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Many people assume that Jesus’ Last Supper was a Seder, a ritual meal held in celebration of the Jewish holiday of Passover. And indeed, according to the Gospel of Mark 14:12, Jesus prepared for the Last Supper on the “first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb.” If Jesus and his disciples gathered together to eat soon after the Passover lamb was sacrificed, what else could they possibly have eaten if not the Passover meal? Was the Last Supper a Passover Seder? Most likely, it was not.
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Uzbekistan has sentenced a Baptist to 10 years in jail on drugs charges, which his fellow Baptists insist are fabricated, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. Seven weeks after his arrest, Tohar Haydarov was sentenced in Guliston on 9 March for “illegal sale of narcotic or psychotropic substances in large quantities”. Fellow Baptists insist that this is to punish him for his religious activity. It is unclear why Haydarov has been given such a harsh sentence. The only known current Christian prisoner of conscience, Pentecostal Pastor Dmitry Shestakov, is serving a four year sentence. Baptists insist that police planted drugs on Haydarov at the time of his arrest, and according to church members he is “a man with a pure conscience and an honest Christian”. Forum 18 has spoken to several Baptists in Syrdarya and Tashkent who strongly support Haydarov. The judge and police officers involved have refused to discuss the case with Forum 18, and Haydarov has appealed against his sentence.
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By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiBRUSSELS, March 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Dutch parliament may soon be considering the possibility of legalizing suicide and euthanasia for the elderly who are simply "tired of living" after a Dutch right-to-die group collected enough signatures to…
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As we approach the three-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre, school alumnus, area pastor and speaker Jim Pace draws from his firsthand experience of the 2007 tragedy to help others understand why God sometimes allows…
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Organizers of Leicester’s “Christ in the Centre” – a huge annual presentation of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ held in the city centre every Easter – are appealing for more support in the form of financial donations…
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It is the season of Lent, the 40 days of fasting leading up to Easter, and Israel’s Christian community is bustling with Easter preparations from the spiritual to the culinary.
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By Kathleen GilbertOWOSSO, Michigan, March 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Harlan Drake, the Michigan man accused of shooting to death local pro-life protester Jim Pouillon in September, has been found guilty of the first-degree murders of Pouillon and another man, gravel pit owner Mike Fuoss, whom…
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — The latest 40 Days for Life campaign continues to rack up amazing success stories as hundreds of unborn children have already been saved from abortions. Now, national coordinator David Bereit informs LifeNews.com that an abortion practitioner has retired and an abortion business has cut its hours.
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — In what may be a blow to Democrats and their effort to push the pro-abortion health care bill through Congress, the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that Senate Democrats can’t use the controversial reconciliation process to make the changes needed to get enough votes for the Senate bill in the House.
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The nonprofit Samaritan Ministries transfers money among its members to pay each household’s health care costs. Benefits to members include lower monthly payments and faith-based policies, but there’s no guarantee their bills will be covered. Several evangelical Christian groups are using similar approaches.
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Cape Town mayor Dan Plato has encouraged church organisations to engage in meaningful discussions with the city so that legal alternatives to illegal structures on city-owned land can be found.
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Democracy campaign Power2010, which is aiming to “change politics – for good”, is achieving an extraordinary response to its online initiative encouraging C of E bishops to back Lords reform.
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Thousands of women yesterday thronged the Plateau State House of Assembly to protest last Sunday’s killings in the state.The women who were clad in black attires carried leaves and placards, chanting songs to express their displeasure over the crisis.
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PURWOREJO, Indonesia (UCAN) –- A Dutch missioner who heals people with alternative medical treatment died on March 9 in the Catholic-run Panti Rapih Hospital in Yogyakarta at the age of 73.
About 2,000 Catholics and a few non-Catholics attended the requiem Mass on March 11 in Purworejo parish church.
Sacred Heart Father Hendrikus Handoyo Loogman, born on [...]
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MANILA (UCAN) — Leading nuns in the Philippines want to utilize their talents fully for the Church and see no need to fight for the ordination of women.
Sacred Heart Sister Amelia Vasquez said she does not share some other nuns’ wish for ordination because she does not believe ordaining women will give Philippine nuns the [...]
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The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), the rebel group whose bloody raids drove hundreds of thousands of civilians into refugee camps in northern Uganda, has now opened up operations in the Central African Republic, Bishop Juan José Aguirre Munos of Bangassou told the Fides news service, reports CISA.
Once again, the LRA fighters are taking a heavy toll on civilians. The LRA and its leader, Joseph Kony, have been charged with multiple human-rights violations.
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Gene Stoltzfus, the founding director of Christian Peacemaker Teams, who has died aged 69, inspired thousands of people to put their lives on the line resisting violence and injustice.
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BHOPAL, India (UCAN) — Christians in a central Indian diocese have expressed relief after police yesterday thwarted an attempt by Hindu militants to vandalize a Catholic cathedral.
Newspapers in Madhya Pradesh state reported that Hindu militants would try to burn effigies of Church people inside St. Vincent Cathedral in Satna diocese to protest alleged Church conversion [...]
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A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity.
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Just 20 years ago, opposition to abortion and opposition to homosexual rights seemed to overlap entirely.
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