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From the U.S. Supreme Court to local school boards, religious liberties organizations such as the American Center for Law and Justice and the Rutherford Institute have waged a battle on behalf of Christian students and their right to practice and share faith on campus.There have been important victories, such as the ACLJ’s landmark triumph before the nation’s highest court in 1990’s Board of Education of Westside Community Schools v. Mergens. That decision cleared the way for America’s public school students to lead and initiate Bible and prayer clubs. In 2001, the Rutherford Institute won when the Supreme Court found that…

A Student Filmmaker Turns Her Lens on Rwanda, And Finds a Personal Truth Reflected Back at HerLaura Waters Hinson sits cross-legged on a plush beige sofa in the Discovery Channel building at the Silverdocs film festival, flashing a brilliant stone on each hand, explaining how she got here. A couple of weeks ago, the 29-year-old won the top documentary prize at the Student Academy Awards in Los Angeles for "As We Forgive," her film about reconciliation in Rwanda between survivors of the 1994 genocide and its perpetrators.Read more of this story.

Returning to the city where he was ordained in ministry twenty years ago, Tom Flaherty looks past the capitol, past the university, past the lakes, and sees a vibrant Christian community that’s eager for more from God. "People are hungry for something to happen that’s bigger than their church," he said. "I think everybody is a little tired of man’s best efforts."

Since starting operations in March 2006, the River Food Pantry has come a long way in terms of broadening its volunteer base. Although many of its original volunteers were from Mad City Church, The River now counts on a number of volunteers from a variety of different churches, schools and organizations.But one group that has had a tremendous impact at The River is a group of men from the Dane County Huber Program and the Ferris Center. The men from the Ferris Center are not only working hard to help The River stock shelves, cook, clean, help out at Badger…

The River Food Pantry, like all other pantries in Dane County, has grown tremendously since the beginning of this year.The economy, which had not been very good for those at the low end, has worsened. Many people are making their very first visit to a food pantry.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–Men who attend religious services regularly are more likely to have happy and stable marriages, more likely to be involved with their children and less likely to divorce, new research says.Read more of this story.

When he founded MinistryWatch, Rusty Leonard says, he expected the flak from leaders of the ministries his organization rates for financial accountability. "But I thought the donors would love it. Particularly I thought the larger donors would say, ‘Where have you been all my life?’Read more of this story.

PRESTATYN, DENBIGHSHIRE, WALES (ANS) — A minister posed as a tramp and gatecrashed his own service to teach churchgoers about "acceptance."According to a story on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) website, the Reverend Derek Rigby donned a wig and some torn clothes and surrounded himself with lager cans and syringes in the church doorway on Sunday morning. Read more of this story.

In an era of change, the Pilgrim People were ambassadors of innovation.They sang. They clapped. They smiled. They swayed. Navigating uncharted liturgical waters in a different church each Sunday, the ecumenical choir introduced many Catholic and mainline Protestant congregations across southeastern Wisconsin to Masses and worship services enlivened by guitars, a keyboard, drums, a harmonica and other instruments.Read more of this story.

LAMONT, Iowa (BP)–Flood debris sitting in the sun produced a foul odor in Lamont, Iowa, a small town of 490 people about 35 miles east of Waterloo. Some residents piled debris on the curb for sanitation workers to haul away, but they were at a loss for what to do next.Many of the town’s senior adults and some with physical disabilities had been waiting for assistance to clean out their homes, which were damaged by floodwaters when eight inches of rain fell the evening of May 25. The mayor of Lamont, Afred Hotchkiss, heard about Southern Baptist disaster relief at…