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EDITOR’S NOTE: For nearly a quarter of a century Asia Harvest has been providing Bibles to the estimated 50 to 150 million Christians who worship in illegal “house churches” in China. In the early years, this consisted of hosting many short-term teams who came to Hong Kong and carried Bibles in their bags and suitcases…

Homosexual activist Lair Scott has initiated a petition that seeks to persuade the children’s program “Sesame Street” to “let Bert and Ernie get married,” reports Kelly Boggs in a commentary for Baptist Press. “For the uninitiated,” writes Boggs, “Bert and Ernie are two of the more recognizable puppets who appear on the PBS children’s program ‘Sesame…

“In case you missed the debate in Iowa last night, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) was asked if she would be submissive to her husband,” observes Sarah Pulliam Bailey on the website GetReligion. “The question wasn’t completely out of left field,” commented Bailey, “since Bachmann mentioned it at a gathering in 2006 when she said she…

“Saving a baby woodpecker from becoming a cat’s next meal briefly turned into a legal mess for an aspiring veterinarian and her mom, before U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials let them off the hook,” reports the cable news network MSNBC. ..”The citation is null and void,” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Bill Butcher told…

In a CNN poll released Tuesday, when asked whether their representatives behaved more like responsible adults or spoiled children over the last few, chaotic days, 77 percent of the public chose the latter. Republicans and Democrats took about the same heat — 68 percent for the GOP, 63 for the Democrats. Congress’s overall approval rating…

“Here we go again,” writes Beliefnet’s Jay Sekulow. “An atheist organization files a federal lawsuit. They are offended. This time the target: a Cross placed at the World Trace Center Memorial and Museum at Ground Zero. It is unbelievable that these lawsuits keep coming. As you may recall, lawsuits by atheist organizations have failed repeatedly…

“We are witnesses of a society in which, in many respects, morality has ceased to exist,” Cardinal Raymond Burke, head of the Vatican’s highest court, told the 129th annual Knights of Columbus convention Tuesday. “We are called ever more urgently to the new evangelization of our culture.” “The problem,” reports John-Henry Westen for the Catholic advocacy site LifeSiteNews, “is ‘moral relativism,’ which Burke said…

Increasing numbers of New York City women are choosing careers over motherhood, according to the New York Post. “According to a new study by the New York-based think tank the Center for Work-Life Policy, 43 percent of college-educated women between the ages of 33 and 46 are childless,” reports the daily newspaper. “And nowhere does that…

“Well, here’s a new weight loss tip: chew your food,” writes Beliefnet’s Susan Jordan Brown.  ” “Really.”   She cites a new study from Harbin Medical University in China, published in the July 2011 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.   Researchers found that people who chew their food 40 times instead of the average 15 consumed…

House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi say they will end the congressional page program, an initiative that brings high school students to Capitol Hill to work alongside elected officials. “The decision is a historic mistake and brings to an untimely end a nearly two-century-old American tradition,” writes Miles Taylor for the Daily…
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