KHARTOUM (ChristianPost.Com) – An aid worker with Samaritan’s Purse has been released in Sudan after being held hostage for 105 days. 35-year old Flavia Wagner is exhausted but in good health. She’s now in Khartoum and looking forward to being reunited with her family in the United States. In May, Wagner and a Sudanese driver [...]

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.
But officials [...]

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 carrying bunches [...]

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 [...]

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 recreate the [...]

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 [...]

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 first name [...]

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 [...]

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 one [...]

The producers of C.S. Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Samaritan’s Purse have joined together to get Christmas gifts into the hands of over 8 million children worldwide.
In The Chronicles of Narnia series, the world of Narnia is described as a place where it Is “Winter, but never Christmas” before Aslan the Lion [...]