by Bob Allen | Oct 11, 2005 | News
Baptist World Aid on Sunday sent 10 rescue specialists and two rescue dogs, plus equipment, to help with recovery efforts following Saturday’s 7.6 Richter scale earthquake in Pakistan. Reuters reported on Wednesday a death toll of more than 33,000 in a belt...
by Bob Allen | Oct 10, 2005 | News
American democracy is in danger as long as citizens get most of their information from television news, former presidential candidate Al Gore said in a speech promoting a new, non-traditional TV network that airs content submitted by viewers. “I came here today...
by Bob Allen | Oct 7, 2005 | News
An organization that supported last summer’s Southern Baptist Convention resolution calling on churches to investigate homosexual influences in public schools on Thursday announced a “family-to-family” initiative to increase the number of children...
by Bob Allen | Oct 7, 2005 | News
Roy Moore, whose removal as Alabama’s chief justice for defying a federal judge’s order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state Supreme Court building made him a hero for conservatives, announced Monday he is running for governor, ending...
by Bob Allen | Oct 6, 2005 | News
Evangelist Franklin Graham said Monday that Hurricane Katrina could spark a revival in New Orleans, cleaning up its image as a city of sin. “There’s been satanic worship. There’s been sexual perversion,” Graham said in an address at Thomas Road...
by Bob Allen | Oct 6, 2005 | News
Mississippi lawmakers dealt a defeat to the state’s Southern Baptists, voting Monday to allow floating casinos damaged by Hurricane Katrina to rebuild up to 800 feet inland. “We think it’s a sad day in Mississippi when money is placed over...