by Bob Allen | Jul 15, 2008 | News
“Ruinous” agricultural policies forced upon poor countries by donor governments and financial institutions are to blame for the food crisis that threatens 100 million people with hunger, according to the international anti-poverty group Christian Aid. The...
by Bob Allen | Jul 14, 2008 | News
Conditions in Myanmar remain desperate two months after Cyclone Nargis, according to the relief-and-development arm of the Baptist World Alliance.Rescue24, a search, rescue and relief effort by Baptist World Aid, reported “huge unmet basic needs for the victims...
by Bob Allen | Jul 11, 2008 | News
Common Cause has launched a campaign called “Recapture the Flag,” protesting abuses of power by the White House and failure by Congress to oversee the Executive Branch. Unveiled in a full-page ad in The New York Times, the campaign charges the Bush...
by Bob Allen | Jul 10, 2008 | News
President Bush hailed Tuesday’s climate change statement by G8 leaders as “significant progress” on global warming, while environmental and humanitarian groups criticized it as too little and too late. A broad statement setting a goal halving carbon...
by Bob Allen | Jul 9, 2008 | News
Allowing women to become pastors and act as elders is a “cancer” that is pushing evangelical churches toward liberalism, a Texas pastor warned in a recent sermon defending “Biblical Manhood & Womanhood.” Tom Nelson, pastor of Denton Bible...
by Bob Allen | Jul 8, 2008 | News
Sen. Jesse Helms, an icon of conservative politics who died Friday of natural causes, lay in state at a decidedly moderate Baptist church he attended faithfully for more than 30 years. On Monday people filed in to Hayes Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., to pay...
