Shrek and Harry Potter
In Dream Work’s high tech fairy tale, a witch has cast a spell on Princess Fiona. Only a kiss from a “true love” can cancel the curse. Imprisoned in a well-guarded tower, she awaits her hero.
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ACLJ Disappointed With Supreme Court Decision Not To Hear Indiana 10 Commandments Case
(Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, said today the U.S. Supreme Court “missed an important opportunity to clarify an issue that has become the center of a national debate†when it refused to consider an appeal of a case out of Indiana where a lower court ruled that a monument of the Ten Commandments which has been on display for more than 40 years is unconstitutional.
ACLJ Secures Additional Religious Liberty Victory For Minnesota State Employees
(Minneapolis, Minnesota) — The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, announced today that a federal appeals court has overturned a lower court decision giving three state employees in Minnesota the right to proceed to trial on their First Amendment claims against the Minnesota Department of Corrections, which punished them in 1997 for reading their Bibles during a “Gays and Lesbians in the Workplace” training session.
Newsweek cover story on evil lacks biblical view, Mohler points out
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–What makes a bomber strike, or a mom kill her kids?
Newsweek magazine asked that question recently for a cover story analyzing the nature and the root of evil. Its answer, though, fell short of a biblical definition of sin, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said during a nationwide broadcast of the radio program “Janet Parshall’s America” May 18.
‘The Prayer of Jabez’: What does it teach?
DALLAS (ABP) — Does God intend to give his children certain blessings but only if they ask?
Does reciting the same prayer to God every day provide power?
Reaching the Poor in Belarus
MINSK, BELARUS (ANS) — Viktor is paralyzed down one side due to a stroke. His wife is dead, so he cares for their 6 and 9-year-old children on his own, doing whatever he can around the house with his one good hand. They live in a remote village in Belarus, and struggle to survive on Viktor’s very small pension.
Turkish New Testaments Distributed By Operation Mobilization Workers Are Well-Received In Istanbul
ISTANBUL, TURKEY (ANS) — Operation Mobilization workers in Istanbul, Turkey, report that Bible distribution efforts have been well received in that country.
Prayer supporters sought for young native missionaries
A new concept in supporting native missionaries from around the world has just been introduced by XtremeMissionsTM, a division of Christian Aid Mission. Called “The Xtreme Team,” this concept enables college-age believers to receive exclusive monthly reports from similar age missionaries in foreign nations.
ACLJ To Defend Nebraska City in Ten Commandments Lawsuit
(Virginia Beach, VA) – The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, said today it will defend the City of Plattsmouth, Nebraska which has been sued by the ACLU to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments which has been displayed in a park since 1965.
BWA remains optimistic about its U.N. status
WASHINGTON (BP)–Contrary to a report casting a cloud over its United Nations status as a non-governmental organization (NGO), the Baptist World Alliance remains optimistic that it will be reaccredited as an NGO, a position it has held with the UN since 1975.
Peaceful Pro-Life Prayer Vigil Ends In Wrongful Arrests
Rutherford Institute Attorneys Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court Citing Free Speech Violations
WASHINGTON – Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of several residents of the city of Fargo, North Dakota, who were arrested while participating in a peaceful residential “prayer walk.”
Throwaway bread wrappers carry gospel to hundreds of West African families
NDIAGANIAO, Senegal (BP)–The 8-year-old boy waits impatiently, peeking around his mother’s skirt, as she buys a loaf of French bread. When he sees the merchant wrap it in newsprint with a large picture of bread on it, a huge smile breaks out.
Faith’s role in birth of science reviewed at think tank conference
SEATTLE (BP)–Today’s scientific advances owe their genesis to Christianity, and every new discovery of the cosmos is an affirmation of God at work in the universe he created, noted scientists and educators said in addressing a “Cosmos and Creator” conference at the Discovery Institute public policy think tank in Seattle.
Field Updates Available to Web Users Through ‘Macedonian Call’
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA-Cutting edge technology combined with up-to-the-minute reports from indigenous missionaries around the globe is enabling Christians to experience their own “Macedonian Call” via their computer desktops.
Bibles Unlimited Targets Ukraine with 7,500 Christian Resource Libraries
PHOENIX, AZ (ANS) – Bibles Unlimited, a Phoenix-based ministry that grew out of the New Life League, has been able to distribute some 7,500 Christian Resource Libraries to new believers and “seekers” in Ukraine over the past three years.
Annual report cites nations for religious-freedom abuses
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Abuses of religious freedom worsened last year in China and the Sudan, according to the second annual report of a government commission set up to monitor religious persecution abroad.
Baptist, Jewish congregants share Passover Seder service
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (BP)–I can’t believe I waited 41 years for this,” exclaimed Frank Ingram, pastor of Westside Baptist Church in Boynton Beach, Fla. about the Passover Seder his church celebrated with Kol Dodi Messianic Congregation on Palm Sunday.
Public School Bible Club Triumphs Against School Officials Stealing Their Rights To Meet And Adverti
LAKE STEVENS, Wash. – Rutherford Institute affiliate attorneys have successfully intervened on behalf of students at Lake Stevens High School who were denied their rights to establish an officially recognized extracurricular Bible club.
Tulsa County School Authorities Agree to Uphold Student/Teacher Religious Expression
TULSA, Okla. – Rutherford Institute affiliate attorneys have settled a lawsuit brought on behalf of two students and one teacher who were denied their constitutional rights to form an extracurricular Bible club at McLain High School Career Academy. The lawsuit charges that McLain school officials violated the students’ and teacher’s First Amendment rights of free speech, freedom of association, and freedom from discrimination on the basis of religion as well as their Fourteenth Amendment right of equal protection, and the Federal Equal Access Act.
Turkish Court Releases Jailed Christian in Southeast
ISTANBUL, July 5 (Compass) — An Assyrian Christian arrested a month ago for taking home videos in an ancient churchyard in Turkey’s heavily militarized Southeast was ordered released today by Diyarbakir’s State Security Court.