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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Jews for Jesus sued by Jackie Mason

Jackie Mason, the comedian, is suing Jesus for Jews over one of their evangelistic pamphlets which features his likeness. The pamphlet, entitled, “Jackie Mason, a Jew for Jesus!?” is a good natured look at how anyone, Jew or Gentile, can become a follower of Jesus.
Mason, in his lawsuit, says that the pamphlet gives the impression […]

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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Virgin Mary turtle stomach

A Chicago woman claims the image of the Virgin Mary has appeared on the stomach of a pet turtle.
Shirley McVane, 81, says it appeared on a sand turtle bought by her grandson.
Shirley’s daughter, Dolly Fordyce, 58, said: “I thought we were going crazy the first time I saw it. I looked at it and said, […]

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Monday, August 28th, 2006

Free “Christian Woodstock” with Third Day promotes religion

About 20,000 people came together on Verbena, a small community near Clanton, for a Christian rock festival. But, the event has its origins in Cottondale.
Travis Crim, a former walk-on football player at the University of Alabama and former youth minister at the Church at Tuscaloosa, is the impetus behind the festival. The vision for it […]

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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Christianity begins to reshape Chinese religion, estimates 65 million believers

Several weeks after the attack on a Christian church that was being built from the ground up, the witness is still trembling. “Everyone knew trouble was coming,” the man says, describing the day last month that haunts him still. A fit-looking fortysomething wearing a T shirt and jeans, the man was a volunteer working on […]

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Monday, August 21st, 2006

Christian college students get own website

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is launching StudentSoul to be a resource for Christians and those interested in spiritual life. At every turn, readers have the chance to participate in creating content at StudentSoul.org from making comments on spotlight features or suggesting questions for interviews to posing a good question or uploading your own resources.
Their current publication […]

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Friday, August 18th, 2006

New church program for kids made easy

Gospel Publishing House has announced the release of its new children’s program, HighPoint. Developed as a program churches can use “anytime,” HighPoint teaches Christian character traits and helps kids apply them to their lives.
“One of the things that makes HighPoint so unique is its versatility,” says Julie Horner, GPH Research and Development Manager. “You choose […]

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Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Heroic Christians of wars past uncovered

Since the United States entered the Iraq War three years ago, the lives of more than 2,575 U.S. soldiers have been tragically lost with approximately 19,000 casualties.
However, in 1863, when the population of the United States was only roughly 34 million people (about one-eighth of today’s population), the three-day battle of Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) claimed more […]

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Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Prisoners don robes of clergy as they go pulpit

Eight inmates at the medium-security Maryland Correctional Training Center (MCTC) have graduated to the pulpit.
They are the first in the state to earn Master of Divinity degrees behind bars through a privately funded, three-year program aimed at supplementing the work done by chaplains who live outside the prison walls.
Although some of the graduates are scheduled […]

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Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Bishop asks U.S. religious leaders to call for Mideast peace

Out of concern for growing casualties and human suffering in the Middle East, the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), has asked other U.S. religious leaders to join him in calling for “the cessation of all violence, for an international peacekeeping force and a negotiated agreement for […]

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Monday, August 14th, 2006

Court Martial Hearing for prayer in USA

This Monday morning, the court martial process begins with a pre-trial hearing for U.S. Navy Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt at the Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia.
Janet Folger, president of Faith2Action and author of The Criminalization of Christianity, will be at the court martial hearing on Monday, lending her support to the chaplain. Janet exclaims: “For […]

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