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Do Americans Really Know Who Evangelicals Are?
The word "evangelical" floats around in churches, the media and particularly this year's election but Americans often have no idea what an evangelical is, a new study shows. Even 14 percent of self-described evangelicals couldn't guess the definition.
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Dobson Commends Palin's Support of Pregnant Daughter
John McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, said Monday her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is five months pregnant, an announcement stealing even more thunder from McCain and a Republican presidential convention already overshadowed by Hurricane Gustav.
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The looming challenge for Republicans is building the same enthusiasm in "values voters" that fill evangelical churches each week.
The pastor of one of Minnesota's largest churches said an IRS investigation into his ministry's finances is "politically motivated."
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Republicans rebuffed their certain nominee Monday by endorsing a platform that goes further than John McCain in opposition to abortion rights. The GOP document does not provide exceptions allowing abortion.
Christian relief teams are on the ground and ready to begin distributing food, water and other needed items to Hurricane Gustav victims after the worst of the storm passed.
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YMCAs around the world are remembering three young volunteers who were shot dead while working for the Guatemalan branch in August.
Tech giants like Google and Microsoft are pressuring the FCC to allow them to broadcast wireless frequencies on television "white spaces" but the idea is meeting opposition from Christian broadcasters who worry the move would interfere with the Gospel message.
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Churches in Thailand are being encouraged to put pressure on the Thai Government to ensure that it deals peacefully with thousands of protesters who have vowed to occupy the offices of the prime minister until he resigns.
The theological arm of the World Evangelical Alliance has released a statement on Jewish evangelism in Europe with the hope of renewing commitment to taking the gospel to the Jews.
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In a souring economy, enrollment in private schools is dropping. South Hampton Roads, with dozens of Roman Catholic, Jewish and Protestant-run schools, has been especially vulnerable to the trend.
More than 1,000 Chicago public school students skipped the first day of classes Tuesday to protest unequal education funding, a boycott organizers said would continue through the week with help from retired teachers who will turn office lobbies into impromptu classrooms.
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The man behind “Basic Instinct” and “Showgirls” will have his memoirs published next week to share with the world how one of America’s most notorious screenwriters turned his life around since finding God.
The author of the spiritual bestseller 'Blue Like Jazz' asked God to help solve America's problems in his prayer at the Democratic National Convention Monday night. Donald Miller invoked the name of Jesus Christ to right these wrongs.
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Chinese house church Christians have a paradoxical view of their country, suggested an American ministry leader who recently returned from a fact-finding trip to China during the Olympic Games.
More than a week after the outbreak of violence in Orissa, the situation is getting worse with no sign of subsiding, reported a Christian ministry working in India. Religious violence between Hindus and Christians in this remote and poor state in eastern India has killed at least 16 people.
Five million people in Afghanistan are facing severe food shortages with winter drawing near and donors falling drastically behind in submitting funds, said an international relief agency.
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