Jennifer Riley

Christian Post Reporter

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  • Huckabee: Values Voters Important to GOP Future

    Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee contends that his party must return to its social conservative roots and regain the strength of support from values voters it once enjoyed.

  • Focus on the Family Slashes 202 Jobs

    The most well-known pro-family group announced this week that it eliminated 202 jobs to counterbalance the drop in donations caused by the sharp economic downturn. The ministry is also reducing costs by ending the print editions of four of its eight magazines.

  • Billy Graham Team Assists Calif. Fire Victims

    Billy Graham Team Assists Calif. Fire Victims

    A Billy Graham Rapid Response Team of crisis-trained chaplains was deployed this week to Southern California where \"mega\" blazes of fire have destroyed more than 800 homes and thousands of acres of land in the last few days.

  • Baptist Body Rejects Fund over Woman Pastor

    The Georgia Baptist Convention recently changed its policy on receiving monetary gifts to allow it to refuse funds from churches that were \"not in cooperation and harmony\" with the Southern Baptist Convention.

  • Study: Americans to Spend Less This Holiday, but Donate More

    Seven in ten adults (71 percent) said they will spend less money on holiday presents this year, according to the findings of a World Vision survey, conducted by Harris Interactive. But nearly half (49 percent) of U.S. adults responded that they are now more likely to give a charitable gift as a holiday present.

  • S. Korean Taxi Drivers Use Radio to Evangelize

    A unique club of Christian taxi drivers in South Korea plays Christian radio from sunrise to sunset in hopes of leading passengers to Christ. There are 450 members in the Missionary Taxi Club.

  • Baptist State Conventions Report Budget Deficits

    The economic crisis has taken its toll on Americans rich and poor and Southern Baptist churches are no exception. Baptist state conventions, which depend on local churches for support, are reporting shortcomings in their 2008 budget as they meet across the country this month for their annual state gatherings.

  • Survey: Churches Less Active in '08 Election

    Survey: Churches Less Active in '08 Election

    Churches were less active in this year\'s election process than in 2004, according to a recently released survey. Significantly fewer voters who attended religious services said that they received information about political parties and candidates at their place of worship.

  • Anonymous Donor Gives $50M to Translate Bible

    An anonymous donor gave a huge sum of $50 million to Wycliffe Bible Translators this week making it possible to translate Scripture for the last people groups still without the Bible in their native tongue more quickly.

  • United Methodists Grant Deacons Sacramental Authority

    United Methodists Grant Deacons Sacramental Authority

    The United Methodist Council of Bishops recently adopted guidelines for granting deacons sacramental authority under certain circumstances during a meeting earlier this month.

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