Thursday, April 12, 2007

• True Love Waits to expand anti-AIDS initiative in Africa

  by Don Beehler, posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 (17 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--True Love Waits International will expand its abstinence-until-marriage message in six African countries, utilizing $950,000 in donor gifts to LifeWay Christian Resources' A Defining Moment capital campaign, LifeWay President Thom S. Rainer said April 11.

        "Although HIV/AIDS is a concern worldwide, the most concentrated and high-risk area continues to be the continent of Africa, where the life expectancy in some countries has dropped from age 42 to as low as age 30," Rainer said. "We are very pleased to make this announcement today because we believe True Love Waits can be the answer for the AIDS epidemic on the entire continent." Read More

• Court ponders if abortion kills a human

  by Erin Roach, posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 (17 years ago)

  ST. LOUIS (BP)--In a rare 11-judge hearing, a federal appeals court is considering whether physicians in South Dakota should be required to tell women seeking an abortion that they will be terminating "the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being," and observers say the outcome could reverberate nationwide. Read More

• Stem cell vote not veto proof

  by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 (17 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP)--The United States Senate again has voted to fund stem cell research that destroys human embryos, but it also again has failed to do so with a majority large enough to overcome a veto by President Bush. Read More

• ERLC refuses position on alternative bill

  by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 (17 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP)--The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission declined either to support or oppose an alternative stem cell bill approved by the Senate April 11. Read More

• Chapman shares views on NOBTS blog

  by Michael McCormack, posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 (17 years ago)

  

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Few Southern Baptist ministers have had such long-term ministry experience and influence on SBC life as has Morris H. Chapman, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee. Read More

• Land tackles liberal-conservative divide

  by Dwayne Hastings, posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 (17 years ago)

  

   

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Is America really a divided nation?

        It is easy to come to that conclusion if you're watching cable news shows with their "24/7 shouting matches," Richard Land observes. Read More

• What language does God speak?

  by Erich Bridges, posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 (17 years ago)

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--It was no sin to be uneducated in the red-dirt countryside my Georgia kin farmed generations ago.

        Many rural folks worked too long and hard in those days to get very far in school, assuming there was a school to attend. Read More