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COLERAIN, N.C. (AP) – Rev. Darren Whitehurst spent Saturday night digging some of his parishioners out of the rubble of their homes after a tornado roared through Bertie County, N.C. On Sunday, he helped with Greater Wynns Grove Baptist Church’s service which had to be held outside. The church couldn’t use its worship building, which [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Soul Surfer” seems to have caught a wave at the box office. The dramatization of teenager Bethany Hamilton’s loss of her arm in a shark attack, and her recovery with the help of her youth pastor, was the weekend’s fourth most popular film for a second week. “Soul Surfer” has sold [...]
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) – Luis Palau was not able to hold a two-day evangelistic festival in Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi. The U. S. evangelist says the government didn’t provide the necessary permits until Friday, when the event was to start, and then there were problems surrounding the venue that couldn’t be worked out in time. [...]
MIDLAND, TX. (AP) – 50 members of a Beijing church were detained Sunday and its leaders were kept under house arrest. China Aid’s president, the Rev. Bob Fu, says the detentions follow hundreds of arrests of members of the unregistered Shouwang (shoh-WAHNG’) Church on the previous Sunday. Shouwang’s congregation bought a building for their worship, [...]
JERUSALEM (AP) – Jews in Israel and around the world begin observing Passover this evening. The weeklong holiday commemorates the exodus of Biblical Israelites from slavery in Egypt after they slaughtered a lamb and marked their doorposts with its blood so the angel of death would pass over. In their haste to depart, the Bible [...]
A federal appeals court has thrown out a ruling that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional and has ordered that the lawsuit against it be dismissed. A federal judge ruled last year that the day established by an act of Congress and proclaimed each year by the president is an unconstitutional call for religious [...]
BATON ROUGE, LA. (AP) – Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is supporting a proposal to place a Ten Commandments monument at the state Capitol in Baton Rouge. The proposal by Representative Patrick Williams was filed Thursday and will be considered in the legislative session that begins in two weeks. Williams said he wants to promote the [...]
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) – A federal judge has upheld a South Carolina school district’s program to give credit for students who take an off-campus religious class. The Herald-Journal of Spartanburg reports that the judge agreed to let Spartanburg District 7 continue to offer credit for students who participate in the Bible education class. The course [...]
UNDATED (FR) – Thousands of Christians have fled Iraq since the attack on Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad last October. 60 Christians were killed in that attack. Since then 95,000 Christians have left the country for Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan. Open Doors USA documents 850,000 Christians in Iraq in 1991…most of them [...]
