Christianity Today, a nonprofit global ministry recently debuted the new design of ChristianityToday.com, the website for Christianity Today magazine, with new features and a clean, fresh look. The new website boasts a simpler layout, subscriber-only content, minute-to-minute news updates from around the web, and topically categorized content ranging from hot button subjects like Mitt Romney […]
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TBN’s Church Channel Network Offers Worship and Ministry Programs 24-7
What if there was a special television channel that carried all the best church and ministry programs featuring the most respected Christian leaders? And what if that channel was available around the clock to comfort, inspire, and challenge viewers any time day or night? The good news is that such a channel exists here and […]
Posted inMovie Reviews, Religion
Prometheus: Archaeologists Search for Humanity’s Birthplace
Dateline: Scotland, 2089. While spelunking on the Isle of Skye, archaeologists Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) and Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) discover an ancient painting etched into the ceiling of an abandoned cave. The uncanny researchers immediately discern that the primitive picture is an invitation from aliens to visit a moon located in a remote […]
Posted inHealth, Religion
Catholic Institutions File 12 Lawsuits Challenging Health Care Mandate
Catholic institutions are striking back against a provision in the Affordable Care Act that would force them to pay for or provide contraceptives and perform procedures such as abortions. The Archdiocese of Washington and other local church-affiliated plaintiffs filed a legal action May 21 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against […]
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Mormon Church Condemns BYU Professor’s Racist Remarks
The Mormon Church Feb. 29 condemned racism in the church after a Brigham Young University (BYU) professor said Blacks aren’t ready for priesthood. Church officials issued a statement Feb. 29 repudiating comments published in the Washington Post from BYU religion professor Randy Bott saying Bott’s comments “do not represent the teachings and doctrines of The […]
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NAACP’s Religious Roundtable Speaks Out Against Rev. Franklin Graham’s Obama/Muslim Comments
Several faith leaders involved in the NAACP’s Religious Roundtable have released a letter that speaks out against Evangelical leader the Rev. Franklin Graham after his recent comments on a television news show that questioned President Obama’s Christian faith. Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham and current CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, appeared […]
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Libby Clark, Veteran Black Press Food, Religion Writer, Dies at 94
Funeral services for Libby Clark, a trailblazing Black female journalist, food and religion writer for the Los Angeles Sentinel for 50 years and editor of the “Black Family Reunion Cookbook” were held Jan. 30 in Los Angeles. She was 94. Services were held for her at the Chapel of Roses at the Simpson Funeral Home […]
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Century-old Afro-Brazilian Religion Under Threat
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rosa Cardoso has practiced the Afro-Brazilian religion of Umbanda almost all of her 89 years, yet she hasn’t stopped hiding her faith from the rest of the world. The door to the temple she runs in a middle-class neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro sits behind a plain, dilapidated door and […]
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Edward Z. Watson Jr., 94
Edward Zarius Watson JR., a man of distinction, strength and courage, was born on Feb. 3, 1917 to the late Hannah Allen and Edward Zarius Watson Sr., in Earleigh Heights, Anne Arundel County, Md. After losing his mother at the age of four, his father remarried and his stepmother, Bertha Wright, raised him as if […]
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Relief, Anger at Washington-Area Mosque Where al-Awlaki Preached
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — At the Washington-area mosque where Anwar al-Awlaki preached a decade ago, there were few tears over the death of the influential al-Qaida figure who more than anyone gave the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center its unwanted association with international terrorism. But some found the way he was killed to be un-American. […]
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Preacher Calls Oprah Precursor to the Antichrist
Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey may play a role in the coming of the Antichrist—at least, according to Mike Bickle, founder and executive director of the radical and controversial International House of Prayer. A video of Bickle comparing Oprah to the Antichrist was uncovered earlier this week by the People for the American Way Right […]
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T.D. Jakes Chastises Franklin Graham for Obama Statements
Megachurch pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes this weekend denounced the Rev. Franklin Graham for questioning President Obama’s faith in a recent television interview. “I find it insulting,” Jakes said May 15 on TV One’s “Washington Watch with Roland Martin,” also accusing Graham of hypocrisy. “We didn’t question the Christianity of President Bush when he said he […]