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CD is No. 8 on the Overall Classical Music Chart Atlanta, GA, May 23, 2013 – ANGELS AND SAINTS AT EPHESUS from the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, earned the No. 1 spot on Billboard magazine’s Classical Traditional Music Chart for the second straight week. The breathtaking album also earned the No. 8 spot [...]
“The difference between people with scientific beliefs and those with religious beliefs,” says prominent biochemist Rupert Sheldrake, “is that most religious believers are aware that their position is based on faith and that believers in other religions, or even different sects of the same religion, have different beliefs. People who put their faith in scientific [...]
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly is a production of THIRTEEN for WNET. Visit www.pbs.org/religionandethics for additional information. Show #1638 is fed over PBS on Friday, May 24 at 5:00 p.m. (check local listings). Decline of Buddhism – Thailand is 95% Buddhist, but it is estimated that in the last thirty years the number of monks has [...]
Comcast-DC Censors “in the role of Obama’s IRS” Child Sex Abuse Concerns GRAPEVINE, TX – As delegates for the Boy Scouts of America convene this week in Texas to weigh a BSA board initiative for gay scouts, conservatives began airing two TV spots dealing with the Scouts, homosexuality and House Speaker John Boehner. “It’s all [...]
Summit Will Show United Front against Threats to Religious Liberty WASHINGTON, May 22, 2013 – Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, Shaykha Reima Yosif and Rabbi Meir Soloveichik may have significant differences when it comes to religion and theology. But on May 30 in Washington, D.C., these U.S. faith leaders – alongside other representatives of the Catholic, evangelical [...]
Putting Faith in Comics/Graphic Novels Fuels Publishing’s Fastest-Growing Niche KingstoneMedia.com LEESBURG, Fla. – May 22, 2013 – Aiming to be the world’s largest publisher of Christian comics and biblical-worldview graphic novels, Kingstone Comics announces its June launch of Eternity, the first graphic novel by New York Times best-selling author Randy Alcorn. “Comics are booming as [...]
Board Elects New Chairperson and Members, Begins Presidential Search NORCROSS, Ga. – The Mission Society, which deploys missionaries globally in a variety of Christian ministries, has announced the retirement of Dick McClain, its president and longest-tenured member of staff, effective May 2014. Elected to the presidency in 2009, he first came to The Mission Society [...]
Following the Apostle Paul’s example, evangelist Dag Heward-Mills not only preaches the uncompromising principles of the kingdom of God, but also demonstrates the power of that kingdom. Through the Healing Jesus Campaigns in some of the world’s most needy and remote locations, scores of spiritually hungry people are rescued from the domain of darkness and [...]
God Wants Pope Francis To Be The First Vegan Pope. With God’s guidance, will Pope Francis be motivated, like no other Pope before him, to go against the status quo, taking a firm stand against all odds, criticisms, and adversaries? The following letter titled *God Wants Pope Francis To Be The First Vegan Pope And Powerful [...]
Liguori, Mo. – The board of directors of Liguori Publications has unanimously elected a multimedia journalist as publisher (CEO) and a businessman and priest as president. Virgil Tipton of Richmond Heights, MO, is the new publisher and the Rev. Donald Willard, C.Ss.R., of Whittier, CA, is the new president. The two succeed the Rev. Mathew [...]
