Bush Calls for Approval of Millions in Food Aid

By Erick Stakelbeck, CBN News Washington Correspondent

CBNNews.com - WASHINGTON - President Bush is asking Congress to step in and approve $770 million in international food aid.

Food prices worldwide are up 40 percent since last year.

That means higher prices in America -- and a potentially life or death situation for needy countries overseas.

Higher food prices have been felt here in the U.S. but in some of the poorest nations, it's a crisis with some calling it the first global food crisis since World War II. The U.S. provides more food aid than any other country in the world but the President wants Congress to step to the plate with $770 million more to needy countries.

"The American people are generous people and they're a compassionate people. We believe in the timeless truth`to whom much is given, much is expected," Bush said.

Was George Washington a Christian?

By Reverend Peter J. Marshall

Much of the decades-old cultural battle over whether America was founded as a Christian nation has centered on the question of the Founding Fathers’ Christian faith – or lack of it. Were the men that we have come to call Founding Fathers Christians? And, because the best-known Founding Father is George Washington, much of the controversy about them has focused on him: Was George Washington a Christian?

The accusation that Washington and the rest of the Founding Fathers were Deists, and not believing Christians, has been endlessly repeated by academics and historians to the point that it has become an accepted article of faith about American history – akin to the “of course” status awarded to the doctrine of Darwinian evolution. Except that it simply isn’t true. The historical evidence, when it is carefully and properly examined, will not allow the label of Deist to be pinned on the huge majority of the Founding Fathers.

The Visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to the White House

The White House - The President and Mrs. Bush will welcome His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to our Nation’s Capital on April 15-18, 2008. This is the first visit of His Holiness to the United States since he became Pope. Pope Benedict XVI is only the second Pontiff to visit The White House. His Holiness Pope John Paul II was welcomed to The White House by President Jimmy Carter on October 6, 1979.

On April 15, 2008, the President and Mrs. Bush will participate in an Arrival Ceremony for His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

On April 16, 2008, the President and Mrs. Bush will welcome His Holiness to The White House in an Arrival Ceremony on the South Lawn followed by a meeting between the President and His Holiness in the Oval Office. Later that evening, the President and Mrs. Bush will host a dinner for Catholic leaders and friends in Honor of the Visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI in the East Room of The White House.

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Bush Calls for Approval of Millions in Food Aid

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