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  Faith Digest: Church attendance up

  A new Gallup Poll found Americans’ self-reported church attendance has increased slightly since 2008.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Lines of church-state separation may get blurry in disaster zones

  Relief workers acknowledge the close working relationship between government and religious agencies may blur the lines of church-state separation, especially when the desperation of victims pushes such concerns to the back burner.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Churches start their own humanitarian aid agencies

  As American Christians grow more skeptical and less dependent on traditional institutions, individual churches are starting their own humanitarian aid organizations, doing their own projects on their own terms.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  ‘Good News Bible’ translator Bob Bratcher dies

  Robert Bratcher, the New Testament translator for the Good News Bible, died July 10 at the Carol Woods retirement community in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 90.

  07/13/2010 - By Administrator

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  Evangelical churches do better job of retaining youth, researcher says

  Evangelical churches do a better job than mainline churches in keeping their young people in the faith, probably because they invest more money in youth ministry, says a Duke University professor who studies characteristics of American congregations.

  07/08/2010 - By Administrator

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  Liberty & justice for all

  As the United States enters the second decade of the 21st century, some experts in religious freedom predict challenges coming to the fore likely will cluster around a handful of new issues.

  07/02/2010 - By admin

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  What should churches and ministries know about employment law?

  When it comes to employment law, maintaining church-state separation becomes a delicate balance between preventing the state from interfering in church polity and governance while still protecting workers.

  07/02/2010 - By admin

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  When church-state separation bumps up against doing justice

  Challenges to maintaining religious liberty come from all directions—including the dilemma of whether Baptist social-service agencies should accept government funds to perform their ministries.

  07/02/2010 - By admin

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  Faith Digest

  The president of a Christian anti-hunger lobbying group won the premier award for fighting world hunger. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton awarded the World Food Prize to Bread for the World President David Beckmann at the State Department.

  07/02/2010 - By admin

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  Private libraries scramble to rescue endangered books

  Libraries are debating how to save hundreds of theological books—including some nearly 500 years old–from the ravages of time.

  07/02/2010 - By admin

• Supreme Court ruling on gun ownership could affect churches

  A landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling June 28 that possessing a handgun is a constitutional right is expected to unleash a wave of new lawsuits, including challenges to state laws that forbid carrying of concealed weapons in church.

  07/01/2010 - By Administrator

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  Liberty University demotes seminary president

  Liberty University has demoted Ergun Caner as president of its theological seminary after investigating claims that he exaggerated or fabricated parts of his testimony about converting from militant Islam to Christianity.

  06/28/2010 - By Administrator