By Rick Neale, Florida Today TITUSVILLE, Fla. — Craft and sell 175 crosses out of plastic canvas. Collect cash donations. Conduct a garage sale. That's how Tamara McAmis converted $50 into a cigar box stuffed with $1,274 during a charitable… Continue reading

Compass Direct News August 10, 2009 HANOI (Compass Direct News) – Local authorities in Vietnam have balked at registering house churches, contributing to a recent uptick in sometimes violent harassment of congregations.  Four police officers and two government officials broke… Continue reading

Parish rift forms at prominent Florida megachurch AP – Tue Aug 11, 1:52 pm ET MIAMI – Descendants of two of the country's most influential evangelical leaders — Billy Graham and the late D. James Kennedy — are feuding over control of a Florida… Continue reading

August 7, 2009: Islam and Modernity "You can’t say that religious opinions made over 1, 000 years ago are valid for all times," says Gamal al-Banna, a reformist Muslim cleric in Egypt. "We must have a revolution in the understanding… Continue reading

(RNS) The Senate on Friday (Aug. 7) confirmed Francis Collins, a geneticist known for his role in decoding the human genome and dedication to bridging the gap between religion and science, as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).… Continue reading

(RNS) A small Catholic college in California has the “most religious students,” according to recently released rankings from Princeton Review. Thomas Aquinas College, a quaint Santa Paula, Calif., campus with just 350 students, knocked Brigham Young University from the top… Continue reading

HANOVER, Germany (RNS/ENI) The Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) is encouraging parishes to commemorate the “peaceful revolution” of 1989 that marked the end of communism in Eastern Europe and prepared the way for the fall of the Berlin Wall. “In… Continue reading

By: Andreas Havinga  Posted: Thursday, August 6, 2009 6:19 am   Section: Religion News Service UTRECHT, Netherlands (RNS/ENI) Four hundred years after the first Baptist congregation was established, followers have been challenged to continue championing religious liberty. “We as Baptists… Continue reading

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