Escape from North Korea, the Untold Story of Asia’s Underground Railroad, by journalist Melanie Kirkpatrick, describes how Chinese Christians and churches are supporting escapees in defiance of laws prohibiting such assistance. How do Christians explain their willingness to risk so much for the North Koreans coming into China? It’s a really powerful example of Christian […]
Dinesh D’Souza resigned as president of The King’s College after a magazine story revealed that he was engaged to another woman while still married to his wife of 20 years. The Board of Trustees of The King’s College, a Christian institution based in New York, accepted his resignation Thursday. “God has a mighty future for […]
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney met Thursday with Rev. Billy Graham, and the aging evangelist pledged to do “all I can” to help the GOP nominee win the presidency. “Prayer is the most helpful thing you can do for me,” Romney told the 93-year-old Graham. … “What you’re planning, what your son has shown me, […]
If Mitt Romney is elected president of the United States, his religion, a serious, cultic distortion of the Bible and history in the eyes of many evangelicals, will have new standing and credibility, and likely experience an acceleration of its already fast expansion. … If President Obama is re-elected he will continue the overturning of […]
Annie Lobert worked for 16 years in the sex industry, battled cancer and got into drugs. Dressed in black and seated on a white couch, the 44-year-old founder of Hookers For Jesus appears in the nearly 14-minute video on the website that features the testimonies of personal struggle and transformation of celebrities and everyday people. […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of Scripture: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife …’ ” The faded papyrus fragment is smaller than […]
Political analysts tracking the mood of minority groups such as African Americans and Latinos, especially those within the church community, say the Democrats did themselves no favor when it came to matters of faith during the national convention. Black and Latino Christians have been put in a difficult position over the DNC platform, according to […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 12, 2012 by Michael Breen This article was originally published by the Korea Times in Seoul following the death at 92 on Sept. 3, of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of The Washington Times. It’s hard to feel sorry for a billionaire, harder if he’s regarded by thousands around the world […]
J.W. Marriott, who heads the Marriott hotel chain, praised Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for bringing “positive attention” to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Marriott is a personal friend of Romney and, like Romney, a Mormon. “Today we see the church coming out of obscurity, and we see that 90 percent of […]
Rev. Sun Myung Moon has died Sunday at age 92. The controversial founder of the Unification Church was known for attracting young converts in the 1970s and for conducting mass weddings. Sun Myung Moon was born in 1920 to a poor family in what is now North Korea. His life took a dramatic turn on […]
