Stories tagged with: policy

• U.S. expands ban on overseas abortion funding

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, March 27, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  Screen capture from C-Span via CNS News

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- The U.S. will strengthen and expand a policy withholding federal funds from overseas groups that offer or promote abortions, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said yesterday (March 26).

  Called the Mexico City Policy, it was crafted during the Reagan administration and renewed under President Donald Trump requiring nongovernmental overseas aid and health organizations to abandon abortion procedures and counseling in order to receive U.S. funds designated for family planning. Read More

• Resist 'civilization jihad,' NRB speakers urge

  by David Roach, posted Friday, February 26, 2016 (8 years ago)

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- The U.S. government has been unwittingly complicit with a "pre-violent" form of Islamist attack on the West known as "civilization jihad."

  That was the allegation of Center for Security Policy president Frank Gaffney and other speakers during a Feb. 25 lunch at Proclaim 16, the National Religious Broadcasters' International Christian Media Convention in Nashville. Part of civilization jihad, speakers argued, involves silencing critics of radical Islam and preventing law enforcement officials from investigating potential terrorists based exclusively on their ties with extremist Muslim groups. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Still coercive -- China's two-child policy

  by Penna Dexter, posted Wednesday, December 02, 2015 (8 years ago)

  China's new two-child policy exerts the same coercion of families as the former one-child policy, columnist Penna Dexter writes, underscoring the need for the dawning of freedom and sanctity of life in the communist giant. Read More

• China population policies still coercive, critics say

  by Tom Strode, posted Monday, November 02, 2015 (8 years ago)

  "[N]o one should be applauding the Chinese government for its new policy." -- Rep. Chris Smith

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- China's lifting of its "one-child policy" does not eliminate the heinousness of its population control program, pro-life critics say.

  All married couples in the world's most populous country will be able to have two children, China's Communist Party announced Oct. 29 at the close of its Central Committee meeting, Xinhua News Agency reported. Read More

• IMB & churches: 'limitless missionary teams'

  by David Platt, posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 (9 years ago)

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- IMB exists to partner with churches to empower limitless missionary teams who are making disciples and multiplying churches among unreached peoples and places for the glory of God.

  In order to see "limitless" missionaries working among the unreached, IMB is exploring multiple pathways through which more men and women from Southern Baptist churches might serve overseas. ... Read More

• China: Fewer abortions? But more persecution

  by Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, October 22, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- China's newly announced switch to a two-child population control policy does not resolve the coercive nature of the program, pro-life leaders say.

  The disclosure of the change came even as the communist government imposes the most severe oppression in four decades, according to a leading advocate for the Chinese church. Read More