by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 16, 2016 | News
The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved a resolution on Monday evening (March 14) to declare actions by the Islamic State (also known as Daesh) against religious minorities in the Middle East, including Christians, to be genocide. This bipartisan...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 15, 2016 | News
Local programs working to end homelessness across the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands were awarded $1.6 billion from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) last week. The grants were given to Continuum of Care (CoC)...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 10, 2016 | News
A strong majority (79 percent) of U.S. citizens want e-cigarettes to be regulated, according to a Gallup poll. Sixty percent desire regulations comparable to those for tobacco cigarettes, while 19 percent seek FDA regulation at lower levels than with tobacco products....
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 9, 2016 | News
The U.S. reaffirmed its commitments to promote and defend human rights last week in preparation for seeking election to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council in November. The statement listed three broad commitments with specific pledges detailing how the...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 8, 2016 | News
A strong majority (86 percent) of U.S. Protestant pastors affirm that Christians are called to “care sacrificially for refugees and foreigners,” and 98 percent said they were “at least somewhat informed” about the Syrian refugee crisis. Yet,...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 7, 2016 | News
Following the voluntary resignation of more than 1,000 missionaries and staff, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, David Platt, addressed the agency’s future in a live webcast on March 3. Platt began by...
