Georgia Voter ID Bill Passed in Time for Primary

Georgia’s Republican-controlled state election board has decided to require voters to present government-issued ID cards in order to cast ballots in primary elections only weeks away. The U.S. Justice Department cleared a Republican-backed voter ID law June 28...

Congress Spars Over Plight of Palestinian Christians

A battle is being waged in Congress over the plight of Palestinian Christians and who is to blame–the Palestinian Authority or Israel. The war of words began May 19, when Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., chairman of the House International Relations Committee who is...

SBC 2nd VP has Past Ties with Unification Church

Wiley Drake, recently elected as second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention has been involved in several events hosted by Sun-Myung Moon and the Unification Church. Although Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, Calif., publicly...

American Baptists Respond to Region’s Withdrawal

American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. has changed its standing rules to accommodate churches of the former Pacific Southwest region that want to remain American Baptist despite their region’s vote to leave the national denomination over homosexuality. Members...