“Latino lawmakers and others who are pushing for changes in U.S. immigration policy are taking a new approach to the issue, making a humanitarian appeal to Americans to support fellow citizens who have relatives living in fear of detention and deportation.” (CNSNews.com)
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“Western Christian churches today mark Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, the traditional 40-day period of fasting, prayer and penitence before Easter. To observe the day, Roman Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherans hold services during which the foreheads of the faithful are marked with the sign of the cross with ashes made from last year’s Palm [...]
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To fight the advancing rate of sexually transmitted disease and teenage pregnacy, Scotland’s most senior public health doctor proposes starting sex education with five year olds. SEX education lessons should be given to schoolchildren as young as five as part of a bid to combat soaring levels of teenage pregnancy and sexual disease, Scotland’s most [...]
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Murder plot for Orthodox priest Ramazan Arkan thwarted by Turkish polish. ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish police have foiled a plot to murder a priest, in a case that recalls other attacks this year against Christians in Muslim but secular Turkey, newspapers reported on Monday. Police in the coastal resort of Antalya detained a young man [...]
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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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Colorado’s anti-abortion movement is in turmoil after Colorado Right to Life was dumped by its national organization Wednesday, in large part for attacking Focus on the Family founder James Dobson.
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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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Thanks to the intervention of Barlett Mayor Keith McDonald, the Barlett Branch of the Memphis Central Library System have religious figures in its nativity scene.
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Critics praise “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe” for being a faithful to the book penned 50 years ago by the C.S. Lewis.
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The classic Christmas carol “Silent Night” was altered by the Ridgeway Elementary School in Dodgeville, Wisconsin as an expression of diversity and holiday inclusiveness in the “winter program.” A concerned student’s parent has retained legal representation to have the winter program changed.
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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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Is your church worshipping the God of Christmas on Christmas day or will it be among the many who argue against the secularization of Christmas, but ironically cancel worship on this day?
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Live lingerie models adorn the window in Spellbound, a retailer that sells intimate apparel in Augusta, Maine. Obviously, not everyone is as spellbound as the owner would hope.
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Godcasting creates opportunities for the faithful to reach an expanded audience of likeminded individuals
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The London based “Sunday Times” reveals that in the UK a large number of aborted babies survive.
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Advertising are cashing in by marketing their wares to the faithful, affluent African-American crowd.
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While neither validating nor disputing that God is responsible for the extra prosperity experienced by religious people, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber has found a “statistical correlation.”
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The secularization of the Christmas holiday rekindles outrage in Boston as the city sponsored “christmas tree” is official called the “holiday tree.” Isn’t Christmas a Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of its God, founder, and namesake, Christ?
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Parents in Fayetteville, Arkansas, take legal action against the school district and offensive books in the library.
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A U.S. Senate measure that would ban torture of war prisoners has the support of Utah religious leaders.
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