Christian Newswire reports:
In recent months, the media has been flooded with images of citizens gathering in city centers and lining the streets holding banners, waving signs, and speaking up for their religious freedom. Simultaneously, American courtrooms are now bursting with lawsuits brought by businesses and religious organizations demanding protection of their rights of conscience.
The Christian Science Monitor informs us that self-professed messiah Sun-myung Moon, who believed he was ordained by God to minister to the world “built up a global commercial empire, founding the Washington Times 30 years ago along with newspapers in Seoul and Tokyo and numerous other enterprises in fields ranging from publishing to tourism to fishing.”
Life News reports that a recently released list of speakers for the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, is noticeably lacking in pro-life advocates. Rather, the “list is long on speakers who have spent their entire political careers advocating for abortion.” As a result, some pro-life supporters have labeled the DNC as a “Celebration of Abortion.”
The Christian Post reports:
On Sunday, the Pennsylvania Pastors Network launched its second Pulpit Sunday where preachers in the state didn’t shy away from politics.
Pastors throughout Pennsylvania are signing up to preach about cultural and moral issues every first Sunday of the month until the November elections.
Christian News Network reports that the Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs is hosting its own events this weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina as the Democratic National Convention is taking place in the same city.
While the organization had stated that they anticipated 20,000 to attend the events over the weekend, they were disappointed that approximately 300 Muslims showed up for Jumah. Some sat on rugs, some in outdoor folding chairs and others simply on the grass as they turned toward Mecca, which is said to be Islam’s most reverenced city.
Christian News Network offers a recap of the final evening of the Republican National Convention:
The Republican National Convention came to a close Thursday night, featuring a Mormon invocation and Catholic benediction, an acceptance speech from nominee Mitt Romney, musical entertainment, and numerous speeches from politicians, Olympic stars and celebrities across America.
The Orange County Register offers continuing coverage of the ongoing legal battles involving TBN:
The mighty Trinity Broadcasting Network’s prodigious legal maneuvering against Brittany Crouch Koper — granddaughter of founders Jan and Paul Crouch — and her husband has drawn a sharp rebuke from a federal judge, who has threatened to brand Trinity a “vexatious litigant.”
Life News reports:
Out of England comes a miraculous story of a courageous mother, 41-year-old Jo Powell, who discovered a lump on her breast days after finding out she was pregnant with first child. Powell refused to start treatment until later in her pregnancy so she would not harm or kill her unborn child.
CNS News reports:
A new Gallup poll released today indicates that Americans rate public schools the worst place to educate children.
In the national survey conducted Aug. 9-12, private independent schools, parochial and church-related schools, charter schools and home-schooling all rated higher than public schools.
Fox News reports:
Just as the city of Charlotte, N.C., gears up to host the Democratic National Convention, an atheist group is mounting a billboard campaign attacking the religious faiths of President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney.
The signs, paid for by American Atheists Incorporated (AAI) and appearing along key local highways, include messages such as: “Christianity: Sadistic God, Useless Savior” and “Mormonism: Magic Underwear, Baptizes Dead People, Big Money, Big Bigotry.”
Christian News Network reports:
on August 10th, Mike Stockwell of Cross Country Evangelism was cited with disorderly conduct after a female heckler exposed her breasts to the open-air preacher in the presence of police. While he was shocked that he was issued the citation instead of the woman, Stockwell was informed that going topless is not illegal in Philadelphia. Police explained that just a few weeks prior, a female protester was walking through the streets without a blouse, yet was not prosecuted.