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Biker For Jesus 2007-04-28 16:00:00 ODESSA - The Rev. Duane Gryder has preached in church pulpits, prisons and foreign countries. He even sang with a contemporary Christian band in the early '80s.
While the 54-year-old Assemblies of God minister could find a comfortable plateau in his ministry, Gryder is hitting the highway full throttle with a passion for the estimated 9 million bikers in the United States.
Hammer down with his Read more:Biker
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Prosperity Preachers or Frauds? 2007-04-28 15:58:00 SAO PAULO, Brazil -- As Brazil's most infamous evangelical couple waits in electronic ankle bracelets for a cash-smuggling trial in U.S. federal court, Brazilians are taking a closer look at the husband and wife team whose case has been compared to that of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker in America.
Their adoring followers refer to them as Apostle Estevam and the Bishop Sonia. But Brazilian Read more:Preachers
The Porn Pastor? 2007-04-28 15:57:00 Professional wrestling, music and a pastor debating a porn star will hit Center Stage in Atlanta on Saturday.
Unscripted 2007 will see legendary porn star Ron Jeremy butt heads with Craig Gross, pastor of the largest anti-porn ministry in the country, XXXChurch.com. The debate will address such pornography issues as whether it's degrading to women and whether it’s addictive or destructive, among Read more:Pastor
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Branch Dividians Rise From Ashes 2007-04-28 02:23:00 It's been 14 years since federal agents took down the Branch
Davidian compound near Waco. More than 80 people were killed, including four federal agents.
Since then, one man has made it his mission to rebuild and restore what he calls "God's Order to the Land."
It was prophesized within the Branch Davidian of 7th Day Adventist Church that someone was going to come to bring an end to following
Limbo Ends for Millions of Babies 2007-04-28 02:14:00 ROME -- Babies
who die before being baptized will no longer be trapped in limbo following a decision by the Pope to abolish the concept from Roman Catholic teaching.
The decision was taken after the pontiff was presented with Vatican studies that said there were "serious" grounds that such souls could go to heaven, rather than exist between heaven and hell as they have done for almost 800 years.
Return To Latin Mass & Anti-Jewish Prayer 2007-04-28 02:07:00 The Pope's plan to revive the Latin
Mass, which includes prayers for the conversion of Jews, is causing concern among Catholics and Jews.
BBC reported that religious commentators predict that Pope Benedict will issue authorization for wider use of the Mass - known as the Tridentine Mass - soon.
The Mass was celebrated for hundreds of years before being replaced by a liturgy celebrated in local Read more:Return
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Seven Kidnapped Christians Beheaded 2007-04-27 20:03:00 PHILIPINES -- On Jolo, an unsuccessful attempt to extort a $105,000 ransom for seven kidnapped Christians
(six laborers and a fisherman), ended when the Abu Sayyaf kidnappers killed their victims and had the heads delivered to military outposts. The Islamic terrorists had asked the local Christian community to come up with the money, and did not wait to negotiate when the local Christians didn't Read more:Seven
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Pastor Charged in Sex Assualt 2007-04-27 17:45:00 CALIFORNIA, Sacramento -- A Sacramento pastor was ordered to stand trial Thursday in Sacramento Superior Court on charges of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy in a library bathroom.
Bail for Frederick Deshawn Dew will remain at $1.2 million, Judge Gary S. Mullen ordered at the conclusion of a a day-long preliminary hearing.
Dew, 34, was ordered to stand trial on four felony counts, Read more:Pastor
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"Children Should Meditate" Says Priest 2007-04-27 17:36:00 AUSTRALIA -- Children
as young as five should be taught the ancient spiritual practice of meditation alongside religious doctrine, the leader of its modern Christian revival says.
Meditation is one way to tap into children's innate sense of the divine and could lay the spiritual foundations for an enduring religious life that outlasts parent-organized Sunday worship, says Father Laurence Freeman Read more:Priest
Jesus Appears on Google Maps 2007-04-26 16:07:00 He has appeared in many places – on a cement floor, on a shower wall, and most notably on a dog's backside – but now Jesus
has appeared in a place that's perhaps more appropriate… floating in the shape of a cloud over Mount Sinai.
Or so claims somebody on YouTube, anyway.
The video was created by one Brian Martin of the USA, who describes it in the following manner: 'I google mapped where Read more:Appears
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Sacred Texts on Display 2007-04-26 15:59:00 LONDON -- For the first time, the oldest and most precious surviving texts of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths have gone on display side by side at the British Library. They include a tattered scrap of a Dead Sea Scroll and a Qur'an commissioned for a 14th-century Mongol ruler of modern Iran who was born a shaman, baptised a Christian, and converted first to Buddhism, then Sunni and Read more:Display
Alleged Rapist Claims "Possessed!" 2007-04-26 15:51:00 QUEENSLAND, Australia -- An alleged child rapist who claimed to be possessed by an ancient Egyptian sex god will face a retrial after a jury was unable to reach a verdict this week.The man and his wife, an erotic masseuse, had pleaded not guilty in Queensland's Southport District Court to eight charges including rape and indecent dealing relating to alleged offenses against the woman's 14- Read more:Alleged
Hindu Extremists Blamed 2007-04-26 15:46:00 NEW DELHI, April 25 (Compass Direct News) – Hindu
extremists in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh have brought the incidence of Christian persecution to an unprecedented high, including a slander campaign against the state’s chief minister, Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, a Christian.
Sam Paul, public affairs secretary of the All India Christian Council, said at least one anti-Christian incident
President Should Have Prayed 2007-04-26 15:39:00 LONDON -- Tony Blair should have prayed with US President
George Bush before they decided to launch the war in Iraq, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.
Although the two men are devout Christians, Mr Blair famously told interviewer Jeremy Paxman that he and Mr Bush did not pray together in the run-up to war.
Dr Rowan Williams said that if they had prayed to God about the war, they may well
Jesus Restrains Friend 2007-04-26 04:53:00 CHESHIRE -- A nativity shepherd attacked a train guard and had to be held back by Jesus
and an elf, a court heard yesterday.
Mark Brassington, 35, shouted racial abuse and swung his shepherd’s crook at the Asian train worker after a drinking binge at a pre-Christmas fancy dress party.
His pals, dressed as Jesus and an elf, stepped in at Macclesfield train station in Cheshire.
Brassington, of
Worker Fired For Jesus Picture 2007-04-25 23:54:00 A call center employee says he has been dismissed from his job for posting an artist's rendition of the crucifixion during Easter week, even though other employees were allowed to post pictures and art as they chose in their cubicles.
Chris Romansky, a former employee of Barclays, told WorldNetDaily he was told there had been a complaint about the picture he put up to remind himself of Christ's Read more:Jesus
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Figure of Jesus Stolen 2007-04-25 19:20:00 OXFORD, BRITAIN -- The congregation of an Oxford church is searching for Jesus
- after a four foot-high statue of Christ was stolen from their churchyard.
Parishioners at St Thomas the Martyr Church in Becket Street were devastated when they discovered the figure, depicting Jesus on the cross, had gone missing.
But police believe the figure has not gone far and the church is now appealing for
Can Jesus Heal Aids? 2007-04-25 19:13:00 SOUTH AFRICA -- An advertisement for a religious campaign has been ruled out of order for lack of evidence that Jesus
can heal Aids.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) made the ruling after receiving a complaint about a newspaper advertisement in March for a "Miracle Crusade with Reverend Angley".
The advertisement claimed among other things that Jesus "heals Aids".
The ASA said it had
Weeping Mary Icon Taken Off Market 2007-04-25 19:06:00 ORLANDO, Fla. -- The life-size statue of the Virgin Mary appearing to weep at an Orlando furniture store is no longer for sale.
The replica of the Pieta, the famous depiction of Mary cradling the body of her son Jesus Christ after he died, was shipped five weeks ago from Europe to Castle Designs.
The statue now has what appears to be a gray tear.
The gray tear falling down the left cheek of Read more:Weeping
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Volcano Cult Members Convert 2007-04-25 19:00:00 Thousands of cult members who use to worship a mythical messiah figure they believed to dwell inside a nearby volcano are giving their hearts to Christ after viewing a Jesus film.
The people on the isolated South Pacific island of Tanna, in the country of Vanuatu, have long put their faith in John Frum, a figure they insist is a former American GI during World War II who will someday emerge from Read more:Volcano
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Boris Yeltsin's Christian Funeral 2007-04-25 18:52:00 MOSCOW: Boris
Yeltsin, the country's first democratically elected president, was buried on Wednesday after a somber, symbolic funeral service that was attended by Russia's political elite, current and former world leaders, and his family and close friends.
The service was held in full accordance with Orthodox Christian
tradition in the Christ the Savior Cathedral, whose reconstruction Yeltsin Read more:Funeral
Third Church Leaves Baptist Group 2007-04-30 15:46:00 CHARLOTTE -- Another Baptist
church in Charlotte voted Sunday to quit the increasingly conservative Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.
The pastor of Sardis Baptist Church
said his flock considers a new convention rule forbidding member churches to affirm homosexual behavior to be a violation of local church freedom, a principle Baptists hold dear.
"We're not leaving mad or upset: We're Read more:Group
Knievel Not So Evil? 2007-04-30 15:38:00 CALIFORNIA -- On Palm Sunday, hundreds responded to former daredevil Robert "Evel" Knievel's testimony by asking to be baptized on the spot at Crystal Cathedral.
Speaking alongside the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, Knievel told the congregation in Orange County, California, how he had refused for 68 years to accept Jesus Christ as Lord because he didn't want to surrender his lifestyle.
"I don't
Jesus On A Harley 2007-04-30 15:37:00 The sound of motorcycle engines revving up on Sunday was just as inspirational as any four-part harmony selection, according to members of Hope Community Church.
Their annual Biker Sunday drew hundreds of motorcycles and people to the church grounds as members attempted to demonstrate that God's love is open to everyone.
"Everybody's welcome here," said the Rev. Steve Weldon, the church's Read more:Jesus
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Iran's President: I Will Stop Christianity 2007-04-30 05:05:00 IRAN -- An Iranian convert to Christianity
was kidnapped last week from his home in northeastern Iran and stabbed to death, his bleeding body thrown in front of his home a few hours later. Ghorban Tori, 50, was pastoring an independent house church of convert Christians in Gonbad-e-Kavus, a town just east of the Caspian Sea along the Turkmenistan border.
Within hours of the November 22 murder, Read more:President
Christianity Banned In Parts of India 2007-04-29 20:24:00 NEW DELHI, INDIA -- One of India
's main advocacy organizations representing churches and mission groups expressed shock Saturday, April 28, that the Hindu-led government of Andhra Pradesh "banned Christianity
" in several parts of the volatile state.
The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) told BosNewsLife that authorities plan to "clam down" on those promoting other religions than Read more:Banned
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You Can't Beat A Missionary 2007-04-29 20:17:00 JAIPUR -- A missionary was on Sunday severely assaulted here for allegedly preaching Christianity. Walter Masih said it was an act by those who are against Christianity.
"I am unaware whether they were from Hindu groups. I am serving the people and I want an unbiased probe into the matter," he told over the phone.
Masih claimed he was manhandled by over 20 people at his rented house in Nandpuri
Spanking Children Said To be God's Will 2007-04-29 20:15:00 EL SOBRANTE, CA -- Parents who belong to the Bethel Baptist Church in El Sobrante are told in no uncertain terms: Spank your children or oppose God's will.
The church, which also runs the 200-student Bethel Christian Academy, discourages parents from using their hands and recommends using a "rod" or flexible stick to swat children until their will is broken. But an eight-panel church pamphlet Read more:Spanking
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Boston's Mystery Church 2007-04-29 17:01:00 BOSTON -- It's been five months since the Universal Church
of the Kingdom of God bought the old Saint Mary Star of the Sea church in East Boston
, putting $1.8 million into the pocket of a photographer who flipped the property.
But to outsiders, the neighborhood's new Pentecostal church remains a mystery. And the sale of the property remains a question mark.
A sign posted in Spanish near the Read more:Mystery
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