By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) Evangelist Billy Graham, who had been hospitalized for episodes of intestinal bleeding, went home Thursday (Aug. 30), his staff announced. Graham, 88, entered Mission Health & Hospitals in Asheville, N.C., on Aug. 18 and underwent a colonoscopy four days later. The procedure revealed an area of active bleeding, which was…

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald BOSTON (RNS) An evangelical college on Boston’s North Shore is about to become nearly three times richer, thanks to a $60 million gift from a California couple whose two grandchildren attend the school. The gift to Gordon College from real estate developer Dale Fowler and his wife, Sarah Ann Fowler, catapults…

Associated Press – August 29, 2007 JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists on Wednesday criticized the extension of an underground cable at Jerusalem’s holiest site for Muslims and Jews, saying that digging the trench defies professional standards for such a sensitive historic site and could damage Bible-era relics. Islamic authorities responsible for the Al Aqsa Mosque complex,…

Associated Press – August 29, 2007 PARIS – Even holy water from the Roman Catholic shrine at Lourdes can’t get by airport security screening passengers for suspicious liquids. A passenger on a new Vatican-backed charter airline had to hand over a container of water collected at Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral to security officials at…

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