Daily Archives: March 2, 2012

12 posts

CP ahead of budget for missions support

Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are $4,122,100.78, or 5.32 percent above the year-to-date budgeted goal, and are 1.53 percent behind contributions received during the same time frame last year, according to a news release from SBC Executive Committee […]

SHEA: Who speaks for Pakistan minorities now?

Today, March 2, is the one-year anniversary of the murder in Pakistan of 42-year-old Shahbaz Bhatti, minister of minorities affairs and the only Christian member of Pakistan’s cabinet. No one has been charged with the crime. Bhatti had been continuously threatened with assassination and had spoken of its likelihood, even […]

Women speak out against HHS mandate

The battle over the Obama administration’s contraceptive/abortion mandate is about religious freedom, not the availability of birth control, two House of Representatives members and spokeswomen for 10 organizations said in explaining their opposition — and that of millions of other women — to the controversial requirement. retail stores,” said Charmaine […]