Digital Angel months ahead of schedule
Posted on: Sunday, August 26, 2001
Wouldn't life be grand if you didn't have to worry about being robbed? What if you didn't have to worry about losing your money? Or that there would be no more fraud which in turn would cause the things you…
Earth Day Joins Easter — A Sign of Our Times?
Posted on: Sunday, August 26, 2001
“The emergence of a civilization in which knowledge moves freely and almost instantaneously throughout the world… has spurred a renewed investigation of the wisdom distilled by all faiths. This panreligious perspective may prove especially important where our global civilization’s responsibility…
Deadly Ebola Virus Strikes Close to Home for Uganda Missionary
Posted on: Sunday, August 26, 2001
KAMPALA, UGANDA (November 1, 2000) -- Former Canadian grid iron and nightclub singing star Peter Simon Turko, who is now a pastor in Kampala, Uganda, ministering to homeless children and those infected with the AIDS virus, has written an update…
Big Names Endorse The Evidence Bible
Posted on: Sunday, August 26, 2001
BELLFLOWER, CA (ANS) -- Josh McDowell, Franklin Graham, Dr. D. James Kennedy, as well as a number of other well-known Christian leaders, have put their names to a unique new Bible -- one that has been designed to counterattack the…
Speakers at NAE meeting discuss ‘charitable choice’
Posted on: Sunday, August 26, 2001
DALLAS (ABP) -- Social-service programs that seek to evangelize their clients will not qualify for direct federal grants, the head of President Bush's White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives told a gathering of conservative Christian leaders.
Faith-Based Compromise?
Posted on: Sunday, August 26, 2001
"A politics of community can be strengthened when we are not afraid to make the connections between spirituality and politics."[2] Al Gore who also touted faith-based partnerships. Senator again urges expanded role for religion in social service programs "Bush and…
A Danish Christian Teenage Sees Victory in Fight Against Pornography
Posted on: Sunday, August 26, 2001
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (ANS) - An 18-year-old Christian called Marianne Larsen has seen quite a victory in an extraordinary battle against pornography in Denmark. UCB Crossroad, a Christian radio and TV ministry, and the prayers of 185,000 Brazilian women in the…
Justices consider Christian club’s use of public school facilities
Posted on: Sunday, August 26, 2001
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- U.S. Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments Feb. 28 in a dispute over whether a Christian youth organization should be allowed to meet with children directly after school hours in an upstate New York public school. While…
Fate of Good News Christian Clubs in Hands of U.S. Supreme Court
Posted on: Sunday, August 26, 2001
(AgapePress) - A case headed for the U.S. Supreme Court could decide the future of after-school Christian clubs. Baptist Press reports the case involves the refusal of a New York school district to allow a Christian youth group, The Good…
Is A Vote For Gore A Vote For The Antichrist?
Posted on: Sunday, August 26, 2001
Let me state flatly that I do not believe Al Gore is the Antichrist. But millions of conservatives around the world, religious and non-religious, are concerned with the United Nations earth-centered one-world environmentalism supported by such as he. Al Gore…
Cereal Maker Backtracks After Including Bible with CD-ROM Offer
Posted on: Friday, August 24, 2001
(AgapePress) - General Mills has issued an apology for including a free software version of the Bible in more than 12 million boxes of its cereals due on store shelves this morning. According to the Detroit Free Press, the $10…
Laity key to church planting, conference speakers claim
Posted on: Friday, August 24, 2001
WACO, Texas (ABP) -- Church planting is too big a job for just seminary-trained ministers, conference leaders told a group of Baptist church starters. "Some of the best church planters in the world today are not ordained pastors," Charles Brock,…
Five Christians Released in Brunei
Posted on: Friday, August 24, 2001
LOS ANGELES, March 1 (Compass) -- Five of seven Christians arrested in December and January for alleged "cult" activities and detained under Brunei's Internal Security Act have been released. It was not known if any conditions were attached to their…
Religious Freedom in the Classroom Disputed in Chile
Posted on: Friday, August 24, 2001
SANTIAGO, Chile (Compass) -- The issue of religious discrimination is in the public spotlight in Chile, due to the case of San Pedro de la Paz, a town some 300 miles south of Santiago. There a Baptist lawyer named Raul…
On Cults, Leaders and Politics in China
Posted on: Friday, August 24, 2001
ANHUI "Here we only have one registered church, which is packed out with people standing in the courtyard. However, since the church was opened, none of the accounts listing all the believers' donations have ever been made public to them.…
