Apology demanded from Fla. athletic association for denying football teams use of loudspeakers to pray

Apology demanded from Fla. athletic association for denying football teams use of loudspeakers to pray

(CNSNews.com) – Liberty Institute, a non-profit legal organization dedicated to the preservation of religious liberty, is demanding that the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) issue a written apology for not allowing two Christian football teams to use the loudspeakers at Orlando's Citrus Bowl to pray before their 2A state championship game last month.

Dr. Roger Dearing, executive director of the FHSAA, denied requests by two private schools – Cambridge Christian School (CCS) in Tampa and University Christian School in Jacksonville – to use the loudspeakers to broadcast both teams' prayers before their big game on December 4.

Stanford economist: Globalization is erasing prosperity gap between rich, poor countries
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Stanford economist: Globalization is erasing prosperity gap between rich, poor countries

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(CNSNews.com) — New research by an economist at Stanford's Hoover Institution shows that globalization and industrial investment are increasing prosperity worldwide and lessening the economic gap between rich and poor countries.

"Projecting these dynamics forward suggests rapid growth across all regions over the coming century that will bring nearly all countries to within 80 percent of the per capita income frontier," Hoover research fellow Timothy Kane wrote in "Accelerating Convergence in the World Income Distribution," a working paper that was published on Jan. 17.

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