Posts Tagged ‘Building’
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Word from Scotland: Discover the secret of holiness
In the Sermon on the Mount, there is what might be called “The Secret of Holiness.” This is the secret of being different, and the practical implications are profound and immense, spiritually and physically and even materially....
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Crystal Cathedral to move to smaller Catholic church
(RNS) In a building swap, the Crystal Cathedral has announced it will move its congregation to a smaller Roman Catholic church after the iconic Protestant megachurch was sold to the Catholic Diocese of Orange , Calif.
Featured Columns
Keeping the Faith: Evacuate or Evolve
On Sundays you will usually find me in a church somewhere talking about issues of Christian faith. What I talk about, while the details change, is usually along the same theme: God’s love is inexhaustible and that love – demons...
Nuns Traumatized after School Attack in Egypt
One hospitalized for breakdown after sword-wielding Muslims converge. CAIRO, Egypt, March 16 (CDN) — Two nuns in Upper Egypt faced “unimaginable fear” – with one later hospitalized over the emotional trauma –when 1,500 Mu...
Court sentences priest from attacked church building
A priest in Egypt was sentenced this week to six months in jail for a minor construction violation at his church building, while no one in a mob that burned the same structure down has been arrested. The Rev. Makarious Bolous o...
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Quake-damaged cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand to be demolished
The earthquake-damaged Anglican Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand is beyond repair and will be demolished and replaced by a new cathedral with a different design, said Bishop Victoria Matthews on 2 March. The 131-year-old ...
Commentary and News
10 Commandments judge seeks his old job back
You might think a candidate’s ouster from the post he is seeking to regain would play a central role in a statewide election. Yet Republican Roy Moore’s forced exit, almost a decade ago, as Alabama’s chief jus...
Suicide bombers attack worship service in Nigeria
Two suicide bombers from the Boko Haram Islamist sect drove a car laden with bombs into the worship service of a Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) congregation here this morning, killing at least one Christian girl and injuri...
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Indonesian president sidesteps church controversy
In a defeat for the rule of law in Indonesia, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has declined to enforce a Supreme Court ruling that a local government allow a West Java church to worship in its building. The Bogor city governm...
Features
No pews, no suits, no problem
Ron Williams is the pastor of Church at the GYM in Sanford, Fla. As the Baptist church’s name implies, Williams’ congregation meets, well, in a gym. Williams said the goal is to remove the “stained-glass barri...