SBC members weighed in on mental illness in their annual meeting yesterday. While the resolution was being considered, Rick Warren, who has worked to keep mental illness in the national spotlight after his son Matthew committed suicide earlier this year, tweeted: “TODAY we ask #SBC13 to approve a resolution on raising awareness and […]
Desiline Victor, a 102-year-old Miami woman who waited for hours to vote in the last election, got a standing ovation from the nation’s top leaders during President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. Victor attended the State of the Union as a guest of first lady Michelle Obama. “When she arrived at […]
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Is Jesus a Democrat or Republican? Who would the Savior, if He were walking the earth in 2012, vote for tomorrow on Election Day? Depending on which group of people you talk to, you’ll get perfectly opposing partisan viewpoints. Some argue in Romney’s favor because of his stance against abortion and same-sex marriage. Others applaud […]
Voting is something you must do! It is not a choice. It is a responsibility. With the development of popular government comes the duty of…
As of Friday, November 2nd, more than 1.6 million Ohioans had already cast their ballots. Of the more than 1.3 million absentee ballots that have been mailed to voters during the absentee voting period, more than 1.1 million have already been returned or 85.5 percent. In addition, more than 495,000 voters had voted in […]
Long lines at polling places have been a familiar sight this week, but two hours in line is nothing compared to how long one Fort Myers, Florida woman chose to wait. For the first time in her 99 years of life, Rosie Lewis cast a ballot. “She’s an amazing person. 99-years-old and still has her […]
108-year-old South Carolina native Joanna Jenkins has never voted before and doesn’t have an official state ID, but she didn’t let that stop her from participating for the first time in a presidential election. “She’s just excited, she wants to vote this year, we were looking at the election, and as the debates were going […]
The Reverend Al Sharpton urged congregants at The New Birth Baptist Church to take advantage of early voting. His sermon was part of a statewide campaign to bus African Americans from church to early voting sites. Historically, black churches vote in groups on the Sunday before election day. “What we are doing here is preserving […]
1. Last day to register to vote Board of Elections across Ohio will stay open until 9 p.m. Tuesday for the voter registration deadline. Extended hours expected to bring large numbers of people looking not only to register but vote early. 2. Presidential candidates in Ohio Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will speak Tuesday evening at […]
It’s not just the collection plate that’s getting passed around at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in U.S. battleground states ahead of the November presidential election. Church leaders are distributing voter registration cards in the middle of services, and many are pledging caravans of “souls to the polls” to deliver the vote […]
Three new national polls show President Barack Obama is taking the lead over Republican candidate Mitt Romney in two major battleground states. The polls conducted by NBC News, The Wall Street Journal, and Marist College show Obama taking a drastic lead in Ohio while also winning over Florida and Virginia. Virginia and Florida are two battleground states […]
