Human Life International reported yesterday that some South African’s are calling for ancestor worship and animal sacrifices to be included in the liturgy of the Mass. According to Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Bloemfontein, plans to include African pagan rites during the Mass is in response to the Vatican’s invitation to “inculturate” Catholic rites.
WASHINGTON (BP)–Attorney general nominee John Ashcroft is the victim of a double standard that should prompt Southern Baptists and other evangelical Christians to express their opposition to such treatment, Southern Baptist ethics official Richard Land said.
HOLLYWOOD (BP)–NBC has canceled “God, the Devil and Bob,” a controversial animated comedy that featured a beer-swilling version of the deity. The series had come under fire from several religious groups, including Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association.
The angels’ joyful announcement was worthy of a Heavenly King. But how do we celebrate His majesty?
The world’s preparation for Christmas usually shuts Him out. Christ, the long-awaited Messiah, simply doesn’t fit today’s politically correct views. Nor is He compatible with holiday marketing schemes. Do you wonder what happened to holiday wrapping paper with Biblical themes?
OKLAHOMA CITY (BP)–The Oklahoma House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill April 4 that includes an amendment requiring state-approved science textbooks to acknowledge “one God as the creator of human life in the universe.”
August 1, 2003 (Missions Insider) — Terrorists now pose a serious threat in Peru, and one Peruvian mission leader is asking that Christians everywhere band together in prayer to protect God’s people from violence.
Spiritual Warfare Archive – Jan 2003 – Aug 2003
Washington, D.C. (Worthy News) – George W. Bush received a petition from Christians from across America encouraging him to stop his involvement in the “land for peace†process in Israel.
HO CHI MINH CITY, March 19 (Compass) — In what may be a small breakthrough for religious liberty, Vietnam’s religion authorities invited five leaders of Protestant house church organizations and non-denominational missions to Hanoi for “informal talks†in early March.
Miami (Compass – August 18, 2003) — In late April, Haiti’s President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a former Catholic priest, declared voodoo an officially recognized religion. The decision means, among other things, that marriage ceremonies conducted by voodoo priests now have equal standing with Catholic ones.
WASHINGTON (BP)–Threatened by fines, residents of a small town in Indiana say they were forced to remove a monument displaying the Ten Commandments from the lawn of the local courthouse after a federal judge ruled on behalf of the state’s civil liberties union.
ACKSON, Miss. (BP)–Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
At least, that’s what the Mississippi Baptist Convention’s youth ministry team believes when it comes to getting the Ten Commandments into schools across the state.
PUNTA GORDA, FLORIDA (ANS) — Churches and Christian relief organizations stepped up efforts Monday, August 16, to prevent an outbreak of disease among over one million Americans, who were left without power and proper sanitation after Florida’s fiercest hurricane in 12 years, which killed at least 16 people.
LONDON (Compass) — Following last October’s bombing of a Bali nightclub, Christians and churches have made an effort to unite in their response to the tragedy.
ORLANDO, FL (ANS) — William R. “Bill” Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, the world’s largest Christian ministry, died July 19 from complications related to pulmonary fibrosis. He was 81, according to a news release from DeMossNewsPond.com.
Washington, DC, January 8, 2003–The nation’s largest organization of faith-based doctors today urged support for the bipartisan Human Cloning Prohibition Act, introduced this afternoon by Reps. Dave Weldon (R-Fla.) and Bart Stupak (D-Mich.).
CARROLLTON, Texas, Dec. 27, 2004 (Gospel for Asia) — Gospel for Asia workers are rushing food, clothing, medical supplies-and the love of God-to millions of Asians still in deep shock from a disaster spawned by the most powerful earthquake in 40 years.
Carrollton, TX— February 24, 2004 (GFA) — As The Passion of the Christ hits theaters, people have the opportunity to view perhaps the most riveting film ever made on the sacrifice of Christ. While we certainly pray for revival in this country, millions of people in remote Asian villages have yet to hear about Jesus for the first time.
January 7, 2004 (Christian Aid) — Following the disaster of December 26, native missionaries of Indonesia have been helping survivors on the northern tip of Sumatra Island, the single region with the most casualties.
DALLAS (BP)–A new missions partnership could accelerate by 100 years the translation of the Bible for the estimated 1 billion people who still do not have God’s Word in their own language.