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Christians around the world prayed Sunday, November 11, for about 200 million Christians persecuted for their faith, organizers said.

The Reverend D. James Kennedy, a charismatic megachurch pastor and television preacher who often warned of America’s moral decline and urged the nation to return to its “Christian foundations” has died, his family and officials said Wednesday, September 5. He was 76.

The ailing American evangelist Billy Graham was resting Sunday, August 19, after being admitted to a hospital near his home in North Carolina for evaluation and treatment of an intestinal bleed, officials said.

Thousands of ‘low-caste’ Hindus abandoned Hinduism and converted to Christianity and Buddhism Saturday, October 14, as part of protests against new laws in several Indian states that make such conversions difficult.

Attendance at American churches is less than half of what we have believed in the past, according to Dave Olson, director of church planting for the Evangelical Covenant Church, and director of the American Church Research Project.

The European evangelistic campaign ProChrist 2006 has registered fewer visitors than three years ago. But decisions for Christ in German speaking countries were up significantly, as organizers told the evangelical news agency “idea”.

Christians in Europe are getting ready for one of the biggest evangelistic outreach programs on the continent. ProChrist will be aired daily from Munich via satellite to 1250 venues in 21 European countries March 19 – 26.

Do you wish your songs could be heard by the music industry? Have you ever entered an international talent or songwriting competition? If so, chances are you had to go to the expense of travel and lodging, not to mention expensive entry fees associated with such events.

(Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, said today it is encouraged that the U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that the City of Tucson acted properly when it discriminated against a couple, Patricia and Robert Gentala, who organized a public event celebrating the National Day of Prayer in 1997.

(Islip, New York) — The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, announced today that it has once again filed a federal lawsuit against the Town of Babylon, New York on behalf of a Long Island church and its pastor who have been prohibited from engaging in religious speech in town facilities under an amended town policy that was approved after a federal appeals court ruled the town acted unconstitutionally in denying the church and its pastor access in 1999.

(Long Island, NY) – The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, today filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of an elementary school student charging a Long Island, New York elementary school with religious discrimination after the school district prohibited the student from openly sharing his religious beliefs with other students at school.

(Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, announced today it has launched a national education campaign to inform school officials that patriotic speech – including phrases like “God Bless America” – is constitutionally protected speech and should not be censored out of public school life.

(Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, said today’s order by the U.S. Supreme Court to let stand a lower court ruling that permits student-led prayer at graduation to continue in Florida represents the “correct and proper” approach to this thorny church-state issue.