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Thursday, July 02, 2020

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  • Gains, losses noted in report on human trafficking
    by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, July 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    WASHINGTON (BP) -- A nearly equal number of countries received upgrades and downgrades regarding their efforts against human trafficking in the last year, the U.S. State Department said in its annual Trafficking in Persons Report.

    The State Department's report, which was released June 25, graded 22 governments higher than the previous year but demoted 23 in its tier system of categorizing how 188 countries performed in preventing trafficking, protecting victims and prosecuting traffickers. An estimated 25 million adults and children are victims of sex trafficking or forced labor, according to the State Department. Read More

  • Texas hospital ends man's COVID-19 treatment due to his disability
    by Kathryn Post, posted Thursday, July 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    AUSTIN, Texas(RNS) -- Michael Hickson, a man paralyzed three years ago after suffering a cardiac arrest, died June 11 after St. David's South Austin Medical Center in Texas ended his treatment for COVID-19 due to his disability.

    Hickson, 46, a Black father of five, was admitted to St. David's on June 2 after reportedly contracting coronavirus from a staff member at his nursing home. After he spent several days in St. David's intensive care unit, the hospital determined that Hickson, who has quadriplegia, would not benefit from further treatment, and he was moved to hospice with the assent of his legal guardian, a local nonprofit called Family Eldercare. Read More

  • IMB workers share nothing but blood of Jesus can heal
    by Caroline Anderson*, posted Thursday, July 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    SOUTHEAST ASIA (BP) -- In a dimly lit wooden home, a paralyzed man shares the story of his paralysis, his time with a witchdoctor, and finally, his vision of heaven.

    IMB missionary Nancy Potter* translates his testimony for a visiting volunteer team from Oklahoma. As Seo* shares his story, he uses a white rope, strung like a hammock, to keep himself upright. Read More

  • Nevada defends church attendance cap in U.S. appeals court
    by Scott Sonner, posted Thursday, July 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Lawyers for the state of Nevada say the 50-person cap placed on worship services due to the coronavirus doesn't infringe on constitutional protections of religious freedom because it doesn't target anyone's ideology or opinion.

    "The right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community ... to communicable disease," the state argued in documents filed this week in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Read More

  • Bible Study: Judgment God allows
    by Staff/LifeWay Christian Resources, posted Thursday, July 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

    We might look righteous to ourselves, but Jesus teaches that examining our own sin first is a prerequisite to judging others. Not only that, but keeping the law must flow from a heart submitted to the God who sees the heart. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: America the beautiful?
    by Jim Richards, posted Thursday, July 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

    Jim Richards says believers' response to current chaos should be to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the solution and to display that Gospel in a Holy Spirit-empowered life of holiness. Read More

  • La corte decepciona a los antiabortistas con un fallo sobre el aborto
    Por Tom Strode, posted Thursday, July 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    WASHINGTON (BP) -- Los líderes antiabortistas expresaron su profunda decepción con la Suprema Corte de los EE. UU. al negarse el lunes (29 junio) a ratificar una ley de Luisiana diseñada para proteger las vidas y la salud de las mujeres exigiendo que los doctores que practican abortos tengan licencia para el uso de los quirófanos de un hospital.

    En una decisión de 5-4 votos, la suprema corte falló que la ley -- la cual mandaba que un doctor debe tener licencia para el uso del quirófano de un hospital ubicado dentro de un radio de 30 millas alrededor de su clínica donde éste practique el aborto -- violaba la Constitución de los ... Read More

  • Ofrendas más altas al Programa Cooperativo en tres meses, abajo solamente 1.47% en el año
    Por el personal , posted Thursday, July 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Las ofrendas al presupuesto nacional de asignaciones del Programa Cooperativo para junio de 2020 estuvieron abajo del presupuesto por casi $1.3 millón, pero el déficit fue mucho menos que las proyecciones para el mes cuando la pandemia global COVID-19 continúa impactando financieramente a las iglesias. Los $15,106,500.79 dados a través del Programa Cooperativo fueron 4.11 por ciento menos que en el mismo mes el año pasado.

    Casi cada iglesia a lo largo y ancho de la Convención Bautista del Sur ha estado restringida de alguna manera en los últimos meses para reunirse en persona en los cultos por políticas ... Read More

  • La corte alta afirma el acceso religioso a programas estatales

    Por Tom Strode, posted Thursday, July 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    WASHINGTON (BP) -- La Corte Suprema de EE.UU. mantuvo estrechamente el martes (30 de junio) un programa de becas de crédito tributario que incluye a las escuelas religiosas y, por ende, mantiene su reciente apoyo al derecho de los grupos religiosos a participar en los programas de gobierno.

    La corte alta votó 5-4 para revocar una decisión de la Corte Suprema de Montana que invalidaba un programa estatal que proveía crédito tributario de hasta $150 por una donación a la Organización de Becas Estudiantiles (SSO). Las contribuciones a las becas financian la ... Read More

  • Nuevas iglesias de la Convención Bautista del Sur y Send Relief continúan alcanzando la ciudad de Nueva York
    Por Brandon Elrod, posted Thursday, July 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    NUEVA YORK, N.Y. (BP) -- La Ciudad de Nueva York ha entrado en la fase 2 de su plan de reapertura después del cierre de COVID-19, pero varias iglesias plantas planean continuar sirviendo en julio a aquellos en las márgenes de sus comunidades. Ellos creen que sus esfuerzos de proveer para sus comunidades abrirán más puertas para un ministerio más extenso.

    "Estamos viendo a Dios movilizar iglesias y voluntarios," dijo Jeremiah Brinkman, un catalizador de plantación de iglesias de la Junta de Misiones Norteamericanas (NAMB) en la Ciudad de ... Read More