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Air Force Suspends “Just War Theory”

By admin • Aug 3rd, 2011 • Category: Faith Report

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) _ The Air Force has suspended a course that nuclear missile launch officers were required to take called “Christian Just War Theory.” David Smith, spokesman for the Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command, says the course will be revised after complaints about its use of Bible passages to show that [...]



Rembrant’s Jesus to Display in Philadelphia

By admin • Aug 3rd, 2011 • Category: Faith Report

PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ A new exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art takes a fresh look at religious paintings, drawings and prints by one of history’s most revered artists. “Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus” contains works from museums and private collections in the U.S. and Europe. The exhibition of more than 50 works by [...]



Prayer Ban Upheld

By admin • Aug 3rd, 2011 • Category: Faith Report

UNDATED (Religious Liberties) – The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s ban on praying in Jesus’ name before public meetings. The ACLU and the Americans United for Separation of Church and State sued the Board of Commissioners in Forsyth, North Carolina in 2007, because opening prayers mentioned Jesus. Judge Paul [...]



Senate Chaplain Prays for Impasse

By admin • Aug 2nd, 2011 • Category: Faith Report

WASHINGTON (AP) _ During frantic efforts to resolve the debt impasse, Senate Chaplain Barry Black has compared Congress to a sinking ship and a burning building. In the invocation before Sunday’s Senate session, Black prayed, “Save us, O God, for the waters are coming in upon us.” In Monday’s invocation, Black said he believes in [...]



New York Mayor Defends 9/11 Cross

By admin • Aug 2nd, 2011 • Category: Faith Report

NEW YORK (ChristianPost) The Mayor of New York City is defending the 9/11 cross at the World Trade Center. Michael Bloomberg has been named in a lawsuit filed by a group of atheists seeking to remove the World Trade Center Cross from a memorial commemorating those who died in the September 11 attacks. The New [...]



Texas governor says prayer rally won’t be political

By admin • Aug 1st, 2011 • Category: Faith Report

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Texas Gov. Rick Perry says this coming Saturday’s prayer rally in Houston is “about lifting up the name of Jesus” and asking God to give America hope and direction. Perry told FRC Radio’s Washington Watch Weekly that he and a group of friends were talking about how to solve America’s problems [...]



Judge Throws out Anti-Prayer Lawsuit

By admin • Jul 29th, 2011 • Category: Faith Report

HOUSTON (AP) _ A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that sought to stop Texas Gov. Rick Perry from promoting or participating in an Aug. 6 day of prayer and fasting. Judge Gray Miller ruled that the atheist and agnostic group that filed the suit, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, did not have standing [...]



Christian Leader John Stott Dies

By admin • Jul 28th, 2011 • Category: Faith Report

LONDON (AP) _ The Rev. John Stott, one of the most influential evangelical thinkers of the 20th Century, has died in London at the age of 90. All Souls Church, where Stott was rector from 1950-1975, says Stott died peacefully at his home Wednesday, surrounded by friends who were “reading the Scriptures and listening to [...]



Atheists Oppose 9/11 Cross

By admin • Jul 27th, 2011 • Category: Faith Report

NEW YORK (CBN) – An atheist group has filed a lawsuit to remove the World Trade Center Cross from New York’s September 11th Memorial and Museum. Members of American Atheists say the cross is an unconstitutional “mingling of church and state.” The American Center for Law and Justice has called the federal lawsuit “deeply flawed [...]



Operation Blessing working with South Sudan

By admin • Jul 27th, 2011 • Category: Faith Report

UNDATED (CBN) – The new nation of South Sudan is getting help from Operation Blessing International. The organization, based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, is delivering medicine, blankets, vitamins and food to refugees in the country’s capital of Juba. These people are the families of the soldiers who are still defending their homes from attacks by [...]