As many as 1,000 people who had registered for the Baptist World Congress this year were unable to attend because they were denied visas by the United States government, leaders of the Baptist World Alliance said July 28. Read More
Google Inc. has spent
$1.1 billion during the first half of the year buying up 22 companies,
with more than half of the amount going toward its recently completed
acquisition of mobile ad service AdMob.
Corroborating a rumor from The Wall Street Journal earlier this summer, a new Bloomberg
report cited "two people familiar with the company's plans" to build an
iPad-like touchscreen device and release it this fall. Dubbed the
"Blackpad," the device will ostensibly run the as-yet-unreleased BlackBerry OS 6, and help RIM deflect further encroachment from Apple into its declining mobile market share. Read More
It may tempting to think the church can win converts if it has the right strapline or soundbite, but the most effective way remains telling people about Jesus Christ, said a British theologian. Read More
Aid group Doctors Without Borders said it
has been forced to suspend work in a volatile part of South Sudan
because of attacks against his staff, as violence between rival tribes
surges in the area. 
A draft constitution that Kenya votes on next week guarantees women the
same rights as men -- unless a judge in a Muslim family court decrees
otherwise.
The man who introduced the "new N-word" is taking on the man who reintroduced the "M-word." Read More
How faithy will Sarah Palin's next book be? Pretty faithy, according to three details in today's CNN Political Ticker post about new information Harper Collins has released about the book: Read More
The rumors started circulating soon after Howard Dodson announced this spring that he would step down as director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Using the backdrop of the highly successful and attended Essence
Festival, the Louisiana Office of Tourism launched an iPhone app for
Lousiana's African American Heritage Trail. Read More
President Barack Obama called ethics charges against Representative Charles Rangel "very troubling" on Friday and said he hoped the lawmaker could end his career "with dignity." Read More
Are eBooks finally ready to go mainstream?
Too bad he can't come back every week. Disrupts traffic, but a small price to pay for a rare win-win day. Read More
The St. Louis Rams agreed to a record contract with No. 1 overall draft pick Sam Bradford on Friday night. The deal includes a guaranteed $50 million for the former Oklahoma QB, the most guaranteed money included in a deal in NFL history.
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The Prince of Wales says he believes he has been placed on Earth as future King 'for a purpose' - to save the world. Read More
Sam and Charles Wyly have long cultivated an image as active philanthropists, funneling millions of dollars to arts groups, colleges, literacy programs and animal shelters.
Israeli warplanes fired missiles, killing a senior commander of the Hamas military wing and wounding 11 people in five targets hit across Gaza overnight, the group and the military said Saturday. Read More
Former Department of Agriculture Rural Development Director Shirley Sherrod of South West Georgia, still reeling from the blow of an assault on her job, character and civil rights record last week, told the Black Press of America that she hopes the travesty of justice that happened to her will now help America move forward with racial healing. Read More
The summer issue of Leadership features an interview with Mark Dever and Jim Wallis about the role justice ought to have in our gospel ministry. Read More
Anne Rice has had a religious conversion: She's no longer a Christian. "In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control," the author wrote Wednesday on her Facebook page. Read More
Satan controls the lost immoral. I have talked to men and women behind prison bars and on skid row, with the ugly scars of sin showing in their faces and broken bodies. 
Sherri Revette cuts through thick pines, guiding the four-wheeler down dirt and mud trails to her tranquil spot, a sandbar along the Chickasawhay River about a mile behind her home in the backwoods of Mississippi. Read More
The blasts, heard blocks away, interrupted a warm summer evening that had drawn children out onto their neighborhood blocks Wednesday. Read More
Xulon
Press launched the annual Christian Choice Book Awards, a contest which
awarded certificates and prize money to 42 Christian authors for
outstanding literary achievement in 14 categories. Read More
In a quiet Southern bedroom community of gardens and parks across the
country from Arizona, another skirmish in the battle over illegal
immigration is brewing. Read More
Incoming BP CEO Bob Dudley was set to outline his company's long-term efforts to help the Gulf of Mexico recover from the oil spill Friday morning, and will be getting help from a Clinton administration-era emergency management official. Read More
Republicans wanted an election-season ethics case against Democratic powerhouse Rep. Charles Rangel of New York. And now, it looks like they have one. Read More
The first predominantly African-American congregation from Florida to minister in Haiti since the Jan. 12 earthquake returned to Tampa consumed by a kinship of hearts and spirit. Read More
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday that the software
giant is urgently working with its partners to unveil a host of tablet
computers running Windows 7, to compete with Apple's fast-selling iPad. Read More
Residents of the Israeli coastal town of Ashkelon ran for shelter Friday morning as the Color Red air raid siren warned of an incoming attack.
Bishop T.D. Jakes, senior pastor of The Potters House in Dallas, Texas, wishes Larry King a happy retirement. Read More
President Barack Obama on Wednesday cast his latest economic pitch as a matter of patriotism, urging the Senate to ditch its partisan mode at least long enough to pass a package of tax cuts and loan relief for small businesses. "This is as American as apple pie," the president said. Read More
A North Carolina Baptist pastor said July 27 she does not understand why she was arrested July 20 for simply trying to attend a public meeting of a school board whose policy on integration she had earlier been arrested for protesting. Read More
A Warner Robins pastor is on a crusade against something sacred to many in his middle Georgia town: high school football. Read More
Charlene Cotton will talk to anyone about sex. Several days a week she stands behind a table decorated with a bowl of flavored condoms and safer sex pamphlets, calling to women passing on the street, "Come check out my table. Don't be scared." 
Last week, Times TV writer Brian Stelter spurred some blog posts about Fox News' African-American audience when he tweeted that less than 1.4 percent of its prime-time viewers are black, much less (in numbers and flat percentages) than rivals CNN or MSNBC. Read More
Blogs are abuzz with the news that African American women's magazine, Essence, recently hired a non-black fashion director. 
In the mountains near Kingston, Jamaica, City of Refuge Children's Home
is cultivating two of the country's most precious resources: children
and coffee. Read More
South Africa's "Shembe church" says that a deal between it and a
manufacturer is about to be finalised over the trademark rights to the
vuvuzela, a horn whose trumpeting sound has grabbed headlines through
its use during the soccer World Cup. Read More
Jason Hodge, father of four children from Barstow, Calif., says he's
"not paranoid" but he is concerned, and that's why he bought space in
what might be labeled a doomsday shelter. 
Concerns about pollution and water quality have prompted an environmental advocacy group to call for the banning of baptisms in the lower Jordan River, where the Bible says Jesus was baptized. Read More
Amazon.com(AMZN) revolutionized book reading in 2007 when it introduced its Kindle e-reader. But now consumers can choose among several digital reading devices -- and Apple hopes to change the game by making e-books available on its powerful iPad tablet computer. 
Foreclosures rose in 3 of every four large U.S. metro areas in this year's first half, likely ruling out sustained home price gains until 2013, real estate data company RealtyTrac said on Thursday. Read More
Anyone expecting that Amazon might roll out a new Kindle with a color
screen and the ability to play music and movies - in other words, a
device like Apple's iPad - will be sorely disappointed in the new version rolled out Wednesday. Read More
Chris Tucker's ongoing tax problems have reached Nicolas Cage
proportions. According to new documents, the "Rush Hour" star now owes
the IRS more than $11 million in back taxes. Read More
States that had been watching Arizona's
immigration law in hopes of copying it received a rude awakening when a
judge put most of the measure on hold and agreed with the Obama
administration's core argument that immigration enforcement is the role
of the federal government.
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan picked up
more GOP backing Wednesday in her drive toward near-certain confirmation
next week, even as a top Republican lashed out at her as "dangerous." Read More
The U.S. Defense Department is unable to properly account for over 95
percent of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil money tapped by the U.S. for
rebuilding the war ravaged nation, according to an audit released
Tuesday.
The new Electoral Act which is to guide the conduct of the 2011
elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, may be
passed by the two chambers of the National Assembly today. Read More
Jeff Bezos isn't just confident you'll want a
Kindle e-book reader. The CEO of Amazon.com is bracing for a future in
which you'll also want ones for your kid heading to college, your spouse
in a book club and perhaps even Grandpa. 
Just weeks after slashing the price of its Kindle e-reader to $189, Amazon has sold out of the device. A note posted on Amazon's site
says that the Kindle is "temporarily out of stock. Order now and we'll
deliver when available. We'll e-mail you with an estimated delivery date
as soon as we have more information. Your account will only be charged
when we ship the item." Read More
If there was resentment among his new teammates about all his hype, Tim Tebow already has worked it all out. Read More
Vitamin D
promises to be the most talked-about and written-about supplement of
the decade. While studies continue to refine optimal blood levels and
recommended dietary amounts, the fact remains that a huge part of the
population -- from robust newborns to the frail elderly, and many others
in between -- are deficient in this essential nutrient. Read More
President Barack Obama on Wednesday cast his latest economic pitch as a matter of patriotism, urging the Senate to ditch its partisan mode at least long enough to pass a package of tax cuts and loan relief for small businesses. "This is as American as apple pie," the president said. Read More
As the US struggles to dig out from a "great recession," blacks and Hispanics are more than three times as likely as whites to live below poverty, according to a report released Wednesday. Read More
As the US struggles to dig out from a "great recession," blacks and Hispanics are more than three times as likely as whites to live below poverty, according to a report released Wednesday. Read More
On Friday, July 23, 2010, gospel recording artist and worship leader Darwin Hobbs was released from St. Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, where he had been hospitalized for over a week and treated for blood clots in his lungs and legs. Hobbs looks forward to resting and recuperating at home. Read More
Today on The Yolanda Adams Morning Show we had the opportunity to interview the great Marvin Sapp. If you missed it check it out right here! Read More
New York Gov. David Paterson should not face charges involving alleged attempts to cover up domestic violence claims against a former aide, a retired judge appointed to investigate Paterson's actions concluded in a report issued Wednesday. Read More
The House's vote yesterday on emergency funding for the Afghanistan war
shows a significant eroding of support for President Obama's war policy
-- from members of his own Democratic Party. Read More
The Scriptures may not be a source of comfort anymore at one British hospital. The London Daily Express reported that the Nottingham University Hospitals Trust wants to ban Bibles from patients' bedsides, saying the Bibles are hard to clean.
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After years as a successful couples counselor, Tonya Hunter was credited with saving many marriages from breaking up. But a week before her death, she didn't know where her own husband was. 
This Black Panther just keeps getting more and more absurd. New Black Panther Party head Malik Zulu Shabazz burst onto the scene with some strongly-worded messages to Glenn Beck Read More
The city of New York has agreed to pay more than $7 million to settle a civil lawsuit stemming from the fatal 50-bullet police shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day. Read More
The Archbishop of York yesterday revealed he has been stopped and searched by police eight times, as he warned new anti-terrorist powers are a threat to civil liberties. Read More
Condoleezza Rice is no stranger to the whims of royalty. So when the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin, decided the two should get together to play a song or two for charity, it was decreed. Read More
There's plenty of fuel in "Freud's Last Session." But sometimes there's a lack of fire. Read More
Indiana authorities say a former Indianapolis pastor bilked a Christian organization out of nearly a half million dollars, spending part of the money on a Mercedes Benz and a mink coat. Read More
Essence Magazine has been called out by some of its readership and supporters for reportedly hiring a white Fashion Director, according to CLUTCH Magazine. Read More
Among immigrants aspiring to brave futures in the land of the free, few
are as controversial or as mobile as Ayaan Hirsi Ali. As a child, Hirsi
Ali lived in Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Kenya. As a young woman, she
fled an arranged marriage to a cousin in Canada, seeking asylum in the
Netherlands. Eleven years later, she was a Dutch citizen and a Member of
Parliament. Read More
Fitness
expert Jimmy Pena, who co-authored the NY Times best-selling book
"Extra Lean: The Fat-Burning Plan That Changes the Way You Eat for
Life," is gearing up for the release of his next print project. Read More
An Iranian Christian believer is being held in Iran's notorious Evin prison solely for owning a Bible. Read More
Without the benefit of their state's strict
new immigration law, officers from a single Arizona county helped deport
more than 26,000 immigrants from the U.S. through a federal-local
partnership program that has been roundly criticized as fraught with
problems.
A voter-approved ban on hiring and renting
property to illegal immigrants was suspended late Tuesday by the Fremont
City Council, less than two days before it was set to take effect in
the small Nebraska city. 
France has declared war on al-Qaida, and
matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the
terror network's North African branch, after the terror network killed a
French aid worker it took hostage in April.
This week Facebook will register its 500 millionth member.
It's a milestone both significant and meaningless: yes, it's a reminder
of just how big the social-media giant has become, but really--did we
need reminding? That Facebook is a part of many Americans' daily lives
is clear. Read More
Some of the best beauty secrets have been dated back thousands of years, from Cleopatra's milk baths to Queen Esther's beauty treatments of fine oils and cosmetics (Esther 2:12). Read More
The body of Simon Bolivar, father of the Latin American revolutions, was exhumed last week in Venezuela. Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's president, is pursuing a hunch that Bolivar died of some nefarious violent act, and not, as the official story holds, of tuberculosis. Read More
A wellhead in southeastern Louisiana was spewing oil up to 20 feet into the air on Tuesday morning, local officials said, at least the third unrelated oil leak in the area since the Deepwater Horizon spill began 99 days ago. Read More
When the rubble is cleared away, the roads repaved and the buildings rebuilt, will the people of Haiti be back on their feet? Read More
Americans by a large majority believe President Barack Obama has not focused enough on job creation, as economic fears threaten Democrats ahead of November 2 congressional elections, a Reuters-Ipsos poll found on Tuesday. 
Too many men with low-risk prostate cancers, those whose level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is normal or below normal, still receive aggressive treatment, a new study shows. Read More
Voters in 46 counties in the state of Georgia overwhelmingly cast a nonbinding vote in favor of an amendment to the Georgia State Constitution supporting the pro-life "Personhood" amendment. With the counties averaging 75 percent approval, every single county that presented the amendment passed it. Read More
Celebration for the Nations, which is a gathering of worshippers in Wales from the nations touched by the 1904 Welsh Revival, including intercessors from South Korea, is partnering with Global Day of Prayer London to launch 500 days of prayer for the nation. Read More
What happens to a tree when its root system is destroyed? The tree can no longer access the nutrients it needs, and it begins to weaken. The leaves wilt, the branches droop, the fruit ceases to grow. Eventually, the tree dies. Read More
Are you going to heaven or to hell? The Bible teaches that many seemingly good people are going to hell, because "...all have sinned..." (Romans 3:23) 
Should doctors, pharmacists and other health care workers have the right to refuse to provide services that conflict with their religious beliefs? 
While the divorce rate is higher now than it was a century ago, the rate has been declining for the past two decades. For example, in 2000, there were 4 divorces per 1,000 people.
Hebrew University has announced today (Monday, July 26, 2010) the discovery of a law code written on fragments of cuneiform tablets dating to the 17th or 18th century BC. Read More
Bishop Richard Allen was an African-American slave who bought his
freedom in 1780 and ran an Underground Railway station to help other
African-Americans escape slavery. During Allen's lifetime, he found
peace in religion and created the African Methodist Episcopal Church,
providing blacks a chance to worship outside the world of slavery and
segregation in the 1700s. Read More
The wife and father of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick have asked a
federal judge to quash a request to depose them in the lawsuit
involving a slain stripper who was said to have danced at a long-rumored
party at the mayoral Manoogian Mansion. Read More
KATE SEELYE (correspondent): In a church in the Iraqi
village of Qaraqosh, a priest prepares for a communal baptism. With a
splash of water, he welcomes these infants into the Christian faith. Read More
The African Union has agreed to change the mandate of its peacekeeping mission, Amisom, in Somalia into a peace enforcement in an effort to engage the Al Shabaab militia. The change in mandate was discussed and agreed on at a closed-door meeting attended by African Foreign Affairs Ministers on July 22 in Kampala ahead of the AU Summit.
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US-manufacturer Motorola is rumoured to be planning a 10-inch
Android-based tablet that will be a direct competitor to the Apple iPad
according to a pair of Analysts. Read More
Voters in 46 counties in the state of Georgia overwhelmingly cast a nonbinding vote in favor of an amendment to the Georgia State Constitution supporting the pro-life "Personhood" amendment. Read More
Falling into step with the United States, European nations significantly broadened economic sanctions against Iran Monday in what was described as an effort to force Tehran to resume serious negotiations on its disputed nuclear program. Read More
The women of Grand Isle are nervous. Used to be, they say, they could walk the streets of their beachside town alone, getting a little exercise after the hottest part of the day or setting out the trash after midnight. Read More
If the Rev. Al Sharpton didn't exist, he would have had to be invented. In fact, the novelist Tom Wolfe has claimed he did invent him, in the character of the Reverend Bacon, a supporting figure in The Bonfire of the Vanities. Read More
Sensational accusations of racism propagated by the far-right are depriving America of the chance to talk about more substantial issues like poverty and education, prominent racial scholars said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation." Read More
Is contraception a sin? The very suggestion made Bryan Hodge and his classmates at Chicago's Moody Bible Institute laugh. Read More
When you think of the homeless, images of tent cities and people asking
passersby on the street for money usually come to mind. Read More
Many people strive to make a name for themselves. 
The netroots, the liberal Democrats who've been instrumental in making
the Internet an important political tool, are disappointed in President
Barack Obama. Read More
Scores of women workers
who are linked with All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) recently
staged a protest rally against what they consider to be the
"discriminatory laws" prevailing in Pakistan.
The man overseeing the much-maligned
response by BP PLC to the Gulf oil spill crisis is the likely choice to
replace gaffe-prone Tony Hayward to run the company and would become the
first American to ever head the oil giant. Read More
BP's Tony Hayward, whose gaffes added insult to oil-spill injury for the Gulf Coast, is on his way out as CEO, a U.S. government official said Sunday. Read More
In an address to Members of Congress and participants attending a Congressional Black Caucus meeting, Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies, called for a national discussion about the growing wealth gap which he referred to as a "wealth gap Tsunami threatening African American families." Read More
President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to cut off oil sales to the United States if Venezuela is attacked by its U.S.-allied neighbor Colombia in a dispute over allegations that Venezuela gives haven to Colombian rebels. Read More
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that despite intense international pressure from the "entire world," he is still not willing to start direct negotiations with Israel.
THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be "far preferable" to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya. Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison. Read More
WikiLeaks has obtained a massive set of records about the Afghanistan war, dubbed "The War Logs," that paints a grim picture of the nation's longest military engagement. Read More
Bishop T.D. Jakes Preaches at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church; Osteen Says He Feels as though Jakes Is an Older Brother to Him
The Obama White House is too white. It has Barack Obama, raised in the Hawaiian hood and Indonesia, and Valerie Jarrett, who spent her early years in Iran. Read More
Two Pulitzer Prize winning columnists took aim at President Barack Obama on Wednesday. The Washington Post's Kathleen Parker called him the "first female president" and The New York Times's Maureen Dowd declared that Obama has a "humanoid" problem. Read More
Right when President Barack Obama should have been making political hay
over big-deal legislative triumphs, race once again blew in with a storm
of distraction. Read More
The 62-foot King of Kings statue no longer stretches out its giant arms to motorists on Interstate 75, but a pastor of the Solid Rock Church says the June 14 fire was good PR for what the church is about: Christ. Read More
"There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God" (Romans 3:11). Man does not seek after God, but in His love, God seeks man, so that he will not go to hell. 
A top U.S. official on Sunday pledged continued support for African
peacekeeping efforts in war-torn Somalia, as Uganda's president urged
African leaders to unite against terrorism just weeks after Somali
militants set off deadly twin bombings in Uganda. Read More
As the height of the wedding season approaches, clergy in the Church of
England have seen a dramatic rise in the number of requests for a religious
ceremony.
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Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain's socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search for the elusive formula that will deliver the best care for the cheapest price while costs and demand escalate. Read More
In a contest between gospel choirs, almost by definition there are only winners. Read More
In the city where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a
once-unbeatable former mayor wants the Democratic congressional primary
to be a referendum on race. Read More
Omega Psi Phi, one of the nation's most celebrated fraternities, took over downtown Raleigh this weekend for fun and fellowship. Read More
President Barack Obama is urging liberal activists and bloggers to "keep up the fight" to bring change to Washington. Read More
If Tom Wolfe had set out to write a "Bonfire of the Vanities" on modern Washington, a farce about lives and races colliding, he couldn't have done much better than to invent the unlikely story of Shirley Sherrod. Read More
An epic fight is brewing over what Congress and President Obama should do about the expiring Bush tax cuts, with such substantial economic and political consequences that it could shape the fall elections and fiscal policy for years to come. Read More
To allow for giving away iPhone 4 bumpers, Apple will set aside $175 million of iPhone 4 revenue in the September quarter, according to Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer. Read More
Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) General Hossein Salami underlined Iran's self-sufficiency and remarkable progresses in different fields, and said that the country is prepared to survive the harshest sanctions and boycotts. Read More
Former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign after a blogger posted comments she made to an NAACP audience about race, is unsure about returning to a government job, she said Friday. Read More
The Obama administration's role in the accreditation of a U.S.-based gay rights group by the United Nations is "distressing," says a Southern Baptist public policy leader.
This probably isn't the first time you've heard someone ask if Jeb Bush is going to run for president. It won't be the last. Read More
The Vicar of Rome wants gay priests out of the closet -- and out of the Catholic Church -- according to an Associated Press story today. Read More
North Korea said it would counter U.S. and South Korean joint naval exercises with "nuclear deterrence" after the Obama administration said the government in Pyongyang shouldn't take any provocative steps. Read More
A former missionary believes God has given him a tool that will transform Africa. Paul Schneider Jr., founder of Aid the Children in Newnan, Ga., says a natural sea mineral concentrate has shown "exciting" results in improving the health of HIV-positive children in Africa. Read More
The uncle of the former 
