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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, ‘It can’t be.’ But then I looked again. I mean, you can’t deny it.”
Mrs McVane added: “She came to a holy house. I think she came to visit us so God knows she’s happy and safe.”
Dianne Dunagan, spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Chicago, said: “If something like that causes people to think about God and pray, that’s a good thing.
“Time usually takes care of these things. If it gets to the point where people are flocking to this thing, the church will call in experts. If people forget about it, it may just fade away.”
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August 28, 2006
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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 solidified during an event he held a decade ago in Cottondale.
It was a Wednesday night, and a small group had gathered outside. There was a bonfire, roasting hotdogs and marshmallows.
“I think that night was the most powerful for me,” Crim said during a telephone interview. “After it was over, a little girl made a decision. God really moved in her heart, and she kind of made a commitment to the Lord that she was going to be intentional in her faith.”
Crim wanted others to have the same experience as that girl. So he began to think bigger. “God had spoken in my heart, that he wanted to do the same type of thing but on a larger scale,” Crim said.
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August 22, 2006
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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 a half-completed church in a suburb of Hangzhou, a picturesque lakeside city 112 miles southwest of Shanghai. Financed by local Christians, the church was to serve a community of 5,000 parishioners. Hundreds of them gathered at the site on the afternoon of July 29, some joining the construction crew building the church. Others, many of them elderly parishioners, sat on plastic chairs surrounding the church, singing hymns.
The Christians surely knew they were testing the patience of local government officials, who insisted the building was illegal and had to be torn down. But few were prepared for what happened next. Witnesses told TIME that at about 2:30 p.m., thousands of uniformed police and plainclothes security officers appeared at the construction site. The police cleared a way through the crowds for a few drill-equipped backhoes, and the authorities then demolished the church. Witnesses say police bludgeoned people indiscriminately with nightsticks. “They were picking up women–some of them old ladies–by their hair and swinging them around like dolls, then letting them crash to the ground,” says a man who watched the clash from across the street.
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August 21, 2006
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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 than 51,000 casualties — including 10,000 casualties in one assault alone.
It’s no wonder that Gettysburg is a destination point for hundreds of thousands of people every year. But now this popular tourist attraction comes with a powerful Christian message about a group of gospel heroes that went to the battlefields to serve both the Northern and Southern soldiers.
Today, these long-forgotten Christian Civil War heroes are being rediscovered and promoted to the public through the efforts of Bethel Assembly of God (Littlestown, Pennsylvania) and church member John Wega.
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August 16, 2006
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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 for release as early as this year, the program’s director is grateful for those with years left on their sentences.
“My goal is not to prepare them to get out of prison,” the Reverent John Bayles of Rockville told the Frederick News-Post. “My goal was to go and enhance the ministry that’s there.”
Covenant Theological Seminary, a Tallahassee, Fla., school with a Maryland branch, runs the Prison-to-Pulpit master’s program, which is funded by donations. The program is self-directed with regular supervision by seminary staff, who prepare plans, grade papers and give periodic lectures and seminars.
MCTC Acting Warden Paul O’Flaherty said inmates deserve credit for bettering themselves behind bars.
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August 15, 2006
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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.
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.
