(NEWSMAX) — The largest U.S. Protestant denomination chose its first black president on Tuesday, an historic election for the predominately white religious group as it seeks to better reflect the diversity of the country and its membership. Fred Luter, a New Orleans pastor and civic leader, ran unopposed for the top post in the 167-year-old […]
Bible translators are laboring diligently to reach people groups in New Guinea that have never received a copy of the Scriptures. The locals are working in a section of the country called New Ireland, which has 23 different languages spoken by the various people groups there. Bibles have been translated for only eight of the […]
Several Christians from a church in California have decided to take the Gospel out of the four walls of the church and onto the streets. Rondy Martin, Benjamin Olegario and Anthony Andaya make it a point to meet every Friday or Saturday afternoon to preach to their neighbors in Visalia. The men, accompanied by their […]
MUMBAI, INDIA (ANS) — The Indian Rescue Mission (IRM), an organisation that rescues minor girls that have been sold, trafficked and forced into prostitution, was recently able to rescue a 14-year-old girl from the clutches of her perpetrators, and from her own people who were trying to sell her virginity and then force her into […]
CAIRO — A panel of judges appointed by Egypt’s ousted president, Hosni Mubarak, threw the nation’s troubled transition to democracy into grave doubt Thursday with rulings that dissolved the popularly elected Parliament and allowed the toppled government’s last prime minister to run for president, escalating a struggle by remnants of the old elite to block […]
The girlfriend of the Miami man who attacked and ripped off 75 percent of the face of a homeless senior citizen last month claims that he was devoutly religious. Yovanka Bryant, 27, had dated 31-year-old Rudy Eugene for four months before the attack occurred over the Memorial Day weekend. She states that she and Eugene […]
TIME Magazine has raised a lot of eyebrows since publishing a front page article on Monday entitled “How to Die.” In the article, reporter Joe Klein outlines the journey he went through when his parents became sick and were hospitalized. While controversy exists as to whether Klein is promoting eugenics or euthanasia in his article, […]
A New Jersey-based homosexual advocacy group is seeking to have actor and speaker Kirk Cameron disinvited from a Christian event that will be held next month in Ocean Grove. Ocean Grove United has asked the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association to remove Cameron from its roster of speakers at its upcoming “Camp Meeting Week” in […]
A Christian doctor in England is facing disciplinary proceedings for sharing his faith with a patient. Dr. Richard Scott has worked at Bethesda Medical Center in Margate, Kent for 28 years, and has never received a mark on his record. However, in 2010, when a patient filed a complaint against him for talking about Jesus, […]
Some South Korean publishers are removing references to evolutionary theory from secondary school textbooks after a creationist group petitioned the government for change. Out of the seven scientific textbook publishers in Korea, six have agreed to remove references to the evolution of birds, and three are erasing teaching on the evolution of horses. The move […]