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January 2004

Reuters, January 1, 2004 VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The world needs a "new international order" to solve its conflicts and ensure peace, Pope John Paul said in his New Year's Day address on Thursday. "More than ever we need a new international order which draws on the experience and results...Read more
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The Christian Science Monitor By Kris Axtman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor HOUSTON –After a rousing live performance of "Jesus is better than life," broadcast over three Jumbotrons in the Compaq Center, Victoria Osteen steps to the podium in front of 16,000 cheering Sunday worshipers and proclaims:...Read more
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A common charge of skeptics is that if Jesus was who he said he was, then the evidence should be more extensive, particularly if his execution was attended by things such as “a great darkness.” To the contrary, since Jesus was executed as a criminal (something the Romans did with...Read more
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J an van Paris, Pieter van Cleves, Hendrick Maelschalck, and Lauwerens Pieters, had not yet united with the church, but were novices and ready to unite; hence going to hear the Word of God preached, they were apprehended, at Ghent, in flanders, in the year 1568, and taken to the...Read more
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The Bible contains many accounts that would lead us to believe that those living upon earth at the time prophecy is fulfilled are expected to recognize events transpiring in their day as the fulfillment of what the prophets have foretold. For example, referring in his Pentecost sermon to what was...Read more
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Los Angeles Times, Dec 6, 2003 One of the nation's leading evangelical Christian seminaries has launched a federally funded project for making peace with Muslims, featuring a proposed code of ethics that rejects offensive statements about each other's faiths, affirms a mutual belief in one God and pledges not to...Read more
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Silvania Machado is a Brazilian who has appeared in churches across America . According to her testimony, at one point she was dying of cancer. After trying "everything, including witchcraft," a charismatic pastor’s wife told her to "give God 30 days to heal her." According to Machado she was healed...Read more
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Cult leaders have shouldered a heavy burden. Not speaking under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, they utter prophecies which with time prove to be false. Under the date of January 23, 1833, Joseph Smith recorded the following in his History of the Church, volume 1, page 323: "... my...Read more
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"The dream of some Zionists for the restoration of Hebrew as a living language has as little chance of success as the dream of the restoration of a Jewish state in Palestine." - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1905. Ezekiel:36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out...Read more
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