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Whose Face Appeared On Tree ? Jesus? Or Town?s Dead Mayor?
2007-06-08 16:07:00 Rosemont, Ill. - Donald Stephens spent more than half a century as mayor of this Chicago suburb. Now, less than two months after his death, some say an eerie likeness of the late mayor’s face has appeared in the peeling bark of a 50-foot sycamore. The image is fueling speculation and wonder in the village of ... More About: Jesus , Face , Dead , Town , Tree
Hindu To Head College?s Christian Studies
2007-06-08 16:01:00 MINNEAPOLIS — A college affiliated with a Christian church denomination has appointed to head its religion department a practicing Hindu who believes that some forms of Christian ministry produce violence. Anantanand Rambachan, who has taught religion and philosophy at St. Olaf College ’s Religion Department since 1985, now will head the division, the first non-Christian to be ... More About: Studies , Head
Christians vs. Christians In Global Warming Testimony
2007-06-08 15:54:00 WASHINGTON ? Evangelical, mainline and the Catholic traditions were all citing scriptures from the same Bible as support for their stance on global warming, yet they still remained intensely divided over the issue as they shared their views before a U.S. senate committee on Thursday. The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works first heard ... More About: Global Warming , Global , Christians , Testimony , Testim
Adam Actor In Christian Film Has Other Life ? And No Fig Leaf
2007-06-08 15:49:00 COLUMBUS, Ohio - A man who plays Adam in a video aired at a Bible-based creationist museum in Kentucky has led a different life outside the Garden of Eden, flaunting his sexual exploits online and modelling for a clothing line that promotes free love. After learning about his activities Thursday, the Creation Museum pulled the 40-second ... More About: Christian , Life , Film , Leaf
Trend Of Dope Hidden In Christian Items Must Be Zooming
2007-06-07 23:51:00 LONDON - Hiding drugs inside of Christian -related items hit an all time high today when a second report of the behavior was revealed to CITN. Customs officers have uncovered a stash of cocaine hidden in a parcel containing a carving of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, a Bible, a Crucifix and a statue of ... More About: Items , Hidden , Trend , Dope
Fifty Percent Of Christian Men Addicted To Porn
2007-06-07 22:07:00 In a poll of 1,000 respondents, 50 percent of Christian men and 20 percent of Christian women were found to be addicted to pornography. Conducted by ChristaNet.com, a popular Christian marketplace website, the poll asked visitors about their personal sexual conduct. “There have been dynamic paradigm shifts in the behavior of Christians over the last four ... More About: Addicted , Addict
Missionary Drowns On Preaching Trip
2007-06-07 21:43:00 The Rev. Mark Angel, a Cincinnati native who was an involvement and outreach minister at Russell Christian Church in Eastern Kentucky, drowned Sunday afternoon while swimming in the Gulf of Mexico. A certified swimming instructor, he had taken eight college students to Matamoros, Mexico, which is across the border from Brownsville, Texas, on a weeklong mission ... More About: Trip , Preaching , Sion , Mission , Missionary
Minster Cited For Jumping In Front Of Speeding Cars
2007-06-07 21:40:00 Cedar City, UTAH - Speeding may not be in the Bible. But a Church of Christ minister says traffic laws are God’s laws and must be enforced. Police have received complaints about Alfred Pehl jumping in front of fast cars in his neighborhood, sticking brooms in their way and backing his own car in front ... More About: Cars , Front , Jump , Ping
15 Pounds of Weed Hidden In Jesus Statue Brings Arrests
2007-06-07 21:35:00 Maryville, TENN. - Two Maryville men have been indicted — accused of packing 15 pounds of marijuana into a statue of Jesus Christ. Prosecutors say Luis Eduardo Rodriguez and Orlando Garza-Garcia intended to sell the dope. They’re charged with possession with intent to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia. The judicial district drug task force reported finding the ... More About: Statue , Arrests , Weed , Hidden
Mormons Who Fed Children Raw Eggs and Chili Powder Jailed
2007-06-06 17:14:00 Canterbury, UK — Two Mormon women who force-fed six young children chilli powder and beat them with rolling pins were jailed for 19 months each yesterday. The court heard that best friends Deirdre Carrington, 41, and Maria Keable, 60, had subjected the youngsters to a campaign of abuse which included whipping the children with stinging nettles, ... More About: Children , Eggs , Chili , Jail
Jesus: The Transgender Terminator?
2007-06-06 15:42:00 Opinion by Joanne Herman - Excerpt Original News Article Largo, FL — With dozens of citizens speaking at the February hearing that would ultimately lead to the dismissal of Susan Stanton, the transgender former city manager of Largo, Fla., the media needed a pithy sound bite, and it found an especially good one: ?If Jesu s was here ... More About: Trans , Ender , Terminator
Holy War Fistfight In Church Pulpit
2007-06-06 15:33:00 Bhisho, SOUTH AFRICA — A struggle over the leadership of a Bhisho congregation turned ugly at the weekend when a brawl broke out at the pulpit. Tension began mounting in the International Assemblies of God?s Bhisho congregation after the senior pastor, and the church?s provincial leader, Zolile John Batala, died last year. Since then Batala?s son, Jabu, ... More About: Church , Holy War , Holy , Pulpit , Pulp
Minister Booked For Selling Drugs In Church
2007-06-06 15:29:00 PRYOR, Okla. ? A Pryor preacher has been accused of selling Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication, out of Salina Community Church to a person working for sheriff’s Investigators. Frank Leach, 72, Salina, was arrested and booked in the Mayes County jail. He is charged with unlawful delivery of a controlled drug, possession of a firearm while in commission ... More About: Selling , Drugs , Minister
Church Secretary Steals $14,000 From Donation Box
2007-06-06 15:27:00 Chicago, IL — An Orland Park church secretary apparently wasn’t listening to the part about thou shalt not steal. Pamela Wagner, 39, swiped cash from a donation box dozens of times over three years, swindling parishioners out of $14,000, according to Orland Park police. The former secretary at Living Word Lutheran Church was arrested last week after ... More About: Donation , Steals
Holy Land Gets New Owner
2007-06-06 15:19:00 Santa Anna, CALIF. - Santa Ana-based Trinity Broadcasting Network is taking over the financially troubled Holy Land Experience, the Bible-based tourist attraction near Orlando, Florida. Trinity, the world’s largest Christian broadcaster, will hold the majority of seats on the Holy Land board of directors. Trinity currently owns 34 television stations in the US and nearly 400 ... More About: Owner
Teen Shocked By Police Stun Gun Dies Shouting ?I Want Jesus?
2007-06-06 15:12:00 Jerseyville, ILLINOIS –A Jersey County teen who died after being hit twice by a police stun gun died of natural causes. That’s the finding of a toxicology report on 17-year-old Roger Holyfield, who died last October — a day after his confrontation with Jerseyville police. Officers say they found him walking with a Bible in one hand, ... More About: Jesus , Police , Jesu , Poli , Dies
Man Tries To Leap On Popemobile
2007-06-06 15:08:00 VATICAN CITY ? A person hurled himself over a barricade and tried to jump into the back of Pope Benedict XVI’s Popemobile during his general audience Wednesday in St. Peter’s Square and was wrestled to the ground by security officers.The Pope was not hurt and didn’t even appear to notice that someone had jumped over ... More About: Mobi , Bile , Trie , Leap
Dress Worn By Mary When She Birthed Jesus On Display
2007-06-04 04:19:00 AACHEN, Germany — European Catholics arrive in Aachen this week to see a 2,000-year-old dress reputedly worn by Mary when she gave birth to Jesu s . Christian relics continue to draw crowds, but for most people seeing isn’t believing. The bones and belongings of holy people remain a big tourist draw in Europe. For most modern day ... More About: Display , Dress
Town Cheers Christian Cheerleader Competition
2007-06-04 04:07:00 CHARLOTTE — Here’s something to cheer about in Cabarrus County: The Christian Cheerleaders of America is bringing its annual competition here next year and is expected to generate an estimated $2.6 million for the local economy. The tournament, March 5-8 at the Cabarrus Arena and Events Center, should attract 3,500 to 4,000 attendees from about 20 ... More About: Competition , Town , Lead , Petit
Kidney Cult for Christ ?Coerces Donations?
2007-06-04 04:03:00 SYDNEY — A member of a controversial religious group plans to donate a kidney to a Canadian woman he barely knows, as a way of expressing his faith in God. But Ash Falkingham’s plan has hit a legal roadblock, with the Toronto hospital scheduled to perform the operation questioning if he has been coerced by the ... More About: Cult , Christ , Kidney , Donations
Congregation Locked Out Of Their Church
2007-06-04 03:57:00 COLUMBUS, Geogia — Members of Mount Moriah Baptist Church are raising their voices to God under an old oak tree in the front yard–because they’re locked out of their own church. “We should not be denied the opportunity to worship in God’s house. I don’t know how it came to this, it’s very disappointing,” said Church ... More About: Locked , Lock , Greg , Congregation
Black Leaders Protest Church Skit
2007-06-04 03:53:00 GASTONIA, N.C. — Local black leaders are decrying a recent performance by three white men at a church who wore blackface while pantomiming traditional black hymns. The performance at Pilgrim Baptist Church was meant to honor gospel music history, and was not meant to offend anyone, according to the Rev. Thomas Holbrooks Jr., pastor at the ... More About: Black , Protest , Leaders , Prot
Largest Church in Pittsburgh Presbytery Leaves
2007-06-04 03:50:00 PITTSBURGH - Members of the largest church in the Pitt sburgh Presbytery voted to leave the Presbyterian Church (USA) and join a smaller, more conservative denomination. At a congregational meeting Sunday, 951 members of Memorial Park Presbyterian Church in McCandless Township voted to be affiliated with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Fifty-two percent, or 761 members, of the 1,450-member ... More About: Largest , Leaves
Closing The Book On Bible-Based Prison Program?
2007-06-03 00:14:00 DES MOINES — A Bible -based prison program at the state prison in Newton is in doubt after lawmakers decided not to renew the money to pay for it. The program could be shut down July 1 because the Legislature decided not to renew its $310,000 state appropriation. A bill signed May 23 by Gov. Chet Culver ... More About: Book , Prison , Program , Riso
Church?s Bingo Bang Fizzles In Lawsuit
More articles from this author:2007-06-03 00:07:00 AVON, Ohio ? For the past nine years, St. Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Church has been a house of God divided. A bitter feud over how money raised in weekly bingo games was spent, the purchase of property for a new church and a dispute over who has the right to review the books has ... More About: Lawsuit , Bingo , Bang , Bing 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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