Baptist Press Archive

Friday, February 01, 2002

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  • Health proposal to cover unborn draws fire from abortion advocates
    by Tom Strode, posted Friday, February 01, 2002 (22 years ago)

    WASHINGTON (BP)--The Bush administration's decision to permit health-care insurance for preborn children has drawn criticism from abortion-rights advocates.

    The Department of Health and Human Services announced Jan. 31 it would issue a proposed rule that allows states to provide coverage to low-income pregnant women for their unborn children. The regulation would enable states to extend to pregnant women and their babies the use of funds already available under the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Read More

  • 'Black Hawk Down' survivor using fame to spread gospel
    by Michael Foust, posted Friday, February 01, 2002 (22 years ago)

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    Sharing his story
    Southern Seminary graduate Jeff Struecker answers a question during the History Channel documentary, The True Story of Black Hawk Down. It airs again Feb. 2 at 8 a.m. (ET). Struecker's character is also portrayed in the movie Black Hawk Down.
          LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Jeff Struecker never asked to be famous.

          Two days in Mogadishu, Somalia, though, forever changed his life. Those two days -- Oct. 3-4, 1993 -- will never be forgotten in United States military history. What began as a peacekeeping mission ended in a firefight.

          Eighteen American soldiers died. Many others were injured. Somalis dragged the bodies of dead soldiers through the streets, and Americans witnessed it all on the evening news. Read More

  • CP Missions: key foundation for Montana church in a former bar
    by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, February 01, 2002 (22 years ago)

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    Raising the bar
    Mountainview Baptist Church in Belfry, Mont., left, has renovated one of the town's two bars into a place of worship. Photo by Jim Edlin

    BELFRY, Montana (BP)--Montana church planting pastor Willard Francis has caught the vision. "When they explained to me how the Cooperative Program [CP Missions] worked, I thought what a marvelous idea -- cooperating churches all across the land and how we could do so much together than we could do on our own. Read More

  • 11.88% gain posted in CP gifts for January
    by Staff, posted Friday, February 01, 2002 (22 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--An increase of 11.88 percent in churches' gifts to the Southern Baptist Convention's Cooperative Program was recorded in January 2002 over January 2001, according to a news release from SBC Executive Committee President and Chief Executive Officer Morris H. Chapman. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: 'Black Hawk Down' ennobling fare compared to 'M*A*S*H'
    by Mark Coppenger, posted Friday, February 01, 2002 (22 years ago)

    EVANSTON, Ill. (BP)--Film director Robert Altman has just raised his ugly voice to say, "When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke." In 1970, he raised an ugly movie called "M*A*S*H," now just released with exquisitely bad timing on a special-edition DVD. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Teens capable of heeding true safe sex message
    by Kelly Boggs, posted Friday, February 01, 2002 (22 years ago)

    McMINNVILLE, Ore. (BP)--A report on FOX News indicates that President Bush is going to seek a 33 percent increase for abstinence-only sex education. If granted, the additional funding would bring the total spent on such programs to $135 million. Critics charge it is a colossal waste of money because when it comes to sex, teens only ignore the "just say no" message. Read More

  • Mississippi College taps new president
    by Staff, posted Friday, February 01, 2002 (22 years ago)

    CLINTON, Miss. (BP)--Trustees of Mississippi College in Clinton have chosen Lee G. Royce, president of Anderson College in Anderson, S.C., to become the 19th president in the 175-year history of the four-year school affiliated with the Mississippi Baptist Convention. Read More