by Bob Allen | Apr 4, 2007 | News
Children displaced by armed conflicts in Africa’s Great Lakes Region–the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda–are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse, according to a recent study. According to a World Vision study...
by Bob Allen | Apr 4, 2007 | News
Despite several recent reports of sexual abuse by clergy, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention says he does not believe it is a “large and systemic” problem in the nation’s second-largest faith group. The media that once blamed the...
by Bob Allen | Apr 3, 2007 | News
The United States Supreme Court ruled Monday the Environmental Protection Agency cannot use the 1970 Clean Air Act as an excuse for refusing to regulate automobile emissions that produce greenhouse gases. The 5-4 ruling was a setback for the Bush administration, which...
by Bob Allen | Apr 2, 2007 | News
The world’s most famous Sunday school class has come to a bookstore near you. Most weekends several hundred visitors visit Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., to attend former President Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school class. Last month Simon &...
by Bob Allen | Mar 30, 2007 | News
An Alabama man, the bi-vocational pastor of a church across the state line in the Florida Panhandle, is the latest in a spate of Southern Baptist ministers arrested on charges of sexual abuse of a minor. Police in Brewton, Ala., arrested Stephen Lyle...
