Source: KOCO, OKTwo young American missionaries went through villages from Pakistan to Burundi to New Guinea — carrying digital cameras as they shared the Gospel, got lost and confronted wild animals. Taking a cue from its secular competitors, Trinity Broadcasting Network has started airing its first reality show — called “Travel the Road.” The [...]
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Source: CanadianChristianity.comChristianWeek WATERLOO, ON — David Macfarlane remembers how he and a boyhood friend used to dare each other to cross a railway bridge with no sides. They found they could easily walk across on the ties, looking down through the sleepers at the river far below. “But when we tried to walk on [...]
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Source: WSTM-TV Central New YorkWinneconne, Wisconsin-AP — A Wisconsin teen has won the right to sing a Christian song at her public high school’s graduation ceremony.Officials at Winneconne (win-uh-KAH’-nee) High School initially told Rachel Honer that she couldn’t sing the Sara Groves song “He’s Always Been Faithful” unless she removed three mentions of God from [...]
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Source: Christianity TodayDeath sentence thrown out because of jurors’ use of BibleThe Bible saves lives. Just ask Robert Harlan.In 1995 a Colorado jury convicted him of kidnapping, raping, and murdering 25-year-old Rhonda Maloney, and shooting a bystander who tried to help.Friday, Judge John J. Vigil overturned Harlan’s death sentence because jurors illegally used Bibles [...]
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A Catholic priest said Tuesday that he was fired from his job running a parochial school because he had publicly criticized the church’s response to the sexual abuse crisis.A spokesman for the Newark Archdiocese denied the accusation, saying the priest was “troubled.”…[Full Story...]
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HARVEY, Ill. (AP) — A troubled Chicago suburb is fighting its crime wave with clergy in a novel program that irks civil libertarians defending the separation of church and state. Harvey Mayor Eric Kellogg and his supporters say the southern suburb of 30,000 needs help that conventional forces cannot provide. “The major problem with contemporary [...]
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Source: Crosswalk.comBill Bennett is a hypocrite. Let’s throw a party and celebrate. Mr. Morality is human!After Bennett, the conservative family values advocate, admitted recently he has a gambling problem, you would have thought his critics were celebrating Christmas. Sinners have long cherished the fantasy that William Bennett…[Full Story...]
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Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, MNLike many Americans who were born in the aftermath of World War II, Carmen Renee Berry was raised in a church-going, God-fearing family. She assumed she would remain steadfast for life in her faith and the tenets of her particular denomination.She fell away from the church after high school, as young [...]
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Source: Detriot Free PressWhat would Jesus invest in? It’s a question that might come up in church halls and accountants’ offices among followers of a school of financial planning based on scripture. Biblical money management links personal spending decisions…[Full Story...]
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Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH Washington - Threatened with the loss of federal money, the vast majority of the nation’s schools have declared that they allow prayer wherever and however the Constitution permits. For the first time, federal law requires school districts to prove that they have no policy stifling court-protected prayer by students [...]
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Source: SierraTimes.comDue to the efforts of Christian Educators Association International (CEAI) and others, public school textbooks remain rife with Muslim propaganda such as “Assume you are a Muslim soldier.” When Houghton Mifflin came under fire last year with accusations of indoctrination to Islam, Forrest Turpen, Executive Director of CEAI, publicly defended the textbook…[Full Story...]
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Source: Daily Oklahoman, OKMOORE – there’s something about an old-fashoned outdoor church service, no matter the circumstances.The congregation of First Christian Church of Moore worshipped under a glaring sun and in stiff breezes because its building is gone — blown away by a tornado three days earlier…[Full Story...]
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Source: news.independent.co.ukTony Blair was accused of caving in to evangelical Christians last night after it emerged that new government legislation will allow faith schools, churches, hospices and other religious employers to sack lesbian and gay staff.Equal rights campaigners were furious…[Full Story...]
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Source: Stuff.co.nz, New ZealandA practising Christian claims fast food chain Burger King discriminated against him by ending a job interview after he said his religious beliefs meant he could not work on Sundays. Brendon Ward, a Pentecostal Christian, said yesterday he had applied for an assistant manager position at Burger King in Johnsonville, Wellington, on [...]
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Source: Asheville Citizen Times, NCHatred and racism are fundamentally moral and spiritual problems,” the Rev. Billy Graham wrote in his 1997 autobiography “Just As I Am.” But here in Western North Carolina, some local pastors feel the Montreat evangelist’s organization is not…[Full Story...]
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Source: Mansfield News Journal, OH bought Mother’s Day cards on Monday — one for my mom, one for my husband’s mom, one for each of them from our daughter. It took just a few minutes to find the perfect ones based on their personalities. These are the ones that we’ll need to sign and [...]
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Source: Daily Telegraph, UK Two social workers have been forced out of their jobs because they are opposed to adoption by homosexual and lesbian couples.Norah Ellis and Dawn Jackson, both highly regarded employees with unblemished records…[Full Story...]
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Source: The Tennessean.comGambling is no virtue but, religiously speaking, is it a vice?Since William Bennett, author of The Book of Virtues, was revealed as a high-stakes casino player, several Protestant organizations have lamented his gambling, which they consider sinful. But groups from the Roman Catholic Church, Bennett’s own denomination, have remained largely silent, reflecting [...]
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Source: Baptist PressWASHINGTON (BP)–Headlines surfacing in the secular press regarding a recent meeting of evangelical leaders to discuss Christian-Muslim dialogue imply that the group rebuked fellow evangelicals such as Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Jerry Vines for so-called inflammatory comments they have made about Muslims.However, a copy of the three-page “Guidelines for Christian-Muslim [...]
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Source: BBCA court in Yemen has sentenced a man to death for killing three Americans who worked at a Christian-run hospital last December.Abed Abdulrazzak Kamel, 30, smuggled a gun into the hospital in the southern town of Jibla. He told police he shot the three…[Full Story...]
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