Beliefnet’s Robert Mims, a longtime Christian author and former Associated Press reporter, is puzzled that Campus Crusade for Christ would change its name to “Cru.” In his column, he muses: It seems having“Jesus” or “Christ” or even “Christian” on the signs of churches or logos of ministries – even long-established ones dedicated to spreading the gospel…

The powerful Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives is planning to hold a vote Wednesday on an amendment calling for Turkey to “return stolen Armenian and other Christian churches to their rightful owners,” reports the Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey’s English-language newspaper — which is celebrating its 50th year of publication. According to…

Valley Park Middle School in Toronto, already under fire for allowing Muslim students to use the cafeteria for Friday prayers, is following Islamic shari’a by having girls on their period sit on their in the back of the room, not partaking in the prayer. “A school should be a safe space for all children,” objects the website Change.org. “Not…

Donna Calvin, Beliefnet’s political gadfly who daily packs her feature “Watchwoman on the Wall” with news items she’s clipped from the Internet, found this YouTube video in which the President says you and I don’t understand the debt ceiling debate going on in Congress. Well, if you’d like to disprove his assertion, we’d like to…

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