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Airplane safety project records prayers

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Air passengers could have their conversations and movements monitored as work intensifies to design the terrorist-proof aeroplane.

Researchers in Britain and Europe are looking at technology that would see a comprehensive network of microphones and cameras installed throughout the aircraft, including the lavatory, which would be linked to a computer.

This computer would be “trained” to pick up suspicious behaviour, said Catherine Neary, of Bae Systems, one of the British participants in a £24/$45 million European Union project Safety of Aircraft in Future European Environment.

“It would pick passengers who are behaving oddly or in an unruly manner,” she said. “They may appear nervous, or could be getting up while the plane is taxiing. If someone looks as if they are praying, the microphones would be able to tell if they were by picking up key words.”

Eventually, the computer would be programmed to understand a variety of languages.
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Can “See You at the Pole” draw 2 million students worldwide to pray again?

Filed under: News — admin @ 9:32 am

See You at the Pole (SYATP), is a student prayer gathering held each year on the fourth Wednesday of September. SYATP, which began with a handful of teens from Burleson, Texas, in 1990, drew more than 2 million students from all 50 states and several countries in 2005!

Churches such as San Jacinto Assembly (California) participate in See You at the Altar by opening their building at 6AM so concerned adults can pray throughout the day. Parents and grandparents place photos of children on the altar and pray over them for several days. Women’s Pastor Nonda Houston says See You at the Altar is a great avenue for prayer in a church that prioritizes prayer.

“We spread out the banquet table for people to be involved in prayer,” states Houston, whose church also has a prayer director.

This year, San Jacinto Assembly is expanding its vision for SYATA by committing the entire weekend prior to September 27th to pray for teachers, principals and school administrators as well as students.
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Dutch Christianity values and norms in the past, present & future?

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“I think you can no longer say that the Netherlands is still a Christian nation in the way we knew it to be in the past. But even if no one goes to church any more this doesn’t mean you have washed away the Christian roots just like that. In that sense we remain a Christian land.”

Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende made this statement in a recent interview with the NRC newspaper, but was this the Wisdom of Solomon or typical political double-speak?

What exactly was the former professor of “Christian social thought” and leader of the ruling Christian Democrat CDA in the Netherlands referring to when he talked about “Christian roots”?
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The Daily Show “debates” religion

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The Daily Show’s “Even Stevens” do a funny satire on differences in religions. The message clearly is that in the end different religions have to find a way to co-exist

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Christian music documentary

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This is a documentary about Spanish and English Christian Music that nowadays accounts for 7% of the overal music industry sales.

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Madonna mock-crucifixion cannot be banned

Filed under: News, Music Videos — admin @ 6:03 am

The Dutch justice minister has rejected a call by a Christian party to stop Madonna staging a mock-crucifixion in concerts in Amsterdam.

Minister Piet Hein Donner said he understood the concerns of the SGP party which asked the minister to prevent Madonna performing the scene in concerts Sunday and Monday, but said only a court could take action against the show.

“It is understandable that Christians feel offended by the crucifixion act that Madonna performs,” he said in remarks posted on the SGP website. “It is a reprehensible way to attract attention at the cost of the deepest feelings of many people.”

“That does not mean that this act can be classified as blasphemy,” he said. “Judgment over whether the event in question constitutes blasphemy is not up to the justice minister, but up to prosecutors and ultimately a judge.”
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