The words ‘evangelical’ and ‘evangelism’ produce distinctly queasy feelings among some people, Christian and otherwise. In the media, they are often wrongly used interchangably. So writes Ekklesia’s Simon Barrow in a report about a great gathering of evangelical leaders from around the world. The Lausanne Movement – brainchild of Southern Baptist Billy Graham, now 92 [...]
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A TOWERING monument to evangelical cheesiness, southern California’s Crystal Cathedral – birthplace of the televangelist show “Hour of Power – has spectacularly gone belly up. The megachurch this week filed for bankruptcy after struggling to emerge from debt that exceeds $43 million. In addition to a $36 million mortgage, the Orange County-based church owes $7.5 [...]
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AUSTRALIA gained its first saint at the weekend after Pope Ratzinger intoned some arcane nonsense at a ceremony in Rome at the weekend. The creation of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop was immediately followed by a call to make the nun -who was briefly excommunicated for blowing the whistle on a paedophile Catholic priest [...]
THE world’s goriest mass killing of animals has just taken place in Nepal to honour the Hindu Goddess of Power, Durga. Thousands of animals, according to this report, died in a horrible manner during Friday and Saturday as the Nepalese celebrated the festival of Dashain, amidst protests from animal rights activists. The animals are herded [...]
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DUTCH prosecutors asked judges yesterday to acquit anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders on all charges of inciting hate and discrimination against Muslims, in a case seen as testing the limits of free speech against religious freedom. The move by prosecutors signalled their belief that the case against Wilders was weak, although judges could still disagree and [...]
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A RECORD number of Finns quit the Evangelical Lutheran Church this week after seeing negative religious attitudes towards gays in a TV programme. Those who ditched the church carried out their mass exodus via an online service, the standard procedure used nowadays. According to this report, information Officer Heikki Orsila, of eroakirkosta.fi, which facilitates the secession process, [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
