Ethan Cole

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• Jun 12, 2007

  Former Presidential Hopeful Urges Democrats to Woo Evangelicals

  A former 2004 presidential candidate urged fellow democrats in a speech Monday to reach out and gain support from evangelical Christians – a group usually associated with Republicans.

• Jun 11, 2007

  Bush Urged to Quickly Fix Derailed Immigration Bill

  Christian leaders are urging President Bush and Congress to quickly bring the immigration bill back to the floor after the deal was pulled last week from the Senate agenda.

• Jun 9, 2007

  G-8 $60B AIDS Pledge Misses Target with 'Vague Rhetoric'

  Group of Eight leaders were criticized Friday for failing to lay out specifics for their $60 billion package to fight AIDS and other diseases ravaging Africa.

• Jun 8, 2007

  Christian Conservatives Urge Bush to Stand Firm Against Stem Cell Bill

  Christian groups applauded President Bush’s veto threat against the recently passed stem cell bill and urged the president to remain firm against the legislation, which would federally fund the destruction of embryos for research.

• Jun 8, 2007

  100,000 Protestant Christians Urged to 'Own Up' to Haunted Past

  Christians at the largest Protestant gathering in Germany were urged Thursday to admit to the wrongdoings of their Christian ancestors in an effort to reconcile and live peacefully with other religions.

• Jun 7, 2007

  Pro-Life MLK Niece Says Obama's 'Quiet Riot' Comment Misses Point

  The niece of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. corrected Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)’s comment on the “quiet riots” taking place in black communities, stating that they are the result of abortion rather than due to hopelessness as the Senator proposed.

• Jun 7, 2007

  Christian Women's Group Weighs in on Abstinence Program

  Federal funding for abstinence education received much needed support from the nation’s largest women’s public policy group this week as it faces possible termination at the end of this month.

• Jun 6, 2007

  House Gears Up for Stem Cell Vote

  Prominent Christian groups are once again hurling criticism at a revived bill that would ease restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research.

• Jun 5, 2007

  Iraqi Priest, 3 Christians Gunned Down after Church Service

  An unidentified gunman killed a priest and three of his assistants shortly after they conducted Sunday service in a city in northern Iraq.

• Jun 4, 2007

  Post-Communist Churches Face 'Post-Christian' Challenges

  Post-communist churches that survived decades of Soviet domination are now confronted with new challenges as their country adopts modern secular society, noted the head of an ecumenical church body.