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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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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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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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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 |
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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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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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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Theophiles |
3:23pm PST |
Unearthing Redemption |
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Summary: From National Review:
The film's implicit questions, which transcend politics, concern our treatment of the dead, where they rest and why we remember them. [...] [T]he burials also raise questions about the prospects for redemption of lost and deeply uns |
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Theophiles |
3:23pm PST |
The Mentally Ill Patient: A Faithful Image of God |
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Summary: From Zenit:
In Christian thought it is said that these severe mental illnesses reduce man to sad conditions, like a deformed image of God, which is compared to the suffering servant of Isaiah (Isaiah 53:1-7). Yet, apart from that deformation, or rather du |
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Theophiles |
3:23pm PST |
Appeals Court Upholds Nativity Ban in NYC Schools |
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Summary: From CNSNews.com:A federal appeals court in New York ruled it's okay for New York City Public Schools to ban the display of Christian nativity scenes during the Christmas season, even though displays of the Jewish menorah and Islamic star and crescent are |
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ChristianPost |
2:09pm PST |
Sounds Detected from Buried Philippine School; No Survivors Found Yet |
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Summary: Rescuers detected "signs of life" Monday at the site of an elementary school buried under mud from the massive mudslide in the eastern Philippines, but so far no survivors have been found.
"We have yet to find any survivors," Captai |
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ChristianPost |
11:50am PST |
Massive Christian Convention Commences in India |
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Summary: Record crowds have been turning up at the 111th Maramon Convention in India, which began Sunday. Believed to be one of Asia's largest Christian conventions, the Maramon gathering brings close to 100,000 people together everyday for a week of preaching, .. |
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ChristianPost |
9:32am PST |
Hundreds of Thousands Called to Pray on President's Day |
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Summary: Taking a cue from the Apostle Paul who urged prayer for "all those in authority," Christians from around the country joined a prayer ministry to supplicate to God for wisdom and guidance for the nation's leadership ahead of Monday's President's |
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ChristianPost |
8:23am PST |
Relief Agencies Respond to Plea for 104,000 Newly Discovered Quake Victims |
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Summary: A newly discovered tribe of 104,000 people are just now receiving assistance in the wake of last October's Pakistan Earthquake. World Vision and Pakistani aid agency Organization for Development Coordination (ODC) are answering the devastated community's |
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ChristianPost |
7:10am PST |
Hundreds Arrested in Pakistan Cartoon Protest; Church Burned |
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Summary: Pakistani security forces arrested hundreds of protesters on Sunday, using gunfire and tear gas to put down the demonstration against cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
Police fired tear gas and guns to disperse hundreds of stone-throwing ... |
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ChristianPost |
6:30am PST |
Gaza Violence Rises; Bible Society Threatened |
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Summary: As Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is set to hold talks on the formation of a new Palestinian government with Hamas leaders today, the death toll continues to rise in the West Bank with the latest two killed in an Israeli air strike.
The death toll ... |
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BP News |
5:00am PST |
FIRST-PERSON: The faith of George Washington |
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BP News |
5:00am PST |
Brunson accepts call to pastor First Baptist, Jacksonville |
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BP News |
5:00am PST |
OLYMPICS: Bode boasts and bombs; others in Turin show faithfulness |
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