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ANKARA, Turkey — A Turkish official says restoration workers have uncovered the never-before-seen mosaic face of an angel at Istanbul’s Haghia Sophia — a former Byzantine cathedral.
The cathedral’s Christian mosaics were covered up in line with Muslim custom shortly after Constantinople — the former name for Istanbul — fell to the Ottomans in [...]

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You know science has made it big when the Google homepage logo is changed to celebrate a fossil finding and the mayor of New York shows up at a press conference to unveil it.
A new 47-million year old primate fossil unveiled to the world Tuesday has made waves among scientists and non-scientists. Google responded [...]

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from ChristrianFreedom.org
Written by CFI Field Staff
Monday, 08 June 2009 01:46
SAULT STE. MARIE, MI (Christian Freedom International) — Christian leaders are concerned that Russia is returning to a “Soviet era” persecution of Christians.
After the Soviet communist regime crumbled in 1991, Russia adopted a constitution that, in theory, allowed for freedom of religion. However, in reality “old [...]

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BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Muslim calligrapher Yasser Abu Saymeh has dedicated the past two months to Christian art, writing the Gospel of Luke in ornate Arabic script to be presented to Pope Benedict XVI when the Roman Catholic leader visits the Holy Land next month.
Abu Saymeh never read a New Testament text before he [...]

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by Stephanie Board
from www.spectatornews.com
It seems to me that the mention of Jesus is a common occurrence in our society today. I think it is safe to say I hear someone speak this name at least once a day, although the circumstances vary greatly.
Jesus comes up in discussions about politics, science and history, among a myriad [...]

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from http://www.gather.com
People, especially Christians need to stop blaming Satan for all the worlds’ problems. It is a cop out. Let us cast the blame where it belongs. On us. Yes us, the humans. For far too long people have anointed an escape goat for there depravity. I say lets all face the truth for once. [...]

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Written by Willis E. Elliott, Minister, teacher, author
Willis E. Elliott is an ordained United Church of Christ and American Baptist minister, “On Faith” panelist Dr. Willis E. Elliott has been a pastor, teacher, lecturer, administrator, consultant (to Newsweek for 38 years), church executive, and the author of six books. His five earned degrees in religion [...]

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We were excited to see this on Gary Stern’s “Blogging Religiously” Website:
Are you familiar with these lines:

“In principles the
powers that be
the universe conceive.”
How about these?
“When the waters,
dark and deep
veiled earth, the virgin wilderness
breathed alhim
the breath of life
upon the waters’ face.”
Ring any bells?
These are the actual opening verses of the Book of Genesis, according to the new Freeware [...]

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Keith Powell/ Arrow Lakes News
As a child, Christmas was all about getting the presents. My buddy Steve and I spent many hours sitting in the living room dreaming about the best gift we could receive. Store windows on Main Street beckoned, catalogues enticed, and my mind drifted every night as I resisted falling asleep. One [...]

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By Stacy Horany
NOCONA HILLS — Pastor Joseph Jernigan and his wife Elizabeth came to the small community of Nocona Hills after a client in Jernigan’s financial planning business in the Dallas-Fort Worth area gave him a piece of property in the golfing community north and east of Nocona in 2004. The one-room Nocona Hills Community [...]

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