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The Story of God: Finding Heaven in Hell

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Comment countMorgan Freeman from National Geographic’s The Story of God.What is heaven? What is hell? And how do they impact how we live right now?
“Heaven and Hell,” the latest episode of The Story of God With Morgan Freeman (airing Jan. 23) grapples with those questions. They’re questions that have fascinated me, too. They always have, ever since I was a little boy.
In the episode, Freeman and others take an interfaith trip through the Good Place and Bad Place. The show takes us to a cave in T..

Reading King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail

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If Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Had a Dream” speech (August 28, 1963) was the visionary sermon of the Civil Rights Movement, his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was its epistolatory defense.

On April 12, 1963—Good Friday—an open letter had appeared in the Birmingham, Alabama, newspaper issuing “A Call for Unity” and protesting the recent Civil Rights demonstrations in Birmingham.

The eclectic group of eight white clergymen from Alabama who wrote and signed the letter—two Episcopalians and two Met..

Report: Global Christian Persecution Rose for Third Year in a Row in 2016

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SANTA ANA, Calif. — A watchdog organization that releases a report each year on the global persecution of Christians says that acts of hostility against believers rose for the third year in a row in 2016, with persecution in South and Southeast Asia particularly rising to “unprecedented levels.”

“For Christians in the West, the Open Doors World Watch List is a clear indicator that we need to advocate on behalf of those who do not have the same religious freedom privileges we do,” said David Cur..

Pastor in Uganda Attacked After Sheikh Sent to Kill Him Becomes Christian

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(Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists ambushed a church leader in eastern Uganda last week after a sheikh they had sent to assassinate him at a church service instead became a Christian, sources said.

In Amuria, about 170 miles (280 kilometers) northeast of Kampala, Bishop George Edweu of the Pentecostal Upright Church had arrived at his church building at 5 a.m. on Jan. 2 for a morning devotion when he saw a young man on the ground. He got out of his car to attend to him, he told Morning St..

News: Who Awaits the Messiah Most? Muslims

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Islam and Christianity share Second Coming hopes. Can this be a bridge?

Jesus did not show up to defend ISIS—and the first to celebrate was a Muslim.

“The [ISIS] myth of their great battle in Dabiq is finished,” Ahmed Osman, a Free Syrian Army officer, told Reuters in October after coalition forces drove more than 1,000 extremists from the backwater Syrian city known as the Armageddon of Islamic eschatology. The jihadists had expected the Messiah to appear and bloody his lance on approaching C..

North Ireland Bakers Fined for Declining ‘Support Gay Marriage’ Cake to Appeal to UK Supreme Court

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BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The Christian owners of a bakery in Northern Ireland state that they plan to appeal to the U.K. Supreme Court a lower court ruling declaring them guilty of discrimination for declining to print the phrase “Support Gay Marriage” on a cake.

“The Ashers Baking Company has confirmed that it plans to launch an appeal to the Supreme Court over the gay cake case,” the Christian Institute states, noting that paperwork will be filed next month.

Attorneys for the Asher family..

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