turned radio talk-show host says he will work hard for the re-election of President George W. Bush this year, even though he believes the president is being misserved by those advisors around him who believe Islam is a peaceful religion. Bob Dornan recently lost his bid to unsea ...
10 Mar 2004
Catholics Hail Appointments by Pope John Paul
Many Catholics are hailing some recent appointments made by Pope John Paul. The Associated Press news agency reports that the Roman Catholic pontiff has chosen a woman, Harvard University's Mary Ann Glendon, to be the head of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a scholarly organization that ...
11 Mar 2004
Rock for Life Aims for Half a Million Pro-Life Young Adult Voters
As part of this year's National Voter Registration Week, American Life League's youth arm, Rock for Life, is announcing a new major drive to register a half million pro-life young adults as voters. The organization will conduct this initiative as part of its upcoming spring and summer tours. Jason ...
11 Mar 2004
The "Tolerant Intolerant" Lash out at Former Homosexual for His Message
An Ohio pro-family advocate who promotes the idea that homosexuals can change says he receives thousands of hateful messages from homosexuals and their supporters who do not like his message. Greg Quinlan heads the Pro-Family Network of Ohio and runs a ministry that helps homosexuals leave their lif ...
11 Mar 2004
Scottsdale Gallery Owner Ordered to Remove Sculpture of Jesus
An Arizona art gallery owner has been ordered to remove a statue of Jesus from the sidewalk outside his business, even though at least nine other sculptures have stood in the same area for at least a year with no complaints. Scottsdale city officials told Harold Lyon, owner of the Lyon Gallery, that ...
11 Mar 2004
Mississippi House OK's Public Displays of Ten Commandments Or other God Acknowledgement
The Mississippi House of Representatives has voted 94-16 to permit display of the Ten Commandments or certain other references that acknowledge God in public buildings throughout the state. In addition to allowing the posting of any or all of the Ten Commandments, the bill passed by the House permit ...
12 Mar 2004
Pro-Life Supporters "Mobilizing" Their Message... Literally
Pro-life supporters in one Florida city are going mobile to expose abortion for what it is -- murder. The pro-lifers are driving 12 trucks around Tallahassee, emblazoned with large pictures of an aborted ten-week-old baby alongside the word "choice." The effort is coordinated by the California-bas ...
12 Mar 2004
Raising Fines the Cure for Broadcast Indecency
A pro-family spokesman says raising fines is the clear cure for broadcasters who have been tolerating indecent material in their television and radio programming. The Federal Communications Commission is talking about huge increases in fines against entities that broadcast indecent and obscene mater ...
12 Mar 2004
Immigration Reform Oranization Says Bush "Pandering" to Mexico's Vicente Fox
An immigration reform organization is calling President Bush to task for what it calls once again "pandering" to Mexican President Vicente Fox. Susan Tully is Midwest field director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. She observed the weekend visit Fox paid Bush at his Crawford, Tex ...
12 Mar 2004
GOP Senator Sees Tough Campaign Ahead
A high-profile GOP senator says the kind of nasty rhetoric seen this week from Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry points to a tough campaign in the coming months. Kerry was caught on microphone calling Republicans" the most crooked liars" he has ever seen. Kansas Senator Sam Brownback is a ...
12 Mar 2004
Hillary Clinton stilll Nominee in Waiting for Democrats
The editor of a conservative political magazine says despite her denials, Hillary Clinton remains the presidential nominee-in-waiting of the Democratic Party. R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., founder and editor in chief of the American Spectator, recently published Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White ...
15 Mar 2004
US Supreme Court to Hear Pledge of Allegiance Case
The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to hear a case involving a challenge to the pledge of allegiance. The Associated Press reports that the high court will hear arguments a week from this Wednesday on whether it is constitutional to have school children recite the pledge, with its assertion that the ...
15 Mar 2004
List of Girls Scout Councils Affliiated with Planned Parenthood Should Soon be Available
Recently Kathy Cloninger, CEO of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., told NBC news that the national girl scouting organization has relationships with Planned Parenthood agencies across the nation, cultivated in an effort to bring information-based sex education programs to girls. In response to this, Am ...
15 Mar 2004
Concerned Women for America Wants to Offer Asylum in US for Domestic Violence Victims
Concerned Women for America (cwfa.org) is backing a proposal to offer asylum in the U.S. to women suffering severe domestic violence. Justice Department officials brought the recommendations in part because of Rodi Alvarado Peņa of Guatemala. She came to the U.S. fleeing a husband who had reportedly ...
15 Mar 2004
Sexually Transmitted Disease on the Rise in Homosexuals
In the midst of a major push for homosexual marriage comes disturbing news of escalating incidents of sexually transmitted disease among homosexuals. The accelerating levels, including a 65 percent increase in syphilis in homosexual men, are blamed partly on a "double whammy" of methamphetamine us ...
15 Mar 2004
FCC Chairman Thinks Recent Indecency Legislation May Go Too Far
Last week Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell voiced some concerns about recently passed legislation that is intended to rein in broadcast indecency on America's public airwaves. Both the House and Senate Commerce committees have passed bills that would raise fines against bro ...
16 Mar 2004
Author and Pentagon Insider Believes Osama Bin Laden Will be Caught by Years End
An author and national defense expert says Pentagon insiders appear confident that U.S. forces will have Osama Bin Laden by the end of the year. Rowan Scarborough is the national defense correspondent for the Washington Times. He has talked with Pentagon sources who express growing optimism about th ...
16 Mar 2004
Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law Leads to Increase Rates at Younger Ages
The latest numbers are in on how many people have taken their own lives under Oregon's assisted suicide law. Under the provisions of the law, any resident of Oregon who is 18 or older and has been determined by physicians to be suffering from a terminal disease, may make a written request for medic ...
16 Mar 2004
Space Shuttle Columbia Families Tour Jerusalem's Holy Sites
The families of the Columbia space shuttle crew are touring Jerusalem's holy sites during a visit to Israel. Welcoming them to her country is the widow of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who was among the seven astronauts who died in the Columbia disaster in February 2003. According to an Associated ...
16 Mar 2004
Hillary Clinton May Consider Vice President Slot if Kerry Offers
The author of a new book about Hillary Clinton believes the former first lady would accept the vice presidential slot on the Democratic Ticket if John Kerry asks her to be his running mate. R. Emmett Tyrell, who wrote Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House, believes Hillary Clinton would j ...
17 Mar 2004
White Expresses Sorrow Over Four American Civilians Deaths in Iraq
The White House is expressing sorrow over the deaths of four American civilians who were attacked in a drive-by shooting late Monday while working on humanitarian mission projects in Iraq. There were five Southern Baptist missionaries -- a California woman and two married couples from Texas and Nort ...
17 Mar 2004
Dr. ADrian Rogers of Love Worth Finding Recovering From Heart Surgery
Well known pastor and Bible teacher Dr. Adrian Rogers of Love Worth Finding (LWF) Ministries (lwf.org) is said to be recovering well from a heart operation. The minister underwent surgery yesterday morning to repair cardiovascular blockages that were discovered during medical tests. Rogers is the pa ...
17 Mar 2004
Socialist Party Upset in Spain Major Blow to Bush Administration Foreign Policy
A British foreign policy analyst says Sunday's upset victory by the Socialist Party in Spain is a major blow to the Bush Administration's foreign policy, which has been incessantly attacked by John Kerry and other U.S. Democrats. Following last Thursday's terrorist attacks in Madrid, many politic ...
17 Mar 2004
Kerry Has His Own Outsourcing Problem
Democratic presidential hopeful Senator John Kerry has relentlessly attacked U.S. President George W. Bush over the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries. But Gary Bauer of the Campaign for Working Families says Kerry has an outsourcing problem of his own. He believes Kerry has a major campaign p ...
18 Mar 2004
Albanian Muslims Attacking Christian Serbs in Kosovo
Albanian Muslims are killing Christian Serbs and torching homes, churches, and monasteries in Kosovo. Alarming reports are pouring out of Kosovo as Muslim Albanians have gone on killing sprees in many cities, torching churches and homes along the way. Bill Murray of the Religions Freedom Coalition ...
18 Mar 2004
New Report Supports Traditional Family Values
A new report is lending support to a biblical truth: God's "family" plan is what works the best. The latest census data shows that children of all races and ethnic groups who live in homes with married parents -- as opposed to single, cohabiting, or homosexual parents -- are less likely to live ...
18 Mar 2004
Columbia School of Journalism Think Tank Says Mainstream Reporters are "Out of Touch"
A think tank at the Columbia School of Journalism has come to the same conclusion as many Americans have had for decades -- and that is that mainstream reporters are "out of touch." The Columbia study finds that Americans generally believe news organizations are harmful to democracy, biased, and ...
18 Mar 2004
Spain's Reaction to Recent Attacks Will Only Encourage Terrorists
A terrorist expert says Spain's reaction to the recent attacks in Madrid are only going to encourage terrorists around the world. Following those attacks, Spanish voters ousted the Populist Party, which had governed the nation and supported the United States' efforts against terrorism. The new s ...
18 Mar 2004
Author and Pentagon Reporter Believes Al-Qaida Planning Another US Attack
An author and long-time Pentagon reporter believes al-Qaida is planning another terrorist attack against the United States, aimed at taking out the nation's infrastructure and crippling its economy. Even before last week's terrorist attack in Spain, Washington Times correspondent Rowan Scarboroug ...
19 Mar 2004
Nebraska Teen Arrested in Columbine-Like Plot
Authorities in Malcom, Nebraska, say it could have been the worst school shooting since the Columbine incident in 1999. A teenager at the local high school was arrested this week after police found him with 20 homemade bombs, a rifle, and a note saying he wanted to injure everyone at the school exc ...
19 Mar 2004
FCC Commissioner Gary Glen Hears from Michigan Man
One family-values activist in Michigan took his campaign against broadcast indecency to the nation's capital this week, where he met with one of the commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, met with FCC Comm ...
19 Mar 2004
Florida Ministry Prevails in Court
A federal judge has given a Florida ministry a victory by ruling that a county could not bar it from operating. Since 1993, Open Homes Fellowship has operated a church and an alcohol/drug rehabilitation program that emphasizes a relationship with Christ as the way to gain freedom from addictions. ...
19 Mar 2004
Bush Fortunate to Have Rumsfeld This Political Season
An author and veteran Pentagon correspondent says it is fortunate that President Bush has Donald Rumsfeld running the Pentagon during this political season. He says the Defense Secretary remains focused on hunting down al-Qaida despite continued Democratic anti-war rhetoric. John Kerry marked the ...
19 Mar 2004
Palestinian Terrorists Using Children to Deliver Bombs
Another report is confirming that Palestinian terrorists are willing to do almost anything to deliver a bomb, including the murder of one of their own children. WorldNetDaily says a group of Palestinian terrorists in Nablus recently tried to use an 11-year-old boy to smuggle a bomb through an Israe ...
19 Mar 2004
Missionaries Deaths at the Hands of Terrorists Will Not Stop Them
A Southern Baptist spokesman says this week's deaths of more SBC missionaries at the hands of Islamic terrorists will not stop efforts to spread the gospel of Christ. Within the past two years, Southern Baptists have had three missionary doctors gunned down in Yemen, one at an airport in the Phili ...
19 Mar 2004
Billy Graham's Childhood Home Will Soon Open to Visitors
Billy Graham's childhood home will soon be moved to his organization's new headquarters and opened to visitors. Plans are under way to relocate the farmhouse from its present site in Fort Mill, South Carolina, to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association property in Charlotte, North Carolina. Th ...
22 Mar 2004
Homosexual Activists Will Push UN for Recognition of Their Lifestyle
Homosexual activists are expected to be busy again this year at the United Nations Human Rights Conference in Geneva, pushing their agenda for official recognition of their lifestyle. One pro-family advocate is concerned about what stand the Bush Administration will take. The effort by homosexuals ...
22 Mar 2004
British Unlikely to Cave to Terrorist Pressures at the Polls as Those in Spain Did
A conservative British political analyst says unlike what happened in Spain earlier this month, he doubts citizens of his country will be intimidated by terrorists when they go to the polls. The former advisor to Lady Margaret Thatcher says the English will continue to back the war on terror. Brit ...
22 Mar 2004
John Kerry Supporter Says Kerry is Lying About Anti-War Activities
A Vietnam War historian and supporter of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says the Massachusetts senator is lying about key events related to his anti-war activities in 1971. Gerald Nicosia told Cybercast News Service that he is a Kerry supporter and does not want to do anything to dama ...
22 Mar 2004
Doctors Angered by Government Interference in Their Profession
Doctors angered over government interference in their profession were in the nation's capital recently to make that view know. It was called Operation Whitecoat and involved a group of physicians who are not happy with the way their profession is being treated by Washington politicians. Dr. Dan C ...
22 Mar 2004
12th Annual Faith & Values Awards Gala
A Christian recording artist and a former Miss America are among the hosts for this week's 12th Annual Faith & Values Awards Gala, presented by the Christian Film & Television Commission. The Regent Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills is the site of Wednesday night's (March 24) MovieGuide Awards, w ...
23 Mar 2004
The National Right to Life Accused of Betraying Pro-Life Movement
The National Right to Life is being accused of betraying pro-lifers in South Dakota who were hoping lawmakers in that state would enact a bill criminalizing abortion. House Bill 1191, sponsored by Republican State Representative Matt McCaulley, sought to ban virtually all abortions in South Dakota ...
23 Mar 2004
US Action in North Korea Unlikely
An expert on Asia who served in both the White House and on Capitol Hill does not think the U.S. is likely to take military action against North Korea unless it believes the Pyongyang regime is prepared to launch a missile directed at American soil. The North Korean propaganda machine released a st ...
23 Mar 2004
California Appeals Court Reinstates Charges Against Jesse Jackson
A California appeals court has upheld the lawsuit of a conservative black leader against Jesse Jackson. The appeals court has reinstated all but one count of the lawsuit filed by Jesse Lee Peterson, the founder and president of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND). A lower-court ju ...
24 Mar 2004
Another UMC Bishop Displeased with Lesbian Pastor Not Guilty Verdict
Another bishop in the United Methodist Church is expressing his frustration and disappointment in the wake of last week's church trial and acquittal of a lesbian Methodist pastor in Washington state. Bishop Larry Goodpaster of the UMC's Alabama-West Florida Conference says he is "absolutely asto ...
24 Mar 2004
Sex and Nudity Don't Sell Movies
Movies with explicit sex and nudity don't sell. That's according to Dr. Ted Baehr, chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission, a group that annually analyzes the content of all the major movies released by Hollywood. The Commission says less than 20 percent of the top ten movies over ...
24 Mar 2004
Illegal Immigration a Hot Topic in This and Subsequent Election Years
An immigration reform activist believes illegal immigration will become an increasingly important issue to voters this election and in elections to come. When President Bush announced his "guest worker" program for illegal aliens in January, it was greeted with a great deal of criticism by the Wa ...
24 Mar 2004
Canadian Officials May Change Medical Marijuana Laws
Canadian officials are looking at changing their legal medical marijuana laws. Only 78 legal medical marijuana users in Canada are currently allowed to purchase government marijuana. The pot is sent either directly to the patient or to their doctor via courier. But officials in British Columbia w ...
25 Mar 2004
North Carolina District Judge Rethinks "Secular Affirmations" in His Court
In North Carolina, a district judge has decided to reconsider his plan to remove God from the courtroom by using neutral oaths that are often called "secular affirmations." Judge James Honeycutt had planned in early April to have a "one size fits all" oath recited in his courtroom -- and oath t ...
25 Mar 2004
University Study Scorned for Over The Counter Abortion Solutions
A pro-life advocate says allowing women -- even teenage girls -- to obtain drugs that cause abortions without a doctor's order is a prescription for disaster. Step up the pharmacy counter, answer 23 questions, and walk out with birth-control pills and other abortifacients -- that's all it takes f ...
25 Mar 2004
Surrounding Countries Sparking Attacks in Iraq
There has been a spike in terrorist activity throughout Iraq in recent weeks, taking the form of drive-by shootings, bombings, and mortar attacks. A returning intelligence agent says surrounding nations are providing the spark for this new wave of attacks. David DeBatto recently returned from Iraq ...
25 Mar 2004
Bush Trying to Hold Up Vicente Fox Government in Mexico
An author and veteran national defense correspondent believes there is an explanation why President George Bush seems to kowtow to Mexican President Vicente Fox. Rowan Scarborough recently published Rumsfeld's War: The Untold Story of America's Anti-Terrorist Commander. In the book, Scarborough ...
26 Mar 2004
Kansas Constitutional Marriage Amendment Fails 17-16
The State Senate in Kansas has rejected a proposed constitutional amendment which would have banned homosexual "marriage." The Wichita Eagle reports that the amendment, which needed a two-thirds majority for approval, failed 17-16 with six senators abstaining. The amendment had passed the Kansas ...
26 Mar 2004
Nations first Anti-Cloning Law Goes Into Effect
The nation's first anti-cloning law -- which is actually a pro-cloning law -- has gone into effect. And the state where it is being implemented, New Jersey, is in an uproar as a result. Though it claims to be an anti-cloning law, the New Jersey legislation allows for what is called "nuclear cell ...
26 Mar 2004
Canadian Christian Medical Student Pays Price for Pro-Life Views
In Canada, a Christian medical student is paying a price for his pro-life views. The unnamed student failed an obstetrics and gynecology class at the University of Manitoba because of his pro-life views. The school requires its doctors to inform patients about all medical options, including aborti ...
26 Mar 2004
Rock for Life Mobilizing Young Pro-Life Voters
Hundreds of thousands of pro-life young people are being targeted for voter registration. Rock for Life, a youth-oriented wing of American Life League, recently unveiled plans for a massive voter registration of pro-life, activist young people. Eric Whittington of Rock for Life says the effort wil ...
26 Mar 2004
Homosexual Activists Want "Sexual Orientation" a Universal Human Right
Homosexual activists plan to use a United Nations conference now under way in Geneva to push for making "sexual orientation" a universal human right. Those activists are fighting hard to get the United Nations International Human Rights Conference to issue a statement that makes sexual orientatio ...
26 Mar 2004
Hillary Clinton Presidency Should Concern Christians
The publisher of a conservative-leaning magazine says Christians in the United States have every reason to be concerned about the possible future presidency of former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., recently co-wrote Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House. The ...
26 Mar 2004
Christian Author Points Out Christ's Compassion
A Christian author says the shortest verse in the Bible shows not only the human side of Christ, but also the heart of the Savior. In his book Jesus Wept: How Wide and Long and Deep Is the Love of Christ, Bruce Marchiano says the human emotions Jesus felt during his 33 years on Earth are often over ...
26 Mar 2004
US Senators Put Nations Cable Companies on Notice
Some powerful U.S. senators are putting the nation's cable companies on notice. They say consumers are fed up with skyrocketing rates and being forced to pay for channels they don't want. The storm of complaints came this week at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee. Senator Trent Lott of ...
29 Mar 2004
Ohio Motto "With God, All Things Are Possible" Prevails in Federal Appeals Court
In a reversal of a lower court's ruling, a federal appeals court has decided in a 9-4 vote that Ohio's state motto, "With God, all things are possible," is constitutional after all. As the Cincinnati Enquirer reports, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled recently that the state motto does ...
29 Mar 2004
Israel Had No Choice But to Respond to Hamas
The former police chief for the City of Jerusalem says the Israel government had no choice but to take out the leader of the terrorist group Hamas, even though it risks violent Muslim reprisals. Since Israeli self-defense forces took out Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, thousands of angry Palestin ...
29 Mar 2004
Hamas has Good Reason to Back of Threats Against US
A security expert says there is a reason why the new head of Hamas has backed off on a threat to target Americans in the wake of Israel's assassination of the group's former leader. A statement from the terrorist organization indicated that America was to be targeted for its perceived complicity i ...
29 Mar 2004
Canadian Authorities Rescue North Carolina Child from Internet Pornographers
Seven police officers in Toronto, Canada, are being credited with assisting in the rescue of a young North Carolina child who was being exploited by Internet pornographers. The Globe and Mail newspaper tells the story of a rare success that had members of a special unit set up to fight child pornogr ...
29 Mar 2004
Liberal Media Ignores Richard Clarke Inconsistency Yet Slammed Gary Aldrich for Similar Allegations Against Clinton
A former federal agent says the positive media coverage former security advisor Richard Clarke has been getting for his claims against the Bush Administration is a far cry from the way the press treated him when he made similar charges against the Clinton White House. When former White House Federal ...
30 Mar 2004
Pro-Life Advocates in Kansas Pushing "Unborn Victims" Bill
Pro-life advocates in Kansas are trying to get a state law passed that would make it a crime to injure or kill an unborn child during an attack against the mother. The Kansas bill is similar to the recently-passed federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which applies in cases involving the commissio ...
30 Mar 2004
72 Year Old Church Leader in China Beaten and Crippled for Leading Others to Christ
Chen Jingmao, a 72-year-old church leader in South China, was recently beaten and crippled in prison as punishment for leading 50 prison inmates to faith in Christ. Chen, who was arrested on July 2001, had been charged with using an "evil cult" to obstruct the law -- this, referring to his associa ...
30 Mar 2004
Kerry Voting Record Hard to Ignore
While Massachusetts Senator John Kerry's campaign for the presidency is just getting started, some critics have noted that one of the biggest obstacles he has to overcome is the problem that history is against him. After 25 years in the Senate, Democrat John Kerry has set his sights on a fight to u ...
30 Mar 2004
Media Watchdog Group Calls Media to Task Over Richard Clarke Testimony
A media watchdog group is calling the mainstream networks to task for failing to question the credibility of 9-11 hearings witness Richard Clarke. A spokesman for the Media Research Center says Clark seems to be an opportunist -- one who was perfectly willing to work in the Bush Administration up un ...
31 Mar 2004
D.C. Real Estate Profits Reportedly Funding Hamas and Al-Quida
Terrorists have reportedly been using profits from real estate investments in the Washington, DC, area to fund terrorist groups like Hamas and al-Qaida. According to Justice Department investigators, Hamas terrorists have taken advantage of the booming real estate market in and around the U.S. capit ...
31 Mar 2004
Kentucky Arsonists Blamed for Church Fire
A rash of fires in Kentucky is being blamed on arsonists. Weekend fires destroyed one church, damaged a second house of worship, and left an apartment building in ashes. A third church in the region was torched earlier in the month, and investigators are looking for possible links to this past weeke ...
31 Mar 2004
Rock for Life Announces Second Annual National Pro-Life T-shirt Day
Rock for Life, a youth project of the American Life League, is announcing the second annual National Pro-life T-shirt Day. On April 27, thousands of young people across the United States will participate by wearing T-shirts with pro-life messages to their high schools, colleges, and wherever else th ...
31 Mar 2004
"Glorious Appearing" Not the Last Installment in "Left Behind" Series
The co-author of the best-selling "Left Behind" books says there will be two more installments in the saga. Glorious Appearing, the 12th installment in the print series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, went on sale earlier this week. This latest book completes the series with Christ's triumphal r ...