Defending life, born or unborn Liberty University's pro-life week kicked off Nov. 11, when Mr. Mihelic presented an award to Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade, for her work in the pro-life movement. (Washington Times)
Religious Leaders Unite Against Abortion and Same-Sex Unions 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed a declaration saying they will not cooperate with laws that they say could be used to compel their institutions to participate in abortions or recognize same-sex couples. (The New York Times)
Mexico anti-abortion fight moves to federal level Lawmakers in Veracruz made it Mexico's 17th state to pass legislation declaring life begins at conception, then adopted a proposal that requires Congress to consider amending the constitution to outlaw abortion. (Associated Press)
Abortion exposes divisions among U.S. Democrats President Barack Obama's bid to overhaul America's healthcare system has exposed a split within his Democratic Party over abortion that threatens to undercut the party's gains in recent elections. (Reuters)
Two sentenced to die over Egypt sectarian killing An Egyptian court sentenced two Christian men to death for killing the Muslim husband of one of their female relatives who had converted to Islam against the wishes of her family. (Reuters)
Fort Hood Suspect Charged With Murder The officials said it is not yet decided whether to charge Hasan with a 14th count of murder related to the death of the unborn child of a pregnant shooting victim. (The New York Times)
Christian janitor died saving Muslim students "Between 300 to 400 girls were sitting in there," said the rector of the university. "[Pervez Masih] rose above the barriers of caste, creed and sectarian terrorism. Despite being a Christian, he sacrificed his life to save the Muslim girls." (CNN)
Mexican Clergy Seek Global Help as Violence Grows Mexico's Roman Catholic clergy, increasingly caught in the middle of the nation's drug war, are meeting this week to draft a strategy for coping with the violence, aided by advice from colleagues who faced similar threats in Colombia and Italy. (NYTimes.com)
Answers Sought On Fort Hood Suspect's Link To Imam Members of Congress are putting pressure on U.S. intelligence agencies to say what they knew about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan alleged radical views and whether they shared that knowledge with local Army and law enforcement agencies in the weeks and months before the Fort Hood, Texas, shootings. (NPR)
FBI got warning about suspect in Kan. doctor death More than a month before the shooting, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Kansas City received an anonymous letter warning that the man now charged in the case "would do physical harm" to Dr. George Tiller. (Associated Press)
Fort Hood Suspect Charged With Murder The officials said it is not yet decided whether to charge Hasan with a 14th count of murder related to the death of the unborn child of a pregnant shooting victim. (The New York Times)
U.S. Knew of Suspect’s Tie to Radical Cleric But the federal authorities dropped an inquiry into the matter after deciding that the messages did not suggest any threat of violence (The New York Times)
Counting the world's 'invisible' children In many countries, those without a birth certificate may not have the right to marry, vote, be employed, inherit property, open a bank account, acquire a passport, or even to register their own children's births. (CNN)
Obama aide denies retreat on China rights Senior adviser Valerie Jarrett pushed back against Obama's critics who accused him of bowing to Chinese pressure when he became the first president in 18 years to refuse to see the Dalai Lama on a visit to Washington. (Reuters)
Ernest W. Lefever, Rejected as a Reagan Nominee, Dies at 89 Protestant minister, scholar and self-described “compassionate realist” whom a Senate panel in 1981 rejected as President Ronald Reagan’s choice to lead his new administration’s human rights efforts, died July 29 (The New York Times)
Obama lifts ban on US entry for those with HIV President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. will overturn a 22-year-old travel and immigration ban against people with HIV early next year. (Associated Press)
Clergy's role grows in migrant discussion Which side God is on has increasingly become the subject of debate as pro-immigration and anti-immigration forces bring dueling religious leaders to the nation's capital to argue over whose cause is the most righteous. (The Arizona Republic)
Evangelicals call for immigration reform The National Association of Evangelicals' resolution recommends that immigration laws provide a path for the undocumented to eventually gain legal status. (The Associated Press)
Losing the Latino Vote In the long run, the GOP must be inclusive (Michael Gerson, The Washington Post)
Army Veteran saved by Bible from Salvation Army He was on a train in San Francisco, about to be shipped off, when he noticed a volunteer with the Salvation Army waving on the platform. (KSDK, Missouri)
Sudan's leader says south may to choose to split Salva Kiir accused the Khartoum government of never making "unity an attractive option" for the mostly Christian and animist southerners. (The Associated Press)
Agog over Bush's comments on Gog and Magog Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible's satanic agents of the Apocalypse (James A. Haught, The Charleston Gazette)
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder Affidavit: Prince "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe" (The Nation)
Counting the world's 'invisible' children In many countries, those without a birth certificate may not have the right to marry, vote, be employed, inherit property, open a bank account, acquire a passport, or even to register their own children's births. (CNN)
New Fame for the Everyday Donor One Day’s Wages, a new charity established by Eugene Cho, a Christian minister in Seattle, asks donors to give up a day’s income to charity. (The New York Times)
Catholic archdiocese gives ultimatum to D.C. Church officials say that unless the city alters a proposed same-sex marriage law, the archdiocese will discontinue its social service programs. (Los Angeles Times)
Confusion Over Where Money Lent on Kiva Goes Kiva’s home page once promoted lending “to a specific entrepreneur,” but the fine print shows that members’ $25 checks go to microfinance organizations, not individuals. (The New York Times)
Aborted fetus cells used in beauty creams San Francisco cosmetics company defends use of trademarked ingredient derived from fetal skin cells. (The Washington Times)
New Life for the Pariahs An American doctor offers hope to women — or, often, girls of 13, 14, 15 — in West Africa who are ostracized because of incontinence. (Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times)
Making God More Accessible With wounded veterans and an aging boomer population coming, churches will have to do more to cater to the disabled (Mark I. Pinsky, The Wall Street Journal)
Pope urges global action on economy - Encyclical calls for selfless love, truth and justice in a society where great gulfs exist between the haves and have-nots. (The Washington Times)
Scene of the crime Television's longing for justice (Rodney Clapp, The Christian Century)
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