Posted on September 30th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
A candidate for the U.S. Senate is criticizing the Nevada State Health Division’s decision to pull an abstinence advertisement from the radio.
The public service announcement encourages teenage girls to abstain from premarital sex, implying that not doing so could leave them feeling “dirty and cheap.”
The Nevada Health Division dropped the radio ad after concluding that [...]
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Filed under: Marriage and Family
Posted on September 29th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Officials in one Lincoln County school district say they will no longer allow Gideons International to distribute Bibles to students.
The decision from the Elsberry School District came this week after a parent called the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to complain about students returning home with Bibles. The Gideons had been allowed to make a presentation to [...]
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Filed under: Bible Reading
Posted on September 29th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Compassion International staffers in Guatemala are not letting poverty, a bad economy, and crime hinder their work with needy children.
Once a week, staff members at the Guatemala City office meet for praise and Bible study. Then they get to work organizing 117 projects throughout the nation. Each project serves an average of 180 children from [...]
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Filed under: Ministries
Posted on September 28th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
At the moment, at least, no “Big Brother” computer program will be unleashed on American citizens to mine “data, including credit card, medical and travel records, in its search for terrorists.”
Congress has pulled the plug on a data-mining computer program criticized by privacy advocates as a supersnoop system to spy on American citizens and [...]
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Filed under: Law
Posted on September 28th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
After Gov Bob Riley’s tax plan failed, the Alabama legislature took other measures to rid the state of its financial woes.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 25—Two weeks after voters overwhelmingly rejected the biggest tax increase in Alabama history, the legislature gave final approval today to budget cuts that will mean hundreds of layoffs.
The $1.2 billion [...]
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Filed under: Law
Posted on September 27th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
An inventive way of prisioners doing bible study ends with the Bible being banned from the inmates’ cells.
HAVANA, SEPT. 26, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Prison authorities in Camaguey, Cuba, have banned the Bible from inmates’ cells, according to Aid to the Church in Need.
“Nine political prisoners, several of whom are journalists, used to read texts of [...]
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Filed under: Bible Reading
Posted on September 26th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Breaking away from the trend set by other successful Christian-owned retailers like Chik-fil-A, Hobby Lobby, and LifeWay Christian Stores, Family Christian Stores has revised its “closed on Sunday” policy. Now the retailer defends this decision…
Family Christian Stores says beginning this weekend, all of its more than 300 outlets across the country will [...]
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Filed under: General
Posted on September 25th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
A new study finds that nearly one-third of American students do not complete high school, and many who do graduate are unprepared for college.
The report, compiled by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, is called “Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates in the United States.” Lead author Dr. Jay Greene estimates that as [...]
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Filed under: Education
Posted on September 24th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
In Arkansas, a Health Report Card that indicates the student’s Body Mass Index (BMI) is under fire from some parents, teachers and professional who disagree with this idea.
(AgapePress) – A new program in Arkansas to fight childhood obesity by sending home body fat “report cards” is drawing fire from some who feel the program may [...]
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Filed under: Education
Posted on September 23rd, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
California has joined Vermont as the only states that offer same-sex couples many marriage rights and privileges previously reserved for heterosexual married couples.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (BP)—California became the second state to award homosexual couples most of the rights of married couples when Governor Gray Davis signed a domestic partner bill into law Sept. 21.
The bill, which [...]
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Filed under: Homosexuality
Posted on September 23rd, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
The RU-486 Abortion pill has been linked to the death of another North American woman, this time a teenage Californian. A tragic and unexpected loss…
( MCNS)—California teen Holly Patterson, 18, died last Wednesday after taking the RU-486 abortion pill obtained from a local Planned Parenthood clinic in Hayward.
According to family statements made [...]
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Filed under: Marriage and Family
Posted on September 23rd, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
The Parents Television Council has released the second in the series of three reports examining the “State of the Television Industry.” The primary report exposed the overall decrease in sexual content while at the same time become more explicit. The second looks into foul language.
During the 2002-2003 season, the broadcast networks attempted to [...]
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Filed under: Business
Posted on September 22nd, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
The exhibit’s goal is to “show the persistence and sacrifice of men who were killed for translating Scriptures into English.”
By way of their mutual interest in Bible history, Lee Biondi and Craig Lampe had run into each other frequently over the past 15 years.
But Biondi, a Los Angeles antiquities dealer who specializes in rare [...]
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Filed under: History
Posted on September 21st, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Although the class curriculum was approved by the University of California and the school officials, the class did not get the approval from the school board and was dropped two weeks into the school year.
MOORPARK, Calif.—A Bible history class lasted for two weeks at Moorpark High School before district officials abruptly canceled the course.
The class, [...]
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Filed under: Bible Reading
Posted on September 20th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Governor Mike Huckabee lending his support to the National Bible Association’s project—National Bible Week.
LITTLE ROCK (AP)—For decades, the New York-based National Bible Association has observed Thanksgiving holiday week as National Bible Week.
This year, Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister, will figure into the campaign by asking his counterparts in other states to promote the [...]
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Filed under: Bible Reading
Posted on September 19th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Getting the Word of God into the hands of the persecuted is this missionary’s calling.
(AgapePress) – A Christian layman with a heart for missions recently returned from a mission of his own to one of the most remote and desolate places on Earth. His assignment: deliver two Tibetan language Bibles to members of the underground [...]
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Filed under: Persecution
Posted on September 19th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
One of the 11 remaining states to still honor common-law marriages has abolished this martial status.
PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Tossing aside centuries of tradition, a Pennsylvania appeals court abolished common-law marriages, saying it is no longer necessary to give longtime live-in couples the benefits of marriage without a license.
By a 5-2 vote, the Commonwealth Court said recognizing [...]
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Filed under: Marriage and Family
Posted on September 19th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Senators are taking a stand for the traditional view of marriage being a union between one man and one woman by showing support of the Federal Marriage Amendment.
The eons-old understanding of what makes a marriage drew the spotlight Wednesday on Capitol Hill when senators, civil rights leaders and family advocates threw their support behind [...]
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Filed under: Law
Posted on September 19th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Attorney says the company’s pornography-friendly culture is to blame for the violation of his client’s privacy.
Two employees at an Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) store in Midland, Texas, have been accused of taking pictures of women in changing rooms—and an attorney for a woman who has sued the clothier said the company’s sexually themed advertising is [...]
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Filed under: Business
Posted on September 18th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals—the court that ruled the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional—has delayed California’s gubernatorial recall election. But will the order stand?
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the same court that last year declared the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional because of the words “under God” has issued another ruling [...]
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Filed under: Law
