2 of 22

• Pastor Rick Warren defends Obama invite | The senator, who supports abortion rights, will speak at a church AIDS seminar (The Orange County Register, Ca.)
  
  
• Branding a compassionate Christ a 'liberal' | Dissention among religious leaders sparks protests over AIDS summit (Nightline, ABC News)
  
  
• Obama's mega-church visit spotlights waning 'God gap' | a number of prominent evangelical leaders recently have sought to broaden the movement's political agenda from traditional cultural issues of opposition to abortion and gay rights that favor Republicans to include concerns more associated with Democrats, such as the environment, the AIDS epidemic and poverty (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Famed pastor defends invitation to Obama | Obama is one of nearly 60 speakers scheduled to address the second annual Global Summit on AIDS and the Church beginning Thursday at Warren's Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Church is urged to disinvite Obama | In a statement, 18 antiabortion leaders called on Warren to rescind the invitation because Obama supports keeping abortion legal (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Evangelical pastor, Obama join forces to battle AIDS | The O.C. leader of Saddleback Church has taken heat from his peers over the invitation and conference (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Back to index

AIDS:

• Delivering aid—and values | New interest by faith-based groups in problems like AIDS bring church resources and hands to a cause. It also brings concerns (The Orange County Register, Ca.)
  
  
• Faith groups urge cuts to AIDS fund | Allege opposition to Christian efforts (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Christian conservatives vs. AIDS | Bush and the evangelical movement have done more than they get credit for in efforts to stem the disease (Editorial, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Stop giving free condoms, say clerics | The practice, they said, was encouraging promiscuity and fuelling the spread of HIV/Aids (The Nation, Kenya)
  
  
• Programs help reduce HIV rates in parts of Africa, report says | Virus resurges in Uganda, Thailand (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Warnings, worship mark World AIDS Day | World Aids Day was marked around the globe by somber religious services, boisterous demonstrations and warnings that far more needs to be done to treat and prevent the disease in order to avert millions of additional deaths (Reuters)
  
  
• Abstinence and AIDS | There is a definite role for abstinence, especially among the young, where the training has been shown in some cases to delay the age of first sexual activity. Abstinence-only programs, however, are of little help to some of those most vulnerable to infection, including impoverished young women under pressure to have sex for economic or cultural reasons (Editorial, The Boston Globe)
  
  

Back to index

Joel Hunter won't be Christian Coalition prez after all:

• Longwood pastor quits as coalition president | The Rev. Joel Hunter was set to take the reins of the national Christian Coalition (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• Second new leader resigns from the Christian Coalition | For the second time in little more than a year, the Christian Coalition of America named a new leader and then removed him before he ever fully took the reins of the conservative political advocacy group (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Pastor chosen to lead Christian Coalition steps down in dispute over agenda | The Rev. Joel C. Hunter said the Christian Coalition of America resisted his efforts to broaden its agenda to include reducing poverty and fighting global warming (The New York Times)
  
  

next page... |  2 of 22

share this page

December (Web-only) 2006, Vol. 50