In the Fort Worth area, Christine Lutz makes the headlines after being escorted off the bus for reading the bible aloud to her children while on the way to church. From the article: FORT WORTH (CBS 11 News) ― A passenger on a Fort Worth bus says the T. Bus Service discriminated against her religion. [...]
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A group led by African archbishops reportedly plans to consecrate a U.S. Episcopalian to lead a breakaway Anglican church in the United States.
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“Et tu, Bush?” Religious conservatives are not pleased with the President’s choice to use holiday cards instead of Christmas cards for this Christmas season. Bush’s card pick comes as a sharp blow in a culture where conservatives are fighting to preserve the “Christ” in “Christmas.”
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“Living in sin” can damage future married life, according to a new study, which also claims that devout Christians have better love lives.
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In India, the religious affiliation of potential patients is recorded for government review ensuring that the religious minorities are utilizing the state provided health facilities.
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Penn Jillette of the comedy duo, Penn and Teller, speaks candidly about not believing in God in his submission to the series “This I Believe.”
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Nov. 15 – A conservative legal group plans to fight a California appeals court ruling that says parents had no power to prevent an elementary school from conducting a sex survey of their children.
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Poll indicates majority think Creator made human beings.
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The question of the Christian response to Halloween is raised every year in mainstream or religious media, it seems. Christians face the reality of this holiday’s impact on the community and respond based on their personal perceptions and convictions. Is Halloween a holiday that the faithful should ignore altogether or should countermeasures be put into [...]
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Luc Jacquet, the director of the suprising successful documentary, “March of the Penguins”, notes that Christians have misrepresented his film by linking it to Intelligent Design. Jacquet, scientist and firm believer in the theory of evolution, states his film should not be used in support of evolution or intelligent design.
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Conservative lawmakers in Congress are pressing President Bush to issue an executive order that they say would protect freedom-of-speech rights of military chaplains.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 17 – Michael J. Behe, a biochemistry professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, has spent the last eight years traveling to colleges promoting intelligent design as a challenge to the theory of evolution.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 17 — Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution came under sustained attack in federal court here Monday as biochemistry professor Michael J. Behe argued that the theory fails to account for the complex biological machinery that scientists find in the corners of the human cell.
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(AgapePress) – A white lawmaker in Tennessee has been barred from becoming a member of the state’s Black Caucus. State representative Stacey Campfield says he attempted to join the black political group in order to better serve the large minority constituency in his precinct. However, the Knoxville Republican says a leader of the Black Caucus [...]
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(CNN) — Hurricane Katrina’s survivors face homelessness, unemployment and worry-filled sleepless nights, according to a poll of those who sought relief from the Red Cross.
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WASHINGTON — Hurricane Katrina has swept away more than New Orleans buildings: Nearly four in 10 city residents who sought help from the Red Cross say they don’t plan to move back, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll finds.
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(CBS) This CBS News Poll finds an American public increasingly pessimistic about the economy, the war in Iraq, the overall direction of the country, and the president. Americans’ outlook for the economy is the worst it has been in four years. Most expect the price of gas to rise even further in the next few [...]
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As the Senate prepares an investigation, the U.S. State Department is demanding Saudi Arabia account for its distribution of hate-filled, jihad propaganda through American mosques.
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Al-Qaida in Iraq has urged supporters to intensify attacks on US and Iraqi forces during the holy month of Ramadan and called for a boycott of next week’s constitutional referendum.
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Do couples that pray together really stay together?
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