Source: South London Press, UK A GROUP of top Croydon clergymen have called for a more responsible moral approach to sex education in borough schools. A joint letter has been sent to the Advertiser by leaders of 14 evangelical churches – with a combined congregation of about 3,000…[Full Story...]
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Source: Penn Live, PA Tens of thousands of Christian music lovers packed local stadiums and pitched tents on nearby grassy hillsides for the opening of the Creation 2003 East festival — four days of concerts, camping and celebrating with others who share their religious beliefs. The experience of worshipping with so many believers is unmatched [...]
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Source: Galveston County Daily NewsThe Supreme Court’s ruling that laws against gay sex are unconstitutional breaches of privacy was long awaited by John Geddes Lawrence, whose life in anonymity evaporated in 1998 when he and a male sex partner were arrested outside Houston. Mitchell Katin, the Houston lawyer who argued the case for Lawrence and [...]
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Source: Cambridge Evening NewsTHE appointment of an openly gay man as Bishop of Reading has divided opinion in the Church of England. The Bishop of Oxford, the Right Reverend Richard Harries, selected homosexual, Canon Jeffrey John, for the post – which has led to threats of splits and in-fighting between the liberal and traditional wings [...]
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Source: Agenzia Giornalistica Italia (English Version), Italy AGI) – Rome, Italy, June 24 – The minister for Foreign Affairs, Franco Frattini, is “committed to insisting” on the Christian roots in the preamble to the European Constitution, he said at a presentation of the presidency’s cultural programme. “I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist, but [...]
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Source: allAFRICA.comPastor James Conteh of Christ Apostolic Church, Priscilla Street and National Co-ordinator of Children Ministries Network (CMN) Sierra Leone, has stressed the need to cultivate children with the right Christian teachings if the church is to continue to exist in the information, communication and technological age. He said there was the general conception that [...]
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Source: CNNLOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) — Continuing to raise concerns over “The Passion,” the Mel Gibson-directed film about the last days of Jesus Christ, the Anti-Defamation League of America (ADL) charged Tuesday that, based on a study of an early version of the screenplay, the project could be “replete with objectionable elements that would [...]
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Source: Kansas City Star, MOAn ambitious goal: To shine light on the religious faith of black Americans, while exploring what sealed their devotion across three centuries of history. That is what “This Far By Faith” sets out to do. The six one-hour segments add up to a sweeping portrait of the black experience — from [...]
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Source: CNN InternationalPORTO CARRAS, Greece (Reuters) — Four Roman Catholic countries Friday demanded a specific reference to Christianity in the European Union’s first constitution. Despite heavy lobbying from Pope John Paul II and Christian Democratic parties, a draft of the document presented to EU leaders Friday contained no mention of Christianity…[Full Story...]
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Source: TimeHow a 117-min. film became an evangelistic aid for people whose illiteracy ruled out the written wordFor all the good Franklin Graham did in 1990 when he distributed aid at a Jordanian refugee camp during Gulf War I, he still drew fire from the International Red Cross. It objected to his mixing relief with [...]
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Source: NewsMax.comImagine if the New York Times tried to accurately present the news. That’s what Mel Gibson is attempting in his new film, “The Passion.” Gibson’s film is an attempt to present the last 12 hours of Jesus’ life as accurately as possible, using Aramaic and Latin with no subtitles. Meanwhile, theologians are accusing Gibson…[Full [...]
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Source: CNN.comDALLAS (AP) — A federal district court dismissed a request by the one-time plaintiff known as “Jane Roe” to reconsider the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion 30 years ago. The court said late Thursday that Norma McCorvey’s request wasn’t made within a “reasonable time” after the 1973 judgment in Roe v. [...]
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Source: Iowa Channel.com, IA ANKENY, Iowa — A prominent leader of an Ankeny bible college has resigned following a Kansas City-area prostitution sting. The sting netted almost 100 arrests last Week, including James Collogan, executive vice president of the Faith Baptist Bible College in Ankeny. Officials said several police departments collaborated on the sting…[Full Story...]
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Source: Mainichi Shimbun, JapanOSAKA — A 400-year-old Japanese translation of biblical literature has been found at a university in the old Polish city of Krakow, a researcher has told the Mainichi. One of the oldest known translations of the bible in Japanese, several paragraphs were translated by a Japanese mission…[Full Story...]
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Source: San Jose Mercury News, CAThe Gutenberg Bible represents a defining moment in the history of documents. When Johannes Gutenberg printed it using movable type, mass-produced literature was born and ordinary folks got access to books. Fitting then, that it is one of the first rare works to be immortalized as high-resolution digital images in [...]
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Source: Star-Telegram.comIn exploring the genesis of the King James Bible, Adam Nicolson quite reasonably begins with King James. He became James VI of Scotland when he was 1 and his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, was deposed. By the time Elizabeth I of England died in 1603, as Nicolson puts it, “James’ mouth was dry [...]
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Source: Chicago BusinessRon Beers’ pitch for a novel called “Left Behind” was bombing with the executive board at Tyndale House Publishers Inc. Doubters on the board wondered why anyone would buy a thriller based on the Book of Revelation, in which the apocalyptic “ending” was already widely known among readers in the target audience.“It was [...]
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Source:The OregonianMore than 1,000 Oregonians are registered for a conference Saturday in Portland sponsored by a conservative Christian organization that considers homosexuality a sin and offers therapy aimed at changing gays into heterosexuals. The “Love Won Out” conference, sponsored by James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, is headlined by self-described ex-gay speakers who say faith…[Full [...]
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Source: Washington PostAfter the opening in 1993 of a gay bar downtown and the launch last year of Pride Weekend — a gay pride celebration typically associated with much larger cities — the gay community of little Fredericksburg seemed to have arrived. But for many gay residents, something was missing, something key to life here [...]
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Source: Daily Telegraph, UKThe Church of England faces the loss of millions of pounds of revenue and potential financial ruin over the schism caused by the appointment of its first openly homosexual bishop. The evangelical wing of the Church, which claims to represent more than half of Britain’s 10,000 clergy, has threatened a nationwide financial [...]
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