PENTECOSTALS ARE ON THE RISE
According to the Barna Group, 29% of Christian adults
aged 26-44 claim to be filled with the Holy Spirit and
possess one of the charismatic gifts such as tongues,
prophecy or healing. The number of Pentecostal/Charismatics
is three times the number of Evangelicals in the United
States and is roughly equal to the number of those
attending Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran,
Episcopal or non-denominational churches.
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INCREASING NUMBER OF PARENTS OPT TO HAVE KIDS
SCHOOL-HOMED
WASHINGTON DC, The Onion, March 29, 2010: According to a
report released Monday by the U.S. Department of
Education, an increasing number of American parents are
choosing to have their children raised at school rather
than at home.
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MOST PARENTS’ CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE EDUCATION EFFORTS
INADEQUATE
Researchers led by Esther Deblinger, co-director of the
CARES (Child Abuse Research Education and Services)
Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of
New Jersey(UMDNJ)-School of Osteopathic Medicine, claim
parents who talk to their children about sexual abuse
incorrectly identify strangers as the most likely source
of abuse.
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CHRISTIAN MINISTRY REFUTES ONLINE CONNECTION TO
MILITIA GROUP
30 March 2010Adrienne S. Gaines News - An Oklahoma-based
ministry that advocates for persecuted Christians
worldwide refutes an online connection with a militia
group accused of plotting an attack against law
enforcement officers.
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RESEARCHERS RECEIVE MILLIONS TO STUDY
PENTECOSTAL-CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT
01 April 2010: Notre Dame University, the University of
Chicago and Union College are among a string of
educational institutions selected to receive grant money
to conduct research on the growing
Pentecostal-charismatic movement.
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POLICE SHUT DOWN VIOLENT CRUCIFIXION ENACTMENT
Geelong, April 5, 2010--Police in Australia’Geelong have
shut down the graphic re-enactment of crucifixion of
Jesus Christ saying it was too violent for public
viewing.
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 MINISTER
FROM MISS. MEETS WITH OBAMA
Few
Americans have had the opportunity to share fellowship
with an American president, but Charleston resident
Stanley Wachtstetter has prayed with four since meeting
President Ronald Reagan in 1980.
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 CHARISMATIC
RENEWAL MARKS 50 YEARS
On April 3, 1960, the late Father Dennis Bennett told
his 2,600-member Episcopal congregation at St. Mark’s
church in Van Nuys, Calif., that he had experienced a
“personal Pentecost.” While attending a prayer meeting,
the Britain-born minister had been baptized in the Holy
Spirit and began to speak in an unknown language.
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 NEEDS
OF AFGHAN PEOPLE MUST NOT BE FORGOTTEN, SAYS CHRISTIAN
AID
April 14, 2010 /Christian Today/: Christian Aid has
called on the international community to keep its focus
on the needs of the Afghan people after weeks of rancour
between the US and Afghanistan.
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HUSBAND GIVES BIBLE TO WIFE'S KILLER IN COURT
13 Apr
2010, By Laura Italiano, - A husband shocked a
Manhattan, N.Y., court by giving his wife's murderer a
Bible and encouraging him to save his soul, the New York
Post reported Tuesday.
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ALARM AFTER STREET PREACHER FINED FOR CALLING
HOMOSEXUALITY A SIN
Friday, 2 April 2010: The Christian Institute has voiced
concern after a street preacher was handed a £1,000 fine
for saying homosexuality was a sin. US evangelist Shawn
Holes, 47, was preaching in Glasgow city centre on March
18 when he was arrested and detained overnight in a
police cell.
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CHRISTIANS FEAR RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION COULD RETURN TO
NEPAL
Tuesday, 30 March 2010 Sudeshna Sarkar/ Compass Direct/
- Four years after Nepal became officially secular, fear
is growing that the country could revert to the Hindu
state it was till 2006, when proclaiming Christ was a
punishable offence and many churches functioned
clandestinely to avoid being shut down.
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EVANGELICALS WANT U.S. NUCLEAR TALK S
TO INCLUDE IRAN, N. KOREA
Washington, Apr. 13, 2010: An array of evangelical
leaders, including megachurch pastors and college
presidents, are not only supporting the Obama
administration's push to reduce nuclear weapons, but are
calling for the U.S. government to exert even more
effort to negotiate with hard-to-deal-with rogue states.
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PASTOR CALLS CHRISTIAN ATHEISTS TO SHED HYPOCRISY
Apr. 07, 2010: Pastor Craig Groeschel is a recovering
Christian Atheist. He may have called himself a
Christian all his life, but he didn't always live as if
God existed. It's a struggle he's had both as a layman
and as a pastor (of one of the fastest growing and
largest churches in the country). And it's a struggle he
wants to help millions of so-called Christians to
overcome.
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DUTCH SC ORDERS CHRISTIAN PARTY TOACCEPT WOMEN
CANDIDATES
AMSTERDAM, Apr 9 — A fundamentalist Christian political
party led entirely by men was told by the Netherlands’
Supreme Court on Friday that it must accept women in
leadership roles.
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ACP TO US SCHOOLS: DON'T AFFIRM STUDENTS' PERCEIVED
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Gainesville, Fla., Apr 10, 2010 (CNA) - In a recent
letter sent to school superintendents throughout the
country, the American College of Pediatricians (ACP)
cautioned that it is “not a school’s role to 'affirm' a
student’perceived personal sexual orientation.” The ACP
also said that “rigorous studies” show that children and
adolescents who initially experience gender confusion or
same sex attraction no longer do so by the age of 25.
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NIGERIA: CHRISTIAN LEADERS WANT SOVEREIGN NATIONAL
CONFAB
Maiduguri /Vanguard/ — THE Pentecostal Fellowship of
Nigeria, PFN, yesterday, joined Nigerians advocating for
a sovereign national conference to resolve the country's
socio-political problems.
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POPE VISITS MALTA MID-MONTH, SEX ABUSE CASES AWAIT
VALLETTA, Malta, (By GEORGE CINI, AP) — Pope Benedict
XVI visits Malta in two weeks, and some victims of sex
abuse by priests on the predominantly Roman Catholic
island say they want him to use the trip to apologize
for their suffering.
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CHRISTIAN RADIO STATION GOES ON AIR IN IRAQI CITY
BASRA, April 06, 2010 -- People in the southern Iraqi
city of Basra are now able to listen to the province's
first Christian radio station, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq
(RFI) reports.
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WCC: NEW NUCLEAR WEAPONS TREATY CUTS BRING HOPE
Rome, Italy, Apr 10, 2010 (CNA/EWTN News).- The signing
of the nuclear reduction treaty between the U.S. and
Russia is "news that the World Council of Churches has
awaited for a long time," according to the secretary
general of the international ecumenical organization.
While he praised this "modest" step, he prayed that
governments will "have the courage and the will to
follow-up this important development.”
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WORLD HEALTH DAY 2010 FOCUSES ON URBAN PEOPLE
April 7 was celebrated as the World health dy Worldwide.
The one week long campaign until 11 April 2010 was
witnessed in the form of 1000 cities, 1000 lives. The
campaign has penetrated to more than 500 cities in over
100 countries across the world. The focus of the
Campaign is mostly urban targeted to improve the lives
of people residing in cities.
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DAWKINS, HITCHENS WANT POPE ARRESTED DURING U.K.
VISIT
LONDON, Apr. 12, 2010 - Atheist campaigner Richard
Dawkins wants Pope Benedict XVI to be arrested during
his state visit to Britain in September. Dawkins and
atheist author Christopher Hitchens have approached
human rights lawyers about whether the pontiff can be
arrested over his alleged cover-up of achild abuse by
Catholic priests
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