Posts Tagged ‘land’
Arts & Culture
Salvation Army get on bikes for Olympics
Many Olympic venues are already achieving iconic status - but one about to enter the public’s consciousness already has an illustrious history.
Features
Wallenda prayed non-stop in tightrope walk over Niagra Falls
Swirling winds and heavy mists from the falls below completely soaked famous aerialist Nik Wallenda as he gingerly balanced on a steel cable 200 feet above the raging torrent.
“I prayed non-stop,” says Wallenda, 33, a born-...
News
Thomas More Law Center files lawsuit against CAIR-Michigan, Allegan, Mich. officials
Irony -- Police Shut-down Event Promoting U.S. Constitution -- Thomas More Law Center Files Lawsuit Against CAIR-Michigan; Allegan Officials ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 30, 2012 / Christian Newswire / -- In the middle of an even...
News
Muslim assailants in Egypt escape prosecution
A recent “reconciliation meeting” between members of a Muslim mob that attacked a Christian-owned school in Egypt and school administrators was nothing less than an attempt at legalized extortion, the director of the school said.
Commentary and News
Breakaway Anglicans ordered to return property by April 30
A Virginia judge has ordered seven congregations that broke from the Episcopal Church to return all property to the local diocese — from valuable land to sacred chalices — by April 30. The Diocese of Virginia had wa...
Pakistani Muslims employ ‘blasphemy’ threat in land grab
Tensions are still high in a village near here following Muslims’ attempt to seize land from a Christian family by threatening to accuse them of “blasphemy.” What began on Feb. 19 as a quarrel over a pigeon between Christian an...
Commentary and News
In Cleveland, a battle over unwanted churches
The Euclid Avenue Church of God and the former Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration sit empty on this city’s former Millionaires’ Row, remnants of a heyday when mansions marched east from downtown. Their congrega...
Devotion
He also made the Stars
The New Year seems like a good time to go back to the beginning. It is a time to take stock, think about what has passed and name your hopes and plans for the future. This is all very well but like me you may find yourself in a...
Christian Living
Keeping the Faith: More than Having It All
More than a century ago Leo Tolstoy wrote about a greedy farmer in his tale, “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” This farmer was discontent with his life because he never seemed to have enough. He moved town to town looking for gr...
Features
Exiled Libyan Jews look with hope toward homeland
The Jews of old wandered the wilderness for 40 years before entering the Promised Land. For the exiled Jews of Libya, it’s already been 44. The struggle to reopen a synagogue in Libya, 44 years after the forced departure of the...