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A Muslim AND A Christian???
2007-06-18 15:46:00 SEATTLE — Shortly after noon on Fridays, the Rev. Ann Holmes Redding ties on a black headscarf, preparing to pray with her Muslim group on First Hill. On Sunday mornings, Redding puts on the white collar of an Episcopal priest. She does both, she says, because she’s Christian and Muslim. Redding, who until recently was director of faith ... More About: Slim
President Hopeful?s Campaign Attacks Romney?s Mormonism
2007-06-18 15:42:00 Washington ? An aide to GOP presidential candidate Sam Brownback has been reprimanded for sending e-mail to Iowa Republican leaders in an apparent attempt to draw unfavorable scrutiny to rival Mitt Romney?s Mormonism . The campaign aide for Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan, has been reprimanded for sending derogatory e-mails concerning Romney?s Mormon faith. Emma ... More About: President , Campaign , Hopeful , Attacks
Catholic ?Witch Hunt? To Expose Gay Priests
2007-06-18 15:37:00 SCOTLAND - Patricia McKeever, a 58-year-old former secondary school teacher, co-ordinates a relentless campaign to name and shame gay Roman Cath olic priests. Her newsletter , Catholic Truth, has so far confronted up to a dozen priests about their alleged homosexuality and has named at least four as being gay or allegedly associating with gay men. It claims ... More About: Expose , Priest , Pose
Christian Fears Tortue If Deported
2007-06-18 15:32:00 A Coptic Christian from Egypt is battling for a court ruling to allow him to remain in the United States and avoid the sure torture he would face under Egypt’s Islamic law, according to his supporters. Sameh Khouzam, 38, who has been in the United States for about nine years already, is facing a court date ... More About: Fears , Ears
Five Years Sentence For ?Religion? Rape
2007-06-17 04:10:00 SYDNEY — A man who raped a Muslim woman because she showed an interest in Christianity has been jailed for at least five years by a Sydney court. As Abdul Reda Al-Shawany was sentenced today, the Downing Centre District Court heard a harrowing statement from the victim, revealing that her shame and fear had been compounded ... More About: Religion , Years , Gion , Rape , Year
Pastors Offer Chance To Win Car
2007-06-17 04:01:00 BELLEVILLE ? Husband and wife pastors Monty and Camilla Weatherall prayed on it. God had blessed them with creative minds. How best do they use them to attract the masses to a four-day revival this week? The pair didn’t ponder the question, “What would Jesus do?” Instead, they turned to human nature for the answer. They decided ... More About: Chance , Pastors , Chan , Pastor , Offer
Sony To Church of England: ?Sorry!?
2007-06-17 03:50:00 Sony has apologised to the Church of England for violent action sequences in a shooting game for the new PlayStation 3 console that take place in Manchester Cathedral. The cathedral was used by Sony in its ?Resistance: Fall of Man? game without permission from the Church of England . The Very Rev Rogers Govender, the cathedral’s dean, said ... More About: Sony , Sorry
Baptist College Offers Women Degree In Homemaking
2007-06-17 03:47:00 HOUSTON, TX. — Starting this fall Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary will offer a program in Christian homemaking, the seminary’s president said Tuesday. “We are moving against the tide in order to establish family and gender roles as described in God’s word for the home and the family,” seminary President Paige Patterson said in his prepared ... More About: Women , College , Offers , Degree
Ministery Caters To Porn Addicts
2007-06-14 15:29:00 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. ? Brian McGinness had an insatiable appetite for porn. Day after day, for more than eight years, he spent countless hours surfing the Web for it, usually on a computer that he used after business hours at his old job. Because of his compulsion to view pornography, McGinness spent more time away from home, ... More About: Minister , Cate , Addict
Polygamist Group Struck By Rare Genetic Disorder
2007-06-14 15:24:00 COLORADO CITY, Arizona - In a dusty neighbourhood under sheer sandstone cliffs studded with juniper on the Arizona-Utah border, a rare genetic disorder is spreading through polygamous families on a wave of inbreeding. The twin border communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, have the world’s highest known prevalence of fumarase deficiency, an enzyme irregularity ... More About: Rare , Gene , Group , Order , Poly
Bush Bolstered By Albanians, Now Southern Baptists
2007-06-14 15:18:00 SAN ANTONIO, Texas — President George W. Bush may have low approval ratings overall, but he can still bring a crowd of Southern Baptists to their feet. Conservative white evangelical Protestants remain his most loyal base — a point driven home on Wednesday when he made a televised address to the annual meeting of the Southern ... More About: Alba , Southern Baptist
Christian Cult Blamed In Suicide
2007-06-14 15:14:00 DUBLIN - A controversial religious cult has been blamed for the death of a man who threw himself in front of a train. An inquest heard yesterday that Niall MacMahon, 40, a member of the International Church of Christ, left a suicide note full of references to the Bible and his own damnation. Niall, from Watling Street ... More About: Christian , Cult , Suicide , Blame , Lame
Ruth Graham Near Death
2007-06-14 15:10:00 MONTREAT, N.C. — Ruth Graham , the ailing wife of evangelist Billy Graham, fell into a coma Wednesday morning and appears to be close to death, a family spokesman said. “She appears to be entering the final stages of life,” said Larry Ross, Graham’s personal spokesman. Her condition had not changed as of Wednesday evening, he ... More About: Death
Teacher Reprimanded For Anti-Muslim Evangelist?s Tirade
2007-06-13 20:10:00 RALEIGH — A high school teacher reprimanded for inviting a Christian evangelist to speak to his students is not taking his punishment in silence. Social studies teacher Robert Escamilla said the Wake County school system squelched free speech and academic freedom, and 100 of his former students have signed a petition to have him reinstated at ... More About: Muslim , Teacher , Anti , Slim , Iman
Two Views: No To Christian/Muslim Marriage
2007-06-13 20:05:00 GHANA - Two religious leaders have set the tone for what could possibly ignite a debate between believers of faith and even among unbelievers who aspire to enter holy matrimony. Alhaji Haruna Quarcoo, Vice President of the Ghana Muslim Mission and Reverend Canon Emmanuel Armah, a Parish Priest of the St Michael and All Angels Anglican ... More About: Christian , Views , Marriage , Slim
?Son of Jesus? Box On Display
2007-06-13 20:01:00 ATLANTA - An exhibit of Holy Land artifacts from the first through sixth centuries that starts its last U.S. stop this weekend offers a striking glimpse into everyday life in what is now Israel at the time when Christianity emerged, as well as a powerful reminder of how rooted Christianity was in Judaism. A first-century ossuary, ... More About: Jesus , Display , Jesu
Hindus Threaten To Kill Missionary, Evangelists
2007-06-11 00:12:00 NEW DELHI, INDIA — Suspected Hindu militants have threatened to kill a native missionary and to attack dozens of evangelical Christians in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a major mission group has said. In comments monitored by BosNewsLife Saturday, June 2, Gospel for Asia (GFA) said the militants threatened to kill one of its missionaries, ... More About: Sion , Mission , Kill , Missionary
Black Lesbian Activist Turns Evangelist
2007-06-11 00:09:00 A prominent black homosexual activist has come out of the closet, except this time as an ex-lesbian. Charlene E. Cothran, 48, runs a quarterly magazine named after her homosexual friend, Venus, who was shot dead by her ex-lover. For 13 years, the periodical has targeted black gays and lesbians and grew to a circulation of over ... More About: Lesbian , Black , Turn , Lack , Vangelis
Bishop Asks Commuters To Spend Three Minutes Doing Nothing
2007-06-11 00:06:00 LONDON — An Anglican bishop has asked thousands of British rail commuters to spend a few minutes each day doing … well, precisely nothing. To help them keep track of the three minutes of total idleness that he was urging upon them, Bishop of Reading Stephen Cottrell handed out miniature egg-timers to travelers on Monday as ... More About: Minutes , Comm , Three , Minute , Thing
Bush Gaffes Calling Pope ?Sir? Instead of ?His Holiness?
2007-06-11 00:01:00 Rome — US President George W. Bush drew gasps at the Vatican yesterday by referring to Pope Benedict XVI as “sir” instead of the expected “His Holiness ,” pool reporters said. They could clearly hear the US leader say “Yes, sir” when the pope asked him if he was going to meet with officials of the lay ... More About: Calling , Line
Homeless Man?s Walking Stick Delivered To Pope By Bush
2007-06-10 23:57:00 DALLAS ? Under the light of a single bulb of a floor lamp, Roosevelt Wilkerson carves the Ten Commandments onto the smooth surface of a wooden walking stick with a tool resembling a screwdriver. He paints the letters red, black or green, but leaves the stick a natural off-white color. The walking sticks made by the 62-year-old ... More About: Bush , Walking , Pope , Homeless , Less
Feds Ban Religious Books In Prison
2007-06-10 23:51:00 NEW YORK ? Inmates at the federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., were stunned by what they saw at the chapel library on Memorial Day ? hundreds of books had disappeared from the shelves. The removal of the books is occurring nationwide, part of a long-delayed, post-Sept. 11 federal directive intended to prevent radical religious texts, ... More About: Books , Prison , Riso , Religious
Christian Teacher Sues After Suspension For Banning Harry Potter Book
2007-06-09 16:19:00 LONDON — A teaching assistant, Sariya Allan, is claiming 50,000 pounds damages from her former school for religious discrimination, after her employers reprimanded her for telling her pupil not to read out a Harry Potter book to her because witchcraft theme was against her faith. Allan, who was working in Durand Primary School in Stockwell, ... More About: Christian , Book , Teacher
All-You-Can-Eat Snowcrabs, Booze And Now, Jesus
2007-06-09 15:35:00 OZONA, Fla. ? The pastor wears a sleeveless black T-shirt, blue jeans and a backward baseball cap. The collection is taken in a motorcycle helmet. And the first thing you see as you walk in the door of this makeshift church isn?t a cross or a stained-glass window, it?s a bar. Steve?s Cape Cod, a seafood ... More About: Jesus , Booze , Jesu
Jesus Figure Vanishes
2007-06-09 15:31:00 Columbus — Members of Livingston United Methodist Church are hoping for a modern-day resurrection of the church’s “Shadow of Christ.” The Rev. Jim Donnan noticed on Thursday that the figure that cast a shadow of the image of Jesu s on the facade of the church was missing from the west side of the building at 200 ... More About: Figure , Nish
Jesus Cracks Cold Crime Case
2007-06-09 15:27:00 NEW YORK — The devil may have made him do it, but it was Jesu s who made him confess. An Arizona man shocked cops in the East Village this week by walking into the local precinct and announcing that he’d strangled a woman on East 13th Street during an argument in 2004 - and that ... More About: Crime , Cold , Case
Southern Baptists Divided At Annual Meeting
2007-06-09 15:20:00 Southern Baptists head into their annual national meeting next week at odds over whether they’ve become too conservative and wed to partisan politics, or whether a harder line is necessary to give the denomination a clear identity. Beginning Tuesday in San Antonio, proposals over everything from political involvement to clergy sexual abuse to speaking in tongues ... More About: Southern , Meeting , Southern Baptist , Annual
Tenn. Wife Sentenced In Preacher?s Death
2007-06-09 15:16:00 SELMER, Tenn. - A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but with time served could be released on probation in a little more than two months. Mary Winkler must serve at least 210 days of her ... More About: Wife , Death , Preacher , Sentenced , Sentence
Church Sues Sony For Shootout In Cathedral
2007-06-09 15:08:00 Entertainment company Sony may be the target of a legal action by the Church of England, for featuring Manchester Cath edral in a shoot out Playstation game. The controversial game is Sony Playstation?s ?Resistance: Fall of Man?, which features gun battles inside the cathedral without permission from the Church. The game has been highly popular, with more than ... More About: Shooto
Blind Minister Forgives Rock Thrower
More articles from this author:2007-06-08 16:12:00 SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Almost six years ago, a rock thrown from an overpass crashed through the Rev. Johannes Christian’s windshield, blinding him. But the incident, which almost killed Christian, has not stopped him. He has traveled the world sharing his message of forgiveness and practicing what he preaches. “I thought my life would be so different when ... More About: Rock , Blind , Throw , Minister 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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