With the LifeLight Music Festival only days away, we catch up with festival director Julie Klinger on Life Connection. She tells us how the move to the new festival grounds will affect things and all about the different bands and stages at the festival.
One of the Great West’s most anticipated events of the year – the LifeLight Music Festival – is once again just around the corner! It’s the largest free outdoor Christian music festival in the US, and it’s right in our backyard.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Efforts to restore a United Methodist center that was destroyed five years ago by Hurricane Katrina are now threatened by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Gulfside Assembly in Waveland, Miss., was founded in 1923 as a boys’ boarding school by the first black elected bishop of the [...]
CALCUTTA, India (AP) _ A year of events honoring Mother Teresa is kicking off in India today, on the 100th anniversary of her birth. Hundreds of nuns, bishops and volunteers attended a Mass in Calcutta, where she founded the Missionaries of Charity to care for the poor and homeless. School children, tourists and volunteers, some [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) _ More than 100 leaders of religious groups are urging Congress to reject legislation that would prohibit them from hiring only fellow believers if they accept federal funds. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, says taxpayers shouldn’t fund religious charities that discriminate against nonbelievers in hiring. [...]
NEW YORK (AP) _ Conservative scholar Dinesh D’Souza has been named president of The King’s College, a Christian school located in New York’s Empire State Building. The 49-year-old D’Souza, whose books include “Illiberal Education” and “What’s So Great about Christianity,” lectures widely and has debated prominent atheists and skeptics. D’Souza was born in India. His [...]
UNDATED (WND) - One of the best selling – and most controversial – Christian novels of the last decade may become a movie. Author William Paul Young told World News Digest that he is writing a screenplay to make “The Shack” into a motion picture. “The Shack”, a story of a man who meets God [...]
TILDEN, Wis. (AP) _ Parishioners of a Wisconsin church have celebrated its 150th anniversary by worshipping the way their ancestors did, complete with the bishop arriving in a horse-drawn buggy. St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church in Tilden celebrated its anniversary Sunday. People walked to church, many of them dressed in Civil War-era costumes to help [...]
SOUTH AFRICA (MNN) – In October, 4000 people from over 200 countries will meet in Capetown, South Africa for the Lausanne Missions Conference. Only 400 of them will be from the United States. The Lausanne movement was started by Billy Graham in 1974 to discuss the challenge of global evangelization. This year delegates will also [...]
GHAZI AIR BASE, Pakistan (AP) _ Sen. John Kerry says the U.S. is increasing its flood aid to Pakistan from $90 million to $150 million. Kerry, who’s visiting Pakistan, says Washington doesn’t want Islamist extremism to increase on the back of the crisis. Islamist charities have been active in the flood-hit areas, and at least [...]
