MC News
An evangelical Christian group unveiled an 850-pound granite sculpture of the Ten Commandments yesterday at its Capitol Hill rowhouse a stone’s throw from the Supreme Court, despite a threat of $300-a-day fines. Washington Post story.
Giving a new meaning to “men’s night out,” Promise Keepers kicked off its 2006 conference season this weekend with an estimated 7,500 men and boys at BankAtlantic Center in Fort Lauderdale.
“The God who is at work in the world today is a God of history,” says missions expert Paul Borthwick. This year, 2006 – an Urbana year – uniquely highlights some important anniversaries in the history of missions and student involvement in missions.
BELLFLOWER, CALIF. (ANS) — Sharing the Gospel to people of various religions will be the focus of the reality-type television show "The Way of the Master" as it enters its third season, said co-hosts Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort.
WASHINGTON, DC (ANS) — It is a long way from the small Iowa city of Cedar Rapids to Nagaland, the mysterious state in northeastern India, but that is where Tim Phillips and his friend, Daniel Hurt, travel regularly to minister and be ministered to by these extraordinary people who have gone from being head hunters to becoming soul hunters. I met up with Phillips and Hurt on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, at a all day event called "Nagalim…Discovered," in the Gold Room of the Rayburn Building on Thursday, May 25.
Two groups of dancers danced at the Madison House of Prayer for all Nations on Tuesday night. On the program was Dancing the Way, a ministry of My People International, composed of Native American Dancers. But before they started, a dance team from the House of Prayer welcomed them with an expression of repentance for the history of broken promises and broken relationships between the dominant culture and the native peoples.
World Vision relief teams in Jakarta have dispatched emergency supplies to thousands of people left homeless by Saturday’s 6.3 magnitude earthquake in central Java, Indonesia. Read more about World Vision’s response. Also: World Relief also responds, through local church contacts, plus reports from Operation Blessing, and from Food for the Hungry, and also Samaritan’s Purse.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 24, 2006 – (BP)–Jason Cruise’s eyes light up when he starts relating stories about hooking trout in a cold mountain stream. His voice quickens describing the patience involved in outwitting and luring a tom turkey.
PORTLAND, OREGON (ANS) — Roadside bombs, suicide bombers, and mortar attacks can’t hold back the spread of God’s Word. The Bible is dynamically ministering to soldiers on the front lines in Iraq.
Madison Catholic Bishop Robert Morlino reports on his May visit to the Vatican in The Catholic Herald.