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BBC News |
10:56pm PST |
Ruddock faces WRU over departure |
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Summary: Former Wales coach Mike Ruddock meets the WRU board to give his version of events leading to his departure. |
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Cnn.com |
9:32pm PST |
$365 million lottery winner still a mystery |
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Summary: Lottery officials are still looking Monday for the winner of the record $365 million Powerball prize after briefly being duped by a Colorado radio show prank. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
4:04pm PST |
Grandmother Gets Help Asserting Preschooler's Right to Share His Faith |
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Summary: Thanks to the efforts of a persistent grandmother and advice from a pro-family legal group, a four-year-old student at a Head Start program in one Oregon city can now talk about his faith with classmates. An instructor had initially muzzled the youngster' |
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BBC News |
4:03pm PST |
Drug limits foetal alcohol damage |
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Summary: A drug may reduce the damage caused to babies whose mothers drink heavily during pregnancy. |
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BBC News |
4:02pm PST |
Teacher training 'not sufficient' |
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Summary: Career-changers learning "on the job" to teach in England are often not trained well enough, Ofsted says. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
4:02pm PST |
Maine Parents, Advocates Upset Over Explicit Novel Approved for High Schoolers |
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Summary: A school district in Maine has reaffirmed its reinstatement of a sexually explicit book several parents want removed from the local high school's curriculum. The Orono School Committee recently voted to retain the controversial novel Girl Interrupted in t |
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BBC News |
4:02pm PST |
Births out of wedlock 'pass 40%' |
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Summary: The percentage of children born outside marriage leaps from 12% to 42% from 1980 to 2004, a report says. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
4:00pm PST |
Daystar University -- Transforming Africa One Graduate At a Time |
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Summary: Christian religious education is now becoming required curriculum in all public schools in Tanzania -- due mainly to the influence of John Magafu, a Bible major graduate from Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
3:59pm PST |
Liberty Counsel Files Brief Defending Bible Sales Tax Exemption |
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Summary: Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based organization that defends the constitutional rights of Christians, has filed a brief with the State Supreme Court defending a law that provides a sales tax exemption for Bibles and other religious publications. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
3:58pm PST |
New Study Shows U.S. Girls Surpassing Boys in At-Risk Behaviors |
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Summary: The White House drug czar has released a new study that indicates teenage girls across the United States are using marijuana, alcohol, and cigarettes at higher rates than boys. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
3:58pm PST |
New Suspense Thriller Explores Bioterrorism Threat |
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Summary: In the context of global terrorism, it stands to reason that biological warfare could be an ominous threat. The possibilities of a bio-terrorist attack might shock the layman, but nations around the world are working feverishly on plans to prevent or coun |
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OneNewsNowPress |
3:57pm PST |
Study: Lupus Patients Respond Well to Stem Cell-Based Treatment |
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Summary: A researcher at a Chicago hospital says bone marrow stem cells are proving to be an effective tool for combating life-threatening lupus. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
3:56pm PST |
February 20, 2006 |
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Summary: Relief efforts after Philippines mudslide proceed carefully ... Evangelicals diverge over global warming ... Pro-lifers upset by Massachusetts Pharmacy Board's forcing Wal-Mart to provide 'morning after pill' ... Inhofe equates environment and animal rig |
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Cnn.com |
3:29pm PST |
Desperate dig for survivors at buried school |
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Summary: Sounds described by an official as "signs of life" have been detected by rescuers using high-tech equipment at the site of a Philippine school buried by last week's mudslide. Rosette Lerias, governor of Southern Leyte province, said Monday that sound-dete |
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Yahoo News |
3:25pm PST |
RadioShack CEO Quits Amid Resume Questions (AP) |
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Summary: AP - RadioShack Corp.'s embattled president and CEO, David Edmondson, resigned Monday following questions about his resume's accuracy. |
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Yahoo News |
3:24pm PST |
Holocaust Denier Gets Three Years in Jail (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison Monday after admitting to an Austrian court that he denied the Holocaust — a crime in the country where Hitler was born. |
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CTI Music |
3:23pm PST |
Robbie Williams: 'Intensive Care' |
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Summary: This UK pop superstar has long been considered a walking contradiction, mixing celebrity excess with spiritual yearning, and his latest album is no exception. |
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CTI Music |
3:23pm PST |
The Passion of Israel |
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Summary: Israel Houghton approaches everything with gusto, from leading New Breed to his fervor for further racial reconciliation in South Africa, where he recently recorded a live CD. |
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CTI Music |
3:23pm PST |
Back from the Dead |
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Summary: Five years ago, Karen Clark Sheard was in a coma with a two percent chance of survival. But God wasn't done with the gospel legend yet; as far as the Lord was concerned, it ain't over till 'he' says so. |
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Today\'s C |
3:23pm PST |
Been There, Done That? |
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Summary: N/A |
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Today\'s C |
3:23pm PST |
The Color of God's Love |
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Summary: N/A |
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Today\'s C |
3:23pm PST |
Crossing the Divide |
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Summary: Even in the church, race divides more than it unites. Here's how to build a bridge. |
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Leadership |
3:23pm PST |
Heir Apparent |
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Summary: A retiring pastor and his successor discover what it takes to make a transition plan work. |
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Theophiles |
3:23pm PST |
Protesters arrested for carrying signs on Strip sue county |
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Summary: From the Las Vegas Review Journal:
Webber and Griner were arrested May 21 while carrying signs on 12-foot metal poles that said, "Don't gamble with your soul," and "Turn from sin, Turn to Jesus," in front of the Bellagio. They spent the night in jail, th |
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Theophiles |
3:23pm PST |
Pat Robertson Accused of Damaging Movement |
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Summary: "Fellow conservative religious leaders have expressed concern and even open criticism over Pat Robertson's habit of shooting from the hip on his daily religious news-and-talk television program, 'The 700 Club." |
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Theophiles |
3:23pm PST |
Blasphemy in America |
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Summary: "Sometimes it's protested, sometimes it's boycotted, but to be religiously offended is not uncommon in modern America -- most particularly for Christians."
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Theophiles |
3:23pm PST |
Horror at church mast plan |
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Summary: Submitted by daftspaniel, from The Courier:
CAMPAIGNERS IN Burntisland have launched a petition against plans to install a mobile phone mast in a historic church tower.
Locals are horrified that the 400-year-old parish church would even consider allowin |
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Theophiles |
3:23pm PST |
A Wifely Lesson |
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Summary: From girl talk:
I think we can take a bit of wifely advice from two eighteenth-century women. Sarah Edwards (pictured left) was the wife of the uniquely brilliant theologian and pastor Jonathan Edwards, and Eliza Pinckney was wife to Charles Pinckney, a |
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Theophiles |
3:23pm PST |
Pastor blames demons, not mental illness |
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Summary: From the Houston Chronicle:
The pastor of a charismatic Christian church attended by the Plano mother on trial, accused of fatally cutting off the arms of her 10-month-old daughter, told jurors Wednesday that mental illness is really demon possession tha |
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Theophiles |
3:23pm PST |
Vocal pastor finds way to Katrina rebuilding funds |
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Summary: From USA Today:
Green preaches as he putters around his kitchen in donated shoes and a black felt cowboy hat. "I got no money, but I ain't hungry, because I love and trust the Lord," he says.
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