WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals has again upheld a judge's decision to block enforcement of a congressional effort to protect children from Internet pornography.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Louisiana has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling against that state's law permitting the death penalty for child rape after it was revealed the justices overlooked a similar federal measure in their ruling.

WASHINGTON (BP)--A London woman is carrying Great Britain's first baby guaranteed to be free of inherited breast cancer, but she had to eliminate several of her other embryonic offspring to do so.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Same-sex unions and religious liberty are destined to collide in this country in ways that could prove costly for the free exercise of religion, legal experts said in a Washington panel discussion.

WASHINGTON (BP)--A Kansas grand jury has decided not to file charges against the country's best-known, late-term abortion doctor after a six-month investigation.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Voters are more likely to pull the lever for a presidential candidate who supports proposed state constitutional marriage amendments -- a finding that could boost Republican John McCain and spell trouble for Democrat Barack Obama...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Government bureaucracy can't "fix" America, but the nation's people can, President Bush told 1,000-plus leaders of faith-based and community groups gathered in Washington to network with each other and hear from various government...

WASHINGTON (BP)--President Bush asked participants at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast to pray God "continues to bestow His blessings" on the United States in the final appearance of his presidency at the annual event.

WASHINGTON (BP)--President Bush announced June 26 he would lift some trade sanctions against North Korea and remove the communist regime from a list of state sponsors of terror, drawing expressions of disappointment from a Southern Baptist ethics...

WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 25 a child rapist may not be executed if he did not kill his victim.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. House of Representatives has eliminated language in a war supplemental spending bill that would have provided price breaks for Planned Parenthood, the country's No. 1 abortion provider.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Candidates for the White House and other offices should be free to say how their religious beliefs impact them but should not be expected to explain the specifics of their faith, Southern Baptist church-state specialist Richard...

WASHINGTON (BP)--The California State Assembly has approved legislation that critics say would provide a backdoor way to legalize physician-assisted suicide.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Southern Baptist ethics leader Richard Land is calling for opposition to climate-change legislation before the U.S. Senate.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Senate has approved price breaks for the country's leading abortion provider in legislation funding American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON (BP)--A federal appeals court again has struck down a state ban on partial-birth abortion even after the U.S. Supreme Court directed the lower court to reconsider its ruling in light of the justices' support for a similar, federal law.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Members of the British Parliament have handily defeated attempts to block the legalization of human-animal hybrids and "savior siblings" in a series of votes that left pro-life advocates aghast.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has put a hold on proposed clinical trials using embryonic stem cells in human beings.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee was criticized by some for an advertisement with a supposed "floating cross," but Democratic candidate Barack Obama is going one step further in Kentucky, where a flyer paid...

WASHINGTON (BP)--The United States Supreme Court handed Congress a victory May 19 in its effort to combat child pornography after a previous effort fell short in the justices' eyes.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Through a new "We Get It!" campaign, the Southern Baptist Convention's ethics entity is partnering with other organizations to demonstrate that evangelical Christians support what they describe as a more biblical, fact-based...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Planned Parenthood Federation of America -- known far better for terminating motherhood than for promoting it -- nonetheless found a way to turn Mother's Day into an excuse for fundraising.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Sen. John McCain's recent global warming speech assured Americans of one thing, a skeptical scientist says -- no major presidential candidate in 2008 will challenge prevailing assumptions.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Heath Shuler is that rarest of Democrats in Congress -- the pro-lifer.

WASHINGTON (BP)--A brief, written message Heath Shuler's mother gave him before he entered high school made an impression on him that remains to this day.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Congressmen from both political parties have partnered to sponsor legislation designed to prevent children from purchasing or renting adult video games.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Congress has adopted with nearly unanimous agreement a bill to prevent insurers and employers from discriminating against Americans based on their genetic information.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Congressional members of President Bush's own party urged him not to attend the opening ceremony of this year's Olympic games in Beijing during a Capitol Hill news conference.

WASHINGTON (BP)--A bipartisan United States commission has called for designation of the same 11 countries that it recommended last year as the world's worst violators of religious liberty as it awaits a long overdue response from the State...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Richard Land is calling on Southern Baptists and others to urge Senate Democratic leaders to lift their blockade on federal appeals court nominees.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Southern Baptist ethics leader Richard Land has called on the leading presidential candidates to support legislation to combat human trafficking and to make the issue a priority in their campaign platforms.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Barack Obama's longtime pastor Jeremiah Wright sought to explain two of his more controversial statements during an April 25 interview on PBS' "Bill Moyers Journal" and also defended his association with Nation of Islam leader...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Officials of Marriott International have agreed to meet with pro-family leaders who have asked the hotel chain to stop offering pornographic movies in its rooms.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Researchers have created human-animal embryos in Great Britain for the first time.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, a coalition of evangelicals focused on the issue of global climate change, has released a 16-point public policy agenda for balancing concern about global climate change with...

WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Supreme Court in a 7-2 ruling April 16 upheld Kentucky's method of lethal injection, giving states nationwide the green light to lift their unofficial moratoriums on such death penalty methods.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Southern Baptist pro-life leader Richard Land is calling for passage of a measure to codify a ban on federal funding for abortion as part of an Indian health care bill.

WASHINGTON (BP)--National Right to Life has endorsed presumptive Republican nominee John McCain for president, giving him a significant boost in his effort to attract social conservatives.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Lawyers for "prosperity gospel" televangelists Kenneth Copeland and Creflo Dollar have told U.S. senators that they will not comply with a probe into their ministries because it threatens religious freedom rights.

WASHINGTON (BP)--American children are becoming victims of human sex trafficking, according to statistics released by Shared Hope International.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Two television ministries still are refusing to comply fully with a U.S. Senate committee's probe into their financial records.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Conservative evangelical Christians continue to influence government policies, but they also are facing the challenge of responding to additional issues, pro-family leaders said in a National Press Club panel discussion.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Supreme Court agreed March 31 to review a lower court decision that some allege could cause local governments to remove Ten Commandments displays or permit a plethora of other religious monuments.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean reportedly said during a court deposition recently that he personally supports "gay marriage," a stance that if true would make him but the latest major Democratic figure to...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Oregon recorded more deaths by physician-assisted suicide in 2007 than in any year in the decade since the practice was legalized.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Bush administration has entered the fray over the conscience rights of pro-life physicians.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Two days after delivering a much-publicized speech on race, Democrat & presidential candidate Barack Obama once again found himself distancing himself from his church -- this time the congregation's publication of a pro-Hamas,...

WASHINGTON (BP)--"Idol Gives Back," the charity program of "American Idol," is not worthy of support from people who regard unborn life as sacred, a pro-life leader says.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention's ethics entity is opposed to climate-change legislation the U.S. Senate is expected to consider soon.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama sought March 14 to distance himself from controversial comments made by his pastor of 20 years, Jeremiah Wright.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Supreme Court announced March 17 it will review a lower court's ruling that had stymied the federal government's attempt to restrict indecent language on television and radio broadcasts.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Three television ministries have refused to cooperate with a U.S. Senate committee's probe into their financial records and have been given a new deadline for providing the requested information, according to the panel's leadership.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Jonathan Merritt, a 25-year-old student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., captured widespread media attention March 10 in releasing a statement titled "A Southern Baptist Declaration on the...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Planned Parenthood -— an organization that calls itself pro-child, pro-woman and pro-life -— has been discovered allegedly accepting racist-motivated donations.

WASHINGTON (BP)--China has no plans to eliminate its infamous one-child, population-control policy, a top official of the communist regime said March 5.

WASHINGTON (BP)--A Senate committee has passed legislation that could serve to reduce the killing of unborn children diagnosed with Down syndrome or other conditions.

WASHINGTON (BP)--A House of Representatives committee has approved legislation renewing President Bush's initiative to combat AIDS in Africa after making changes in a version that had produced strong opposition from pro-life and pro-family...

WASHINGTON (BP)--A bipartisan religious liberty panel in the United States has called on Cuba's communist government to institute protections for religious expression and other human rights in the wake of Fidel Castro's departure as president.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Marriage is not merely an individualistic act between two people, a self-described "liberal Democrat" told the Family Research Council Feb. 27 in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Basic human rights, including religious freedom, have deteriorated under Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, witnesses testified in a Capitol Hill hearing.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Senate voted Feb. 26 to prohibit federal funding for abortion as part of an Indian health care bill.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Massachusetts doctor in whose care a 22-year-old woman died after an abortion has surrendered his medical license permanently.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Forty-three pro-life and pro-family advocates have signed a letter to President Bush urging him to oppose and threaten a veto of draft legislation to reauthorize his initiative to combat AIDS in Africa.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Churches can resume hosting Super Bowl parties without opposition from the National Football League, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has informed Sen. Orin Hatch, R.-Utah.

WASHINGTON (BP)--A young, severely brain injured Delaware woman is at the center of a life-and-death court battle between her parents.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Egypt's government should "respect and enforce" two recent decisions by that nation's highest court, according to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

WASHINGTON (BP)--In recent years, Feb. 12 has been celebrated not just for Abraham Lincoln's birthday but for Charles Darwin's as well.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Bob Fu, a leading advocate for the persecuted church in his native China, received a Southern Baptist religious freedom award during a ceremony at the Library of Congress Feb. 7.

WASHINGTON (BP)--A bill seeking to strengthen restrictions on television indecency finally escaped a Senate committee in December but now sits idly on the Senate legislative calendar with no signs of moving anytime soon.

WASHINGTON (BP)--President Bush said in his final National Prayer Breakfast as the country's chief executive he was grateful for, and had been helped by, the prayers of Americans.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney suspended his campaign Feb. 7, saying it was time to make way for a national effort by GOP opponent John McCain.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The National Right to Life Political Action Committee says it is not endorsing any of the remaining candidates for president, although it says the leading Republican candidates are pro-life on abortion and it is opposing the...

WASHINGTON (BP)--President Bush urged a Democratic-controlled Congress Jan. 28 in his last State of the Union speech to maintain policies he has promoted and adopt recommendations he has previously offered.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Federal Communications Commission issued a $1.43 million indecency fine against 52 ABC affiliates Jan. 25 for airing nudity during an episode of "NYPD Blue" in 2003, marking the second-largest indecency fine ever proposed for...

WASHINGTON (BP)--A Republican and a Democrat in the U.S. Senate have combined their efforts once again in an attempt to prevent unethical research involving human-animal hybrid embryos.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Congress again has fallen short in an effort to override a presidential veto of the expansion of a children's health insurance program.

WASHINGTON (BP)--President Bush encouraged pro-life Americans to "take heart" and "be strong" on the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court's legalization of abortion.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The pro-life movement continues to make progress, but it faces a crucial juncture 35 years into America's devastating abortion regime.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Scientists used cells from aborted babies in recently reported research that has been hailed as a breakthrough in the ethical development of embryonic-like stem cells.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Scientists in California reportedly have cloned human embryos from adult skin cells, apparently taking a step toward producing personalized, replacement stem cells to treat diseases.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Pro-life bioethicists are rejecting recent claims by scientists that they have developed embryonic stem cells without destroying human embryos.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The number of abortions in the United States has reached its lowest level in three decades, according to a report released Jan. 17.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Supreme Court debated the constitutionality of the country's most common form of capital punishment Jan. 7, only three weeks after a state outlawed the death penalty for the first time in more than three decades.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama rode late surges to victories Jan. 3 in the Iowa caucuses, as the Republican and Democratic parties took their first steps toward nominating candidates for November's presidential election.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision would be history had the person who probably was President Reagan's first choice for the Supreme Court accepted a nomination, a political biographer says.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Presidential one dollar coins are the only U.S. coins currently being issued by the United States Mint that have the inscription "In God We Trust" along the edge, but public pressure soon may send the motto back to the front or...

WASHINGTON (BP)--A solution to the crisis in Sudan depends on the United States and the international community pressuring that country's militant Islamic regime to implement a peace treaty it agreed to, said experts at a recent Washington panel...

WASHINGTON (BP)--President Bush has vetoed for the second time the expansion of a children's health insurance program.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The House of Representatives approved a resolution Dec. 11 acknowledging the significance of Christmas and Christianity.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Congress will not vote to expand hate crimes protections to homosexuals and transgendered individuals as part of a military authorization bill for next year, it was announced Dec. 6.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The National Religious Broadcasters delivered a letter to U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley Dec. 3, expressing concern over a probe he is conducting into the financial records of six television ministries.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Effective, international pressure on the military junta of Burma, also known as Myanmar, to change its repressive ways depends on the leadership of the United States, a bipartisan, religious liberty panel was told in a Capitol...

WASHINGTON (BP)--When Baptist pastor Roger Freeman visits Washington, D.C., this week, it will be far from a normal trip.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Both sides of a church-state legal battle found something to celebrate in a federal appeals court's opinion on a Christian ministry in an Iowa prison.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson defended his opposition to a human life amendment Nov. 25, saying he supports what is achievable -- the reforming of the judiciary and the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Sen. Trent Lott, R.-Miss, surprised his Republican colleagues by announcing Nov. 26 his retirement from the Senate.

WASHINGTON (BP)--A task force of the American Psychological Association set to revise policies on the interplay of homosexuality and psychology has refused to meet with a number of counselors and religious leaders who believe same-sex attraction...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Skin cells have been converted into embryonic-like stem cells in human beings, scientists in Wisconsin and Japan revealed Nov. 20, producing a dramatic shift in favor of opponents of research that destroys embryos.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Pressure on Congress to rein in the country's leading abortion provider continues.

WASHINGTON (BP)--All living things deserve respect, but human beings are uniquely valuable in God's creation, Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land said at a recent conference on evangelicals and the environment.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The newly reported cloning of monkey embryos signals lethal consequences for tiny human beings and increased chances for the birth of a human clone, pro-life bioethicists say.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The National Right to Life Committee's Nov. 13 endorsement of Fred Thompson for president came just days after other pro-life advocates scattered their support among Republican candidates.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Pentagon officials continue to allow the sale of adult magazines on military property despite a ban on sexually explicit material, and the decision has caused alarm among pro-family organizations.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The House of Representatives comfortably approved workplace protections based on "sexual orientation" Nov. 7, handing the homosexual activist movement a groundbreaking victory.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The leading Republican on the Senate Finance Committee is investigating prominent televangelists and their financial conduct, pursuing reports of elaborate private jets, Rolls Royces and indulgent salaries.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Congress again has passed legislation to expand a popular children's health insurance program, and it again has done so without the votes required to overcome a presidential veto.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The United Nations' second World Conference on Racism will be focused on the fear of Islam, or "Islamophobia," and religious freedom experts are concerned it is simply an effort to sidetrack interest in the lack of tolerance and...

WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Supreme Court grappled Oct. 30 with another effort by Congress to combat child pornography.

WASHINGTON (BP)--More than 60 pro-family leaders have signed a letter to senators and representatives asking them to suspend federal funding for Planned Parenthood while a 107-count criminal complaint against the abortion provider's...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Southern Baptist church-state specialist Richard Land has been appointed to a fourth term on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Ireland has the lowest rate of breast cancer out of nine selected European countries, and it also has the lowest rate of abortion.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The House of Representatives is expected to vote in the coming days on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a bill opponents say could have a dramatic impact on religious freedoms by forcing Christian businesses and...

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Senate confirmed Oct. 24 another nominee to a federal appeals court after a contentious battle.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Republican presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney both were able to claim victory in straw poll results at a meeting of social conservatives Oct. 19-21.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Saudi Arabian government has not progressed in its promotion of religious freedom and other basic human rights and has remained relatively unresponsive to July 2006 recommendations from the State Department, according to the...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Results of the Values Voter Summit straw poll still are being assessed about what it means regarding social conservatives' support for Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Ahí va de nuevo, están diciendo los antiabortistas acerca de la Secretaria de Estado Robin Carnahan.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The House Education and Labor Committee passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act Oct. 18, sending to the full chamber a bill that critics say will infringe on religious freedom and help normalize homosexuality.

WASHINGTON (BP)--There she goes again, pro-life advocates are saying of Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan.

WASHINGTON (BP)--U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, a social conservative who never could climb into the top tier of Republican presidential candidates, is dropping out of the race, sources close to him told the Associated Press Oct. 18.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The House of Representatives failed Oct. 18 to override President Bush's veto of a bill expanding a popular children's health insurance program.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The political director of one of the nation's largest abortion rights groups isn't endorsing Rudy Giuliani, but if a Republican must win the White House, he's apparently her pick.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Planned Parenthood has long denounced rumors that the organization fails to report the sexual abuse and statutory rape of underage girls, despite compelling evidence that tells a different story.

WASHINGTON (BP)--A new law has made Missouri the first state to ban Planned Parenthood from teaching sex education classes in public schools.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Planned Parenthood may be a household name in this country but for none of the right reasons in the eyes of knowledgeable pro-lifers.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Washington Monument, surrounded by American flags and the picture-perfect October blue sky, was the backdrop for a gathering of an estimated 20,000 men of all ages, races and ethnicities to "stand in the gap" to repair the...

WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has called on the United States and the United Nations to mount an international effort to hold the Burmese military regime accountable for its violent crackdown on peaceful...

WASHINGTON (BP)--El candidato presidencial Duncan Hunter de California es el republicano de mayor antigüedad en el Comité de los Servicios Armados de la Cámara, uno de los comités más poderosos en el Congreso. Hunter también es cristiano y...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Newt Gingrich isn't endorsing Mike Huckabee for president, but it's becoming apparent it wouldn't brother him if the former Arkansas governor won the Republican nomination.

WASHINGTON (BP)--As promised, President Bush vetoed Oct. 3 the reauthorization and expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) despite it easily having passed both houses of Congress.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Arguments over the Food and Drug Administration's ability to regulate tobacco products were aired during an Oct. 3 congressional hearing on the proposed Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals of lower-court decisions involving religious liberty and abortion on the first day of its new term.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Language to protect transgendered individuals has been removed from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) in an attempt to increase its chance of passage in the House of Representatives.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Senate easily approved Sept. 27 a children's health insurance proposal that critics say would move the country nearer socialized medicine.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Por sexto año consecutivo la administración de Bush ha negado el envío de capital federal hacia un controversial fondo de planeación familiar de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas que apoya el programa de control de población...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter of California is the senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, one of the more powerful committees in Congress. He's also a Christian and a Southern Baptist.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Sept. 26 it will return religious books and other materials previously removed from chapel libraries after receiving an outpouring of objections.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Senate voted Sept. 27 to add homosexuals and transgendered individuals to the classes protected under hate crimes laws.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Supreme Court announced Sept. 25 it will hear an appeal concerning the constitutionality of lethal injections, specifically the three-drug concoction used in 36 states to put inmates to death.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Demands for commercial sex have created a growing market of sex tourism and human trafficking in the United States, with an estimated 100,000 to 300,000 American children at risk of becoming victims of sexual exploitation,...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Compromise legislation on a health insurance program for children would move the United States nearer socialized medicine if approved, the Southern Baptist Convention's ethics entity has warned.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Millions of Iraqis have fled their homes in order to seek asylum in neighboring countries, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom was told at a Sept. 19 hearing. Religious minorities, specifically the...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Religious freedom in Iraq could benefit from the United States adhering to the recommendation of its military leader there to refrain from an accelerated pullout of its forces, a Southern Baptist ethicist says.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Federal Bureau of Prisons is guilty of "flagrant disregard" of the First Amendment through its widespread removal of religious books and resources from chapel libraries, a Southern Baptist church-state specialist says.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Bush administration has declined for the sixth consecutive year to forward federal money to a controversial United Nations family planning fund linked to support of China's coercive population control program.

WASHINGTON (BP)--El deseo de una pareja italiana por abortar al gemelo con síndrome de Down ha dado como resultado la destrucción de ambos hijos antes de nacer.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Attempts to advance policies opposed by pro-life and pro-family organizations are expected to resume now that Congress has reconvened after a month-long recess.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Senate restored in legislation Sept. 6 a longstanding pro-life measure that bars federal funds for organizations that support coercive abortion or sterilization programs.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners, are scheduled to square off in a debate Oct. 19 as part of a second-annual Washington D.C. summit for...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned Aug. 27 after months of resisting calls to leave office.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Aparentemente, los niños nonatos no cumplen con el criterio establecido por Amnesty International para los derechos humanos de protección.

WASHINGTON (BP)--La industrial del aborto ha encontrado una manera de esquivar el apoyo que la Suprema Corte da a una prohibición federal de una técnica grotesca: atacar al bebé nonato con dosis letales de medicina antes de darle a luz...

WASHINGTON (BP)--The abortion industry has found a way around the Supreme Court's support for a federal ban on a gruesome technique -- shoot the unborn baby up with deadly drugs before delivering the child almost totally to complete the procedure.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Si un doctor de San Francisco es declarado culpable de acelerar la muerte de un hombre con el fin de cosechar sus órganos, pudiera tener graves repercusiones para la donación de órganos en este país.

WASHINGTON (BP)--President Bush will veto legislation to expand hate crimes protections to homosexuals and transgendered individuals, even if he has to reject a defense authorization bill, the White House says.

WASHINGTON (BP)--One of President Bush's embattled judicial nominees has escaped the Senate Judiciary Committee because a Democrat switched sides.

WASHINGTON (BP)--If a San Francisco doctor is found guilty of seeking to hasten the death of a man to harvest his organs, it could have grave repercussions for organ donations in this country.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Part of the children's health legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives Aug. 1 extends Title V abstinence education funding for another two years but expands the funding to include "comprehensive sex-education"...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Congress has approved legislation to expand a health insurance program for children that could remove protections for unborn babies and the elderly, according to pro-life organizations.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Según una nueva encuesta, la mayoría del público estadounidense aprueba la decisión tomada en abril por la Suprema Corte al sostener la prohibición federal del aborto de nacimiento parcial.

WASHINGTON (BP)--With two South Korean men having been executed, 21 young Koreans remained hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan at the two-week point Aug. 2 following the Christian aid workers' kidnapping July 19.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told a Senate committee July 31 he supports the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuals, although opponents of the policy believe he left room in...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Promising results using adult stem cells in patients demonstrate that such research, and not destructive embryonic experiments, should receive priority in funding, promoters of the non-controversial work say.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Hundreds of listeners have attested to a Washington, D.C., Christian radio station's role in changing their lives, but the college that owns the station is in such dire financial straits that it's on the verge of selling the...

WASHINGTON (BP)--A majority of the American public approves of the Supreme Court's April decision to uphold the federal ban on partial-birth abortion, according to a new survey.

WASHINGTON (BP)--In a mounting crisis in Afghanistan, two South Korean Christians have been executed by the Taliban, who took 23 Korean aid workers hostage July 19.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Conditions for religious minorities in Iraq "have deteriorated very considerably" in the last three to four months, the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) was told recently.