If the election were today, 87% of blacks, 57% of Hispanics would vote for Obama
Washington, D.C. (WordNews.org) Aug. 1, 2012— A new poll finds nearly 9-in-10 registered blacks would vote for President Barack Obama if Election Day were today. Meanwhile, 58 percent of registered Hispanic voters said they too would vote for Obama. Just 3 percent of blacks surveyed said they’d vote for the presumptive GOP nominee, Mitt Romney. […]
Read More →Charges against street preacher dismissed
HOLLY RIDGE, N.C. (WordNews.org) July 31, 2012 — Charges against a street preacher who called on police to repent were dismissed by the District Attorney, according to the Rutherford Institute, a Christian law firm. Preachers Jesse Boyd and Ricky Springer had been preaching in a public park when police told the two to that their […]
Read More →Terrorists release mission leader kidnapped at Bible school in India
ASSAM, India (WordNews.org) July 29, 2012 – A senior Gospel for Asia mission leader who was kidnapped at gunpoint last week by five armed terrorist at a Bible school campus here has been released, Gospel for Asia confirmed. The release comes after captors had threatened to kill Pastor Ponnachan George, who was kidnapped on July […]
Read More →Saturdays with Kay Warren: ‘What’s wrong with us?’ (Part 5)

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (WordNews.org) July 28, 2012 – Since writing “Choose Joy,” author Kay Warren has taken to ask questions to her audience. It goes something like this: “How many of you can name two people who live with joy?” It’s not a rhetorical question, Warren told WordNews.org. “Almost every hand goes up–automatically,” she said. […]
Read More →Group charges prejudice against Israel at Olympics
LONDON (WordNews.org) July 27, 2012 — As the Olympic Games officially kick off tonight, one group is charging an anti-Israel bias at the games. The British Broadcasting Association’s Olympic website omitted Jerusalem as Israel’s capital; and the Olympic Committee declined to acknowledge the 40th anniversary of the Munich Massacre with a moment of silence during […]
Read More →Planned Parenthood under fire for botched abortion death
CHICAGO (WordNews.org) July 27, 2012 – Pro-life groups are mobilizing to hold Planned Parenthood accountable for a botched abortion that resulted in the death of a Chicago woman. Tonya Reaves, 24, died July 20 following an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Chicago. Pastor Ceasar LeFlore, Midwest director of Life Education and Research Network […]
Read More →Liberty Counsel delivers nearly 60,000 petitions urging repeal of Obamacare
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WordNews.org) July 25, 2012 – Liberty Counsel Action delivered nearly 60,000 petitions today to Senate and House leaders urging them to repeal Obamacare. Liberty Counsel Action, citing figures from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation that the insurance provisions of Obamacare will cost American taxpayers […]
Read More →Ministry effort seeks to ‘reclaim Hollywood for Christ’
BUENA PARK, Calif. (WordNews.org) July 23, 2012 — The Congressional Prayer Conference of Washington D.C. is starting a monthly prayer tour in Hollywood beginning Aug. 18. Chairman Pastor Wiley Drake of the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, and his co-chairman Dr. Clyde Rivers, ambassador to the African country of Burundi, are spearheading this […]
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