Big Impact 150,000 people attended a two-night open-air music festival in Asuncion, Paraguay April 27-28. Besides the music, there were Christian testimonies by well-known soccer players and messages by evangelist Luis Palau and his son Andrew; 12,000 people indicated they had decided to become followers of Jesus. The festival was broadcast live on two national […]
Pro-life display vandalized
Four young men who tore down a pro-life display at Northern Kentucky University in early April have been charged with criminal mischief. One of the suspects told a local newspaper, “Tearing it down was expressing our right to free speech.” On the other hand, campus police simply watched another student put condoms on a pro-life […]
Does Christian intellectual life exist below the radar in Canada?
In an excellent review of The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought for The National Post, Books & Culture contributing editor Preston Jones wonders why it has so few contributions from Canadian authors. “Canadians may be chagrined that the Companion has little to say of their country. Douglas Farrow (McGill University) and Stanley Grenz (Regent College) […]
Chretien chastises China for criminalizing spiritual beliefs
As reported in The Globe and Mail and The National Post, Prime Minister Jean Chretien scolded the Chinese government for suppressing religious freedom and warned that the country could lose foreign investment over its human-rights record, during his trip there this week. “True friends are never shy about exchanging views on important issues, and so […]
News Roundup
Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. Stories about Christmas: Jewish family pulls boy from schoolA Shawnigan Lake mother has pulled her five-year-old boy from his kindergarten class at Ecole Mill Bay because she says Christmas has gone beyond the annual concert […]
News round-up
Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. Stories about The Golden Compass: Kidman the icy queen of evil ‘She loves herself and hates herself at the same time,’ she says of the diabolical Mrs. Coulter CanWest News Service, December 7 Wrong direction This […]
News round-up: November 29, 2007
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News briefs: November 22, 2007
Naskapi New Testament after 25 years After 25 years of labour, Wycliffe Bible Translators has produced a New Testament in the Naskapi language, spoken in the Kawawachikamach community of Quebec. The project was headed by Silas Nabinicaboo, a lay reader in the aboriginal church, and Bill Jancewicz of Wycliffe. Every household in the community — […]
News round-up: November 22, 2007
Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. Stories about religion in Quebec: Quebec City archbishop asks forgiveness for church’s past sins The archbishop of Quebec City has issued a wide-ranging mea culpa that seeks forgiveness for the Catholic Church’s handling of sex […]
News round-up: November 15, 2007
Stories about CBC’s documentary on Falun Gong: CBC pulls film after calls from Chinese embassy The CBC postponed the airing of a documentary about the Falun Gong spiritual movement after receiving calls from the Chinese embassy expressing concern about the film’s subject matter. Beyond the Red Wall: The Persecution of the Falun Gong was scheduled […]