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American Atheists, a non-profit that claims to protect the rights of atheists and to ensure the “absolute separation of government and religion,” always seems to find itself in the middle of controversy, writes Billy Hallowell at the news website the Blaze. “As if the most recent Ground Zero cross lawsuit the group launched isn’t enough…

With Turkey threatening naval action against Israel, the Jewish state and Greece have invoked a mutual defense pact they signed without publicity only 12 days ago. “Greek Defense Minister Panos Beglitis, making the first official visit by a Greek defense minister to Israel, and his Israeli counterpart, Ehud Barak, signed a cooperation memorandum on security in Jerusalem on…

by Corine Gatti of the Beliefnet staff Messianic Jews in a suburb west of Jerusalem continue to be harassed for following their faith, this time by someone anonymously placing flyers in public areas singling out members of Messianic congregations. The flyers began appearing two weeks ago in the town of Mevasseret Zion. Asher Intrater, leader…

The Financial Times is reporting that before an unauthorized trader at the Swiss investment firm UBS lost $2 billion in trades, he posted on his Facebook account: “Need a miracle.” Although the firm has yet to identify the alleged rogue trader, police reportedly have taken into custody 31-year-old Kweku Adoboli. On his Linkedin account, he lists that he works…

“God is everything to me,” says Ideaner Harden Moore Walker, who just turned 100 years old. “God is great in His goodness.” “I’ve been praying since I was 6 years old,” she told the Orangeburg, S.C., newspaper the Times and Democrat, “and I have received some big blessings. When I was little, I prayed for my father…

Angel Food Ministries, which in the past has delivered discounted food to as many as 5,000 churches in 43 states, has cancelled September’s deliveries and suspended refunds of pre-payments. A statement on the ministry’s website reads:  We regret to inform you that Angel Food Ministries will not be holding a food distribution for the month of September. Full refunds are now…

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has reversed a pledge to Saudi, European and Egyptian officials to hold off on asking the United Nations to recognize as a new state Israel’s occupied Palestinian territories. Sources told the middle eastern news website DEBKAfile that Abbas has decided to go through with his application to the U.N. Security Council…

Pat Robertson says divorce of a spouse with Alzheimer’s is allowable since the partner “is gone.” A viewer had asked Robertson how she should advise a friend who had begun dating another woman although his wife was still alive — but suffering from dementia brought on by Alzheimer’s. “That is a terribly hard thing,” Robertson said. “I hate Alzheimer’s. It is…

A federal appeals court in California ruled Tuesday that a San Diego-area math teacher does not have the constitutional right to display America’s national motto, “In God We Trust” in his classroom. The fact that school officials allowed Tibetan prayer flags in other classrooms was irrelevant. Bradley Johnson, a math teacher for Poway Unified School…

The Democrats lost a long-held Congressional seat to the Republicans Tuesday because Jewish voters were irked over New York’s new same-sex marriage law and the Obama administration’s attitude toward Israel, according to political observers. “Many Jewish voters turned out to support Bob Turner in Tuesday’s election, bucking the historical pattern in their Democratic-leaning neighborhoods and…
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