Posts Tagged ‘Memorial’
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Chuck Colson to be buried with military honors at Quantico
Prison Fellowship founder and Watergate figure Chuck Colson will be buried privately with full military honors at Quantico National Cemetery, with a public memorial service expected later at Washington National Cathedral.
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Attacked Turkish pastor joins in memorials for slain Christians
After a memorial service for three Christians who were murdered in Malatya, Turkey five years ago today, an Istanbul pastor who was attacked over Easter weekend said he’s experienced hostility from Muslims nearly all his life.
Christian Living
Keeping the Faith: Freedom from Fear
In the town of Madison, Florida, you can find the Colin P. Kelly memorial, a striking sculpture of four angels, their wings unfurled in the wind. The memorial was dedicated in 1943 to the name and heroics of a B-17 pilot whose ...
Commentary and News
Churches help Occupy movement survive crackdowns, winter
As Occupy camps nationwide deal with police crackdowns and the inevitable onset of winter temperatures, religious communities of all stripes are stepping in with offers of shelter and solidarity. Soon after police forcibly evic...
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Christian leaders slam religious exclusion from NYC 9/11 commemoration
Christian leaders have expressed concern that clergy are not going to play a role in New York City’s 10th year anniversary of 9/11. Fernando Cabrera, pastor of New Life Outreach International in the Bronx, said he felt there wa...
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Atheist group sues over “World Trade Center Cross”
An atheist organization filed recently a lawsuit in New York to bar the presentation of the “World Trade Center Cross” as part of a memorial exhibition to commemorate 9/11. The American Atheists, which filed its lawsuit last we...
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Counter-protesters, KKK confront Westboro Baptist Church at Arlington
Only a paltry three members of Westboro Baptist Church, a fringe group from Kansas that gains media headlines for holding up hate placards in the funerals of soldiers, showed up at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia on Memorial Day...
Arts & Culture
Martin Luther King’s most famous speech was off the cuff, book says
Forty-eight years ago, Martin Luther King Jr’s speech, I Have a Dream, brought the issue of discrimination and segregation to the public fore, and made him perhaps the greatest speaker of all time. What is less widely known is ...
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Appellate Court rules that San Diego memorial cross unconstitutional
A four-story-tall cross on a mountain peak park in an exclusive San Diego suburb in California is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled recently. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 2008 lower court decision...
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N.C. city council reaches a compromise on Christian flag
A city council in North Carolina reached a compromise recently over the display of a Christian flag alongside several others in a Veteran’s Memorial that was set up in the town’s Central Park. The King City Council decided last...
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