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-Rancho Cucamonga, CA: City Orders Home Bible Study to Cease

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

(Image by DrGBB via Flickr)

City officials in Rancho Cucamonga, California ordered a home Bible study to cease or get a permit.
There seems to be a rash of these cases going on lately. Recently home Bible studies were ordered to stop meeting in Gilbert, Arizona and in San Diego , CA. The San Diego case has [...]

-9th Circuit is ‘Under God’ After All!

Friday, March 12th, 2010

(Image by Getty Images via Daylife)

The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the reference to God in the Pledge of Allegiance is  grounded in historical identity, philosophy, and politics and not specific theology or the establishment of an official religion.
Thus the court ruled against Michael Newdow, an atheist who challenged ‘under God’ in [...]

-Ahmadinejad: “September 11 Was a Big Lie and a Pretext for the War on Terror”

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

(by Getty Images via Daylife)

Iran’s President Ahmadinejad is known to be a ‘holocaust denier’ and now he confirms that he is also a ‘9/11 truther’. In a speech to the Intelligence Ministry staff in Iran he made the following comments:
“September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war on terror and a [...]

-UK: Baroness Claims That Israel Went to Haiti to Harvest Organs?

Monday, March 1st, 2010

(Baroness Tonge by chrisjohnbeckett via Flickr)

The Baroness Jenny Tonge demands that Israel prove that they didn’t send medical teams to Haiti to harvest organs from the dead rather than help the victims of the recent earthquake.
A Palestinian newspaper made that claim and the Baroness took it serious and demanded an investigation:
“The IDF and [...]

-Obama Doesn’t Support the British on Falkland Dispute?

Friday, February 26th, 2010

(Falkland Islands via Wikipedia)

This is another one of those puzzling foreign policy cases where President Obama deliberately tweaks one of our greatest allies Great Britain. It is also one of those stories  that US main stream media seems to be ignoring.
The British have discovered oil in the South Atlantic near the Falkland Islands. Meanwhile Argentina [...]

-Laos: Christians Forced from Worship and Homes at Gunpoint

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

(Laos via Wikipedia)

According to Compass Direct, last month more than 100 local Lao officials in Katin village of Ta-Oyl district, Saravan Province forced 48 Christians to leave their worship service by gunpoint.
Then the officials marched them 4 miles out of town and left them there to fend for themselves.
Guards have been posted at the entrance [...]

-China: Demand for Bibles Outstripping Supply

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

(Chinese Bible by Wesley Fryer via Flickr)

Although China maintains the largest Bible printing plant in the world, the demand for Bibles continues to outstrip the supply.
According to the UK based Bible Society, more than 500,000 Chinese convert to Christianity every year so the demand for the word of God is not going to let up [...]