Posts Tagged ‘washington’
Causes
Lebanese man gets 300 lashes, 6 years for helping woman convert to Christianity
A Lebanese man was sentenced to 300 lashes with a whip and six years in prison for his role in helping a Saudi woman convert to Christianity and flee the Saudi kingdom.
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US anti-abortion leaders join Rome’s March for Life
American anti-abortion leaders will be in Rome on Sunday (May 12) to participate in Italy’s third March for Life and lend their expertise to the nation’s small anti-abortion movement as it tries to learn from its American count...
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Doomsday moved to Oct. 21
Radio station owner Harold Camping said recently that he wasn’t wrong when he predicted that rapture would take place on May 21, but it just wasn’t obvious because the rapture took place in a spiritual sense. Camping said on hi...
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With Huckabee out of race, who can get evangelical votes?
With the announcement of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s decision not to run for the presidency, who stands to gain the evangelical votes that would otherwise have gone to him? Evangelicals comprise one of the largest voti...
Arts & Culture
Christians, Jews et al to benefit from U.S. Holocaust Museum project
The U.S. Holocaust Museum is joining forces with Ancestry.com to digitalize information about victims of Nazi persecution, whether Jewish or non-Jewish. Ancestry.com is an online family history site. By working together, people...
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Rise in anti-gay attacks in Africa blamed on Christian evangelism
There has been a rise in the incidence of anti-gay attacks in Africa, and Christian evangelism is taking the brunt of the blame for it. Homosexuality has long been taboo in Africa. According to The Washington Post, more than tw...
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Report shows highly educated women more likely to marry, attend church
A new study shows that highly educated Americans are more likely to get married, go to church regularly, and say that they are happy with their marriages. The 2010 edition of The State of Our Unions also said that highly educat...
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N.J. lawmakers support anti-bullying bill which may inhibit free speech
New Jersey lawmakers are bent on passing new, strong anti-bullying legislation amid the rash of teen suicides, but others say the bill’s wording is inadequate and can be used to harass teachers who express religious beliefs. Th...
Vietnam jails Catholics over funeral melee
Six Vietnamese Catholics were arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced to jail recently after a one-day trial where they were not even permitted to have lawyers present to speak in their defense. Two of the defendants were gi...
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Jesus Christ depictions alongside secular symbols on public buildings are constitutional
Virginia may have nativity scenes on government property during the Christmas holiday–provided secular symbols are displayed alongside them, a Virginia state attorney general said recently. In his legal opinion, Attorney ...