Posted on October 31st, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
A Christian human-rights group is calling on American Christians to pressure the Chinese Communist government to release three Chinese underground church leaders that were arrested within the past month.Voice of the Martyrs (persecution.com) says two of the Christian church leaders have been notified that they face prosecution for what amounts to treason against the government. [...]
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Posted on October 31st, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
A blind Christian human rights activist will be put on trial in Cuba after spending 18 months in prison. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has called on the Cuban government to permit the presence of international and impartial observers at the trial. Sources in Cuba told CSW that the Cuban government informed his wife that he [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
ABC to air special exploring whether or not Jesus Christ had a wife.ABC News correspondent Elizabeth Vargas concedes her network is stepping into a theological minefield with its one-hour exploration of whether Jesus Christ had a wife.The ABC News special, “Jesus, Mary and DaVinci,” is scheduled to air Monday at 8 p.m. ET.“You can’t talk [...]
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Filed under: Business
Posted on October 30th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Halloween celebrations, acceptable for Christians or not?Halloween is a fixture in modern American culture, but the custom of “trick or treating” and attending costume parties is quite different from how Halloween began about 2,000 years ago.The evolution of Halloween over hundreds of years has local religious leaders disagreeing whether Halloween violates the teachings of both [...]
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Filed under: Perspectives
Posted on October 30th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
President Bush discusses his freedom from alcoholism at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in DallasGeorge W Bush has given his most candid speech yet about how religion helped rid him of heavy drinking.Speaking at a Christian youth centre in Texas, he said the best way to reform an addict was to “change their heart”.Mr Bush’s past [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
A small group of liberal House Democrats announced a resolution Wednesday condemning remarks by a U.S. Army general that they believe were “religiously intolerant.”The group is demanding that President Bush censure the frequently decorated special operations veteran and reassign him from his current position as deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and war fighting support [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Bible reading ranks at the top.A LATEST national survey showed that the Holy Bible is the most read non-school book among Filipinos of this predominantly Catholic country. The Social Weather Station survey on March 10-25 on the Reading Attitudes and Preferences of Filipinos, commissioned by the National Book Development Board (NDBD), said that 38 percent [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Recent arrests of Christian converts have other Christians concerned.About two dozen Christians have been arrested by Egyptian police over the last week, the UK-based Barnabas Fund has reported. Many of them, according to the group, were Muslims who recently converted to Christianity. The Barnabas Fund, which highlights the suffering of persecuted Christian minorities throughout the [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Breaking from the boundaries of the secular humanism to promote the “original Christian education.”Rev. David Beckmann, chaplain and headmaster of Knox Academy, said, “A number of Christian families and education leaders in the Chattanooga area are concerned about what they see as a gap in local education opportunities. Chattanooga does not have a Christian classical [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
KADI tops the Christian Radio chartsIt’s a radio a station that promises something different, and it’s format seems to be catching the ears of more listeners in the Ozarks. In fact KADI has moved to the top of the charts of Christian radio stations nationwide. KADI has grown a lot since it first went on [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Music Releases for October 28, 2003 as provided by AMG All Music Guide.Albert Brumley, Jr: I’ll Fly Away~ Copper Creek 220 ~ Michael English: Michael English Christmas ~ Curb 78714 ~ Harold Holloway & Company: Stay in the Race ~ Atlanta International 10285 ~ The Mighty Gospel Warriors: Keep Looking Up [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Christopher Senteza is a committed Christian who has been with his partner for six years. He teaches English and religious studies at a school in Uganda, close to where he lives in the capital, Kampala.The 33-year-old is a pillar of the community, and would dearly love to be ordained into the Anglican church. But Christopher [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
American Family Radio is expanding its coverage in Mississipi to reach from Jackson to Kosciusko.American Family Radio has announced plans to build a 500-foot, 60,000-watt radio tower in northern Madison County. The $200,000 tower will be on 10 acres a quarter-mile behind Northeast Madison Middle School and will be picked up on 90.5 FM.“It will [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
The pastor at Baghdad’s first new house of worship in decades had dire words for Paul Gimson of Alberta, when last they parted. “Pray for me. Pray for all of us,” he said, shaking Gimson’s hand. “It isn’t going to be easy for us here.” An understatement. Samaritan’s Purse, the international Christian aid organization which [...]
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Filed under: Ministries
Posted on October 27th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
A church community has been left divided after its minister sparked a row by urging his flock to pray and pay more. The Church of Scotland’s Reverend Daniel Hawthorn has told each of Belhelvie Church’s 600 members that if they do not meet expectations, they may have to leave.Mr Hawthorn wants them to give [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
“I don’t think the Bible is the absolute truth,” says minister who believes that the traditional biblical stance on homosexuality is a misinterpretation. People read the Bible as the absolute truth, but they pick and choose words, phrases and sentences for support, a speaker said Sunday night at the Student Center.Frank Gorman was the first [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Indiana church burned by arsonists for the second time this year.BELLEVILLE, Ind. - Arson is being blamed for a fire that destroyed much of a rural central Indiana church, investigators said Friday. The fire at the Belleville Bible Church was reported Thursday, just three months after arsonists set fire to the same building. No one [...]
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Filed under: Persecution
Posted on October 26th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
The Jupiter Christian School President Rich Grimm says, “Jupiter Christian School officials did not ‘out’ Mr. Woodard nor did we violate any request for confidentiality. Any allegation to the contrary is simply false.” …labelled “spurious and unsubstantiated” a lawsuit filed against the school by an 18-year-old former student and his mother claiming the teen was [...]
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Filed under: Law
Posted on October 25th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Yes, I would like to order one prayer, hold the “Jesus Christ”, please…As part of a long-standing tradition, every Turlock city council meeting begins with an invocation lead by a local pastor. But a California appellate court ruling earlier this year has placed some limitations on how the invocation can be conducted.“The case did not [...]
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Filed under: Law
Posted on October 24th, 2003 by Anthony K. Valley
Church files suit after county wants to muffle the message.FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A church is challenging Broward County’s refusal to allow it to display a religious message along a two-mile holiday lights attraction at a county park.According to the Tallahassee Democrat, Calvary Chapel filed a federal lawsuit Oct. 22 claiming unconstitutional censorship. The church [...]
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