Texas
to teachers: Bible will be taught
Plan requires instruction
in both Old and
New Testaments
The Bible's history and literature will be required
to be taught in public schools in Texas under a new law that has been
clarified by the state attorney general to mean exactly what it says.
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2008
SUMMER GAMES
China cracks down
to clean Christians out of Beijing
'Government wants to
eradicate house churches before start of Olympics'
China has made headlines in its efforts to clean
smog from Beijing's Olympic skies, but word is leaking out that the
government is also making efforts to clean Christians out of the
streets as the games draw near.
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TESTING
THE FAITH
Judge blasts state
ban on
distributing
Bibles to students
Law unconstitutional
because it 'encourages
arbitrary enforcement'
A federal court has declared a Florida law banning
representatives of the Gideons from handing out Bibles within 500 feet
of any school in the state unconstitutional because it is vague and
actually "encourages arbitrary enforcement."
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Government to pastor:
Renounce your faith!
Now banned from expressing
opposition to
homosexuality
A Canadian human rights tribunal ordered a
Christian pastor to
renounce his faith and never again express moral opposition to
homosexuality, according to a new report.
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IN
THE MILITARY
Secret Army plans
under way to tear down
Christian symbols
Army says chapel crosses
violate policy
U.S. soldiers stationed at Camp Bondsteel in
Kosovo
may be stunned to find three wooden crosses stripped from the exterior
grounds of their chapel in coming weeks – and many never saw it coming.
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WorldNetDaily
IRS clears pastor who
backed Huckabee
'I'm sorry folks, I live in
America, not
Russia or China'
Pastor Wiley Drake of Buena Park, Calif.,
First Southern Baptist Church
has been cleared by the Internal Revenue Service of allegations he
violated the nation's tax code and endangered his church's tax-exempt
status by endorsing Mike Huckabee for president.
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LAW
OF THE LAND
Church battles for
property
lost to bake sale tax dispute
'To put lien on worship
facility over resale
activity is ludicrous'
The
city of Chicago has been handed another defeat in its effort to
take over a church's property in order to use in it a redevelopment
project, according to officials with the Alliance Defense Fund.
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Teacher keeps
Bible, cites God-given rights
Principal ordered Good Book
hidden from
students
An Ohio school teacher has refused an order
from his
public school principal to hide his personal Bible, which he's kept on
his desk for 18 years, from his students.
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FAITH
UNDER FIRE
Face of Olympic spirit:
China threatens Christian with death
'Leading up to the Olympic
Games, we actually see things getting worse'
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NORTHERN
EXPOSURE
Dobson editing radio show
to avoid 'hate
crimes' laws
Focus working to meet
demands of 'human
rights laws'
"Hate crimes" laws were defeated in Congress just a
few months ago. Just a few weeks ago, Frank Wright of the National
Religious Broadcasters Association warned, "We must be one in
Christ to face the days ahead" because "hate crimes" laws would create
untold new liability for Christians.
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FIRST
AMENDMENT ON TRIAL
City sued for arresting
pastor on public
sidewalk
Police take just 195
seconds to detain
'peaceful' Christian leader
A lawsuit has been filed against the city of Wichita,
Kan., and several of its police officers on behalf of a Christian
pastor arrested just for being on public property.
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ELECTION
2008
Family leaders call Romney
'disaster'
Letter criticizes
'deceptive rhetoric' around candidate
A coalition of leaders on family issues
has released a letter warning about what they describe as the deception
being assembled around former Massachusetts governor and GOP
presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
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FAITH
UNDER FIRE
Church shootings on rise
in U.S.
'Leaders must be prepared
to defend congregations'
Church shootings,
in the headlines because of the attacks by Matthew Murray, 24, of
Englewood, Colo., on two Christian groups last weekend, are on the rise
across the United States, even though they're not yet at epidemic
proportions.
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LAW
OF THE LAND
City told: Stop prosecuting
'annoying' Christian
Court says 1st Amendment
trumps ban on religious warnings that upset bar patrons
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FAITH
UNDER FIRE
Pastor hospitalized after attack by police
Authorities pressure leader to finger other believers
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LAW
OF THE LAND
Liberty Bell
rangers halt minister's speech
Center honoring U.S. freedoms restricts message against abortion
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CAIR's
Dirty Tricks against Me
The Council on
American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, North America's foremost Islamist
group, bills itself as a "civil
rights organization,"
suggesting it maintains high standards of decency and morality. But, as
I personally can attest, it fails abysmally to do so. Its
seven-year-long campaign against me has included misappropriation,
misrepresentation, misquotation, defamation, and inaccuracy, prompting
one one writer recently to compare its propaganda with that of Nazi
Germany.
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LAW OF THE
LAND
State's
'hate
crimes' code used against 'pure speech'
Civil
rights
advocate warns federal plan 'still lurking in shadows' in U.S. Senate
While California hate-crimes laws are being used
to target "pure speech," a federal plan that would impose similar
speech restrictions on Christians "is still lurking in the shadows" in
the U.S. Senate, warns a team of civil rights advocates.
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LAW
OF THE LAND
Now praying gets 7
Christians arrested
Cops call holding Bibles
while lying prostrate 'disturbing peace'
Christians have
been arrested recently at "gay" festivals for nothing more than having
a protest sign that is "wider than their torso," but now police have
gone even further, targeting Bible-carrying ministers for praying on
public property and for standing on a public sidewalk near a "gay"
festival.
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ELECTION
2008
Group sics IRS on Mormon
critic
'Bring it on,' evangelist
says of investigation of Romney comment
The Internal
Revenue Service has been asked to investigate the Florida ministry of
Bill Keller, host of the Live Prayer TV program as well as LivePrayer.com for his comments about Mormonism.
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FAITH
UNDER FIRE
IRS to church: Shut up –
Church to IRS: No way
Pastor under investigation
says he 'will not stop preaching God's word'
A Christian church
in Kansas has told the Internal Revenue Service that it will not stop
teaching and preaching God's Word, "even if it relates to contemporary
issues in the world," after the federal agency demanded answers to 31
questions about its beliefs and warned about "political" activity.
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YOUR
GOVERNMENT AT WORK
Bill sees churches as
political lobbies
Grassroots advocacy again
under fire from Congress
A
Christian law firm is launching an urgent petition drive to try to
convince Congress to drop plans to re-classify Christian ministers and
ministries as "lobbyists," a move that would create reams of red tape
and subject the leaders to fines of up to $50,000 if they don't follow
all of the fine print.
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FAITH
UNDER FIRE
Worker fired after posting
picture of Jesus
Says manager told him 'God'
not allowed on cubicle walls
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.
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FAITH
UNDER FIRE
Gideons battling 2nd round
of charges
'Why does Florida prosecute
people who hand out Bibles?'
Two members
of Gideons International who were arrested in Florida for handing out
Bibles on a public sidewalk are battling a second round of charges,
after the initial trespassing charges against them were dismissed, but
authorities filed a new set.
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FAITH
UNDER FIRE
Court orders preacher into
'exile'
Evangelical punished
despite government's claim of 'religious tolerance'
A
Christian leader under persecution for his faith has been ordered
exiled by the Uzbekistan government, after prosecutors alleged he was
preaching without government authorization, a new report from Voice
of the Martyrs has revealed.
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FAITH
UNDER FIRE
Teen's testimony of faith
unstopped by death
Missionary into Kim
Jong-Il's kingdom of religious oppression martyred
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Man faces death penalty
for becoming Christian
Despite ouster of Taliban
by U.S., court still prosecutes ex-Muslim
Despite
the fact the hardline Taliban regime is no longer in power, an Afghan
man faces possible execution for allegedly abandoning his Islamic roots
and becoming a Christian.
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Beijing in post-Christmas crackdown
House church with prominent
intellectuals targeted
A
campaign to crack down on house churches in Beijing has intensified
since Christmas, according to a monitor of the Chinese church.
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Legislature to fight to pray to Jesus
INDIANAPOLIS -- A federal judge's order that the
Indiana
Legislature
stop using the name Jesus Christ in its 188-year practice of holding an
opening prayer has sparked protests from residents, politicians and
clergy.
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The
Mid-East's beleaguered Christians
In the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a crowd of Muslim
demonstrators
tries to storm a Coptic church to protest at a play about a Muslim
campaign to convert Christians.
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FAITH UNDER FIRE
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Chinese Christians arrested
Church
leaders apprehended for holding 'illegal religious gathering'
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Louisiana hails Judge Moore-inspired bill
Act would prevent courts
from ruling on acknowledgement-of-God issues
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Merry
Christmas is NOT Offensive
—Jews Should Protect Religious Freedom for
Everyone.
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HOLIDAY BLUES
Wal-Mart faces boycott for 'banning'
Christmas
Top retailer accused of
discrimination while promoting Kwanzaa, Hanukkah
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Chinese Government
Forbids Catholic Seminaries to Teach against Abortion Says
Congressional Report
The
Congressional-Executive
Commission on China released its 2005 Annual Report last week, which
detailed a myriad of deplorable human rights abuses routinely committed
by the Chinese regime
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