Archive for June, 2010
US bishops will teach about unique place of marriage
June 30th, 2010Seeking to help catechize and educate Catholics on the meaning of marriage as the union of a man and a woman, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage...View Property
Free audio Bible podcasts in 400 languages
June 30th, 2010Portable audio has come a long way since the cassette players of the 1980's. With major advances in digital audio, such as MP3's, Apple's iPods and other devices, many people listen to their favorite podcast...View Property
Single Women: Do Not Try To Change Him
June 30th, 2010If you can't accept and love him exactly as he is, let God lead you to someone you can....View Property
Charismatic pastor says Michigan Muslims open to Gospel
June 30th, 2010A charismatic pastor says Muslims in Dearborn, Mich., a heavily Islamic Detroit suburb, are showing a surprising openness to the gospel, with more than a dozen coming to Christ during a recent evangelistic event, reports Charisma...View Property
Court ruling threatens Christian college groups in USA
June 30th, 2010A public university may deny a Christian organization official recognition under an uncommon policy that requires groups to accept all students as members regardless of their beliefs, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday, reports Baptist Press. ...View Property
Oasis Hospital celebrates 50 years of serving in the UAE
June 30th, 2010In 1960, the infant mortality rate of the United Arab Emirates was a disturbing 50 percent. The maternal mortality rate was 35 percent. Clearly something was not right in the arena of maternal health and births,...View Property
Pakistani Christian youth determined for Indo-Pak Peace
June 30th, 2010The Queen Baton’s Relay Ceremony at Wagha Border of Pakistan and India took place on Friday, June 25, 2010, to promote peace between the two countries through sports and friendship, reports Ashfaq Fateh, special to ASSIST...View Property
In GBCS article, UM elder argues against celibacy for single clergy – Methodist Thinker
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VA hospital may have infected 1,800 veterans with HIV – CNN
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Prohibition of gay ‘marriage’ not a violation of human rights (press)
June 30th, 2010The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France has ruled that European countries currently prohibiting same-sex marriage are not violating the human rights of their citizens, reports Catholic News Agency. In a 4-3 ruling,...View Property
High-profile defendant convicted in Orissa, India
June 30th, 2010Manoj Pradhan, a high-profile defendant facing fourteen charges in connection with the anti-Christian violence in India’s Orissa state has been sentenced to seven years in prison, reports Jeremy Reynalds, correspondent for ASSIST News Service. Th......View Property
Former East German pastor could upset Merkel’s future
June 30th, 2010A former East German dissident and Lutheran pastor who is standing as the candidate of German opposition parties in the country's forthcoming presidential election is seen as threatening Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government, reports Ecumeni......View Property
Places of worship ‘maybe at risk’ in West Midlands / More than 200 listed places of worship in the West Midlands region could be at risk of needing urgent major repairs – BBC News
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One in nine churches in ‘poor condition’ – UKPA
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Glee’s Blessed Arrival ["I'm adding a Christian character"] – TV Guide
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How Kagan plotted for partial-birth abortion / As Clinton counsel, she rewrote findings of Ob-Gyn association – WorldNetDaily
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Report Shows Teen Girls Are Drinking More Than Boys, for Different Reasons
June 30th, 2010New data shows girls drink to relieve stress and worries, while boys as a requisite for fun....View Property
Morocco expels yet another foreign Christian
June 30th, 2010Morocco kicked a teacher out for allegedly attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity, reports MNN. According to the Spanish newspaper "El Pais," authorities expelled Sara Domene of Spain for "threatening public order." It's...View Property
Pope says greatest danger to Church is internal pollution
June 30th, 2010During his address for today's feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, the Holy Father asserted that the “greatest danger” to the Church is not external persecution, but the “negative attitudes” of the world that can pollute...View Property
Long Road to Adulthood Is Growing Even Longer
June 30th, 2010Interesting read in the New York Times from earlier this month addresses the growing trend of many people in their 20s and early 30s not yet reaching traditional adult independence......View Property
Protestants repent for churches’ role in oppressing First Nations
June 30th, 2010A global Protestant body representing 80 million Christians has issued an apology for the role played by churches in perpetrating abuse against Native Americans, First Nations and other indigenous peoples, reports Ecumenical News International. "We......View Property
Sky Angel’s TV service adds country radio to lineup
June 30th, 2010Sky Angel, a national provider of Christian and family-friendly television and radio programming, announces the addition of Inspirational Country Radio to its channel lineup, reports www.skyangel.com in its press release. The channel can be heard...View Property
Supreme Court Rules against Christian Legal Group
June 30th, 2010The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Christian student group must accept gays and non-Christians as members if it wants to be officially recognized by a public university....View Property
Religion Today Summaries – June 30, 2010
June 30th, 2010Caner Sacked as Seminary Dean after Background ProbePakistan: Landlords Force Christians to Evict Their HomesMethodist Church to Clarify Position on Abortion IssuesRussian Patriarch Concerned With Pro-Gay Protestant Churches...View Property
Public opinion on the future of religion in America
June 29th, 2010A new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and Smithsonian magazine finds that nearly two-thirds (65%) of the American public expect religion to remain about as important in the...View Property
Redefining the First Freedom: More than Worship
June 29th, 2010Should the government succeed in redefining freedom of religion as "freedom of worship," how much longer can I practice my faith in public?...View Property
USA: Gay, diversity rights override religious freedom
June 29th, 2010The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a Christian student group does not have the right to restrict its membership to practicing Christians, in a decision Christian rights groups are calling a significant blow to religious...View Property
Soccer scrimmages yield healing amid World Cup (photoreport)
June 29th, 2010On a wintery day in Pretoria, South Africa's women's national soccer teams scrimmage with a squad of female soccer players from North America affiliated with Athletes in Action, reports Baptist Press. Concentrating on the movement...View Property
Reformed Christians challenged to leave Calvin’s city of Geneva
June 29th, 2010A global Protestant body should move its headquarters out of Geneva to cuts costs and to follow the global shift of Christianity to the southern hemisphere says a U.S. Reformed church leader, reports Ecumenical News International. ...View Property
Belgian police search brings out Da Vinci Code comparisons
June 29th, 2010Last week's search by the Belgian police, deemed "Operation Church," was "worthy of the Da Vinci Code," Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard told reporters away from the microphone at a press conference on Saturday, reports Catholic News Agency....View Property
Russian-speaking churches in US condemn authorities of Uzbekistan (exclusive)
June 29th, 2010In the USA, Russian-speaking churches express indignation against actions of the authorities of Uzbekistan where in recent days closing of churches, penalties and prison sentences to believers and burning of Bibles became a usual bureaucratic routine,......View Property
Sudan church head calls for urgent resolution of Darfur conflict
June 29th, 2010The head of the Sudan Council of Churches has called for the urgent resolution of the conflict in Darfur after two German aid workers became the latest victims of abduction in the region, reports Ecumenical News...View Property
Radio station discovers the power of their programs in Africa
June 29th, 2010Radio can be a powerful tool in a vast land without much missionary presence. HCJB Global recently found out just how powerful their partnering radio station is in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, reports MNN. ...View Property
Ethics group denounces political party for hypocrisy on sex-ed
June 29th, 2010The organization, Professionals for Ethics, denounced the hypocrisy of the Spanish political party, “Partido Popular,” for criticizing the country's new law on abortion while at the same time allowing gender ideology to be taught in schools...View Property
Pope to create new office to fight secularization – AP
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A boy prays, a suspect surrenders – Houston Chronicle
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Indian Christians feel unwelcome in U.K. churches – PTI
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Microphone frequency ban affecting churches in area – Lancaster Eagle Gazette
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Warnings about sex, violence come to Christian movies – St Louis Post-Dispatch
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Raids on Belgian Church Offices Followed Complaint to Police – New York Times
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Pledge without God sign defaced in N.C. – Washington Times
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Supreme Court rules against group that bans gays – Washington Times
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The Twitter of Doom
June 29th, 2010The problem is not the technology, but men too unreflective, too inhumane, and too badly uneducated to use it well. Let's leave twitter for that which is tweetable, such as American Idol--not a man's execution....View Property
Muslim landlords force Christians to ‘evict their homes’
June 29th, 2010Christian residents of a village close to Khanewal, the capital city of Khanewal District in the Punjab province of Pakistan, are being forced by local Muslim landlords to "evict their homes" by Thursday, July 1, 2010,...View Property
What to do When your Older Child Breaks your Heart
June 29th, 2010It’s hard for parents of young children to imagine the heartbreak that one of those children could cause them fifteen or twenty years down the road. The Bible does say “train up a child in the...View Property
Growing Trend of Suicide among Christian women in Pakistan
June 29th, 2010Terrorism, extreme poverty, price hike, unemployment and many other social and economic problems have been affecting people of all sections of life. However, if a person is from the weaker groups of the society, especially religious...View Property
Head of world church council to meet Russian Patriarch in Moscow
June 29th, 2010World Council of Churches leader, the Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, will meet with Patriarch Kirill I of the Russian Orthodox Church in his first official visit to Russia. During his 27-29 June visit, Tveit, the WCC's...View Property
Family federation: Only family is capable of energizing economy
June 29th, 2010Responding to a new study from Spain's National Statistics Institute (NSI), the Spanish Federation of Large Families said that the country's decreasing birth rate will soon lead to “an aging populace.” The organization then called on...View Property
Kyrgyzstan approves parliamentary constitution
June 29th, 2010Kyrgyzstan's referendum has passed, following Sunday's vote. With a new government, will tensions ease and ethnic violence cease? Joel Griffith of Slavic Gospel Association shared the implications of the new constitution: "This referendum did indee......View Property
Christian Professor in Pakistan Beaten for Refusing to Convert
June 29th, 2010Muslim students attacked a Christian professor at the University of Peshawar this month after he refused their demand to convert to Islam, the instructor told Compass. ...View Property