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.…
High Profile Prisoner Released, but Others Arrested in China
Posted on: Friday, August 24, 2001
HONG KONG (Compass) -- Zhang Rongliang, also known as David Zhang, is at large in China despite receiving a three-years' hard labor sentence in December 1999. Reliable reports from central China say he was able to buy himself out of…
Making Theology Compatible With Socialism
Posted on: Friday, August 24, 2001
Under the cover of "theological construction," or making theology compatible with socialist society, liberal leaders of the Three Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) and the China Christian Council (CCC) have launched a wide-ranging attack against evangelical theology in China.
Egyptian Court Convicts Christian Villager of Murder
Posted on: Friday, August 24, 2001
ISTANBUL, June 8 (Compass) -- In a long-deferred judgment handed down June 5, the Sohag Criminal Court ruled Coptic Christian villager Shaiboub Arsal guilty of the 1998 double murder of his cousin and another young Copt in southern Egypt's El-Kosheh…
Why TBN’s Paul Crouch Does Not Understand China
Posted on: Friday, August 24, 2001
Paul Crouch got it wrong. In fact, Christian leaders only get it that wrong once or twice a decade. The last time a Christian leader visited China and swallowed and disgorged official propaganda so obligingly for his Chinese hosts was…
Cuban Church Closed on Easter
Posted on: Friday, August 24, 2001
LOS ANGELES (Compass) -- Cuban government authorities closed a Baptist church in a Havana suburb on Easter Sunday. Members of the church must comply with the April 23 closure order or face fines or a court trial for contempt, said…
Egypt Acquits All Muslim Murder Suspects
Posted on: Friday, August 24, 2001
ISTANBUL, February 6 (Compass) -- Instead of convicting the Muslim murder suspects accused of killing 21 Christians in last year's El-Kosheh massacre, a judge in southern Egypt has accused the local Coptic clergy of responsibility for the three-day rampage.
Texas moderates may leave SBC to form new, national Baptist group
Posted on: Thursday, August 23, 2001
DALLAS (BP)--The Baptist General Convention of Texas is openly discussing whether or not to sever ties with the Southern Baptist Convention and leaders have raised the possibility that the BGCT could create a new Baptist denomination at its annual meeting…
Convicted Child Molester Leads Fight Against Boy Scouts
Posted on: Thursday, August 23, 2001
"It is obvious that PFLAG has a NAMBLA, North American Man Boy Love Association, problem." Washington, D.C. Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, Chairman of Traditional Values Coalition, is appalled to learn of the immoral and illegal lifestyle of the crusader leading…
Bush Inauguration Filled With Spiritual References
Posted on: Thursday, August 23, 2001
Baptist Press) -- George Walker Bush was sworn in as the 43rd president of the United States Jan. 20 and began his first full day of his presidency with a prayer service at Washington's National Cathedral and a declaration of…
