Religion & Politics: Faith-based initiatives |
Religious involvement in a range of social welfare activity; sometimes accompanied by religious proselytizing
9/29/08 Faith-based initiative in Kansas City area demonstrated as church members spend Sunday in repairing the home of a needy person. http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/story/818245.html
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Analysis & views: 10/8/06 In faith-based foreign aid, Christian organizations participate in U.S. relief efforts abroad, but also export their particular conception of God. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/10/08/bush_brings_faith_to_foreign_aid/
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Analysis & views: 9/29/08 Faith-based initiative in Kansas City area demonstrated as church members spend Sunday in repairing the home of a needy person. http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/story/818245.html 7/2/08 Obama plan to expand faith-based welfare initiatives draws fire from right and left: He proposes to increase government support to an activity that proponents of church/state separation have described as a "failed" program. Meanwhile, liberal evangelicals are disappointed that his proposal would not allow churches to apply a religious qualification in their hiring practices http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/us/politics/02obama.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp 12/4/07 Federal court ruling challenges constitutionality of allowing inmates special privileges based on participation in faith-based prison ministry programs. 12/11/06 A faith-based night in the slammer: GOP presidential hopeful Sam Brownback has himself imprisoned in a Kansas jail to dramatize his support of privatized operation of prisons under religous auspices. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,235727,00.html 10/8/06 Name of the beast is Behemoth: New York Times study shows a large and growing tendency for religious organizations dealing with education and other public services to enjoy exemptions from same regulations to which public organizations are subject. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/business/08religious.htm=homepage 5/5/06 American United for Separation of Church and State blast Administration's plan to support a prisoner rehabilitation program maintained by those of a single faith: http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3119 5/1/06 Opinion: Federal "faith-based initiative" funding has harmed and politicized religious charities: http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=321 4/22/06 Utah creats a state Department of Faith-Based Initiatives: http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/176266/4/ 4/21/06 Republican governor of Massachusetts will spend $1 million in federal funds for faith-based abstinence-only sex education programs in state: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/04/21/state_widens_teaching_of_abstinence/ 3/22/06 Christian conservative groups enjoying windfall of funding from Bush administration: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/21/AR2006032101723.html?referrer=email 3/9/06 Executive order by Bush clears way for faith-based initiatives in Homeland Security: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060307-5.html 1/30/06 Religious groups get chunk of AIDS money: http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=ne-main-9-l9&flok=FF-APO-1500&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20060130%2F0252751326.htm&sc=1500
1/30/06 Faith-based health care: proposals to allow health care worker to refuse service if contrary to religious beliefs: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/29/AR2006012900869.html?referrer=email
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Analysis & views: 4/28/08 Florida legislature considering whether to create oversight rules for Christian Care Ministry, a church-based health care agency. http://www.theledger.com/article/20080428/NEWS/804280420/1374 3/25/08 Member of Florida's taxation and budget committee is advocating a constitutional amendment for the November ballot that would lighten the state's ban on funding for "faith-based initiatives." http://www.miamiherald.com/457/story/469037.html 12/20/06 Jeb Bush appointed task force says the state should increase the number of faith-based prisons in Florida from one to six. http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Florida/floSTAT05122006.htm
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