Posts Tagged ‘evangelical’
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Catholic rocker Matt Maher finds cross-over appeal among Evangelicals
Growing up Roman Catholic in Newfoundland, Matt Maher never imagined that his childhood interest in music would lead to a career as a Grammy-nominated, chart-topping Christian rocker — let alone a crossover artist featured on C...
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Evangelicals see promise in immigration proposal
A coalition of evangelical leaders who hope to shape national immigration reform is expressing cautious optimism about a bill a bipartisan group of senators introduced in Congress.
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Burned church is latest in string of Tanzanian attacks
Clashes with Islam in an otherwise ‘peaceful country’, February 25 (World Watch Monitor) —
Arsonists burned a Tanzania church Feb. 19 in the semi-autonomous region of Zanzibar, two days after gunmen killed a Catholic pr...
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Christian bookstores raided, church buildings demolished in Sudan
Having deported scores of foreign Christians and demolished several church buildings in the past few months, Sudan continued ridding the country of Christianity this week by raiding Christian bookshops in Khartoum and arresting...
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Catholic intensity fades as evangelical devotion surges
After November’s presidential vote, Catholics could cite ample evidence for their renewed political relevance while dispirited evangelicals were left wondering if they are destined to be yesterday’s election news. Yet their rol...
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Evangelical coalition rallies behind family planning
A coalition of evangelicals is calling on fellow Christians to support access to family planning across the world, saying it does not conflict with evangelical opposition to abortion.
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Romney appeals to evangelicals through shared ‘Judeo-Christian’ values
Mitt Romney angered evangelicals during his first White House run in 2008 by blurring the theological lines between their faith and his Mormonism. Lurching in the other direction, he irked them again by scarcely mentioning reli...
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Evangelicals seek a future for thousands of frozen embryos
The embryo was frozen in liquid nitrogen when Gabriel and Callie Fluhrer found it. They didn’t know whether that embryo would grow to be a boy or a girl, or whether it would even grow at all.
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Tyler Clementi’s parents leave evangelical church over views on homosexuality
The parents of Tyler Clementi have left their longtime evangelical church due to its views on homosexuality.
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Professor says he was fired from Atlanta seminary over evangelical beliefs
A professor who was fired in July by the Interdenominational Theological Center says the Atlanta consortium of black seminaries discriminated against his conservative Christian views.