Religion recorded a rare victory over science yesterday when a church was allowed to retain a poster offering the prospect of miracles.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (BP)–Twenty-two people from 12 churches in Florida took the baptismal plunge in the Atlantic Ocean Oct. 1, marking some of the first baptisms in what Southern Baptist Convention President Bobby Welch hopes will be 1 million converts and baptisms within the next 12 months
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A Christian ministry filed a lawsuit yesterday in federal court against the state of Tennessee for forcing it to obtain a license in order to continue.
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)–More than 1,200 Southern Baptist churches have committed to help SBC churches in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The Adopt A Church partnership was initiated by the North American Mission Board the week after the hurricane destroyed thousands of homes and business along the Gulf Coast including hundreds of SBC [...]
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International (MNN) — “Call to Me!” That was the theme of the 2005 See You at the Pole event yesterday, which last year saw more than two million students from 20 countries gather around flagpoles to pray.
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The Holy Spirit has placed an anointing on the church to go and finish the Great Commission, according to the head a ministry part of Campus Crusade for Christ International. “There is a paradigm shift,” said Dr. Robert Varney, executive director of CCCI’s Christian Embassy and a director for the “Finishing the Task” conference to [...]
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SEOUL, South Korea – Over 100,000 Christians from all over the world are expected to attend a massive prayer conference next month in Seoul, Korea, organized by the world’s largest church.
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The October 7th release date is approaching for the highly anticipated movie, “The Gospel.”
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Presiding Bishop G.E. Patterson, chief apostle of the Church of God in Christ, is battling prostate cancer.
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The Red Cross and its Islamic cousin, the Red Crescent, could soon be joined by a Red Crystal. The move is an attempt to create a neutral emblem in an age of growing religious strife, in which aid workers have been attacked and the Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad bombed.
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Pope Benedict XVI has given his approval to a new Vatican policy document that bans men with homosexual tendencies from being ordained as priests, reports Catholic World News.
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Homosexual protesters picketed in front of a Boston church yesterday just as the morning service was ending, saying they were targeting the congregation because it is hosting a conference about leaving the “gay” lifestyle.
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The residents of the George R. Brown Convention Center have many things going as well as can be expected, including a daily newspaper. The one thing they hadn’t had was a full-blown church service.
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GULFPORT, Miss. (ABP)—Six days after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the sanctuary of First Baptist Church in Gulfport, Pastor Chuck Register told church members he wholeheartedly believed it is “the redemptive moment in history” for Mississippi’s Gulf Coast.
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Tim at Challies Dot Com points us to this unique name for a Denver, Colorado church — Scum of the Earth — with this post:
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“While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades,” Tom Brokaw says, “the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.”
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The number of megachurches is growing at a ’45-degree angle,’ and according to a top mega-church researcher at Hartford seminary, sheer size is not the reason why. They are intentional about training and they find ways to make people from being a casual visitor to being a committed member, said Scott Thumma, a professor of [...]
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GANANOQUE, Canada (AFP) – Nine North American women sailed onto the St. Lawrence River to take part in an unauthorized ordination ceremony, risking excommunication by theVatican to become priests and deacons. Dana Renolds, Kathleen Strack, Rebecca McGuyver, Regina Nicolosi and Kathy Vandenberg were named deacons by three female bishops, who claimed to have themselves been [...]
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HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — America’s largest church celebrated its move into the former arena for the Houston Rockets with a capacity crowd of 16,000, an upbeat sermon from its televangelist pastor and a spirited welcome from the governor of Texas. “How do you like our new home?” Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen asked to thunderous [...]
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Southern Baptists have voted to end their boycott of the Walt Disney Co., a move that comes eight years after the group condemned as immoral and “gay-friendly” everything from the company’s same-sex employee benefits to the TV show “Ellen.” “We felt like it was time to end it,” said Gene Mims, [...]
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