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News & Current Events :: Anglican Panel Says Episcopal Bishops Met Directiv
2007-10-05 12:22:00
Author: Eric Subject: Anglican Panel Says Episcopal Bishops Met DirectivePosted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:22 am (GMT -4) Anglican Panel Says Episcopal Bishops Met Directive Lillian Kwon A high-ranking Anglican panel acknowledged Wednesday the effort of Episcopal bishops to keep the worldwide Anglican family together and said they have complied with a directive by Anglican leaders on gay bishops and same-sex unions. "We believe that The Episcopal Church has clarified all outstanding questions," stated the advisory report from the lay-clergy Joint Standing Committee. The report was written for the Anglican Communion’s spiritual leader, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams, who is struggling to prevent a schism in the 77-million-member global church body. The Episcopal Church is the U.S. branch of Anglicanism and deepened divisions in the Anglican Communion when it consecrated openly gay bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire in 2003. Anglican leaders set a S...
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News & Current Events :: Translation Work Begins Among Uriai People
2007-10-05 12:15:00
Author: Eric Subject: Translation Work Begins Among Uriai People Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:15 am (GMT -4) Translation Work Begins Among Uriai People Dena McMaster "It's full steam ahead for translation," wrote missionary Lisa Kappeler after her evaluation by a team of missionaries experienced in church planting and translation principles. The team challenged and encouraged the missionaries working among the Uriai people of Papua New Guinea and Lisa was officially approved to begin translating God's Word into the Uriai language. "They spurred us on to dive deeper into the way that our folks view the spiritual realm," wrote Lisa, "and gave us insight as to the best plan for the Uriai church." M'Liss Spero and Elias and Jose Struik also showed progress in their language capabilities. The newest team members, Tim and Bekka Peterson, have now begun culture and language study. They reported that the team of experienced missionaries were a ble...
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News & Current Events :: Call for Christians to Pray for Burma
2007-10-03 12:18:00
Author: Eric Subject: Call for Christians to Pray for BurmaPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:18 am (GMT -4) Christian Freedom International Calls on Christians to Pray for Burma SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Oct. 1 /Christian News wire/ -- As thousands of monks in Burma are raising their voices in protest of the country's oppressive regime, Christian Freedom International (CFI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing relief aid and advocacy for persecuted Christians around the world, is calling on Christians everywhere to pray for the perilous situation. The civil unrest in recent weeks has drawn the world's attention to a nation that has long since been troubled by grinding poverty and a violent military junta that has held its tyrannical power since the 1960's. Buddhist monks, who represent the highest moral authority in Burma, have been instrumental in leading a series of peaceful, pro-democracy demonstrations in cities throughout the country. However, military retaliat...
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News & Current Events :: Ben Stein to Battle Darwin in Major Film
2007-10-03 12:15:00
Author: Eric Subject: Ben Stein to Battle Darwin in Major Film Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:15 am (GMT -4) Ben Stein to Battle Darwin in Major Film Actor-commentator stars in 'Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed' Ben Stein, the lovable, monotone teacher from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "The Wonder Years" is back in the classroom in a major motion picture release slated for February 2008. But this time, the actor will be on the big screen asking one of life's biggest questions: "Were we designed, or are we simply the end result of an ancient mud puddle struck by lightning?" That's right. Evolution – and the explosive debate over its virtual monopoly on America's public school classrooms – is the focus of the film "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed." In the movie, Stein, who is also a lawyer, economist, former presidential speechwriter, author and social commentator, is stunned by what he discovers – an elitist scientific es...
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News & Current Events :: The Church Moves On and Women Move In
2007-10-03 12:12:00
Author: Eric Subject: The Church Moves On and Women Move InPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:12 am (GMT -4) The Church Moves On and Women Move In IT HAS been too long coming, but the announcement by the Anglican Church's highest legal authority that there is nothing in the church's constitution that would prevent the consecration of a woman priest as a bishop in Australia is a milestone in the history of the church and one that removes the last impediment to full equality for women within it. By the standards of worldwide Anglicanism, where thousands of women are priests and many are bishops, the ruling by the appellate tribunal is well overdue and finally erases the fiction that women, just because they are women, are not equipped to occupy this higher office. Until this announcement by the head of the Anglican Church, Dr Philip Aspinall, in Brisbane last Friday, female clergy in Australia were discriminated against simply because of their gender. While they were allowed to be de...
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News & Current Events :: Church Planters Need School Teachers
2007-10-03 12:09:00
Author: Eric Subject: Church Planters Need School TeachersPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:09 am (GMT -4) Church Planters Need School Teachers Dena McMaster Situated in the islands region of Papua New Guinea, Malango School seems an ideal place for missionaries' children to receive an excellent education. "We have eager students," writes missionary Japp Oosterhuis, "we have nice facilities and we have the privilege of supporting God's work in Papua New Guinea but there is one vital element missing -- teachers!" There are 45 children from kindergarten to grade 10 whose parents are involved in reaching tribal people with the Gospel. These church planting missionaries are dependent on the school to provide an education for their children. Several teachers are going on home assignment, including the school principal, during the 2008-2009 school year. Because of the critical need for teachers in all grades, Japp has issued a plea for teachers to help fulf...
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News & Current Events :: Baptist Leader Warns Against 'Feminization' of Chu
2007-10-03 12:06:00
Author: Eric Subject: Baptist Leader Warns Against 'Feminization' of ChurchPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:06 am (GMT -4) Southern Baptist Leader Warns Against 'Feminization' of Church, Society Allie Martin A former president of the Southern Baptist Convention is saddened at what he sees as the "feminization" of church and society. Recently, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) began offering a Bachelor of Arts in humanities with a concentration in homemaking. SWBTS president Dr. Paige Patterson said the course is a way to help solidify and define the biblical roles of the family and home, although he said that families are free to make their own decisions about whether a wife will work outside the home. The course has been blasted by many -- not only in the secular world, but also in evangelical circles, including some Southern Baptist officials. Patterson says Southern Baptists are swimming against the tide of "feminism," and that society...
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Inspiration & Devotionals :: Daily Manna from the Net for Monday, October
2007-10-02 10:00:00
Author: NewsFeeder Subject: Daily Manna from the Net for Monday , October 1, 2007 [2Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:00 am (GMT -4) So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 2 Corinthians 5:16-20 NIV Listen (MP3) Read more... Source: Daily Manna from the Net [NIV] Daily Scripture reading by International Bible Society_________________*The Post Above Was Automatically Inserted* Although we have ...
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Prayer & Blessings :: Call To Prayer for Monday, October 1, 2007
2007-10-02 10:00:00
Author: NewsFeeder Subject: Call To Prayer for Monday , October 1, 2007Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:00 am (GMT -4) People need Scripture and biblical resources to anchor their spirituality in the truth. Pray God empowers IBS-STL for publishing and distributing these materials. So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. Colossians 2:6-7 Read more... Source: Call To Prayer 24x7 Call To Prayer by International Bible Society_________________*The Post Above Was Automatically Inserted* Although we have thoroughly examined the source of this feed before approving it for automation, we are not responsible for any content from this feed source or their website. If you have any issues with the content of this post, please contact Patrick for a resolution.
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Inspiration & Devotionals :: Two or Three
2007-10-02 10:00:00
Author: NewsFeeder Subject: Two or ThreePosted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:00 am (GMT -4) When a book titled Life Together landed on my desk as a college student, the subtitle promising "a discussion of Christian fellowship," to say the least I was skeptical. Wary of Christian culture and preferring to remain on the fringes, I saw fellowship primarily as a means of enclosing oneself in stagnant, self-affirming circles. I was weary of feel-good religion; I was also bothered by the charade of unity carried on in pluralistic crowds. But the book was given to me, and the giver was insistent that its author, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was someone unafraid to be real. Life Together was written in the thick of a mounting Nazi regime during Bonhoeffer's unique experience with 25 vicars in an underground seminary. It took me only a few pages to realize that he was speaking with weighted words on a topic I had unfairly deemed weightless and suspicious. Almost immediately I was con...
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Inspiration & Devotionals :: World of Words
2007-10-02 10:00:00
Author: NewsFeeder Subject: World of Words Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:00 am (GMT -4) An anniversary of sorts took place this month, and though it likely slipped passed most of us without recognition, its recipient is still smiling. The emoticon, perhaps better known in the realm of online discourse as the smiley face, has been smiling for 25 years. Its creator, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Fahlman, suggested the symbol in 1982 in an online discussion about the limits of online humor. "I propose the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)," he wrote. "Read it sideways."(1) The rest is history. Fahlman's smileys spread from his classroom to other classrooms, from universities to the corporate world, and eventually around the world. The emoticon aided what online communicators were all too aware was ailing. In the world of instantaneous communication, miscommunicating is sometimes more likely than communicating. Humor, sarca...
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News & Current Events :: Prisons to Restore Purged Religious Books
2007-09-28 04:56:00
Author: Eric Subject: Prisons to Restore Purged Religious Books Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:56 pm (GMT -4) Prisons to Restore Purged Religious Books Neela Banerjee WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — Facing pressure from religious groups, civil libertarians and members of Congress, the federal Bureau of Prisons has decided to return religious materials that had been purged from prison chapel libraries because they were not on the bureau’s lists of approved resources. The bureau had said it was prompted to remove the materials after a 2004 Department of Justice report mentioned that religious books that incite violence could infiltrate chapel libraries. After the details of the removal became widely known this month, Republican lawmakers, liberal Christians and evangelical talk shows all criticized the government for creating a list of acceptable religious books. The bureau has not abandoned the idea of creating such lists, Judi Simon Garrett, a spokeswoman, said in an e-mail messag...
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News & Current Events :: Christian Radio Station Partners to Spread Hope to
2007-09-28 04:53:00
Author: Eric Subject: Christian Radio Station Partners to Spread Hope to OrphansPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:53 pm (GMT -4) Local Christian Radio Station Partners to Spread Hope to Orphans USA (MNN) ― A radio station in Texas is encouraging listeners to be "doers" and not just "hearers" only. KVTT 91.7FM station manager Doug Price says they're partnering this Saturday with Buckner International's Shoes for Orphan Souls for a "Sole-d Out" celebration. Price explains, "We learned that the opportunity to be able to collect shoes from our listeners was available. It had not been done in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in the last five years, so we wanted to get out there and be able to let our listeners participate in an international missions project. Thus far, we've been just thrilled with the result." More than 2,000 people are expected to attend, and many more have already indicated interest in bringing shoes. Sole-d Out is an u...
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News & Current Events :: Christian Group Says Darfur Violence Forces Aid Su
2007-09-28 04:50:00
Author: Eric Subject: Christian Group Says Darfur Violence Forces Aid SuspensionPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:50 pm (GMT -4) Christian Aid Group Says Darfur Violence Forces Aid Suspension Sudan (MNN) ― Darfur's upcoming peace talks are expected to be a huge challenge. The rebel leader has already refused a temporary truce, leading to further security erosion. The instability has hit Christian aid agency World Vision personally. World Vision's Rachel Wolff: "Our convoy of two World Vision vehicles was attacked, and three of our aid workers were seriously wounded. Thankfully, they are all stable." The two vehicles carrying eight World Vision International staff were ambushed late last week near Bul Bul, about 40 km from Nyala, the capital of Southern Darfur province and headquarters of WVI operations in Darfur. The United Nations says attacks on relief workers in Darfur increased 50 percent between June 2006 and June 2007. The tragedy of this attack is tha...
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News & Current Events :: Pope to Make Climate Action a Moral Obligation
2007-09-25 12:34:00
Author: Eric Subject: Pope to Make Climate Action a Moral ObligationPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:34 am (GMT -4) Pope to Make Climate Action a Moral Obligation James Macintyre The Pope is expected to use his first address to the United Nations to deliver a powerful warning over climate change in a move to adopt protection of the environment as a "moral" cause for the Catholic Church and its billion-strong following. The New York speech is likely to contain an appeal for sustainable development, and it will follow an unprecedented Encyclical (a message to the wider church) on the subject, senior diplomatic sources have told The Independent. It will act as the centrepiece of a US visit scheduled for next April – the first by Benedict XVI, and the first Papal visit since 1999 – and round off an environmental blitz at the Vatican, in which the Pope has personally led moves to emphasise green issues based on the belief that climate change is affecting the poorest people...
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News & Current Events :: Study: College Campuses May Nurture Faith
2007-09-25 12:31:00
Author: Eric Subject: Study : College Campuses May Nurture Faith Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:31 am (GMT -4) Study: College Campuses May Nurture Faith Electa Draper For any who think that the university is hostile territory to religion, there is new evidence that Jesus is still a big man on campus. A University of Texas study released over the summer found that higher education is not the secularizing influence many Christians suspect it to be. Texas researchers found that college students were less likely to lose their religion than others in their age group, 18 to 25 years old. "It's not like we took Joe Evangelical to college and made him lose his faith," said UT researcher Mark Regnerus. "That's very rare." Of the Texas study subjects, interviewed in 2001-02, almost 24 percent of those who never attended college said religion had become less important to them, compared with 15 percent of those who had earned a bachelor's degree. The wo...
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News & Current Events :: BWA Head: Genuine Unity a Big Challenge for Baptis
2007-09-25 12:27:00
Author: Eric Subject: BWA Head: Genuine Unity a Big Challenge for BaptistsPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:27 am (GMT -4) BWA Head: Genuine Unity a Big Challenge for Baptists Lillian Kwon The big challenge Baptists worldwide face is a greater manifestation of unity amid differences that sometimes challenges the oneness in Christ, says one top Baptist official. And unity, among Baptists at least, is especially a struggle in the United States, noted the Rev. Neville Callam, the newly elected general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance. "There's a crying need for all Christian communions to live out a life of unity, as a way of modeling to the world what it means to live in a united life despite your diversities," said Callam in an interview with The Christian Post. Within the 38-million-member BWA, regional fellowships, member bodies and local churches are autonomous and establish their own positions on a range of issues, not including the "essentials of Ba...
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News & Current Events :: New Jersey Top Court Allows Doctor to Deceive Wome
2007-09-25 12:24:00
Author: Eric Subject: New Jersey Top Court Allows Doctor to Deceive WomenPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:24 am (GMT -4) New Jersey Top Court Allows Doctor to Deceive Women TRENTON, NJ, Sept. 24 /Christian News wire/ -- Heartbeat International joins in a "friend of the court" brief filed today, asking for reconsideration of a recent decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court that deprives women of the right to hear the truth about abortion. On September 25, 2007, Choices of the Heart Director Rita Reyes will represent Heartbeat at a news conference at the New Jersey Supreme Court building at 11:00am. In Acuna v Turkish, New Jersey's high court decided that a doctor may abort a woman's pregnancy without explaining to his patient the biological development of the unborn baby. Rosa Acuna chose abortion only after Dr Turkish said that her baby was "just tissue". Later Acuna was admitted to a hospital for removal of baby body parts that Turkish had failed to remove. ...
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News & Current Events :: Persecution in India Darker than Report States
2007-09-25 12:21:00
Author: Eric Subject: Persecution in India Darker than Report StatesPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:21 am (GMT -4) Persecution in India Darker than Report States India (MNN) ― The U.S. Department of State's 2007 Report on International Religious Freedom gives India high marks for respecting religious freedom. Because of the number of cases of anti-Christian violence reported, Open Doors' Carl Moeller disagrees with the findings. The All India Christian Council disputes the report saying the incidence of anti-Christian violence is much higher than available statistics indicate, as most cases are not reported to the police and are ignored by the media. The report covered the period from July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007 and says the government of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), led by the Indian National Congress or Congress Party, "generally respected" religious freedom in practice. However, that doesn't reveal the true state of the Church. Moeller s...
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News & Current Events :: Missionaries Learning Uriai Language
2007-09-25 12:20:00
Author: Eric Subject: Missionaries Learning Uriai Language Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:20 am (GMT -4) Missionaries Learning Uriai Language Jackie Fallis Saturday morning three missionaries experienced in church planting arrived in the village for a couple of days. They'll be there to discuss strategies, goals and perspectives on church planting. "With a new couple on the team [Tim and Rebecca Peterson] it'll be a great time to refocus and even re-evaluate some of our previous strategies," wrote Lisa. Today, Elias and M'Liss will undergo full evaluations to see where they are in fluency. Lisa will also be evaluated. "My evaluation won't be quite the same … They want to check out that my discourse analysis is finished -- this is important for translation. I'm praying that they give me the green light to move officially into full-time translation," she wrote. Right now, working on learning the language is difficult. There are four families in the v...
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News & Current Events :: House Bill Would Nullify Broadcast Decency Ruling
2007-09-25 12:16:00
Author: Eric Subject: House Bill Would Nullify Broadcast Decency RulingPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:16 am (GMT -4) House Bill Would Nullify Controversial Broadcast Decency Ruling Jim Brown The Parents Television Council is backing a House bill aimed at restoring the FCC's ability to prohibit profanity and indecency on television during children's viewing hours. Congressman Chip Pickering (R-Mississippi) introduced the bill in response to a Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that bars the Federal Communications Commission from imposing fines on broadcast networks that air so-called "fleeting" instances of profanity on the public airwaves before 10:00 p.m. His measure -- known as the Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act (HR 3559) -- "requires the FCC to maintain a policy that a single word or image may be considered indecent, in enforcing its regulations concerning the broadcast of indecent programming over the public airwaves." In...
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News & Current Events :: More Quakes Rock Indonesia; Foreshadow 'The Big On
2007-09-16 12:40:00
Author: Eric Subject: More Quakes Rock Indonesia ; Foreshadow 'The Big One'Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:40 am (GMT -4) More Quakes Rock Indonesia; Foreshadow 'The Big One' Eric Young Indonesia has been hit by more than 40 aftershocks since a massive 8.4-magnitude earthquake shook Southeast Asia Wednesday, and seismologists warned that the worst may be yet to come. On Friday, Indonesia's meteorology agency issued the latest in a series of tsunami warnings after another strong quake shook Indonesia’s Sumatra island, although it was lifted about an hour later. The U.S. Geological Survey measured one Friday aftershock jolting the area at magnitude 6.4. There have been a series of tremors ranging in intensity from 4.9 to 7.8 since Wednesday's 8.4 quake, according to Reuters, repeatedly setting off tsunami warnings in Indian Ocean countries. There have been no reports, however, of the sort of widespread tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen Indian Oce...
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News & Current Events :: 'Groundbreaking' Study Shows 'Gays' Can Change
2007-09-16 12:29:00
Author: Eric Subject: 'Groundbreaking' Study Shows 'Gays' Can Change Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:29 am (GMT -4) 'Groundbreaking' Study Shows 'Gays' Can Change Contradicts belief altering orientation causes depression, anxiety, self-destructive behavior In the first longitudinal, peer-reviewed, scientific study of its kind, researchers have concluded some homosexuals can change their "orientation" through religiously mediated guidance. Researchers Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse released the results Thursday of a three-year study during an address at the American Association of Christian Counselors World Conference. Their conclusions contradict the claims of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association, which contend such change in sexual orientation is impossible and attempting to pursue it likely will cause depression, anxiety or self-destructive behavior. The new study concluded such changes do not cause psy...
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News & Current Events :: Students' Right to Pray Outlined
2007-09-16 12:16:00
Author: Eric Subject: Students ' Right to Pray OutlinedPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:16 am (GMT -4) Students' Right to Pray Outlined Amy Fagan The American Center for Law and Justice, in a letter this week to nearly 1 million supporters, outlined the rights of students to pray and express their faith at school in an effort to stave off any challenges or questions this school year. "The Supreme Court has been very clear in protecting the First Amendment rights of students to pray and express their religious beliefs. At a time when there is so much uncertainty on public school campuses, we want to ensure that everyone understands the constitutional rights afforded to students," said Jay Sekulow, ACLJ chief legal counsel. The letter focuses on the annual "See You at the Pole" event where Christian students across the country gather around the school flagpole to pray, usually before school starts. The event, which is to be held Sept. 26, is student-led, and ...
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News & Current Events :: Irreconcilable Differences in Bible’s Interpretati
2007-09-16 12:08:00
Author: Eric Subject: Irreconcilable Differences in Bible ’s InterpretationsPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:08 am (GMT -4) Irreconcilable Differences in Bible’s Interpretations Peter Steinfels “How to Read the Bible” is a most unusual how-to book. For one thing, it is more than 800 pages long and has 971 endnotes. It is true that all the familiar figures and events of the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament are here: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and the prophets. But the book, written by James L. Kugel and just published by the Free Press, also propounds a stark and challenging thesis, namely that contemporary Bible readers are confronted with two radically different ways of approaching Scripture and that both approaches are impressive and admirable — and fundamentally incompatible. Professor Kugel, it should be noted, is a rare master of both approaches. Now teaching in Israel, he was for years one of the most popular teachers at Harvard. When atte...
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News & Current Events :: Hospital Chaplain Fired for Praying In Jesus Name
2007-09-14 22:46:00
Author: Eric Subject: Hospital Chaplain Fired for Praying In Jesus NamePosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:46 pm (GMT -4) Hospital Chaplain Danny Harvey Fired for Praying In Jesus Name 30 Churches will march around hospital after hospital CEO Louis Bremer resigns LEESBURG, Fla., Sept. 14 /Christian News wire/ -- Hospital Chaplain Danny Harvey, recently fired for praying "in Jesus name" by the Leesburg Regional Medical Center, will hold two press conferences, Friday at 2 pm, and Saturday at 8:30 am, on the public steps of City Hall (corner of 5th and Main) in Leesburg Florida. Clergy and citizens from over 30 churches will gather at 8:15 am, to march around the hospital at 9:00am, on Saturday 15 Sep, starting from the steps of Leesburg City Hall. The marchers will walk in silent prayer for two-miles around the South Campus of the hospital, wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the rallying cry, "My Jesus, My Freedom, My Stand." Public outcry in support of Chapl...
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News & Current Events :: Hinduism Influence Increasing in U.S.
2007-09-14 22:43:00
Author: Eric Subject: Hinduism Influence Increasing in U.S.Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:43 pm (GMT -4) Hinduism Influence Increasing in U.S. USA (MNN/BP) ― The United States' tie to technology in India may be the reason for the growing influence of Hinduism in the country. That's the message from the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board, a sister ministry to the International Mission Board. Evidence of this influence is the fact that a Hindu chaplain now has led prayers in the U.S. Senate, the California Senate, and the Nevada legislature. Rajan Zed, director of interfaith relations at a Hindu temple in Reno, Nevada became the first Hindu to offer an official prayer in the U.S. Senate in July after praying in the Nevada State Assembly and the Nevada Senate earlier this year. On Aug. 27, he became the first Hindu to pray at the California Senate. NSRK Ravi, director of the North American Mission Board's Evangelism Response Center and a former Hindu, told B...
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News & Current Events :: Spiritual Warfare Opens the Way to Outreach in Hai
2007-09-14 22:41:00
Author: Eric Subject: Spiritual Warfare Opens the Way to Outreach in HaitiPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:41 pm (GMT -4) Spiritual Warfare Opens the Way to Outreach in Haiti Haiti (MNN) ― There are 13 voodoo holidays between June and September. Voodoo worshipers deify a mixture of African gods and Catholic saints and practice spiritism. At the moment, the flurry of ceremonies has had an interesting impact on a burn clinic ministry in Haiti. For Haiti With Love's Rosaline DeHart says: "It seems like there's a season for it. Right now, our clinic has people burning from neck all the way down to their ankles. I've heard that it's mostly from the voodoo rituals that they're going to. It's three jars of Silvadene cream every other day, and a lot of bandages and tape." That lays out a critical need. Two years ago, FHWL lost their Silvadene cream donor and was forced to purchase their supplies. Funds and donations severely restricted how much they could purc...
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News & Current Events :: Nepal's Republic Opens Doors, Elections May Close
2007-09-14 22:37:00
Author: Eric Subject: Nepal's Republic Opens Doors, Elections May Close ThemPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:37 pm (GMT -4) Nepal's Republic Opens Doors, Elections May Close Them Nepal (MNN) ― Unusual things are happening in Nepal according to Operation Mobilization. David McBride with OM worked in Nepal for 21 years before moving to the U.S. He took two trips there this summer: one in June and the most recent one in July. The June trip was a backpacking trip in which their goal was to distribute literature to people living in the mountains. It was also the first place where McBride noticed signs of change. "When we showed books about Jesus, it seemed like everybody was saying, ‘Oh yeah. We want to know more." Some of them were even saying, ‘Do you have a New Testament? Do you have a Bible?'" McBride continues: "What I thought was unusual is not the fact that people have been open, because it seems like there's been increasing openness in th...
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Inspiration & Devotionals :: Don't All Religions Lead to God?
2007-09-14 10:00:00
Author: NewsFeeder Subject: Don't All Religions Lead to God?Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:00 am (GMT -4) Don't All Religions Lead to God? Amy Orr-Ewing We live in a context of spiritual longing. Many people are searching for that which will satisfy an inner craving for meaning and significance. The artist Damian Hirst recently said this: "Why do I feel so important when I'm not? Nothing is important and everything is important. I do not know why I am here but I am glad that I am. I'd rather be here than not. I am going to die and I want to live forever, I can't escape that fact, and I can't let go of that desire." But somehow this does not always translate into people finding Christ and starting to follow him. There is a dizzying array of options when it comes to religion, and the culture around us says that they are all equally valid. It seems absolutely bizarre to people that someone would say, "This one way is the truth and the only truth."...
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