by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 10, 2019 | News
Tony Brooks is the Baptist General Association of Virginia’s (BGAV’s) Sunday school / discipleship specialist and field strategist for the southside region. Where did you grow up? I had a variety of experiences growing up. Born in Ozark, Alabama, spent a...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 10, 2019 | News
More than two-thirds (67.8 percent) of all drug-related overdose deaths in 2017 involved opioids, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report released Dec. 21. Illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF) – a synthetic opioid used for pain that the...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 9, 2019 | News
The number of people in the U.S. experiencing homelessness increased for the second year in a row, according to an annual U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report released in mid-December 2018. An estimated 553,000 people were homeless on a single...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 8, 2019 | News
All but three U.S. states have improved, since 2011, initiatives to reduce the sex trafficking of minors, according to a report published in mid-November 2018 by Shared Hope International and the Center for Justice and Advocacy. Grades – from “A” to “F” – are provided...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 7, 2019 | News
A slim majority (51 percent) of U.S. adults said religion is very important in their lives, according to a Gallup report published Dec. 24. With a plus-or-minus 4 percent sampling error, that number could be as high as 55 percent or as low as 47 percent. An additional...