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Evangelical Challenges Obama To Public Debate on Religion
2007-06-24 15:12:00 WASHINGTON — The Reverend Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK), president of the National Clergy Council and chair of the Committee on Church and Society for the Evangelical Church Alliance, will hand deliver a letter to the U.S. Senate office of Barack Obama on Monday challenging the presidential candidate to a public debate on religion. Senator Obama this ... More About: Religion , Public , Debate
Jesse Jackson And Priest Arrested At Gun Shop
2007-06-24 15:09:00 CHICAGO – The Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested Saturday at a demonstration outside a suburban gun shop and charged with one count of criminal trespass. Jackson was arrested when he refused to move away from the entrance to Chuck?s Gun Shop in Riverdale, Ill., police said. He has protested with other community activists outside the shop ... More About: Arrested
Christians and Buddhists Struggle Over Miracle of the Trees
2007-06-24 15:06:00 NEPAL — After an idol that ’sweats’ and a stone that ‘grows’, it is the turn of ‘miracle’ trees in western Nepal to be worshipped by flocking devotees. Thousands of ardent believers have been thronging Vyas town in Tanahun district in western Nepal to marvel at and worship three trees that are said to be gushing ... More About: Miracle , Christians , Trees , Hist , Mira
Today?s Quote: The Christian Right
2007-06-23 17:18:00 “I personally know at least a dozen Republicans who voted against their party in the past several national elections in part because they recognize this. They recognize that their party has been hijacked by those who?ve taken scissors to their Bibles, and cut them so severely, that their version now begins with the Old Testament ... More About: Christian , Today , Christian Right , Quote
Bible Verse And Forensics Combine For New Theory
2007-06-23 17:13:00 MASADA, Israel: An Israeli anthropologist is using modern forensics and an obscure Biblical passage to challenge the accepted wisdom about mysterious human remains found at Masada, the desert fortress famous as the scene of a mass suicide nearly 2,000 years ago. A new research paper published Friday takes another look at the remains of three people ... More About: Bible , Forensics , Theory , Verse , Fore
Blair Meets With Pope Amid Talk Of Conversion
2007-06-23 17:05:00 VATICAN CITY - Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair met Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI in a private audience at the Vatican, heightening speculation that the outgoing premier may convert to Catholicism. A Vatican statement said afterwards that they had discussed “particularly delicate subjects”, including the Middle East, the future of the European Union and recent unspecified ... More About: Talk , Conversion , Version
Southern Baptist Leader: Thumbs Down On Evangelicals For Romney
2007-06-23 17:01:00 Evangelicals are unlikely to vote for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney because the former Massachusetts governor’s Mormon faith claims to be the only true Christian church, a Southern Baptist leader says. “I have a very difficult time with the perspective [the Mormon church holds] that, ‘we are the true expression of Christianity and all other forms ... More About: Thumb , Evangelicals
?Most Liberal? Christian Church On Dramatic Decline
2007-06-23 16:57:00 WASHINGTON — The 1.2 million member United Church of Christ (UCC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary at a general synod gathering in Hartford, CT this weekend. Featured speakers will include church members such as Senator Barak Obama and actress Lynn Redgrave. Having lost 1 million members over the last 40 years, 40,000 last year alone, ... More About: Christian , Liberal , Line , Libera
Cleaning Tables Leads To Finding God
2007-06-23 16:53:00 PUEBLA, MEXICO — Cleaning tables and helping to wash dishes played a significant role in bringing one Mexican man to Christ. ?We know one man who had been abandoned by his family,? remembers Ruth Lopez, a missionary who serves alongside her husband Manuel, a pastor in this beautiful colonial Mexican city. ?He attended a wedding and ... More About: Tables , Leads , Lead
Girl Expelled For Wearing Christian-based Ring
2007-06-22 19:55:00 LONDON ? A British girl has accused her school in London’s High Court of “religious discrimination” after she was expelled for refusing to remove the so-called Christian “purity ring.” “In the Bible it says you should remain sexually pure and I think this is a way I want to express my faith,” 16-year-old Lydia Playfoot told ... More About: Girl , Ring , Wear , Base
Who Would Jesus Spank?
2007-06-22 03:36:00 HARTFORD — The Christian Domestic Discipline store promotes “loving wife spanking in a Christian marriage,” and its Web site sells an assortment of Christ-approved bondage gear including affordably priced crotchless pantaloons and herbal oils that can “be massaged into sore or bruised areas of the body.” The Web site also advises husbands on how to ... More About: Jesus , Would , Jesu , Span
ACLU: Get Jesus? Picture Out Of Here
2007-06-22 03:26:00 SLIDELL, La. — A painting of Christ, with a sign reading "To know peace, obey these laws," has no place in Slidell City Court, the Louisiana American Civil Liberties Union says. Unless the picture and plaque are removed within a week, the ACLU may sue on behalf of a person who filed a written complaint ... More About: Jesus , Picture , Jesu
Heavy Metal Satanists Attack Christian Sites
2007-06-22 03:24:00 FRANCE — A shadowy anti-religious group with links to heavy metal music has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on Christian sites in Brittany in northwest France, police said Thursday. Members of the group, which calls itself "True Armorik Black Metal ", or TABM, describe themselves as "extremist and anti-ecclesiastical" in a letter sent to ... More About: Sites , Heavy metal , Heavy
Atheist Group Sues N.D. Over Youth Ranch
2007-06-22 03:19:00 BISMARCK, N.D. - An atheist group says North Dakota officials are using public money to religiously indoctrinate young people at the Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch , according to a federal lawsuit. The Freedom From Religion Foundation wants a judge to declare a violation of the constitutional separation of church and state, and order the government ... More About: Atheist , Youth , Group , Theist
Christianity Growing In Iran?
2007-06-22 03:13:00 IRAN — Christianity is expanding in the closed, heavily Muslim country of Iran through multimedia technology, according to a Christian persecution watch group. Iranian Muslims in growing numbers are coming to know and accept Jesus Christ through satellite-TV, internet and other media outlet, reported Open Doors Middle East field worker Stefan De Groot. “New media ... More About: Growing , Rowing , Grow
China Announces Planned Destruction of Marian Sanctuary
2007-06-22 03:10:00 CHINA - Government officials in China 's Henan province have called for the destruction of the sanctuary of Our Lady of Carmel. A government decree has ruled that the Marian sanctuary, and the pilgrimages that have brought over 40,000 pilgrims there annually, are evidence of "illegal religious activity." The Henan government plans to raze the sanctuary, ... More About: Destruction , Plan , Anne
Vatican Backs Kennedy?s Ex-Wife
2007-06-21 13:56:00 The Vatican has reversed the annulment of former US Congressman Joseph P Kennedy II's first marriage, his ex-wife Sheila Rauch says. They were divorced in 1991 and Mr Kennedy obtained the annulment in secret in 1993, before he married his secretary Anne Elizabeth Kelly. Ms Rauch had alleged that the Kennedy family had used its ... More About: Wife
More Christians Killed In Iraq
2007-06-21 08:06:00 MOSUL — Terrorists in Iraq kidnapped 8 Christians in the Nineveh plains– the site of a proposed "protected enclave" for the Christian minority. Two other Christians were killed in the city of Mosul, near the site of the June 3 murder of a Chaldean Catholic priest, Father Ragheed Ganni, and three deacons. The kidnapping in ... More About: Kill , Killed
Yikes! Godless Coins Issued
2007-06-21 08:05:00 PHILADELPHIA - It looks like the U.S. Mint has struck again — or not struck again, depending on how you look at it. New dollar coins featuring John Adams are missing edge inscriptions including "In God We Trust," according to the Professional Coin Grading Service, a rare coin authentication company based in Newport Beach, Calif. ... More About: Coins , Godless , Sued , Issue
Dragster Tragedy Prompts Action From Baptist Ministers
2007-06-21 08:05:00 SELMER, Tenn. –When a drag racing car slammed into a crowd of people who had lined the street for a parade in southwest Tennessee, leaving at least six dead, several Baptist ministers quickly were on the scene or at the local hospital.The tragedy occurred during the Cars for Kids Car Show, an annual charity event ... More About: Action , Tragedy , Ministers , Minister
Story Behind John Lennon?s ?Strawberry Fields?
2007-06-21 08:05:00 LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND — The true story behind John Lennon ’s mega hit, “Strawberry Field s Forever,” will be revealed this Sunday (June 24) during journalist Dan Wooding’s Front Page Radio program that will be aired on KWVE 107.9 FM in Southern California at 5:00 PM. For those not in the area, it can also be heard ... More About: Story
Christian Comics - No Longer a Contradicition In Terms
2007-06-21 08:04:00 MISSISSIPPI - After retiring from the ministry a decade ago, Arlis Nichols started working the church circuit in a new role - stand-up comedian. "I feel like laughter is one of God's choicest blessings," Nichols, 75, said. "I guess I'm on a crusade to let church people know their hearts ought to be filled with ... More About: Christian , Comics , Terms , Term
The Beatles, The Stones, The Eagles and the Bible
2007-06-21 08:04:00 CINCINNATI — The Beat les , the Rolling Stones, The Eagles and George Strait — not exactly what you'd expect to find on the covers of newly-released small group Bible studies. But with discussions ranging from 'Yellow Submarine,' 'Hotel California,' 'Check Yes or No' and 'Satisfaction,' that's exactly what you do get with the new small group ... More About: The Beatles
Ok, So What Did Jesus Look Like?
2007-06-19 18:12:00 What did Jesu s look like? According to New Testament scholar Dr Mark Goodacre: ?There?s a reference in Paul which says it?s disgraceful for a man to wear long hair, so it looks pretty sure that people of that period had to have reasonably short hair. The traditional depictions of Jesus with long flowing golden hair are ... More About: Like , Look
Jesus Image Found In Tree
2007-06-19 17:57:00 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Members of a Tennessee church believe the image of Jesu s has appeared in a nearby tree. A member of St. Michael’s Church in Memphis, Tenn., said she noticed the image a few days ago. The tree is in a garden located not far from the church. The tree is planted between two other trees, and ... More About: Image , Tree
?What Would Jesus Buy? Film Faces Tough Sell
2007-06-19 17:52:00 SILVER SPRING, Maryland - The makers of “What Would Jesus Buy?” have a problem — how do you sell a film documenting performance artist Rev. Billy and his Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a guerrilla U.S. tour against consumerism? The film follows the white-suited, big-haired Rev. Billy and his 35-member choir as they hit the road ... More About: Film , Faces , Sell , Tough
Number Of Presbyterians Drop
2007-06-19 17:48:00 LOUISVILLE, Ky. ? Membership in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) declined again last year, dropping by more than 46,000 in 2006, the denomination says. The number of active Presbyterians fell from 2,313,662 in 2005, to 2,267,118 in 2006, according to an annual church survey released June 7. Baptisms in the same period also declined ? by 946 ... More About: Teri , Drop , Byte , Number
Vatican Issues 10 Commandments for Drivers
2007-06-19 17:45:00 VATICAN — The Vatican on Tuesday issued a set of “Ten Comm andments” for drivers, telling motorists not to kill, not to drink and drive, and to help fellow travelers in case of accidents. An unusual document from the Vatican’s office for migrants and itinerant people also warned that cars can be “an occasion of sin” ? ... More About: Drivers , Issues , Command
Priest?s 40 Years of Prayers For A Prostitute
2007-06-19 17:40:00 NEW YORK — A prostitute once locked St. Patrick’s Cathedral rector Monsignor Robert Ritchie in a hospital room and begged him to pray for her protection from the dangers of her job, he recounted yesterday. Ritchie, who told the story during a Father’s Day sermon at St. Pat’s, said the odd but enlightening incident took place ... More About: Prayers , Years , Prostitute , Year , Ears
Christian School & Church Attacked In Gaza Strip
More articles from this author:2007-06-19 05:32:00 An attack has occurred in both a Christian church and school in the Gaza Strip as Hamas leaders condemned the attack and vowed to punish the culprits. It was reported that masked gunmen ransacked the Latin Church and Rosary Sisters School and stole a number of computers. In the process, they also destroyed crosses, the Holy ... More About: Gaza Strip 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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