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“The announcement today that Glenn Beck’s previously announced, weird event at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, has been moved due to security concerns is weird,” writes author Jim Fletcher. “But welcome.” Fletcher made the comment in his Beliefnet feature: “Is It the End of the World?” Why the popular populist announced in the first place that he’d hold a…

A Fox News host said Sunday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is “obviously not … a Christian,” a view that, if widely held, may have repercussions for the Mormon candidate’s election odds. During a conversation about the Republican presidential field if Texas Gov. Rick Perry were to get into the race, “Fox & Friends”…

The U.S. District Court of Michigan has awarded victory to an evangelical church in Lansing, Michigan, after it filed suit against a group of self-proclaimed gay “anarchists” called Bash Back! over their protest and disruption of a Sunday service. According to Bash Back!‘s blog, on November 9th, 2008, 30 members of the organization disrupted the…

According to the British daily, The Telegraph, an online campaign has been launched in Russia urging young women to support Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a presidential vote by taking off their clothes. Those who do become eligible for a new iPad2, according the online news site. “Putin’s Army,” a Russian-language website devoted to the concept features…

The Israeli navy boarded and took over the  over Gaza-bound French flotilla ship Dignity, according to the Jerusalem Post’s Yaakov Katz. The action came after negotiations to persuade 15 pro-Palestinian activists aboard to divert their course away from the Gaza Strip failed. Navy soldiers did not encounter any resistance during the interception which resulted after the ship’s…

A major heat wave has taken the nation by storm. As a result, officials in 17 states have issued citizen warnings and advisories. With temperatures reaching triple digits in some areas, the extreme conditions are dangerous to say the least. Last week, in a move to end the scorching heat, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallins asked…

Was it just a passing phase? Six years ago, singing twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede, who comprise the singing group Prussian Blue prompted outrage for their racist and white nationalist views. They’d like to shrug it off now as a short-lived childhood interest. The 19-year-olds revealed that they have abandoned most of their controversial views, which…

Writing in World magazine, Andrée Seu shares: I recently wrote about a man in a Michigan prison whose parole was contingent on completion of a mandatory program for sex offenders. To recap, Daryl became a believer sometime during his 24 years of incarceration and has been walking with the Lord. He submitted to all the…

When New York state Senator James Alesi announced to gay “marriage” supporters recently that his priest “embraced” him at mass after he cast his vote for gay “marriage,” he failed to mention one important point – his priest and his religious community have been excommunicated from the Catholic Church. “I went to Mass Sunday in…

Five shrinking denominations generally regarded as “liberal” now have their own translation of the Bible. “There are a number of translations available for conservative churches,” spokesman Paul Franklyn told the Nashville Tennessean newspaper. Now, the liberal churches have theirs, the Common English Bible. Its translation from the original ancient texts was funded by the Church…
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