___ NRB leaves NAE. The board of the National Religious Broadcasters voted unanimously Feb. 9 to formally end its relationship with the National Association of Evangelicals, an organization that recently began a dialogue with the National Council of Churches. Board members voted 81-0 to cut all ties. Since 1944, the Christian conservative broadcasters' group has been affiliated with the National Association of Evangelicals. The broadcasters were concerned about the NAE's interest in the National Council of Churches, which they view as a liberal group.
___ Kansas restores evolution. The recently elected Kansas Board of Education has restored evolution to the state science curriculum for public schools. The 7-to-3 decision made Feb. 14 reverses the previous board's decision in 1999 to erase from the state's public school curriculum any references to evolution as the only explanation for the origins of humanity.
___ IRS seizes Indiana church. A prayer vigil inside an Indianapolis church came to an abrupt end Feb. 13 as federal marshals seized the Indianapolis Baptist Temple. Under a federal judge's ruling last September, the congregation was ordered to relinquish its building to the Internal Revenue Service to pay $6 million in delinquent taxes. The church, which lost its tax-exempt status in the mid-1990s, was told to vacate its premises by Nov. 14. The September ruling followed a 1999 decision that sided with the IRS' claim the church owed $5.9 million in back taxes, penalties and interest for refusing to withhold federal income, Medicare and Social Security taxes from employees' paychecks.
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