World Religious News
The Messianic Times Launches New Website and online e-Paper: " The Messianic Times, nearing its twenty year anniversary as the only Messianic newspaper serving the Messianic Jewish community, has now launched a new interactive website and e-paper. (PRWeb May 9, 2008) Read the full story at http://ww1.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb925474.htm"
China cracks down on Christian literature before Olympics Ministry summer camp brings hope to children in the former Soviet Union Ministry encourages churches in Myanmar response Aid delays could bring more death to Myanmar New church is pastor's dream US Christian Evangelicals Lend Support to Israel: "Some of Israel's most fervent supporters are evangelical Christians, who number about 50 million people in the United States"
Something Wasn’t Wright: " From Newsweek: For any spiritually minded, up-wardly mobile African-American living in Chicago in the mid-1980s, the Trinity United Church of Christ was—and still is—the place to be. That's what drew Oprah Winfrey, a recent Chicago transplant, to the church in 1984. She was eager to bond with the movers and shakers in her new hometown's black community. But she also admired Trinity United's ambitious outreach work with the poor, and she took pride in upholding her Southern grandmother's legacy of involvement with traditional African-American houses of worship. Winfrey was a member of Trinity United from 1984 to 1986, and she continued to attend off and on into the early to the mid-1990s. But then she stopped. A major reason—but by no means the only reason—was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. "
A year later, Falwell sons assume father’s mantle: " LYNCHBURG, Va. -- Nearly a year after his father's death, the Rev. Jonathan Falwell walks up and down the stage of Thomas Road Baptist Church with a series of briefcases behind him like the set for NBC's "Deal or No Deal." There's no pulpit in sight; Falwell prefers visuals to reach his growing flock. The night before, his older brother, Jerry Falwell Jr., president of nearby Liberty University, hosted a picnic and fireworks for graduating seniors at his farm 30 miles from campus. Nearly a year after their larger-than-life father died at age…"
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