U.S. President George W. Bush released Wednesday a list of the United States’ “most-wanted terrorists.” Heading the 22-man list is Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
With the events happening in the Middle East transpiring at an alarming rate, I am placed into a situation I care not to be in. As the editor of Worthy News, I am placed into a position where there is great responsibility given to me by the Lord. Worthy News is viewed by over 100,000 unique visitors a month. I can now understand the great responsibilities that pastors must take behind the pulpit, and the vast responsibility given to them by the Lord. The level of accountability given to them is so much higher. Of all the articles I have written from a faith perspective, I have steered away from that which is controversial. (The Prayer of a righteous man availeth much and The dangers of a lop sided message) The truth is controversial enough. But now I have come to a place where I am between a rock and a hard place. There’s passages like Ezekiel 33:6; But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand. The reason for this message is so that I can remove this burden from off my shoulders. Remove the burden that I never sounded the trumpet and thus have blood required at my hands. I am by no means dogmatic about this interpretation, but rather present this article as something for believers to consider. 1 Corinthians 8:2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. May time be the judge.
NORFOLK, Va. (BP)–Six U.S. sailors are dead, 36 injured and 12 missing after an apparent terrorist attack on a U.S. Navy destroyer today in the Middle Eastern port city of Aden, Pentagon officials said. Meanwhile, local Southern Baptist churches are mobilizing relief efforts to minister to the families of the sailors aboard the USS Cole.
PORT VILA, VANAUTU (ANS) — An urgent appeal has been made for broadcasting equipment for a new Christian radio and television station on Vanuatu, an independent republic consisting of more than 80 islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, located about 3,500 miles southwest of Hawaii and about 1,500 miles northeast of Australia.
Vatican City — In a declaration carrying the full authority of an infallible teaching, the Vatican said Sept. 5 the Roman Catholic Church is the only “instrument for the salvation of all humanity.”
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–A Vatican document issued Sept. 5 won’t set well with Southern Baptists and other evangelicals and Protestants. As described in the lead paragraph of a Washington Post story, it “declares that individuals can attain full salvation from earthly sin only through the spiritual grace of the Catholic Church and that other faiths — including Protestant Christian ones — have defects that place their followers in a ‘gravely deficient situation’ in seeking salvation.”
MONTPELIER, Vt. (BP)–Vermont lawmakers gave their approval April 25 to a bill that would make the state the first in the nation to legally recognize homosexual marriage-like “civil unions.”
AgapePress) – The underground church in Vietnam is planning to plant some 10,000 new churches in the next five years.
Joseph Lee is founder of Tribes and Nations Outreach based in Manila, Philippines. He tells Assist Communications that the underground church in Vietnam is composed of 21 major groups, and their leaders have requested his outreach to print 20,000 sets of worker training books in Vietnamese.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP)–Gridlock struck Asheville, N.C., when thousands gathered for a “We Still Pray” rally — and thousands more were stuck in traffic trying to reach the high school football stadium.
MANILA, PHILIPPINES (ANS) — Tribes and Nations Outreach (TNO), a mission organization committed to build the “Body of Christ” in Asia, and based in Manila, Philippines, has launched an ambitious five-year church-planting program in Vietnam.
ORANGE, CA (ANS) – When Darrel Fritts, 68, worked on the Space Shuttle program, he never dreamed that, when he retired, it would result in putting his high-flying experience to work helping Bible translation around the world.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–Unity among Christians can be achieved, but it should never come at the expense of moral purity or theological integrity, Timothy George said at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
The science of transgenics is moving forward despite bad publicity surrounding genetically modified foods. When it involves ‘enhancing the human species,’ the Bible has something to say.
“In returning and rest you shall be saved, In quietness and confidence shall be your strength. But you would not…” – Isaiah 30:15
Little Tanya seemed to be a healthy baby. Then one terrifying day the mother found her little girl finger-painting in her playpen. Where did the red paint come from? With horror, the mother discovered that the tip of her daughter’s finger was missing. The curly-haired toddler had bitten it off and was smearing her own blood. She felt no pain because leprosy had numbed her nerves.
On the evening of April 13th at 10:00pm, the Tufts Community Union Judiciary (TCUJ) ruled to derecognize the Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF) as a campus student organization.
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“Things here are not looking too great now and we may not be able to stay here much longer. There are already some problems that we are definitely aware of here,” wrote the correspondent.
OXFORD, England (BP)–The wife and children of Baptist prisoner Shageldy Atakov in Turkmenistan have been told by the local mullah, administration officials and officers of the country’s political police, the KNB (former KGB), that they may not believe in Jesus Christ and must convert to Islam. According to a statement from local Baptists — passed on to Keston News Service by the German-based Friedensstimme mission — officials in the town of Kaakhka, close to Turkmenistan’s southern border with Iran, also warned Atakov’s wife, Artygyul, that the family home would be confiscated if Christians continue to meet there.
When news came across the wire recently that police officers in several Illinois counties witnessed an unidentified flying object the size of a three-story house, and that one of them had snapped a Polaroid of the triangular object, I sat up an took notice. Unlike many UFO buffs, law enforcement personnel are credible, trained observers. The FBI and the National Institute for Discovery Science are following up on the as yet undetermined phenomenon.
Expanding from 14 churches in 1993 to 50 today, one native ministry in Uganda reports that the gospel of Jesus Christ is making headway in that central African nation.
Mission Viejo, CA – The Saddleback Valley Unified School District voted Tuesday to reverse their decision to ban all non-academic clubs including the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and other Christian clubs. The decision was made with a 4-0 vote and one abstention.