Colorado Springs, May 27, 1997- Amid significant response about potential updates to the New International Version (NIV) Bible, International Bible Society (IBS) announced today that it will forego all plans to develop a revised edition of the NIV, the most widely distributed Bible in the English language, representing 45 percent of Bibles circulated in North America.

The Committee on Bible Translation is the decision-maker for the NIV, and sources within it speak to the accuracy of WORLD's account. Spokesmen for two other organizations with key roles did not point out any factual errors, but accused WORLD of misleading readers through a tone that, according to Jonathan Petersen, Zondervan's director of corporate affairs, "attempts to convey a conspiracy of evangelical Bible translation with radical social feminism."

When an evangelical encourages another evangelical to "pray for President Clinton," he usually does so after the other expresses some criticism of the president. The unspoken assumption is that there are only two legitimate courses of conduct and that they are mutually exclusive: supplication or reproof. In fact, the two are complementary. Yes, the Bible demands that we pray for our leaders as well as for other men.

But how do we pray?

Genes are the building blocks of the human body, which normally possesses 46 chromosomes in 23 pairs. Any irregularities in these microscopic materials have dramatic effects upon the development of the body.

**red_square**Partial Progress Against Abortion Both sides in the abortion wars in 1996 emphasized their relative cultural and political strengths: Pro-abortion advocates concentrated on expanding early-term abortions, pro-lifers on restricting late-term abortions.