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The groups responsible insist that they are not exaggerating, despite contrary federal data. The billboards, which show a close-up of a worried-looking African-American boy, are an effort to highlight data showing that black women get a disproportionate number of abortions, especially in Georgia, and that the number in Georgia is increasing.
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Nairobi, Kenya (LifeNews.com) — The new draft constitution in Kenya, a southeastern African country, protects the life of unborn children from conception. The move came after Christian leaders threatened to oppose the new constitution if it did not explicitly prevent any expansion of abortion.
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Although the idea is to humanize the debate, none of the characters is especially sympathetic. Each of the three women ostensibly selected from a “pool” of 300 is pregnant under varying circumstances with which viewers are expected to relate. To be clear, no one is really pregnant. The actors are all young and white, despite the fact that blacks have abortions at five times the rate of whites. The doctor, however, is African American — a man who combines the reassuring manner of Marcus Welby with the ethereal wisdom of Bagger Vance.
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Two Christian political parties have urged South African President Jacob Zuma to resign for fathering a child out-of-wedlock, saying he is undermining government efforts to fight HIV and AIDS, reports Ecumenical News International.
“The African Christian Democratic Party is shocked by the report that President Zuma has fathered a love-child with the daughter of his close friend, Irvin Khoza. The birth of this child is a clear indication that Zuma is not using condoms and is undermining the s… >>
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By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., February 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Theory-based, abstinence-only intervention has been linked a lower rate of sexual involvement among African American preteens, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine,…
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AFP – For thousands of Zimbabweans who flee their troubled country, the Methodist church in downtown Johannesburg is the only home they know.
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Al-Qaida offers to arm and train Nigerian Muslims
Washington Post According to a state police commissioner, skirmishes began after Muslim youths set a Christian church ablaze, but Muslim leaders denied that. … North Africa Qaeda offers to help Nigerian MuslimsReuters South Africa all 129 news articles » |
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Just as normalcy is returning to Jos and environs after religious crisis in Plateau State, the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) and a mosque at the Government Science Secondary School in Gombe were yesterday torched by youths.
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And all sorts of specialized Bibles are available, aimed at everyone from fwomen, men and teens to African-Americans.
Now two local authors, working independently, have put the Bible to poetry.
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What can we learn from Nigerian -Muslim-Christian Clashes?
Ethiopian News Journal US-based Human Rights Watch put the number of Christian dead at 65. Official police figures were significantly lower with 35 people dead, 40 injured and 168 … Nigeria: After the Jos Blood BathAllAfrica.com Voice of the Martyrs AlertCrosswalk.com MCC plans response to violence in NigeriaReliefWeb (press release) Washington Times (blog) -Right Side News -WIBW all 408 news articles » |
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The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has forced more and more believers out of their homes. Missionary helpers for victims of the militaristic clan are overwhelmed with refugees.
Africa Inland Mission missionary Wendy Atkins lives in the DR Congo where she has been helping thousands of refugees obtain food, water, shelter and other necessities. Many of those who have come to her are in flight from the brutal LRA.
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Christian Vision for Men, a charity trying to make church attractive to men, is claiming the church has lost 49 per cent of all males under the
age of 30 in the last 20 years due to services becoming too feminine.
They have toured dioceses across Britain encouraging vicars to erect big screens above the pulpit
during this summer’s football World Cup in South Africa and to serve beer during games.
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The head of the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg, Paul Verryn, is fighting back against his suspension, as support for the controversial cleric continues to grow.
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LAWYERS for the suspended head of the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg, Paul Verryn, said on Friday that Verryn disputed the charges laid against him by his church, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa.
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Bob Whittaker believes everything in life happens for a reason, even being kidnapped and shot. Last summer, the , where he has spent the last 25 years helping the people of Africa. He was kidnapped, shot in the left arm and eventually released after his
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The first Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (1974) drew some 2,700 participants from 150 nations, and was described by TIME magazine as ‘a formidable forum, possibly the widest-ranging meeting of Christians ever held,’ reports Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization.
The Third Lausanne Congress (16-25 October 2010) in Cape Town, South Africa, will gather 4000 invited evangelical leaders from 200 nations. This unique event will be held in collaboration with the World Evangelical Al… >>
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Nigeria religious riot bodies found in village wells
BBC News An exact death toll is not known but overall up to 300 are thought to have died in the Muslim-Christian clashes. The BBC's Caroline Duffield in Jos says … Bodies pulled from wells after Nigeria clashesReuters '150 bodies found' in wells after Nigerian massacreAFP Nigerian authorities relax city curfew following outbreak of religious …New York Daily News Financial Times -Sydney Morning Herald -Christian Science Monitor all 412 news articles » |
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A brand of the Bible called ‘The Travelling Bible’ written in 66 international languages is expected to arrive in Ghana on Friday evening. The Bible has only two African languages, Swahili mainly spoken in Eastern and Central Africa and Hausa, mostly
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Barry Black is the first Seventh-day Adventist and the first African American to hold the post of Senate chaplain. He’s also the man who sits squarely at the intersection of church and state at the U.S. Capitol.
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The Rev. Mvume Dandala, the parliamentary leader of South Africa’s Congress of the People party, known as COPE, has been challenged to an “open debate” after he said corruption in President Jacob Zuma’s administration made him ashamed of being South African, reports Ecumenical News International.
In response, the spokesperson of the ANC in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, Mlibo Qoboshiyane, challenged Dandala to an “open debate” to substantiate allegations of corruption in the Zuma admin… >>