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The Michigan
Supreme Court has ruled that governments and state universities may not legally
offer health insurance to the partners of unmarried workers, including
homosexuals.
www.onenewsnow.com - posted 5/8/08
Muslim
villagers in Mymensingh district of India eager to rid the area of the Christian
work of a local pastor have gang-raped his 13-year-old daughter. Pastor.
www.onenewsnow.com - posted 5/8/08
A firebrand preacher once described as “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in
Europe” is due to be freed within days after being granted bail by a British
immigration tribunal.
www.telegraph.co.uk - posted 5/8/08
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that the state of Israel
is a "stinking corpse" that is destined to disappear, the French news agency AFP
reported.
www.jpost.com - posted 5/8/08
Iran is angry with a British court ruling that would lift the ban on a major
Iranian organization opposing the Islamic republic regime that could pave the
way for removing Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) from the terrorist blacklist in the
Western world.
www.metimes.com - posted 5/8/08
The
Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman says the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq has been
arrested in the northern city of Mosul.
www.breitbart.com - posted 5/8/08
A quick withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq would endanger not only Iraq but the
entire Middle East, Iraq’s minister of industry warned. Fawzi Hariri said even
Middle Eastern nations that oppose the U.S. presence in Iraq don’t favor a
“quick and fast withdrawal” of U.S. troops...
www.cnsnews.com - posted 5/8/08
The long-standing dispute between the Lebanese government – backed by the United
States, France and Saudi Arabia – and the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah,
backed by Syria and Iran turned violent in Beirut Wednesday, after what
initially began as a strike over wage demands quickly degenerated into gun
battles and once again raised the specter of the civil war.
www.metimes.com - posted 5/8/08
The Democratic leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives could halt
funding for the war in Iraq simply by omitting any war-funding bill from the
floor schedule. But rather than do that, the Democrats on Thursday plan to bring
up a $195-billion bill to fund the war through the middle of next year...
www.cnsnews.com - posted 5/8/08
Florida Dems: We're closing in on deal to seat delegation.
www.breitbart.com - posted 5/8/08
Is Sen. Hillary
Clinton, D-N.Y., staying in the race to get the vice presidential slot? George
Stephanopoulis thinks so.
abcnews.go.com - posted 5/8/08
The Democrats’ energy plan does not boost the US supply of oil.
www.cnsnews.com - posted 5/8/08
Rush Limbaugh's “Operation Chaos” is apparently working, according to the Obama
campaign, which complained that the tactic helped Sen. Hillary Clinton win the
Indiana primary...
www.cnsnews.com - posted 5/8/08
In what could signal a further shift in the global stem cell debate, lawmakers
in an Australia state have rejected legislation allow the cloning of human
embryos for research purposes. The issue will be under discussion on Capitol
Hill again on Thursday, when a health subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce
Committee holds a hearing chaired by Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), a strong
supporter of embryonic stem cell research...
www.cnsnews.com - posted 5/8/08
Mission
agency is among the first responders in Burma.
www.onenewsnow.com - posted 5/8/08
Around 40,000 Zimbabwean farm workers have had to flee as a result of the
violence since the country’s general election.
www.telegraph.co.uk - posted 5/8/08
Russia swore in Dmitry Medvedev as its newest president Wednesday as evangelical
Christians throughout the historically anti-western nation faced feelings of
anxiety and uncertainty over the future of their ministries.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/8/08
Venezuela's proven crude oil reserves had swelled to 130 billion barrels as of
late April, marking a rise of 30 billion from its prior estimate, energy and oil
minister Rafael Ramirez said Thursday.
www.breitbart.com - posted 5/8/08
Housing/mortgage aid bills face vetoes by President Bush
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/8/08
Consumers gave some of the nation's retailers a little relief in April following
months of dismal sales, but business was helped along by heavy discounting that
could hurt fiscal...
www.breitbart.com - posted 5/8/08
Wal-Mart
Stores Inc. says sales of groceries and items such as flat-screen TVs boosted
its same-store sales in April above Wall Street expectations.
biz.yahoo.com - posted 5/8/08
Opinion: Cigarette taxes are predictably fueling organized crime in New York.
online.wsj.com - posted 5/8/08
In the
wake of WND news coverage, the FBI is now reviewing a Wikipedia photo of a nude
adolescent that could violate federal child-pornography laws.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/8/08
Opinion: The judicial states in the election.
online.wsj.com - posted 5/8/08
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton May 6 continued to do well
among churchgoers, according to exit polls, despite not having the kind of night
her supporters felt she needed to shake up the race and catch frontrunner Barack
Obama.
www.baptistpress.com - posted 5/8/08
Hillary Clinton began the race with all sorts of advantages, but she and her
advisers never grasped how much had changed,
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/8/08
Former Sen. George McGovern, an early supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, urged
her to drop out of the Democratic presidential race and endorsed her rival,
Barack Obama.
www.breitbart.com - posted 5/8/08
There is no more pressing evil facing the United States than the deaths of 40
million or 50 million unborn children in the abortion industry since the 1973
Roe v. Wade Supreme Court opinion, according to a new poll that also reveals
Catholics are being prompted by the recent visit of Pope Benedict XVI to vote
their life issue opinions.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/8/08
Five years after it was set up by Nicolas Sarkozy, France's official Muslim
council has hit a wall: hamstrung by infighting, critics accuse it of failing
the country's five million Muslims while giving fundamentalists a stronghold in
French public life.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/8/08
Members of an Anglican church in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare are facing
persecution reminiscent to that of Christian churches under communist rule, said
the bishop of the diocese of Harare.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/8/08
Partners of Chinese women who were forced to have abortions are pressing the
Supreme Court to make it easier to get asylum in the United States.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/8/08
A Chinese mountaineering team took the Olympic flame to the top of the world
Thursday, a spectacular feat dreamed up to underscore China's ambitions for the
Beijing games. The Mount Everest climbers could be heard struggling for breath
in a live television broadcast as five torchbearers each shuffled a few feet
before passing on the flame to the next person. A colorful Tibetan prayer flag
lined the path and fluttered in the wind.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/8/08
As the worst cyclone and natural disaster to hit since the South East Asian
tsunami crisis nearly four years ago continues to wreck havoc and bring
unspeakable destruction among the people of Myanmar, Christian groups have been
mobilized into action, carrying the burden of the Lord to all those in need.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/8/08
Nearly
one million people starved to death when a murderous famine gripped North Korea
in the 1990s. Now, the most backward, isolated country in the world may be about
to see history repeat itself.
www.time.com - posted 5/8/08
Israel staged its 60th birthday bash with fireworks, air force flyovers and a
great sense of pride Thursday, but also with uncertainty about its future and
doubts about prospects for peace with the Palestinians.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/8/08
The
U.S.-trained Palestinian anti-terror units ran away scared of the terrorists in
the West Bank. 'They couldn't even get near the stronghold without retreating'.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/8/08
Iraqi
soldiers for the first time warned residents in the embattled Sadr City district
to leave their houses Thursday, signaling a new push by the U.S.-backed forces
against Shiite...
www.breitbart.com - posted 5/8/08
Some of the country's largest mainline denominations are stepping up efforts to
fight membership decline, partly by diversifying their predominantly white
churches.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/8/08
An
author who has written two books about homosexuality has told managers at the
University of Toledo in an open letter they should be praising an administrator
who said being "gay" is not the same as black, not suspending her.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/8/08
A
student senate leader at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has told
pro-life display supporters they have no right to express their opinion on the
volatile issue of abortion.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/8/08
An "evangelical manifesto" being released today by a group of Christian scholars
and theologians is expected to try to take back the term "evangelical" from
politics and return it to its theological roots.
www.usatoday.com - posted 5/8/08
Scientists said they have mapped the genetic makeup of the platypus — one of
nature's strangest animals with a bill like a duck's, a mammal's fur and
snake-like venom.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/8/08
Analysis: Hillary Clinton may have won Indiana, but suffering a resounding loss
in North Carolina could prove crippling.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/7/08
Clinton counts on the Florida and Michigan vote in the super-delegate math
needed to win the nomination.
blogs.wsj.com - posted 5/7/08
'I want
to rip (Bill Clinton's) eyes out. Kidding! Michelle Obama's latest gaffe: 'See,
this is what gets me into trouble.'
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/7/08
Otis
Moss, the man slated to become the new chief pastor at Barack Obama's Chicago
church, subscribes to the ideology of retiring pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
and is expected to continue Wright's legacy, according to Malik Zulu Shabazz,
national chairman of the New Black Panther Party.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/7/08
Black megachurch leader Bishop T.D. Jakes expressed pain on Monday at seeing the
African-American church portrayed negatively by the media.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/7/08
Republican John McCain criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for voting
against John Roberts as U.S. chief justice, reaching out to the Christian right
on one of their chief concerns: the proper role of judges in government.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/7/08
An Evangelical divide is widening along generational line according to one
so-called expert.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/7/08
Opinion: The Biofuels Backlash.
online.wsj.com - posted 5/7/08
The Russian government’s national Wealth Fund rattles the West.
online.wsj.com - posted 5/7/08
Israel this week celebrates its 60th birthday with military displays, barbecues
and a Bible quiz but also with a cloud of uncertainty hanging over its prime
minister's political future.
www.breitbart.com - posted 5/7/08
As early as Wednesday, an unlikely alliance of titans from the cable, Internet
and chip industries will disclose they are investing $3.2 billion in a company
that will deliver Web access for cell phones and laptops at speeds much faster
than what is available today using a technology called WiMax.
online.wsj.com - posted 5/7/08
Wikipedia, the online "free encyclopedia" written and edited by its users that
contains 9 million articles in 253 languages, now includes detailed photos of
nude homosexual men engaging in sex acts and a variety of other sexually
explicit images and content.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/7/08
Adverse
passion: A district judge in Boulder, Colo., who earlier awarded a former judge
and his wife a substantial portion of a neighbor's nearly million dollar parcel
of land, has reviewed the case and concluded he was right.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/7/08
Pharmacists who have moral objections to dispensing chemicals that cause
abortions have temporarily obtain a stay order in the latest battle in their war
with the abortion industry, which is trying to force them to dispense drugs such
as RU-486 in violation of their conscience.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/7/08
A
spokeswoman for President Bush says she's not privy to details about the removal
from the Peace Corps of a man who tested positive for HIV at a mid-service
medical evaluation.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/7/08
A special interest program assembled by the Human Rights Campaign to promote
homosexuality has been launched in the 91-school Minneapolis district, even as
opponents are urging school officials to keep sexuality out of the social
culture.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/7/08
A volcano in
Chile blasts ash 20 miles high, forcing evacuations.
apnews.myway.com - posted 5/7/08
A free-speech
rights group says there have been increasing reports from military chaplains
claiming that military commanders are unjustly suppressing their worship
services.
www.onenewsnow.com - posted 5/7/08
Sen. John McCain
says one of the biggest differences between he and his Democratic rivals is
their take on the proper role of the judiciary. The presumptive Republican
nominee says the courts must exercise judicial restraint. (May 6).
www.onenewsnow.com - posted 5/7/08
Emergency workers have said more than 60,000 are feared to have been killed by
the tropical cyclone in Burma as British aid agencies appealed for the country's
secretive military junta to allow them in to help.
www.dailymail.co.uk - posted 5/7/08
The
death toll from the cyclone that battered Myanmar last weekend rose above 22,000
Tuesday as the international community prepared to rush in aid, state radio
reported.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/6/08
Interpol launched a worldwide appeal to the public Tuesday to help identify a
man suspected of sexually abusing young boys from Southeast Asia — hoping the
rare move will lead to a quick arrest.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/6/08
Lynne Harvey, wife of longtime broadcaster Paul Harvey, has died.
www.sun-sentinel.com - posted 5/6/08
More than
1,000 people are expressing outrage at a university decision to honor Phyllis
Schlafly with an honorary doctorate of humane letters for her national
leadership of the conservative movement and are calling for the college to
withdraw its invitation.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/6/08
American evangelist Luis Palau preached the Good News of Jesus Christ to an
estimated 150,000 people in Jamaica’s capital city of Kingston this past
weekend.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/6/08
Nearly 46,000 people attended the Franklin Graham festival in east Tennessee
this past weekend where attendees heard a serious message about salvation.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/6/08
A
Roman Catholic bishop said Sunday that the church has officially recognized that
the Virgin Mary appeared to a 17th-century shepherd girl in the French Alps.
www.usatoday.com - posted 5/6/08
He may
not have been thinking about it at the time, but Pope Benedict, in the course of
his recent U.S. visit may have dealt a knockout blow to the liberal American
Catholicism that has challenged Rome since the early 1960s.
www.time.com - posted 5/6/08
Obama’s New
Gospel: What does Barack Obama believe? It's a question that an army of
surrogates, out trying to assure religious voters of his faith, is answering
again and again.
www.newsweek.com - posted 5/6/08
Opinion: Nearly halfway to choosing the next President, voters are witnessing an
amazing spectacle in addition to the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton scrum. All
three of the contenders are avowed believers in ever more restrictive and
convoluted campaign finance laws. They are also proving, with their every
decision, why those laws have become a national farce.
online.wsj.com - posted 5/6/08
From
Pennsylvania to Nebraska and from Europe to New Zealand, there is growing and
fierce opposition to plans to fluoridate public drinking water, fueled by a
battery of shocking new studies that seriously question a practice routine among
U.S. municipalities for nearly the last 50 years.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/6/08
Smile!
Your photo radar ticket is $375; and the 2nd offense triggers $1,000 fine,
90-day license suspension.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/6/08
About 3,500 American soldiers are scheduled to leave Iraq in the coming weeks,
the U.S. military announced, part of a plan to reduce the number of troops who
were part of last year's "surge" by 20,000.
www.breitbart.com - posted 5/6/08
Almost 4,000 people were killed and nearly 3,000 others are unaccounted for in a
single town after a devastating cyclone in Myanmar, a state radio station said
Monday.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/5/08
Rice to
Israel: Tear down anti-terror roadblocks; but the last time Jews were attacked
hours after lifting barriers.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/5/08
A U.S. religious freedom watchdog said it is still deliberating whether to
downgrade Iraq to the blacklist of violators during the release of its 2008
annual report on Friday.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/5/08
Opinion: An Education in Bailouts.
online.wsj.com - posted 5/5/08
Shares of Yahoo fell 22 percent in premarket trading as hopes for the once
dominant search engine dimmed on the withdrawal of a $43.7 billion bid from
Microsoft Corp. over the weekend.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/5/08
Psychologists, journalists and celebrity chief executives crowd the top of a
ranking of influential business thinkers compiled for The Wall Street Journal.
The results, based on Google hits, media mentions and academic citations, ranked
author and consultant Gary Hamel No. 1.
online.wsj.com - posted 5/5/08
Wal-Mart Stores Inc on Monday said it has expanded its low-priced drug program,
and will now offer certain 90-day generic prescriptions for $10 and sell more
than 1,000 over-the-counter medicines for $4 or less.
www.reuters.com - posted 5/5/08
Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won't get it in a flu
pandemic or other disaster. The gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding who to
let die.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/5/08
Employee disciplinary records show abuse and neglect are systemic in mental
hospitals in Texas, which has worked over the past year to revamp its juvenile
prison system because of similar allegations, according to a report published
Sunday.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/5/08
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Sunday dismissed the "elite
opinion" of economists who criticized her gas tax proposal, using a term that
has dogged rival Barack Obama in recent weeks.
www.reuters.com - posted 5/5/08
The man
who heavily influenced U.S. Sen. Barack Obama during his growing years wrote
poetry praising the aggression of communism, criticizing "Sweet Jesus" and
mocking the traditional hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers," according to an
advocate for media accuracy.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/5/08
Otis
Moss, the man slated to become the new chief pastor at the Trinity United Church
of Christ, referenced a rap song during one of his recent sermons that includes
among its lyrics "F--- America" and states the U.S. is "still with triple K" –
referring to the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/5/08
Oregon
citizens who say their rejection of same-sex marriage was quashed by the state
legislature scored a small legal victory in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
in San Francisco.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/5/08
It was a showdown, of sorts, over how far states should go to keep tabs on the
Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, the group known to endorse multiple
wives for men and motherhood for underage girls.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/5/08
Coed dorms rooms about compatibility, not hanky-panky.
www.bostonherald.com - posted 5/5/08
A new, simplified family tree of humanity has dealt a blow to those who contend
that the enigmatic hominids known as Neanderthals intermingled with our
forebears.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/5/08
Chinese authorities have filed new charges against a Christian bookstore owner
who observers say is being unjustly persecuted by the government.
www.baptistpress.com - posted 5/4/08
An
American soldier killed in Iraq probably was reading his Bible.
www.baptistpress.com - posted 5/4/08
The just released Country Report on Terrorism 2007 by the U.S. State Department
outlines a number of areas that serve as safe havens for terrorists. But first
it would be useful to delineate what qualifies as a safe haven.
www.metimes.com - posted 5/4/08
Inside the World's First Billion-Dollar Home
finance.yahoo.com - posted 5/4/08
Warren Buffett, chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said the
global credit crunch has eased for bankers, and the Federal Reserve probably
averted more failures by helping to rescue BearStearns Cos.
www.bloomberg.com - posted 5/4/08
This is one strange debate the candidates are having on energy policy. With gas
prices close to $4 a gallon, Hillary Clinton and John McCain say they'll bring
relief with a moratorium on the 18.4-cent federal gas tax. Barack Obama opposes
that but prefers a 1970s-style windfall profits tax (as does Mrs. Clinton).
online.wsj.com - posted 5/4/08
Microsoft
Corp. withdrew its $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo Inc. on Saturday, scrapping an
attempt to snap up the tarnished Internet icon in hopes of toppling online
search and advertising leader Google Inc.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/4/08
A
Democrat won a special congressional election here Saturday, bolstering his
party's majority status on Capitol Hill by taking a seat Republicans have held
since 1974.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/4/08
Barack Obama's problem winning votes from working-class whites is showing no
sign of going away, and their impression of him is getting worse.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/4/08
Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton by seven votes in the Guam
Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday. The count of more than 4,500 ballots
took all night.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/4/08
Conservative Christian leaders who believe the word "evangelical" has lost its
religious meaning plan to release a starkly self-critical document saying the
movement has become too political and has diminished the Gospel through its
approach to the culture wars.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/4/08
THE Vatican says it is happy that Pope Benedict was left off Time magazine's
list of the world's 100 most influential people, which included the Dalai Lama
and the spiritual head of Orthodox Christians.
www.news.com - posted 5/4/08
Are some Quakers going pagan?
www.christianitytoday.com - posted 5/4/08
Entering its third weekend, Ben Stein's "Expelled: No Intelligence Designed" has
entered the Top 15 on the all-time list for documentary films -– a distinction
that some say is a solid box office achievement, others say is a small feat.
www.baptistpress.com - posted 5/4/08
The Fair Use Project of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society
announced Thursday that it would serve as legal counsel for the producers of
“Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” in their right to use a clip of John
Lennon’s song “Imagine” in its pro-intelligent design documentary.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/4/08
Muslim rebels drove off more than 1,000 Christians from a southern Philippine
farming village and took over their land, the guerillas and a mayor said Friday.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/4/08
Changing
the numbers: Methodology used by NASA to estimate rates of climate change are
resulting in dramatic shifts in previously published historical temperature
data, causing figures for estimated global surface temperature prior to 1970 to
now be lower and figures since 1970 to now be higher – and appearing to provide
evidence for those who say the Earth is warming.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/4/08
While no recent studies are available on who uses powder cocaine most,
government data show more Hispanics than whites or blacks have been sentenced on
federal powder charges as far back as 1992.
www.signonsandiego.com - posted 5/4/08
Big Brown was pulling away from the field, accelerating with every powerful
stride toward the finish line in the Kentucky Derby. The crowd of 157,770 was on
its feet and cheering as the big, unbeaten, muscular bay crossed the line first,
4 3/4 lengths ahead of the filly Eight Belles.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/4/08
Opinion: The Truth About Iraq's Casualty Count
online.wsj.com - posted 5/3/08
Employers cut a smaller-than-expected 20,000 jobs in April, while the
unemployment rate fell to 5% from 5.1%. The data offered a tentative sign that
the economy might be escaping a deep recession.
online.wsj.com - posted 5/3/08
Hillary
Rodham Clinton called for a vote Friday in the Democratic-controlled Congress on
a summertime suspension of the federal gasoline tax, a plan that Barack Obama
dismissed as a political stunt that would cost thousands of construction jobs.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/3/08
Opinion: Indiana voters angry over their tax assessments could hurt the
democratic candidates.
online.wsj.com - posted 5/3/08
Microsoft
Corp. finally dangled a higher takeover bid in front of Yahoo Inc. Friday,
hoping to reach a friendly deal after weeks of saber rattling.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/3/08
Just 16 months into his four-year-term, Ohio's attorney general admitted he was
in over his head as he acknowledged an affair with a subordinate and his failure
to stop problems that led to a sexual harassment investigation that brought down
three of his aides.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/3/08
Federal authorities arrested a man accused of running an investment scheme that
netted more than $25 million by targeting Christian investors nationwide.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/3/08
An arrest warrant has been dropped for a man thought to be the husband of a
teenage girl whose report of abuse triggered a raid on a polygamous sect's Texas
compound, authorities said Friday.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/3/08
Boris Johnson
has won the race to become the next mayor of London, and is the first
conservative to do so in thirty years.
news.bbc.co.uk - posted 5/3/08
Cuba
lifts its ban on home computers.
news.bbc.co.uk - posted 5/3/08
The
last known survivor of a group of German army officers who tried to assassinate
Adolf Hitler in 1944 has died aged 90, his family says.
news.bbc.co.uk - posted 5/3/08
Two parched years - punctuated by the driest spring in at least 150 years -
could force districts across California to ration water this summer as
policymakers and scientists grow increasingly concerned that the state is on the
verge of a long-term drought.
www.sfgate.com - posted 5/3/08
Despite protest from the head of The Episcopal Church, clergy from a diocese
that is moving toward a split with the national church are meeting with
Archbishop Gregory Venables, head of the conservative Anglican Province of the
Southern Cone in South America.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/3/08
The Rev. A.R. Bernard, founding senior pastor of Christian Cultural Center, was
officiated as the new president of the Council of Churches of the City of New
York Thursday night, during an installation service where speakers called for
the revival of the Church.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/3/08
Leaders of Ireland's main Christian churches were barred from praying at
Jerusalem's Western Wall Thursday because they refused to remove the crosses
they were wearing.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/3/08
The state of
Texas has decided that a graduate school with a faculty sporting Ph.Ds from
UCLA, Penn State, the University of Montana, Colorado State, Case Western and
Indiana University, with a few lowly Ed.D. degrees thrown it, isn't qualified to
grant master's degrees because it teaches students to evaluate thoroughly the
pluses – and minuses – of evolution and creation.
www.wnd.com - posted 5/3/08
A discussion on
religion, homosexuality and therapy that had been scheduled during the American
Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in Washington has been shut down
following an attack by a "gay" publication on some of the people planning to
participate.
www.wnd.com - posted 5/3/08
Rioting
lesbians have stormed a speech by "Born Gay Hoax" author Ryan Sorba on the
campus of Smith College in Massachusetts, shutting down his address, according
to two major pro-family organizations, Americans for Truth and Mass Resistance.
www.wnd.com - posted 5/3/08
Opinion The State of California's economic growth has occurred not because of,
but despite, its environmental policies.
online.wsj.com - posted 5/3/08
Find 5 tips for negotiating the best price on a new car at the dealership.
finance.yahoo.com - posted 5/3/08
Hidden fees and hard-to-redeem miles are among the things that airlines don't
want you to know about.
finance.yahoo.com - posted 5/2/08
A
local government official says a car bomb has killed or wounded dozens of
worshippers at a mosque in northern Yemen.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/2/08
The U.S. military on Friday blamed al-Qaida in Iraq for a double suicide bombing
that killed at least 36 people during a wedding procession through a crowd of
people cheering the bride and groom in a town northeast of Baghdad.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/2/08
Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel bases deep inside Iraq for three hours
overnight, a rebel spokesman said Friday.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/2/08
Congressional leaders will release a letter today to the Chinese government
pleading with Beijing to protect persecuted North Koreans fleeing their country
for food and the right to practice Christianity.
nysun.com - posted 5/2/08
For Europe’s middle-class, stagnant wages are stunting their lifestyle.
www.nytimes.com - posted 5/2/08
Microsoft Corp. may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo Inc. as soon as Friday,
according to a published report.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/2/08
Bishop J. Douglas Wiley has just a tent for a church and a fraction of his
congregants, more than 2 1/2 years after Hurricane Katrina.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/2/08
Sen. Barack Obama's break with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is putting black pastors
and their congregations in a difficult position, their loyalties divided between
a politician who could be the first black president and a celebrated preacher
who many believe has been vilified.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/2/08
Uh-oh,
here we go again: Meet Obama's new pastor -- Otis Moss compares Wright to Jesus,
backs up predecessor on AIDS, drugs.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/2/08
Opinion: Obama's other radical friends
online.wsj.com - posted 5/2/08
Memories: Messages from John in prison.
online.wsj.com - posted 5/2/08
A legal group that focuses on Christian religious freedom cases sent letters to
the nation’s largest cities advising them of the right to participate in
Thursday’s National Day of Prayer, and to assure them that attorneys are ready
to defend those in any legal dispute.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/2/08
Struggling to confront a worsening homicide rate, the mayor of Birmingham,
Alabama, invited pastors and citizens to don burlap sacks and ashes in a sign of
biblical repentance.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/2/08
The resignation of a popular English professor at Wheaton College has many
students talking at the prominent evangelical campus, especially over the cause
of his leaving – refusing to discuss details of his divorce.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/2/08
An
American citizen who has reported being jailed and tortured in Canada without
consular access in violation of the Vienna Convention following his discovery of
an alleged drug ring says he now is being denied access to paperwork the U.S.
government reports concerns his case.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/2/08
Opinion:
Ben Stein is known to many as an actor on Comedy Central. But the funniest part
about his recent movie "Expelled" is not any clever lines spoken by Stein but
the hysterical way liberals are trying to discourage people from seeing it.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/2/08
In Ben Stein’s recent box office splash and pro-intelligent design documentary,
“Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” links between Darwinism and the genocidal
policies of Adolf Hitler are probed and explored. That link, according to Coral
Ridge Ministries, has been historically proven time and time again.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/2/08
A Japanese civil servant was demoted for logging more than 780,000 hits on
pornographic Web sites on his office computer over nine months, an official said
Friday.
www.breitbart.com - posted 5/2/08
In
an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, Barack Obama again fabricated the
background of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to try to excuse his longtime pastor’s
denunciations of America and of whites.
www.newsmax.com - posted 5/1/08
Opinion: The Wright Albatross for Obama.
www.newsmax.com - posted 5/1/08
Hillary Rodham Clinton was jolted Thursday by the defection of one of her
longtime superdelegate supporters, a former national party chairman who urged
fellow Democrats to "reject the old negative politics" and unify behind Barack
Obama.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/1/08
Treasure trove found in 500-year-old shipwreck off Africa.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/1/08
The
American military launched an airstrike Thursday targeting the head of al-Qaida
in Somalia, a U.S. defense official said. The head of an Islamic insurgent group
said the attack killed its leader.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/1/08
The weekend plot to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai was masterminded by
militants with links to al-Qaida members who reside in Pakistan's lawless tribal
areas, an Afghan intelligence official said Thursday.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/1/08
An Iraqi delegation traveled to Iran with evidence that proves the Islamic
republic is arming and training of Shiite militias in Iraq, an official said
Thursday.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/1/08
CIA
Director Michael Hayden said Wednesday that Iranian policy, at the highest
government level, is to help kill Americans in Iraq, the boldest pronouncement
of Iranian involvement by a U.S. official to date.
wcbstv.com - posted 5/1/08
Opinion: Cut and run—Democrats and the Killing Field
online.wsj.com - posted 5/1/08
Iran will likely have nuclear bomb technology in 2008, Transportation Minister
Shaul Mofaz said Wednesday, citing an updated Israeli intelligence assessment.
www.jpost.com - posted 5/1/08
Israel
should give up its nuclear weapons to ensure Iran halts its illicit nuclear
program, argues an adviser on nuclear issues to Sen. Barack Obama.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/1/08
Hamas: Jews
planned Holocaust to kill handicapped among them.
www.israelnationalnews.com - posted 5/1/08
China has secretly built a major underground nuclear submarine base that could
threaten Asian countries and challenge American power in the region, it can be
disclosed.
www.telegraph.co.uk - posted 5/1/08
Opinion: The Darfur War Crimes Test
online.wsj.com - posted 5/1/08
The poor quality of public education in Mexico has become a growing concern as
its government embarks on a new push to modernize.
www.usatoday.com - posted 5/1/08
Australia will change a raft of federal laws to remove discrimination against
gay couples, but will stop short of allowing same-sex marriages, the government
announced Wednesday.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/1/08
One of Canada’s largest Christian ministries dedicated to caring for the
disabled was fined $23,000 recently by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario for
allegedly discriminating against a former homosexual employee.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/1/08
A prominent Jewish leader has called for Germany to lift a 70-year-old ban
against publishing Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto on the racial
supremacy of the Aryan people.
www.usatoday.com - posted 5/1/08
Former President Jimmy Carter has given Barack Obama a major boost by calling
for the bitter Democratic nomination battle to end on June 3rd and speaking
glowingly of his ability to “transform the image” of America.
www.telegraph.co.uk - posted 5/1/08
A leader of
the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton has switched his allegiance to Barack
Obama and is encouraging fellow Democrats to "heal the rift in our party" and
unite behind the Illinois senator.
apnews.myway.com - posted 5/1/08
Hundreds of North Korean defectors, activists, congressmen, and pastors gathered
Tuesday on Capitol Hill to hold a rally for North Koreans suffering under the
regime of Kim Jung Il.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/1/08
The governors of all 50 U.S. states as well as the Virgin Islands have signed
proclamations for the 57th annual National Day of Prayer on May 1, officials of
the day of prayer announced Wednesday.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/1/08
More than
three million Latin American immigrants in the United States, responding to the
economic downturn and new uncertainties about their future, have stopped sending
money home to their families in the last two years, according to a survey
released on Wednesday by the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington.
www.iht.com - posted 5/1/08
Five members were newly elected to the United Methodist Church's highest court,
but some say the new group may tilt the denomination's Judicial Council to the
left on highly debated issues such as homosexual ordination.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/1/08
United Methodists declared Monday a "banner day" as they approved a full
communion agreement with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/1/08
Hundreds of United Methodists have begun looking over some 1,500 petitions that
have been proposed by those seeking change in church policies and structures,
among other things, homosexuality and transgender issues.
www.christianpost.com - posted 5/1/08
While L.A. still reigns as the most polluted city overall, a new city overtakes
it for sootiest.
green.yahoo.com - posted 5/1/08
For nine decades after Bolshevik executioners gunned down Czar Nicholas II and
his family, there were no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Alexei, the
hemophiliac heir to Russia's throne.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/1/08
The sputtering economy has caused an increase in prices of many staples
including gasoline, rice, ice cream, even beer. Now some lawmakers in New Jersey
are considering taking food taxes a step further and install a proverbial
"sin" tax on fast food.
wcbstv.com - posted 5/1/08
Army officials said Tuesday they are inspecting every barracks building
worldwide to see whether plumbing and other problems revealed at Fort Bragg,
N.C., last week are widespread.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/1/08
Opinion: A survey of 12 notorious Supreme Court decisions -- including those
that damage property rights.
online.wsj.com - posted 5/1/08
A trip to the Gettysburg battlefield changed Supreme Court Justice David
Souter's perspective on handling difficult cases that inevitably come a judge's
way.
news.yahoo.com - posted 5/1/08
A
requirement for public schools to teach "critical analysis" of evolution, a term
used by intelligent design supporters, passed Monday in the Florida House.
www1.wsvn.com - posted 5/1/08
In the
latest addition to a six-year study that might stun Hollywood, the results from
2007 show that Americans preferred – sometimes by a huge margin – movies that
are conservative, patriotic and pro-American containing traditional, biblical
values over anti-capitalist, socialist, atheist or perverse sexual themes.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 5/1/08
Pixie
dust causes a finger tip to regenerate!
news.bbc.co.uk - posted 5/1/08
The killings
of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death
toll for April up to 47, making it the deadliest month since September.
news.yahoo.com - posted 4/30/08
Five Taliban militants blew themselves up in a house in the Afghan capital Kabul
after 10 hours of clashes with besieging Afghan security forces on Wednesday, an
Interior Ministry official told Reuters.
news.yahoo.com - posted 4/30/08
A leading human rights group accused Zimbabwe's army Wednesday of working with
ruling party militants to unleash "terror and violence" against dissents.
news.yahoo.com - posted 4/30/08
China has detained scores of Buddhist monks over the past month, a Tibet
activist group said Wednesday, a day after six monks were sentenced in the first
trial of rioters since deadly violence in Tibet last month.
news.yahoo.com - posted 4/30/08
Opinion: Libel: Foreign Law and the First Amendment
online.wsj.com - posted 4/30/08
Opinion: The list of Afrocentric "educators" whom the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has
invoked in his media escapades since Sunday is a disturbing reminder that
academia's follies can enter the public world in harmful ways. Now the pressing
question is whether they have entered Barack Obama's worldview as well.
online.wsj.com - posted 4/30/08
Radical
from '60s stoked by Barack: Students for a Democratic Society leader now
webmaster for Progressives for Obama.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 4/30/08
Governor Mike
Easley has endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton for president.
apnews.myway.com - posted 4/30/08
Republicans are howling over what appears to be Nancy Pelosi’s plan to bypass
the House Appropriations Committee on the upcoming Iraq war supplemental,
complaining that the move will be the beginning of the end of the usual
appropriations process and will further consolidate power in the hands of a
speaker who already has a lot of it.
www.politico.com - posted 4/30/08
The highest court of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has found that a Northern
California minister did not violate denominational law when she officiated at
the weddings of two lesbian couples.
www.christianpost.com - posted 4/30/08
A brief
has been filed in a California court case that at one point threatened
homeschooling by hundreds of thousands of people statewide, and it argues the
U.S. and California Constitutions both recognize the fundamental rights of
parents to direct the education of their children.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 4/30/08
Swimmers were again cleared from a Florida beach Monday after a third swimmer in
three days was bitten by a shark and treated at a hospital.
www.local6.com - posted 4/30/08
General Motors Corp. posted a $3.3 billion first-quarter loss, due in part to a
weak U.S. market, a strike at a major supplier and plummeting sales of sport
utility vehicles and pickups.
www.breitbart.com - posted 4/30/08
The Institute for Humanist Studies, an Albany, N.Y.-based nonprofit, is calling
attention to its calendar of atheist holidays on its Web site. The group wants
nonbelievers (or at least people who don't celebrate religious holidays) to have
a handy reference guide of the calendar of holidays honoring free-thinkers,
banned books and nature, among other themes.
www.washingtontimes.com - posted 4/30/08
Former SS doctor Aribert Heim tops a list released Wednesday of most-wanted
suspected Nazi war criminals. He is a man so brutal that witnesses remember him
as the worst they saw, though he was only at Mauthausen concentration camp for
two months.
news.yahoo.com - posted 4/30/08
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former long-time pastor to Sen. Barack Obama, said at
the National Press Club on Monday that he believes the U.S. government is
"capable" of having invented HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, as a means of
committing genocide against people of color...
www.cnsnews.com - posted 4/29/08
America reaped what it sowed on September 11, 2001, and the Golden Rule -- "Do
unto others as you would have them do unto you" -- explains why the United
States was attacked that day, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright said at the National
Press Club on Monday...
www.cnsnews.com - posted 4/29/08
Obama said he was outraged by the comments of his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah
Wright, and saddened by the "spectacle" of his appearance Monday. Obama is
seeking to tamp down the growing fury over Wright and his remarks, which
threaten to envelop his campaign.
online.wsj.com - posted 4/29/08
Opinion: When
kooks come home to roost.
www.andrewsandlin.net - posted 4/29/08
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) never said it would be "fine" with him to fight the
Iraq War for 100 years. But that's what a new ad from the Democratic National
Committee suggests.
www.cnsnews.com - posted 4/29/08
Opinion: Victory against voter fraud -- In ruling on the constitutionality of
Indiana's voter ID law – the toughest in the nation – the Supreme Court had to
deal with the claim that such laws demanded the strictest of scrutiny by courts,
because they could disenfranchise voters. All nine Justices rejected that
argument.
online.wsj.com - posted 4/29/08
Opinion: We're Not Losing Afghanistan.
online.wsj.com - posted 4/29/08
Shell and BP posted sharply higher profit for the first quarter as the top two
listed European oil companies continue to benefit from soaring crude prices.
Shell's net was up 25% and BP's net jumped 63%.
online.wsj.com - posted 4/29/08
Book Review: Hook-up or Shut Up: Without sexual boundaries, students feel
pressure to appear more promiscuous than they are.
online.wsj.com - posted 4/29/08
President
Hamid Karzai was warned of a weekend assassination plot against him,
Afghanistan's intelligence chief said Tuesday, while admitting that failings by
the security services allowed militants to launch the attack.
news.yahoo.com - posted 4/29/08
One lone church struggles to survive in a land where hundreds have been damaged
or destroyed. But this is no ordinary land; it is the very ground where
Apostle Paul took his first missionary journey to proclaim salvation through
Jesus Christ to the Roman Empire. Now 2,000 years later, the small Mediterranean
island of Cyprus is divided into two with the northern third occupied by Turkey.
In the span of three decades under Turkish control, more than 530 churches and
monasteries have been pillaged, vandalized, or destroyed in the northern area,
according to The Republic of Cyprus.
www.christianpost.com - posted 4/29/08
A
British citizen who converted to Christianity from Islam and then complained to
police when locals threatened to burn his house down was told by police officers
to “stop being a crusader”, according to a new report.
www.timesonline.co.uk - posted 4/29/08
A
governor in northern Saudi Arabia has ordered authorities to punish men who
flirt with women in public places by cutting their hair
www.breitbart.com - posted 4/29/08
A
senior government official was assassinated in Baghdad on Tuesday as clashes
between Shiite militants and U.S. and Iraqi forces in the capital's Sadr City
district left eight other people dead, officials said.
www.breitbart.com - posted 4/29/08
A North Korean defector who now resides in the United States recalled through
tear-filled eyes on Saturday the death of more than half her family due to
starvation and violence at the hands of Chinese and Korean authorities.
www.christianpost.com - posted 4/29/08
Thousands of children in southwest China have been sold into slavery like
"cabbages", to work as labourers in more prosperous areas such as the booming
southern province of Guangdong, a newspaper said on Tuesday.
www.reuters.com - posted 4/29/08
J.I. Packer, one of the world's most renowned evangelical theologians, left the
Anglican Church of Canada, citing "poisonous liberalism" in the church body.
www.christianpost.com - posted 4/29/08
Food-buying panic
over rice hits some Canadian stores
www.nationalpost.com - posted 4/29/08
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is going after his critics on an incendiary tour that
is doing his one-time congregant, Barack Obama, little good.
www.christianpost.com - posted 4/29/08
Rev.
Jeremiah Wright demonstrated he is a "man of principle" by sticking to his
teachings of "black liberation theology" during today's highly publicized
session with the news media, Malik Zulu Shabazz, national chairman of the New
Black Panther Party, told WND in an interview.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 4/29/08
Opinion: In a Tuesday appearance on Good Morning America, former House Speaker
Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., suggested that controversial pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright
is angry with parishioner Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and may be deliberately
trying to hurt his presidential bid.
blogs.abcnews.com - posted 4/29/08
The
heated campaign is souring Democrats on the rival candidates.
www.breitbart.com - posted 4/29/08
Convening
its national convention in Kansas City today, the Constitution Party picked
radio talk-show host Chuck Baldwin over former Ambassador Alan Keyes as its 2008
presidential candidate.
primebuzz.kcstar.com - posted 4/29/08
Americans are the most Bible literate and most prayerful when compared to the
most Christian-populated nations in Europe, according to a new study released on
Monday.
www.christianpost.com - posted 4/29/08
Three tornadoes
rip through Va.; more than 200 people are hurt.
abcnews.go.com - posted 4/29/08
A
state-funded organization in Maine that has been touted as "a stellar program
for social change" is advertising a coming seminar that essentially provides
information to impressionable school-age boys on how to be homosexual, according
to a pro-family organization opposing the plans.
worldnetdaily.com - posted 4/29/08
A shark expert says an autopsy has confirmed a great white killed a triathlete
in the waters off San Diego County last week.
www.breitbart.com - posted 4/29/08
A
closely watched index shows that U.S. home prices fell by 12.7 percent in
February versus last year, with 17 of the 20 metro areas reporting record annual
declines.
www.breitbart.com - posted 4/29/08
The
Federal Reserve is poised to deliver another interest rate cut to millions of
people and businesses this week
www.breitbart.com - posted 4/29/08
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