by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 11, 2002 | News
Baptists around the world celebrated the naming of Jimmy Carter as the 2002 Nobel Peace laureate. “Baptists all over the world asked us to forward letters of congratulations to Mr. Carter,” said Denton Lotz, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance....
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 5, 2002 | News
Four Baptists were among the top 20 recipients of alcohol industry contributions during the 2002 congressional campaign. Three candidates affiliated with the religious right were also on the list. The leading recipient was Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., who received...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 4, 2002 | News
Former President Jimmy Carter identified four steps that lead extreme fundamentalists to violent acts. During a question and answer segment of a program sponsored by the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 19, Carter was...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 2, 2002 | News
TV evangelist Pat Robertson criticized President Bush last week for acting as a religious leader and causing confusion about the real nature of Islam. “He is not elected as chief theologian,” Robertson told The Washington Times. When the president said...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 26, 2002 | News
Over 200 people were killed and 500 injured last week in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna after a newspaper article contended that the prophet Muhammad would have married one of the contestants in the Miss World beauty pageant to be held in Nigeria. For months,...