Ministries deploy chaplains to Colorado and New Mexico as wildfires rage
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WordNews.org) June 28, 2012 – A team of chaplains from the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team is in New Mexico and Colorado to provide emotional and spiritual care to those responding to the raging fires. The chaplains are located in Ruidoso/Capitan area of New Mexico and Fort Collins, Colo. According to news reports, [...]
Read More →Jacksonville, Fla. to vote on adding gender identity, sexual orientation as protected classes
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WordNews.org) May 19, 2012 — Next week, the City Council of Jacksonville will consider a measure that would add gender identity and sexual orientation to a list of protected classes that includes race, age and disability, Liberty Council said. “This ‘civil rights’ ordinance takes away more rights than it supposedly grants,” said Mat [...]
Read More →Minister calls on Osteen, Graham, Roberts, Falwell, Land to step down
SAN JOSE, Calif. (WordNews.org) — The head of USA Christian Ministries is calling on Christianity’s most well-known pastors and ministry leaders to step down. In Pastor Steven Andrew’s list are: Joel Osteen, Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr., Richard Land and Pat Robertson. The reason? “These preachers have ignored God’s Word. They have led people astray [...]
Read More →Atheists want crosses removed from Marine Corps base
By BRITTANY SANFORD For Word News MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (wordNews.org) April 29, 2012 — The Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers (MAAF) and American United for Separation of Church and State plan to take legal action against the United States Marines Corps to remove two memorial crosses at California’s Camp Pendleton Marine [...]
Read More →Groupon target of boycott for offering tours of torture porn studio
[WARNING: GRAPHIC DETAILS] WASHINGTON, D.C. (WordNews.org) April 25, 2012 – Morality in Media is organizing a boycott of Groupon because it offered discounts on tours to a torture porn studio known as Kink. “Selling coupons supporting the degradation of women is as low as a publicly-traded can go,” said Morality in Media’s executive director, Dawn [...]
Read More →Tributes to Chuck Colson pour in
LANSDOWNE, Va (WordNews.org), April 22, 2012 — Ministry leaders say the church has lost a giant in the faith following the death of Charles W. “Chuck” Colson. Colson died Saturday at the age of 80. Carl Moeller, the head of Open Doors USA, said he was moved by Colson’s conversion story in Colson’s autobiographical “Born [...]
Read More →Kairos Prison Ministry International’s executive director retires; interim named
WINTER PARK, Fla.. (WordNews.org) April 11, 2012 — John Thompson has retired as executive director of Kairos Prison Ministry International. He served the ministry for 11 years. Kairos has named Thomas Kemner the interim executive director. The ministry is conducting a search for a permanent executive director. Kemner has been a consultant for the ministry [...]
Read More →73% of chaplains say prisoners trying to convert fellow inmates, Pew study says
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WordNews.org) March 22, 2012 – A new study finds that faith is alive and well behind bars. According to the Pew Research Center’s latest poll, Religion in Prisons: A 50-State Survey of Prison Chaplains, 73 percent of chaplains said it is common — or very common — for inmates to proselytize to other [...]
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