A Christian ministry filed a lawsuit yesterday in federal court against the state of Tennessee for forcing it to obtain a license in order to continue.
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Filed under: Church and State, Government, Ministries
A judge in Sherman, Texas, prohibited a 17-year-old girl from having sex as part of her probation.
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Religious belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today.
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NEW YORK – Federal Judge Constance Baker Motley, who as a young lawyer represented Martin Luther King Jr. and played a pivotal role in the nation’s civil rights struggle, has died. She was 84. First black woman on federal bench represented Martin Luther King Jr.
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Filed under: Government, History, In Memory Of
WASHINGTON – With support across party lines, chief justice nominee John Roberts was confirmed Thursday as President Bush’s selection to replace the late William H. Rehnquist.
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Filed under: Government, Law, Politics
An Alabama state senator says the reason why the Gulf Coast is suffering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is because God is judging Americans in that region for sinful behavior.
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Filed under: Hurricane Katrina 2005, Perspectives, Society and Culture
Hurricane Katrina has dispersed 1.3 million Gulf Coast households to communities in every state from Maine to Hawaii, according to the first official accounting of the disaster’s unprecedented ripple effect.
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Filed under: Government, Hurricane Katrina 2005, Society and Culture
U.S. Army officials are looking into allegations that soldiers have been trading gruesome digital pictures of war victims in Iraq and Afghanistan for access to an amateur pornography Web site, but officials said yesterday that there is insufficient evidence to pursue criminal charges.
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Filed under: Government, Law
MADRID — An imam who wrote a book on how to beat your wife without leaving marks on her body has been ordered by a judge in Spain to study the country’s constitution.
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Filed under: Ethics, Persecution, Society and Culture
NEW YORK — Another musician has tested the tolerance level for bad language on prime-time television, but she’s no raucous rock star. Would you believe it’s Joan Baez?
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HOUSTON (AP) — Saying they were caught off-guard by the number of people in need, FEMA officials closed a relief center early on Wednesday after some of the hundreds of hurricane victims in line began fainting in triple-digit heat.
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)–More than 1,200 Southern Baptist churches have committed to help SBC churches in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The Adopt A Church partnership was initiated by the North American Mission Board the week after the hurricane destroyed thousands of homes and business along the Gulf Coast including hundreds of SBC [...]
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Sep 28, 2005 — A doctor has offered to perform free abortions on hurricane evacuees, saying it may be too dangerous for them to wait until they return home.
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Filed under: Business, Ethics, Marriage and Family
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Don Adams, the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s TV spoof of James Bond movies, “Get Smart,” has died. He was 82
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Filed under: In Memory Of, Music and Movies
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — Ashley Smith, the woman who says she persuaded suspected courthouse gunman Brian Nichols to release her by talking about her faith in God, discloses in a new book that she gave him methamphetamine during the hostage ordeal.
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Facing incessant prostitution on city streets, St. Louis police have added shame and humiliation to their crime-fighting arsenal.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s crime rate was unchanged last year, holding at the lowest levels since the government began surveying crime victims in 1973, the Justice Department reported Sunday.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — “Intelligent design” is a religious theory that was inserted in a school district’s curriculum with no concern for whether it had scientific underpinnings, a lawyer told a federal judge Monday as a landmark trial got under way.
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Filed under: Church and State, Education
ATLANTA Sep 26, 2005 — The governor’s request that Georgia public schools take two “snow days” and close to conserve fuel did not sit well with parents who had to scramble to find baby sitters and day care for their children.
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Filed under: Education, Government
PERRY, La. — For the storm-shattered Gulf Coast, the images were all too familiar: Tiny fishing villages in splinters. Refrigerators and coffins bobbing in floodwaters. Helicopters and rescue boats making house-to-house searches of residents stranded on the rooftops.
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Filed under: History, Society and Culture
