Presbyterian Church to Decide on Proposal

It is a debate that could change the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) policy: whether to allow leeway on the ordination of gay clergy and lay elders and deacons.

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Former Stripper Not Typical Evangelical

Heather Veitch is not your typical evangelical Christian.

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Pat Robertson Accused of Damaging Movement

Fellow conservative religious leaders have expressed concern and even open criticism over Pat Robertson's habit of shooting from the hip on his daily religious news-and-talk television program, "The 700 Club."

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Poll: Should Tax Dollars Pay for Abortion? + Vote

Should Tax Dollars be used to pay for Abortion? Is Abortion Reproductive Health Care? You Vote and please leave comments!

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ASHEVILLE — The way critics of Cecil Bothwell read the North Carolina constitution, Bothwell has no business serving on Asheville City Council. Bothwell, whom voters elected to the council last month, is an avowed atheist.

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An amazing and telling example of radical Christianity and how it is viewed by the non-radical local community.

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Since 2002, when he opened the Ali Forney Center, which helps homeless gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth, Carl Siciliano says, he has often witnessed the baleful effects of some religious institutions on some young people.

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A Muslim convert was asked by the owners of a hotel she was staying in if she was a terrorist because she was wearing a hijab, a court heard today.

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Reporting from Washington - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether a Christian student group's right to religious liberty and the freedom of association can trump a university's ban on discrimination against gays and lesbians.

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A 74-year-old former member of the Exclusive Brethren religious sect was sentenced to prison Tuesday for two-and- a-half years for sexual assaults on four small girls.

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Why Did Christianity Succeed? The Diary Of Perpetua and Constantine.

While watching my favorite television channel (PBS) I was moved by a Frontline documentary ( Frontline: From Jesus To Christ - The First Christians ).

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All crises offer choices and all choices crises, but God fixes it all through Christ.

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Pastor Wiley Drake of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, California has decided to stop telling Christians to pray for President Obama's death.

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The union between the American Left and fundamentalist Islam seems like a marriage made in hell.

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Brisbane's rogue Catholic community and its rebel priest are still thriving almost one year after controversial practices within the church came to a head and its charismatic leader was threatened with excommunication.

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The administrative hearing on the termination of John Freshwater as a middle school science teacher in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, resumed on December 3, with truncated sessions both the 3rd and 4th.

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Prompted by an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, state prison officials in New Jersey have agreed to restore the right of a devout Christian prisoner to preach at weekly worship services and teach Bible study classes.

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Many well-meaning Westerners and infidels tell us that Islam is just an ancient religion with outdated ethical concepts like many others, or that Islamic scriptures contain violence passages as does other scriptures.

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Which frightens you more Sharia Law or Right Wing Evangelical Christians

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FIVE people who stared at the sun in the hope they might be witnessing religious apparitions are being treated for serious eye damage, a top eye surgeon has revealed.

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The money ran out first. Then the food. Over three months in 2006, as her five children grew more emaciated and listless by the day, Estelle Walker made no move to find a job, no effort to scrounge up a meal, her kids told a jury yesterday.

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In Support of Enjoying a "Traditional" Christmas

I love Christmas! People seem to be in especially good spirits overall during the Christmas season. Gifts to charities are the highest of the year, and gifts to family members and friends are more common, too. So is volunteering.

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Conservatives Edit the Christian Scriptures

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The Christmas holiday season, to the Christian, celebrates the literal fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy that Emmanuel (God with us), Jesus the Christ was indeed born!

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A mainstream Swiss political leader is calling for a ban on separate Muslim and Jewish cemeteries.

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The Gospel of Luke records that, as he was dying on the cross, Jesus showed his boundless mercy by praying for his killers this way: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." Not so fast, say contributors to the Conservative Bible Project.

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The authors claim that the decision in Switzerland to ban minarets is racist. However, in Saudi Arabia there are no Christian Churches at all and none are allowed. Sorry, Muslims, either get with freedom for everyone or get used to being the butt of discirmination.

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Tales Inside School: Condoms Cause AIDS

Australia: It seems an unofficial front for the Catholic Church's contraception disinformation campaign has been sleazing its way through regional New South Wales state school spreading its propaganda about condoms being ineffective in preventing HIV and other sexually transmitte …

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