Archive for June, 2013
Arts & Culture
Study of college students tracks their faith and spirituality
A study of college students determined recently that students tend to go to church less often when they start to enter college, but they also become more spiritual over time. The book, Cultivating the Spirit: How College Can En...
News
Egypt arrests 156 Christians due to protest which left one dead
Nearly 156 Christians in Egypt were arrested recently for their alleged involvement in a protest that left one dead, over the construction of a Christian church in Giza, near the Great Pyramids, which the government halted. The...
Haitian village gains spiritual, financial prosperity without voodoo
A small village in Haiti is enjoying prosperity, education and spiritual wealth because of a Christian ministry that was founded in 1999. The village of Gramothe, one hour away from Port-au-prince, today has schools, a clinic, ...
News
Saddam Hussein’s only Christian cabinet member seeks presidential pardon
Lawyers for the only Iraqi Christian in the late Saddam Hussein’s inner circle requested recently for a presidential pardon for their client from death by hanging. Attorneys for Tariq Aziz, the former vice prime minister of Sad...
Arts & Culture
U.K. religious archives being lost, at peril
Many religious archives from the U.K., some dating as far back as the medieval period up to the present, are becoming lost or are at peril, a recent study shows. The survey, which was put together by the U.K. Religious Archives...
Arts & Culture
Vonette Bright releases new book that explores faith culling from her life experience
Vonette Bright released recently a new book that dwells on the meaning of a faith-based life, culling from her own 50-plus years of walking with God, and her marriage to the late Bill Bright. In Vonette’s new book, In His Hands...
Arts & Culture
NJ Pastor who banned Facebook is confronted with past infidelity
A pastor from New Jersey who told married church leaders to delete their Facebook pages or else resign, faced his past recently through a news article that uncovered a three-way infidelity ring that he was a part of 10 years ag...
News
Afghanistan postpones trial date of Christian convert facing death penalty
The trial of a disabled man in Afghanistan who faces the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity was postponed recently to November 28. Said Musa (also spelled Sayed Mossa), 45, who is married with six children,...
More Iraqi Christians flee to Jordan because of persecution
Amid stepped up violence against Christians in Iraq, many Iraqis have fled to neighboring Jordan as a stepping stone to get to the U.S., Australia, Canada or Europe. According to the AFP, many Christians fled to Jordan because ...
Arts & Culture
UK bishop reprimanded for Facebook comments on royal wedding
A bishop in the United Kingdom was asked recently to temporarily pull out from public ministry because of derogatory comments he made on his Facebook page about the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. The Rt. Rev. Ric...