Subthema 'Reformed Daily'

GREENSBORO - In an address that was received like a campaign stump speech, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke this week to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Greensboro (North Carolina, USA), exhorting her listeners to support the United States in spreading freedom around the globe.

HULL - Councillors in Hull (UK) are to discuss the decision to stop giving every primary pupil in the city a free school meal.

CHICAGO - Groups opposed to circumcision are watching the case of an 8 year old suburban Chicago boy whose divorced parents are fighting in court over whether he should have the procedure.

CAPE CANAVERAL - The clock was ticking for the two spacewalkers to finish up their maintenance jobs on the international space station. All was finished except for replacing a video camera on a transport platform used to construct the orbiting outpost.

There is a tremendously important battle coming up to defend marriage in the United States. The Senate is scheduled to vote this week on a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as only the union between one man and one woman. Realists will tell you that it is hard to get 67 senators to agree, followed by a ratification vote in three quarters of the fifty states. Still, already 19 states have voted for such a law.

WASHINGTON - Those heaping portions at restaurants -and doggie bags for the leftovers- may be a thing of the past, if health officials get their way. The USA government is trying to enlist the help of the nation’s eateries in fighting obesity. One of the first things on their list: cutting portion sizes.

KEY WEST - A 13 year old boater was arrested this week after authorities said he hit and killed a 6 year old snorkeler, then sped away.

ARLINGTON - President Bush, delivering a Memorial Day message surrounded by the graves of thousands of military dead, said this week that the United States must continue fighting the war on terror in the name of those have already given their life in the cause.

VIENNA - Recent rumblings from the top echelons of governments across Europe suggest that the continent is rethinking its status as a haven for refugees as it becomes more suspicious that many immigrants are coming to exploit its social benefits and democratic principles.

TIDMARSH - The owner of a horse transport firm let a pregnant horse die of starvation despite keeping 1,000 bales of hay in the next field.