Valedictorian Suing School Officials for Censoring Speech

MOSS BLUFF, LA. (EP) – A Louisiana high school graduate is suing her local school officials for censoring her valedictory speech at commencement. Angela Kay Guidry, who was graduated from Sam Houston High School here in May, says her principal’s…

Report from China's Church

SANTA ANA, CA (ODNS) – China’s itinerant evangelists and unregistered house church leaders report growing efforts by official government agencies to stifle church activities and say it is the “worst” wave of persecution since the “great tribulation of 1983.” Cit…

Dial-A-Porn Stopped

Telephone executives at AT&T began “promotion compensation” services – otherwise known as “900 numbers” – several years ago as a marketing ploy to allow companies to run pre-recorded messages for customers. Stock market reports, sports information, and even r…

President Reagan Pushes Anti-pornography package

WASHINGTON, D.C. (FR) – President Ronald Reagan recently introduced a package of anti-pornography legislation to Congress called the “Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1987.” The bill’s two-fold purpose is to update the federal law to take into ac…

Report from Russia's Churches

James Stark, an Orthodox Christian of Russian descent who speaks fluent Russian, visited churches in several cities in the Soviet Union recently. He talked with a large cross-section of the Orthodox Christian community on how they viewed the present situation…

Bill Bennet says Bible should be taught in schools

WASHINGTON, D.C. (EP) – Knowledge of the Bible needs to be stressed in schools, Education Secretary William Bennett said November 30, while addressing a conference of the American Enterprise Institute, which sponsored a day long panel “The Spirit of the…

Communist Party opts out of 1988 presidential race

The Communist Party of the U.S.A. (CPUSA), which has participated in every presidential election since 1968, has announced that it will not field a candidate in the 1988 race because “a very undemocratic electoral system” is “closed to minority party…

The Great Escaping Scoop - or - How to Evade the Story of the Century

News Service 2000 Commentary by David Aikman When an obscure peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, offered himself as a candidate for the democratic nomination for the presidency in 1976, the only surprising part of his Renaissance-style resume (farmer, businessman, nuclear…

Abortionist accused of negligence in fetus' death, 11/22/1987

By Carol Gentry, St. Petersburg Times Dr. Harold J. Ticktin told state investigators he didn’t know the 16-year-old Tampa girl was so far along in her pregnancy when he began performing her abortion, records show. Ticktin said he stopped the…

Rescue Mission at Cherry Hill Abortion Clinic

BINGHAMTON, NY (FR) – Over 200 people were arrested in November of 1987 in the nation’s largest “rescue mission” for unborn children, conducted at the Cherry Hill Women’s Center in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The protestors, who flew in from…