...olving the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA law)—a federal law protecting churches from unequal treatment in land use disputes with local governments.
In enacting R...
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
...ornia dramatically.
Three things I encourage you to do:
Pray for the Election Forum as we go to the churches . How about yours? What is your church doing to keep its congregation informed?
...
Thursday, 24 June 2010
...al relief, clean water projects, food distribution, agricultural projects and the rebuilding of hundreds of churches destroyed in Sudan’s civil war.
Graham has vowed to rebuild the estimated 5...
Thursday, 03 June 2010
...wing implementation of an ordinance limiting public assembly for the purpose of worship.
As a result, 27 churches were closed for noncompliance with the ordinance.
Attacks on Christians have also...
Thursday, 03 June 2010
..., we will be going over candidates for the bench to help you know how to vote. Here is our current list of churches and groups that have confirmed Election Forums:
St. Andrew’s Presbyte...
Thursday, 29 April 2010
...rbor Church in Torrance is holding its annual summer camp for orphans. And in Orange County, a number of churches have teamed up with the nonprofit organization Olive Crest to implement “Saf...
Thursday, 29 April 2010
...hile we await the California Supreme Court’s ruling on Proposition 8, I’ve noticed something in churches I’ve visited and from what I’m hearing on the radio: The church isn&rsq...
Sunday, 04 October 2009
...indus in northeastern India have
killed or beaten hundreds of Christians and burned over 5,000 houses
and churches in the last 6 months.
Even today, your prayers for these besieged
saints are des...
Saturday, 03 October 2009
...attitudes and lines of questioning suggest that they
intend to uphold Proposition 8.
Now is the time for churches and Christian
groups to pray for all seven judges as they make their ruling. Pleas...
Saturday, 03 October 2009
...ti-Christian legal challenges.
His statements on Larry King Live exemplify the utter disregard of liberal churches for the authority of Scripture.
“Many of us do not have a literal belief ...
Thursday, 01 October 2009
...se of religious home studies has grown since Burma
stopped issuing building permits for churches in the 1990s.
Pray for our Burmese brothers and sisters in Chri...
Tuesday, 01 September 2009
... of these types of denials, in the 1990s, Congress
pushed for the RLUIPA law to protect churches ’ First Amendment
rights to expand or build.But a California fed...
Tuesday, 01 September 2009
... to gather
enough signatures to be on the 2010 November ballot.
Churches against
Proposition 8. The following churches are urging
...
Tuesday, 01 September 2009
...,000
David Geffen—DreamWorks SKG
$200,000
Finally, I noticed most churches and church groups are not praying about the Court decision. Please pray God will ch...
Saturday, 01 August 2009
... There are less than 70,000 Christians, mostly Catholics,
and only about 170 churches in the Southeast Asian country in
2006. A full 95% of Cambodia’...
Saturday, 01 August 2009
Personal salvation is not the primary focus for liberal
churches
According to Rick Warren, the “social gospel” supported by
many of the main
Saturday, 01 August 2009
...4. Christian camp forced to allow same-sex
ceremony
When I spoke at churches about Proposition 8, one of the
examples I used of the damage P...
Saturday, 01 August 2009
Uncertainty. Indifference. Fear.
Why were some churches active in helping with voter registration and explaining Proposition 8 to their congregations…while others were silent or barely menti
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
...help change all that.
I like what Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson said:
"The time is now for conservative black churches to join with white Christians in opposing this ruling. For far too long churches ha...
Monday, 25 May 2009
... up to $50 million to defeat the proposition. Our side might raise $15 million. It will need the support of churches and pastors to win. Their failure to mobilize and vote means we will lose...and so ...
Thursday, 14 May 2009
...ertaking the Catholics' 17.4% according to Vatican numbers. However, if you add in Protestants and orthodox churches ,Christianity is 33%, or about 2 billion people.
Where is Muslim growth? Europe, R...
Thursday, 26 February 2009
... Thomas and Thaddeus brought the good news to the area.
Since the surge created more stability, the local churches for the last 6 months were becoming packed.
Unfortunately, the U.S. did not put i...
Thursday, 19 February 2009
...ark by his grandmother was the same as the hatred expressed from the pulpit over and over again.
5. Black Churches Support and Opposition. I love going to black churches . When I travel, I've found m...
Tuesday, 03 February 2009
...violation of first amendment rights and the federal RLUIPA law.
RLUIPA is the federal law that protects churches from cities nationwide that have prevented churches from building or expanding by h...
Saturday, 30 August 2008
...l into the wrong hands.
And in Kenya, a church was burned with people in it. In India, more than twelve churches have been torched.
Pray:
For brothers and sisters in Christ facing increa...
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Persecution is increasing in the old Soviet Bloc country of Uzbekistan. House churches must now meet in groups of five or less to avoid arrest.
Missionaries have been expelled, the state TV has pr
Monday, 18 August 2008
As Christians, helping the poor is a Biblical mandate.
That's why individuals and churches are the largest and most generous people in the world with their time, resources and money.
That's in
Thursday, 07 August 2008
Many churches are finding themselves threatened by city-threatening eminent domain, refusal to allow a new building project or other restructuring.
The Orange Community Christian Church in Orange
Monday, 14 July 2008
...in Iran.
And in Uzbekistan, the government is cracking down on Christians throughout their country.
Churches are being taken by the government through tax and regulation policies, pastors have...
Thursday, 22 May 2008
...that would allow the church to purchase a commercial building for a new sanctuary.
All across America, churches spend hundreds of thousands of dollars (sometimes over $1 million, like Rolling Hil...
Thursday, 21 February 2008
