Court tosses 'jesus' suit Graduate speeches can be censored t's easy to see where a court would side with Lewis-Palmer School District 38, which says it did not violate the First Amendment rights of Erica Corder -- the valedictorian who dared mention " Jesus" (gasp!) in her 2006...
By WorldNetDaily Will Jesus return to Earth in the year 2015? And can studying NASA's website provide evidence for such a scenario? A minister who promotes the Old Testament roots of Christianity suggests a rare string of lunar and solar eclipses said...
JERUSALEM AFP — Christian pilgrims from around the world on Sunday flocked to celebrate Easter in Jerusalem's Old City where many believe Jesus was resurrected after his crucifixion 2,000 years ago. Thousands of faithful filled every nook and cranny of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a cavernous labyrinth...
JERUSALEM AFP — Psalms and incense filled the air of the Holy City of Jerusalem on what is known as Good Friday, as thousands of Christian pilgrims from around the world prayed along the traditional route Jesus took to his crucifixion. The faithful, several of them bearing large wooden...
Byline: RICHARD STEEL A SENIOR moment-but I'm only 50! I'm not old enough to have a 'senior moment'. Yet, when I stop to think about it, a lot has changed in those 50 years. When I was a child you could only buy Hot Cross Buns from your...
SYDNEY AFP — Australian church leaders have condemned a play shortly to open in Sydney depicting Jesus as a gay man who is seduced by Judas, a report said Sunday. The play, named Corpus Christi, is due to open next month as part of the city's annual Gay and...
JERICHO, West Bank AFP — Thousands of Orthodox Christians made a pilgrimage on Friday to the Jordan River site where Jesus is believed to have been baptized. The event marked the Feast of the Epiphany, when Jesus began his public ministry by receiving baptism from John the Baptist. ...
CAPERNAUM, Israel AFP — US President George W. Bush traced the footsteps of Jesus on Friday as he wound up his visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories with a tour of Biblical sites. Bush flew by helicopter from Jerusalem to the village of Capernaum on the shores of...
Increasingly within the international development community and among religious organizations, it is argued that religious agencies offer something unique to development programs, especially to those designed to alleviate poverty. Generally, this comparative advantage is seen as forms of social capital. In fact, virtually all the world's...
BRUSSELS AFP — Catholic bishops in Belgium have protested a TV ad depicting a pot-bellied, hippy Jesus performing miracles and picking up scantily-clad girls up in a nightclub, a church spokesman said Friday. "We have expressed our disapproval to the president of RTL's administrative council" Jacques Santer and the...
The longer we expect to live, the more concerned we are with what’s going on inside us. Plus airports are being threatened by shampoo bottles daily – making Analogic’s medical imaging equipment and airport luggage scanners hot sellers year after year.
When the World Wrestling Entertainment company WWE accused toy company Jakks of bribing them, Jakks challenged and won a juicy settlement. Jakks holds all kinds of big name licenses, like Hanna Montana and Pokemon, so WWE leaving their ring hasn’t hurt them a bit.
In interviews with NEWSWEEK in the days before the announcement of the "Jesus family tomb" (the suburban Jerusalem cave said to contain the bones of Jesus and his relatives, a claim that later turned out to be overblown), publishers and publicists worried aloud that the public might be suffering from...
Forum writer Joel P. Engardio clearly illustrates why Jehovah's Witnesses are often on the receiving end of hostility. Jehovah's Witnesses regularly engage in deception to get people to believe they are not really a cult but just a branch of Christianity ("Opening the door for us all," The Forum, May...
VATICAN CITY AFP — Analysts say Pope Benedict XVI will use his trip to Brazil to promote Christ's divinity over the politicised Jesus embraced by Latin America's liberation theologists. Benedict is said to be convinced that the struggle for influence between the Roman Catholic Church and the rising tide...
Here are Deseret Morning News reader responses regarding "The Mormons" PBS series. In messages where only an e-mail address was available and the message itself did not identify the writer, "no name" is noted. I personally felt that the documentary was mediocre at best. It was not represented...
VATICAN CITY, April 17, 2007 AFP — A book on Jesus by Pope Benedict XVI is a runaway success in Italy with 50,000 copies sold on the first day and a second edition already planned, the publishers Rizzoli said Tuesday. "Jesus of Nazareth" was launched on the pontiff's 80th...
JERUSALEM AFP — Thousands of worshippers from five Christian faiths on Sunday celebrated Easter at the traditional site of Jesus's death, burial and resurrection -- Jerusalem's contested Holy Sepulchre Church. Pilgrims thronged to the Baroque chapel in the heart of Jerusalem's Old City to hear the five denominations' Easter...
ATLIXCO, Mexico AFP — Bound with chains and speared by cactus barbs, thousands of chain-bound Mexicans marked Good Friday with a march aimed at giving thanks to Jesus for their good fortune in immigrating to the United States. "Faith is what motivates me, and to give something back to...
VATICAN CITY AFP — The first volume of a work on Jesus written by Pope Benedict XVI will be published this month on the pope's 80th birthday, the Vatican announced on Wednesday. "Jesus of Nazareth" is the first of two volumes that covers the period between Jesus's baptism to...
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