Posts Tagged ‘Death’
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Amnesty: Executions in the Middle East Alarming
— Twenty-one nations carried out the death penalty in 2012, according to Amnesty International's yearly report, published Wednesday. That is the same number as in 2011 - but a marked shift from ten years ago, when 28 countries ...
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Rick Warren forgives illegal gun dealer for youngest son’s suicide
By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries LAKE FOREST, CA (ANS) – Pastor Rick Warren, the author of the best-selling book, “The Purpose Driven Life,” and senior pastor of Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Fores...
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Catholic hospital under fire for saying fetuses aren’t ‘people’
(RNS) A Catholic hospital in Colorado has argued in court documents that it is not liable for the deaths of twin 7-month-old fetuses because those fetuses are not people under state law. So far, courts have side with the hospi...
Causes
Iran says American tried to turn children against Islam
Iran on Monday accused an Idaho man of trying to entice young people to Christianity and away from the country’s official religion, Islam, the man’s American-based legal team says.
Causes
Rainfall, brain infection linked in Uganda
Scientists say they have found the first major neurological condition linked to climate. A Ugandan study shows the amount of rainfall can affect the number of infants who develop a deadly brain infection.
Apologetics
Question of the week: Is Jesus really the only way to heaven?
Answer: "I'm basically a good person, so I'll go to heaven." "OK, so I do some bad things, but I do more good things, so I'll go to heaven." "God won't send me to hell just because I don't live by the Bible. Times have changed!...
Causes
Hong Kong Christians urge Beijing to investigate dissident’s death
About 25,000 people marched in Hong Kong on 10 June to mourn the death of a Chinese dissident, while the Christian groups that co-organized the rally urged Beijing to investigate the case.
Featured Columns
Word from Scotland: 3 great questions about life after death
In John Chapter 13, we are in the Upper Room, where Jesus Christ is celebrating the Passover just hours before he is to be crucified.
Jesus Christ and His men are around that table. Jesus has made it clear that one of these ...
Kuwaitis face death for insulting Islam under new law
Kuwait's parliament approved the death sentence for Muslims who insult Allah, the Qu’ran, Muslim prophets, or Muhammad’s wives on Thursday. Christians and other non-Muslim minorities will be given a minimum prison sentence of t...
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Study says no evidence that death penalty deters crime
WASHINGTON (RNS) In the more than three decades since the national moratorium on the death penalty was lifted, there is no reliable research to determine whether capital punishment has served as a deterrent, according to a rev...