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Nation
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By Bob Allen
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Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A Baptist leader is calling on President Obama to conduct a formal investigation into revelations that a United States military contractor stamped references to Bible verses on combat rifle sights used, unknowingly, by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Nation
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By Ken Camp
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 |
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AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) -- Citizens debated the role of religion in society
-- and particularly of Christianity in American history -- as the Texas
State Board of Education held a public hearing Jan. 13 on new standards
for social-studies curricula in public schools.
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Nation
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By Bob Allen and Robert Marus
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
E.J. Dionne speaks at the statement release. At left is Marc Stern. (Cherilyn Crowe/BJC)
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WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A diverse group of leaders who often find themselves on opposite sides of the contentious battles at the intersection of church and state joined forces Jan. 12 to unveil an unprecedented consensus statement aimed at advancing public understanding of -- and preventing needless controversy over -- the legal issues around religious expression in the public square.
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Nation
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By Bob Allen
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Friday, January 08, 2010 |
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DURHAM, N.C. (ABP) -- Eight years of President George W. Bush's faith-based agenda to increase religion's role in providing social services had little impact on day-to-day ministries of local congregations, according to a scholar at Duke Divinity School.
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Nation
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By Bob Allen
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Thursday, January 07, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Fewer death sentences were imposed in 2009 than in any year since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, according to year-end statistics compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center.
It marked the seventh consecutive annual decline -- with the rationale for juries, judges and prosecutors increasingly shifting away from the morality of the death penalty toward whether the higher cost of executing criminals is worth the benefit it brings to society.
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