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More than 100,000 former Christians have downloaded "certificates of de-baptism" in a bid to publicly renounce the faith, according to the London-based National Secular Society (NSS). Terry Sanderson, the society's president, says the group started the online de-baptism initiative five years ago to mock the practice of baptizing infants too young to consent to religious rites. Their web site

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A policeman at the weekend shot dead a pastor of a Pentecostal church and critically injured a bishop in Nakapiripirit district before turning the gun on himself. Julius Atuhairwe, attached to Tokora Police Post on the Mbale- Nakapiripirit road, reportedly opened fire on Pastor Eric Barasa of Amudat Pentecostal Assemblies of God church at 11:00am moments after being granted a pass leave. The

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FORT WAYNE, IN (Indiana's NewsCenter) - While a slow economy has slowed or stopped some construction projects recently, that is not the case in Decatur. A few hundred workers have converged on the town to build a church in 24 hours. The United Pentecostal Church's Home Missions Department has built nearly 100 churches around the country and this is the 5th in Indiana. The Decatur church purchased

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A young Christian man was set on fire by a Muslim man in Egypt after a rumour circulated that he had had a relationship with the Muslim man’s sister.Yasser Ahmed Qasim approached 25-year-old Sabri Shihata and poured gasoline on the Coptic Christian and then set him on fire, reported the Voice of the Copts on Friday. The young Copt tried to put out the fire by throwing himself into a nearby canal,

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International Christian Concern (ICC) reports that three Christians have been tortured and killed in Eritrea for refusing to denounce their faith.Eritrea's one-party communist regime has reportedly arrested around 2,000 Christians since 2002 and often imprisons them in metal containers. The country is listed ninth on the ICC Hall of Shame, which lists the worst persecutors of Christians in the

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Megachurch pastors Joel and Victoria Osteen will release their very own Bible next month ahead of their church’s 50th anniversary.The Hope for Today Bible, scheduled to hit the shelves on Mar. 10, is presented in the New Living Translation and features insights, notes, and encouragements from the ministers of the 38,000-large Lakewood Church in Houston – the largest church in the nation.Also

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LOS ANGELES -- A $6.9 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation will allow USC to establish the Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative, university officials announced Monday.The initiative will be housed in USC's College of Letters, Arts and Sciences' Center for Religion and Civic Culture. As much as $3.5 million of the grant funds will be spent on social science research in

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Christian video and social networking site GodTube.com has changed its name and purpose. The popular Web site is now called tangle.com and is no longer catering toward only Christians, the Dallas Morning News reports. Tangle.com's new aim is to be a "family-friendly" social networking site, according to CEO Jason Illian, who replaced GodTube's first CEO Chris Wyatt last year. "We think that's a

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LONDON – Librarians have been told to place all religious texts on the top shelves of bookcases, following complaints from Muslims about the positioning of the Koran on shelves. The move came about after Muslims complained about the Koran being placed on lower shelves, reports The Daily Mail. They said that it should be put above "commonplace things," as is the practice in many Muslim homes.

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CHURCHES countrywide will pray and fast for 40 days starting on Wednesday over the increasing cases of human sacrifice.The prayers will be guided under the theme ‘Weeping for Uganda’s children who are no more.’The Anglican Archbishop, Henry Luke Orombi, yesterday made the announcement at the provincial offices in Namirembe at a conference with leaders of Pentecostal churches.Orombi said the

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Out of 100 American teens, only three are likely to say they see members of the clergy as role models, according to a survey on teens and ethical decision making.Scarcely any teens (those under age 18) view their pastors, priests, rabbis or imams as role models. Instead, many reported seeing their parents as role models (54 percent), the survey conducted by Junior Achievement and Deloitte

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Longtime missionaries David and Fiona Fulton were sentenced by a Gambian court to a year of hard labor last December after pleading guilty — in hopes of a lenient sentence — to sedition charges stemming from a wry comment e-mailed to a prayer list.After nearly a decade of service in the West African Muslim nation, the Fultons, missionaries from an Assemblies of God church in Britain, experienced

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Reading the Bible aloud, start to finish, takes about 77 hours. Writing by hand the entire holy book? Try six months.To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the New International Version of the Bible, the publishing house Zondervan is inviting people across the country to copy a verse in their own hand.Click Here For Full StorySource: LA Times

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Some Americans are more loyal to their toothpaste or toilet paper than to their religious denomination, making those consumers more choosy about Charmin or Colgate than they are about church, according to a new survey.According to a Phoenix-based research firm, 16% of Protestants say they would consider only one denomination, while 22% of them would use only one brand of toothpaste and 19% would

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Bloomington police believe a church burglary has been solved through DNA found on a half-eaten doughnut.Twenty-two-year-old Morgan D. Brock Jr. has been charged with burglary in the January 2007 break-in at Woodhaven Christian Church.Police said a number of musical instruments were taken, but officers found a box of doughnuts in the church's kitchen and noticed a bite had

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A school secretary whose daughter mentioned Jesus to a classmate now is facing discipline, including the possibility of dismissal from her position, for having sent an e-mail to friends from her home computer asking for prayer about the issue.The case is developing, according to a report in the London Daily Mail, for Jennie Cain, a receptionist at Landscore Primary School in Crediton, Devon.Her

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A best-selling author and TV host has decided not to sit still while an atheist advocacy group carries out a nationwide billboard campaign promoting a religion-free world and offering "praises" to Darwinahead of the father of modern evolutionary theory's 200th birthday celebration. Ray Comfort, author of a new title by WND Books scheduled for release Thursday, "You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence

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WASHINGTON — A Pentecostal woman who refused to wear pants as part of her bus driver uniform has prompted the region's transit system to implement new policies to accommodate employees' religious practices.The woman, Gloria Jones, filed a complaint last September, claiming that she was not hired as a Metro bus operator due to religious discrimination, according to Steven Taubenkibel, spokesman

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The family of the San Jose kindergartner who was killed on his way home from church in a tragic drunken-driving accident insist they are not angry with the driver.Police say Gary Westover, 36, ran a red light and broadsided a minivan, killing 6-year-old Isaac Young. "I don't hate him,'' said the boy's grandmother, Marie Price. "Today, I don't like him. But no, I don't hate him. I pray for his

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(CNSNews.com) - Attorneys on both sides of the same-sex marriage issue agree that two administrative rulings last week from different judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California were blows to the federal Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute in Sacramento, Calif., said both decisions are troubling because they ordered the federal

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The word of God is on the move in London — literally. Beginning Feb. 9, three separate Christian groups will launch advertisements on more than 200 of London's buses to convince pedestrians of God's existence. "It may be unpopular and unpleasant," says David Larlham, assistant general secretary of London's Trinitarian Bible Society, a group that distributes Bibles worldwide. "But there is a whole

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ROME — The rehabilitated bishop at the heart of a Vatican uproar for denying the Holocaust has been dismissed as the head of an Argentine seminary.The seminary announced the dismissal on Sunday in a statement that said the bishop, Richard Williamson was no longer the director of the La Reja seminary on the outskirts of the Argentina capital.He has said the “historical evidence” argues against

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