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Press Herald
January 13, 2018
The small room, painted black and gold and decorated with crosses and Rastafarian symbols, filled with pungent smoke after an hourlong service of Christian prayers, self-help slogans and inspirational quotes led by Atwell, a Campbell, Calif., massage therapist and photographer. Despite its mainstreamÃÂ ...
Greenfield Daily Reporter
January 13, 2018
3 along with 700-800 other Hoosiers. I am so thankful for my friend Matthew Barnes of Public Servants' Prayer for organizing this event each year. Where else in America can one find a Christian prayer service in the Indiana Statehouse where the heads of legislative, executive and judicial branches actuallyÃÂ ...
Independent Catholic News
January 13, 2018
During morning Mass at Casa Santa Marta on Friday, Pope Francis reflected on the day's Gospel according to Mark, in which the leper and paralytic were healed by Jesus. Pray to receive and do so with genuine faith, the Pope said, pointing out that the leper also challenged Jesus with courage. "If you wantÃÂ ...
Wichita Eagle
January 2, 2018
The prayer was for brotherhood, peace, courage and guidance — not dissimilar from the dozens of other prayers given before Sedgwick County Commission meetings this year. There was one key difference, however: The prayer was given by a Jewish rabbi, the only non-Christian to have led the countyÃÂ ...
Aleteia EN
January 2, 2018
It is called the “Jesus Prayer” and many believe it is one of the most popular Christian prayers of all time. It is an ancient prayer that was largely influenced by the Desert Fathers of Egypt. An early form of the prayer is first mentioned by St. Diadochos of Photiki, an ascetic monk in Greece during the early 5thÃÂ ...
Belfast Newsletter
December 20, 2017
An act of Christian prayer and Bible reading should not offend anyone. You may be a person of a different faith or someone of no faith but this short act should not be seen as attack or insult to you. Instead it is a reflection of who we are as a society, a society that overwhelmingly sees itself as christian (evenÃÂ ...
Law & Crime
December 18, 2017
A Louisiana school board was sued Monday after it allegedly “subjected” students to Christian prayer. The complaint, filed Monday in a federal court, was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of mother Christy Cole and her daughter, described in court documents as K.C. The girl attendsÃÂ ...
Aleteia EN
November 24, 2017
Scripture is full of prayers from front to cover, but after the final page of Revelation, how did the early Christians pray to God? The oldest known Christian prayer outside of the Bible can be found in the works of St. Clement of Rome, the fourth pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He held the office ofÃÂ ...
WDET
December 2, 2017
Recently, courts ruled on a lawsuit out of Jackson County involving that county's board of commissioners' practice of beginning each meeting with Christian prayers and asking those in attendance to participate. In September, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the board did not violate the U.S. ...
Winona Daily News
November 27, 2017
28, in the Jack Funeral Home in Whitehall, where a Christian prayer service will be held at 7:30 p.m. followed by a parish rosary. Friends may ...
KVIA El Paso
November 27, 2017
"School-sponsored Christian prayers at board meetings are discriminatory," Miller further stated. "This practice is particularly egregious ...
Daily Post Nigeria
November 26, 2017
He said the use of Muslim or Christian prayers at events would only make Nigerians more aware of their differences. Bishop Kukah said, “I am ...
Jacksonville Daily Progress
November 26, 2017
According to the lawsuit, the Birdville board has had a longstanding policy of choosing students to offer Christian prayers at the beginning of ...
LancasterOnline
November 25, 2017
Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the Christian Prayer Service from the Andrew T. Scheid Funeral Home-Sullivan Home, ...
Theadanews
November 24, 2017
“School-sponsored Christian prayers at board meetings are discriminatory,” Miller said in a statement. “This practice is particularly egregious because it invites young, impressionable students to deliver the prayers.” A federal district court ruled against the challengers, reasoning that the case fit under ...
Aleteia EN
November 24, 2017
The oldest known Christian prayer outside of the Bible can be found in the works of St. ... For the full prayer, check out Early Christian Prayers.
Northern Pen
November 14, 2017
(This, of course, from a premier who insists that a Christian prayer should start his province's highest assembly, despite public complaint: “There ...
Hindustan Times
November 14, 2017
Eight people attending a Christian prayer meeting in a temporary enclosure in Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi district on Sunday were booked ...
The Quint
November 14, 2017
Eight people were arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi district on Sunday while attending a Christian prayer meeting, following complaints of ...
Patheos (blog)
November 12, 2017
... Christian prayer over the public address system” at a football game. ... Christian prayers, led elementary students in Christian prayers and ...
ChicagoNow (blog)
November 8, 2017
And now onto the Big Question. Does prayer work? First of all, does anybody really believe that the efficacy of Christian prayer hasn't already ...
KSLA-TV
October 31, 2017
The teacher then delivers a brief Christian prayer for whatever the child requests, writes down what the prayer was for, and then moves on to ...
Alabama Baptist
October 28, 2017
... authorities ordered the closure of house churches in Bahawalpur after Muslims complained they were disturbed by Christian prayers.
Nairobi News
October 28, 2017
... who in October 2015 became an online sensation for his his toe-curling, sexually explicit message on a supposedly Christian prayer group.
Patheos (blog)
October 24, 2017
... around the 7:54 mark when talking about Engle v. Vitale, one of multiple cases that removed mandatory Christian prayers from public schools ...
NYOOOZ
October 24, 2017
Summary: CHENNAI: District authorities have issued show-cause notice to about 30 Christian prayer halls in Coimbatore district alone, ...
Ladysmith Gazette
October 24, 2017
A Ladysmith Community Christian Prayer Meeting will be held from 5pm to 6pm on Thursday, October 26. The venue will be the Egerton ...
National Catholic Register (blog)
October 16, 2017
A technique out there purporting to be a form of Christian prayer has made inroads in countless parishes across the U.S. and Canada.
Religion News Service
October 13, 2017
... (AP) — A North Carolina county will ask the Supreme Court to review a ruling barring it from opening its meetings with Christian prayers.
Christian News Network
October 13, 2017
... Ruling Against Exclusively Christian Prayers to U.S. Supreme Court ... of Appeals ruled against the primarily Christian prayer practice in July, ...
First Things
October 11, 2017
... of Faith” (the Creed); the “Celebration of the Christian Mystery” (the Sacraments); “Life in Christ” (Christian Morality); and “Christian Prayer.”.
WCNC
September 25, 2017
... practice of opening meetings with predominantly Christian prayers. ... Commissioners also argued this is not a fight for Christian prayer per ...
WILX-TV
September 8, 2017
(WILX) - A Jackson man who believes Christian prayers at County meetings are against the U.S. Constitution may take his fight to the Supreme ...
Lansing State Journal
September 6, 2017
Christian prayers publicly offered by elected officials in a Michigan county don't run afoul of the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court said ...
BBC News
July 22, 2017
Christian prayers are still held before meetings at half of Welsh councils, despite efforts to scrap them. Five councils do not have them, but 13Â ...
The Tand D.com
December 31, 1999
If a public official's Christian prayer is acceptable at a meeting, would a future member's prayer unique to another religion being equally as ...
KTBS
December 31, 1999
Proselytizing in classrooms by teachers who required elementary students to recite Christian prayers, led elementary students in Christian ...
WBRC FOX6 News
December 31, 1999
"You know not everyone gets the chance to speak over the loud speaker and give their opinion but these Christian prayers are being a part of ...
Patheos (blog)
December 31, 1999
I've been thinking about prayer and the practice of paganizing christian prayers among druids and witches in ADF and the wider ...
WFAE
September 29, 2017
Is a Christian prayer in a government meeting unconstitutional? Rowan County doesn't think so, and has asked the Supreme Court to decide.
WFAE
September 29, 2017
... County Commissioners seek court permission to say Christian prayer. ... they should be allowed to say Christian Prayers before meetings.
Patheos (blog)
September 29, 2017
It's actually from the beginning-of-the-year mandatory convocation for staffers at McKinney Independent School District in Texas. The event tookÃÂ ...
WFAE
September 27, 2017
Before the vote, a parade of citizens offered their opinions, some defending Christianity and public Christian prayers, others arguing against theÃÂ ...
NOLA.com
September 22, 2017
Landry said he was encouraged recently by a court ruling that a Michigan county board may open its meetings with a Christian prayer andÃÂ ...
Logan Daily News
September 22, 2017
I think that the time has come for our culture to take a fresh look at the depths of wisdom and insight we can obtain from Christian prayer. But inÃÂ ...
Christian News Network
September 19, 2017
Why isn't it wrong to make people participate in christian prayer in order ... to make homeless people in the US say christian prayers to get foodÃÂ ...
Legal Reader (blog)
September 13, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently ruled that elected public board commissioners in Jackson County, Michigan, were notÃÂ ...
Christian Daily
September 11, 2017
... legal challenge presented by a pagan man who objected to local commissioners' practice of reciting Christian prayers during their meetings.
The Christian Times
September 9, 2017
(Pixabay/Daniel_B_photos)A federal appeals court has upheld the practice of opening public meetings with Christian prayers at a MichiganÃÂ ...
NewsHounds (blog)
September 8, 2017
... Christian Pastor Prays For Hurricane Victims – A Christian Prayer, That ... friends don't incorporate nice, Christian prayers during their show.
