Coro Health Launches Unique Wellness mHealth App

Austin, Texas–Coro Health , LLC, a new media healthcare company, announced today the launch of CoroFaith: mFaith, the first mHealth app to offer individuals access to a customized audio library of inspirational readings, prayers, sermons and meditations from the religious or spiritual tradition of their choice. Drawing from over 1000 hours of content, CoroFaith: mFaith [...]

Scholar: The Time For School Choice Has Come, Due to “Defactualization”

Oxford, England- William Jeynes, a senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton and a professor at California State University-Long Beach, declared that the time for greater school choice has come in the U.S. and Europe. Dr. Jeynes made his speech at Oxford University in England. He stated that the growth of “defactualization” was the [...]

New Teen Bible Aims to Ignite Young People’s Love of Scripture

Ignite: The Bible for Teens (NKJV) makes a big, complicated, thousands-of-years-old book accessible to today’s young people with an interactive approach geared to kids ages 11-15. Ignite draws upon the expertise of youth pastors and skilled Bible editors, as well as calling upon the real experts—teens and their parents—to ensure that this would be a [...]

International Widows’ Day – a Day of Action against Ongoing Poverty and Injustice

Gospel for Asia Brings Hope to Culturally Shunned and Enslaved CARROLLTON, Texas – On June 23, the third annual International Widows’ Day will focus the world’s attention on one of its most rejected and abused groups. In many cities and rural villages in multiple countries, cultural and ancient religious beliefs still inflict extreme discrimination against [...]

Kairos Mourns the Loss of Founder, Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson began Kairos Prison Ministry in 1976. WINTER PARK, Fla.— Kairos Prison Ministry volunteers are saddened by the news that the beloved founder of the ministry, Tom Johnson, passed away Monday, June 10, 2013. In the fall of 1976, at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, FL, Tom Johnson’s hard work became a reality when [...]

Hotline To God Answers Tecmark’s Prayers

Product Manager’s Revelation Helps Business- to- Business Manufacturing Company Develop New Product, Sales Channels To Help Build New Consumer-Based Product Opportunities MENTOR OH – June 14, 2013 – Feeling beset by a weak global economy and off-shore competition that was eroding profit margins for Tecmark Corporation, product manager Chuck Stein asked God for a little [...]

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly – June 14

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly is a production of THIRTEEN for WNET. Visit www.pbs.org/religionandethics for additional information.   Show # 1641 will be fed over PBS at 5:00 p.m. EST on June 14.   Irish Reconciliation - The G8 economic summit begins shortly in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, scene of a sectarian bombing that killed eleven people in 1987—the work of the Irish Republican [...]

Lifetree Cafe Extends Reach Into Correctional Facilities

(Loveland, Colorado)—The Delta Corrections Center in Delta, CO, hosts Lifetree Café as a way to encourage civil conversation among its inmate population. The Lifetree program in Delta is sponsored by Good News Jail and Prison Ministry’s Chaplain, Richard Jackman. Lifetree Café is a national network of venues where people gather for conversation about life and [...]

Learning to Pray in the Digital Age – Shalem Institute Launches Online School of Contemplative Prayer Series – New E-Courses Nourish Spiritual Seekers with Christian Contemplative Practices – Registration Deadline Wednesday June 19th

Washington, D.C., June 13, 2013 — The Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation announces the launch of new e-courses to bring Christian contemplative living into the digital age.  The Online School of Contemplative Prayer is an interactive, online curriculum offering instruction in contemplative prayer practices in the Christian tradition and is enriched with contemplative content from [...]