FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) _ Investors who want to build a full-scale replica of Noah’s Ark say it would attract 1.6 million tourists a year and create 900 permanent jobs in Williamstown, Ky. Mike Zovath, co-founder of the Answers in Genesis ministry that opened the Creation Museum three years ago, says the ark would be part [...]
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) _ A lawyer says a Pakistani court has barred the country’s president from pardoning a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy until it rules on her appeal. The lawyer says the Lahore High Court’s chief justice issued the order Monday. Pakistan’s minister for Minority Affairs has said that President Asif Ali [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. (thehill.com) – President Obama said praying and reading the Bible are part of his everyday life. Speaking with Barbara Walters, Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama also described how they involve their daughters in daily prayer. “Michelle and I have not only benefited from our prayer life, but I think the girls have [...]
UNDATED (FR) – Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree project will make Christmas brighter for the children of prisoners. Mark Early, vice president of Prison Fellowship, says this year 400,000 children will receive a gift in the name of their parents and with a message from their parent. Children of prisoners are more likely to go to [...]
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) _ The Christmas season is under way in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, where the Bible says Jesus Christ was born. Palestinian Muslims as well as Christians participated in a festive parade over the weekend. Christians make up only a small percentage of Israelis and Palestinians in the Holy Land. [...]
BOONE, N.C. (AP) _ The Rev. Franklin Graham says he’s asked the U.S. government to airlift rehydration fluids to Haiti to treat victims of a rapidly spreading cholera epidemic. Graham, whose Samaritan’s Purse ministry has almost 300 workers in Haiti, told KTIS radio that more than 500,000 Haitians could be infected and tens of thousands [...]
NEW YORK (AP) _ Josh Hamilton has been voted the American League’s Most Valuable Player by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, but he’s giving God the glory. The Texas Rangers outfielder says he remembers what his life was like “without a relationship with Christ,” compared to what it has become “with a relationship with [...]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) _ The president of the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions is challenging Christians to look beyond their family dinner tables this Thanksgiving. John Ashmen says 275 gospel rescue missions nationwide are preparing to serve 500,000 Thanksgiving dinners to the homeless and needy, and could use some help. Ashmen says volunteers are [...]
ISLAMABAD (AP) _ A Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy against Islam is innocent and should be pardoned and freed, according to a government minister investigating the case. The sentence against Asia Bibi has called new attention to Pakistan’s blasphemy law, which critics say is used to persecute minorities, fan religious extremism and [...]
CAIRO (AP) _ Egyptian officials say Muslims have set fire to at least 10 houses belonging to Coptic Christians over rumors that a Christian had an affair with a Muslim girl. The officials say the attacks started after villagers in southern Egypt spotted a young Coptic Christian and a Muslim girl together at night inside [...]