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Latest news about Christianity
How cults aren't like religions (The News & Observer)
Q: What's the difference between a cult and a religion? Discuss the gray area where a cult transitions into a "legitimate" religion. Surely Christianity at first was considered a cult; it still is by some.
20 Nov 2008, 1:49 am | click here for more
Japan revisits dark chapter in Christianity's past (AFP via Yahoo!Xtra News)
NAGASAKI, Japan (AFP) - As church bells ring and grey-robed nuns rush to Mass in this Japanese port city, a dark chapter in Christianity's past is being revisited with the beatification of 188 martyrs persecuted for their faith.
18 Nov 2008, 9:10 pm | click here for more
How atheism is being sold to America (WorldNetDaily)
Religion – including Christianity and Judaism – is "violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward kids."
20 Nov 2008, 10:42 pm | click here for more
Catholics honor victims of Japan's past oppression (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Four centuries after they died for their faith, 188 Japanese Catholic martyrs will be honored by the church next week in a ceremony to recall the bloody persecution that almost stamped out Christianity in Japan.
21 Nov 2008, 4:37 am | click here for more
IWU launches author series (Marion Chronicle-Tribune)
Author, Philip Jenkins, answers questions about his book "The Lost History of Christianity" during the President's Author Series at Indiana Wesleyan. emoore@chronicle-tribune.com
21 Nov 2008, 12:23 am | click here for more
Japan revisits dark chapter in Christianity's past (AFP via Yahoo! News)
As church bells ring and grey-robed nuns rush to Mass in this Japanese port city, a dark chapter in Christianity's past is being revisited with the beatification of 188 martyrs persecuted for their faith.
18 Nov 2008, 8:18 pm | click here for more
Japanese Christian martyrs to be beatified (AP via Yahoo! News)
Samurai warriors, housewives and kids were crucified, thrown into hot springs and tortured, but refused to renounce their religion. Japan's extraordinary but relatively unknown history of Christian persecution is finally receiving recognition in a beatification of 188 martyrs.
21 Nov 2008, 8:10 am | click here for more
God and Evolution Can Co-Exist, Scientist Insists (Fox News)
Physics professor sees no contradiction between his Christianity and his work as a scientist.
20 Nov 2008, 5:50 pm | click here for more
Victims of Japan's past honoured (TVNZ)
Four centuries after they died for their faith, 188 Japanese Catholic martyrs will be honoured by the church next week in a ceremony to recall the bloody persecution that almost stamped out Christianity in Japan.
21 Nov 2008, 5:09 am | click here for more
Mosul's Christians make timid return after killings (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Imad Hanna was among thousands of Iraqi Christians who fled Mosul last month after a wave of killings in the northern city. Now he is back because he cannot afford to live anywhere else.
21 Nov 2008, 2:32 am | click here for more
