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London mayor axes ads that suggests homosexuality can be cured – Articles
LONDON (RNS) London's mayor has axed an ad campaign spearheaded by two conservative Christian groups because their ads suggest homosexuality is a disease that can be cured through prayer. The groups Core Issues Trust and Angl...
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Man behind ‘Rapture pets’ rescue admits it’s a hoax
(RNS) The owner of a business who claimed he would provide atheist rescuers for Christians’ pets left behind in the Rapture now says his service was an elaborate hoax and never had any clients. Bart Centre, who lives in N...
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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...
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Pastor poised to be first black to lead Baptists
After months of urging from other Baptists around the country, the Rev. Fred Luter told his African-American congregation that he will seek to become the first black man to lead the predominantly white Southern Baptist Conventi...
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Website under fire for promoting gossip
“A perverse person stirs up conflict and a gossip separates close friends,” states Proverbs 16:28. That biblical statement is so true, that even atheists agree. What used to be passed around in class on small notes of paper or ...
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UK Archbishop to step down next year
Dr Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury, has reportedly told close friends that he will step down next year as head of both the Church of England and the Worldwide Anglican Communion. Williams, 61, will allegedly announce h...
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Facebook page, Jesus Daily, ranks No. 1 on interactions, traffic
A Facebook page about Jesus has ranked No. 1 for the last 18 weeks for the highest number of interactions and traffic, a survey said. The Facebook page, Jesus Daily, ranked No. 1 in a survey by All Facebook, with 3,419,397 inte...
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Starbucks CEO backs out of megachurch-sponsored summit at last minute
The CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, has ruffled some feathers because he backed out of a speaking engagement, in the last minute, at an event sponsored by a leading megachurch. Schultz was scheduled to speak last Friday at th...
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Christian sues U.S. Postal Service for arrest while distributing tracts near post office
A man is suing the U.S. Postal Service on the grounds that he was unconstitutionally arrested while distributing Christian literature on the sidewalk near the front of the Oakland, Tenn. Post Office. Michael Choate, who is bein...
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Lutheran World Foundation installs first Latin American as new general secretary
For the first time, the Lutheran World Foundation installed recently a Latin American as its new general secretary in the chapel of the Ecumenical Center in Geneva, Switzerland. Rev. Martin Junge, a 48-year-old Chilean will, a...
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