by Bob Allen | Apr 10, 2007 | News
A federal judge in Birmingham on Monday sentenced three former college students to prison for setting fire to nine rural Alabama churches in 2006. According to the Birmingham News U.S. District Judge David Proctor sentenced Matthew Cloyd and Benjamin Moseley to eight...
by Bob Allen | Apr 9, 2007 | News
A trusted and well-known economics professor at a Baptist university in South Carolina stands accused of swindling an estimated 300 individuals and companies out of $134 million in an investment scheme. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday filed...
by Bob Allen | Apr 6, 2007 | News
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich went on YouTube to say–in both Spanish and English–he didn’t mean to offend Latinos with his recent remarks criticizing “language of the ghetto.” “This past weekend I made some comments that I...
by Bob Allen | Apr 5, 2007 | News
A bi-vocational Southern Baptist pastor charged last week with molesting an 11-year-old girl in Alabama died Tuesday in an apparent suicide. Authorities in Gainesville, Ga., meanwhile, said they had arrested a former youth minister at a Southern Baptist church on...
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...
