by Jodi Mathews | Apr 10, 2003 | News
Government funding for abstinence education is at an all-time high, reaching $120 million this year. Abstinence education supporters call the funding a step in the right direction, but said that more needs to be done. “This is as high as it’s ever...
by Edward Miller | Apr 10, 2003 | News
AMMAN, Jordan – As Mennonite Central Committee prepares to implement aid programs in Iraq, MCC staff are increasingly concerned about the involvement of the U.S. and British military in providing humanitarian aid. MCC is committed to helping the most vulnerable...
by Jodi Mathews | Apr 9, 2003 | News
People are demonstrating their philosophies on peace without joining marches and signing petitions—they are wearing buttons and T-shirts, posting yard signs and flying flags. Peace has turned out to be quite a marketable idea according to USATODAY.com, which reported...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 8, 2003 | News
As the U.S. military encircled Baghdad, English-language Arab and Muslim newspaper editorials pivoted attention away from the invasion to the occupation of Iraq. The Yemen Times expressed suspicion about the >U.S. claim that the invasion’s purpose was...
by Jodi Mathews | Apr 7, 2003 | News
Claims made by a Church of Scientology advertisement that the group had “salvaged” 250,000 people from drug abuse have been censured by the United Kingdom’s Advertising Standards Authority. The ASA said the claims were unproven, the Guardian...
by Jodi Mathews | Apr 4, 2003 | News
Several British aid organizations have declined government financial support for their relief work in Iraq for fear of compromising their independence, according to Guardian. Directors of Oxfam, Save the Children, Christian Aid, ActionAid and Cafod, a Catholic aid...
