NEW YORK (ChristianPost) The Mayor of New York City is defending the 9/11 cross at the World Trade Center. Michael Bloomberg has been named in a lawsuit filed by a group of atheists seeking to remove the World Trade Center Cross from a memorial commemorating those who died in the September 11 attacks. The New [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) _ During frantic efforts to resolve the debt impasse, Senate Chaplain Barry Black has compared Congress to a sinking ship and a burning building. In the invocation before Sunday’s Senate session, Black prayed, “Save us, O God, for the waters are coming in upon us.” In Monday’s invocation, Black said he believes in [...]
UNDATED (Religious Liberties) – The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s ban on praying in Jesus’ name before public meetings. The ACLU and the Americans United for Separation of Church and State sued the Board of Commissioners in Forsyth, North Carolina in 2007, because opening prayers mentioned Jesus. Judge Paul [...]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ A new exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art takes a fresh look at religious paintings, drawings and prints by one of history’s most revered artists. “Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus” contains works from museums and private collections in the U.S. and Europe. The exhibition of more than 50 works by [...]
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) _ The Air Force has suspended a course that nuclear missile launch officers were required to take called “Christian Just War Theory.” David Smith, spokesman for the Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command, says the course will be revised after complaints about its use of Bible passages to show that [...]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Texas Gov. Rick Perry says this coming Saturday’s prayer rally in Houston is “about lifting up the name of Jesus” and asking God to give America hope and direction. Perry told FRC Radio’s Washington Watch Weekly that he and a group of friends were talking about how to solve America’s problems [...]
HOUSTON (AP) _ A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that sought to stop Texas Gov. Rick Perry from promoting or participating in an Aug. 6 day of prayer and fasting. Judge Gray Miller ruled that the atheist and agnostic group that filed the suit, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, did not have standing [...]
LONDON (AP) _ The Rev. John Stott, one of the most influential evangelical thinkers of the 20th Century, has died in London at the age of 90. All Souls Church, where Stott was rector from 1950-1975, says Stott died peacefully at his home Wednesday, surrounded by friends who were “reading the Scriptures and listening to [...]
ST. LOUIS (AP) _ Dan Peek, a founding member of the popular 1970s band America who had a subsequent career in Contemporary Christian music, has died at the age of 60. Peek’s wife, Catherine, found him dead Sunday in bed at his home in Farmington, Mo., according to his father. The cause of death was [...]
UNDATED (CBN) – The new nation of South Sudan is getting help from Operation Blessing International. The organization, based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, is delivering medicine, blankets, vitamins and food to refugees in the country’s capital of Juba. These people are the families of the soldiers who are still defending their homes from attacks by [...]
