by Bob Allen | Mar 27, 2008 | News
Growing up black in America, Aidsand Wright-Riggins says he is used to hearing the “n-word.” What bothers him is as a midweek air traveler he seldom sees more than one or two fellow African-American passengers, even though the United States is more than 12...
by Bob Allen | Mar 26, 2008 | News
United States embassies have reported an upsurge in anti-Semitism over the last decade, according to a recent government report. According to the Report on Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism delivered to Congress March 13, there were 593 cases of major anti-Semitic...
by Bob Allen | Mar 25, 2008 | News
The war in Iraq reached a grim milestone Sunday, when four soldiers killed when a bomb hit their vehicle in south Baghdad brought the number of U.S. military killed in the war to 4,000. Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama said “each death is a...
by Bob Allen | Mar 24, 2008 | News
A leading scholar on global warming says a letter sent last week to all 100 United States senators urging defeat of a measure to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is factually wrong. The Southern Baptist Convention’s chief ethics spokesman was a lead signer of a...
by Bob Allen | Mar 21, 2008 | News
Azerbaijan on Wednesday released a Baptist pastor from the remainder of a two-year prison sentence that drew protests around the world labeling it a false arrest. European Baptist Press Service reported Wednesday that 45-year-old Zauer Balaev was released unexpectedly...