Legendary disco singer Donna Summer died Thursday after a battle with cancer, sources close to the singer confirmed to
Donna Summer
FoxNews.com. She was 63.
“Early this morning, we lost Donna Summer Sudano, a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith,” family of the singer said in a statement. Summer was a strong Christian.
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Chinese human rights advocate Chen Guangcheng remains under “de facto house arrest” in a Beijing hospital with his wife and two
Chen and his family
children despite his desire to travel to the United States, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith said May 15.
Bob Fu of the U.S.-based China Aid Association testified in a subcommittee hearing that when Chen’s two lawyers attempted to visit him in the hospital both were beaten and one lost hearing in one ear.
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By Gary Munson, Fire Over Africa
Our major project is training and supporting Ethiopian missionaries sent out through our partner, Rift Valley Vision Project, that are evangelizing and planting churches among Muslim, Orthodox and tribal peoples of Ethiopia and now into Somalia, Northern Kenya, Eretria, Sudan and the Middle East.
Over the past 12 years 100,000 Muslims have been brought to faith in Christ and are presently part of a discipleship program or house church across Ethiopia. Fire Over Africa supports the training of these missionaries, which is done through Shiloh Bible College Ethiopia in Hawassa.
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By Aidan Clay, International Christian Concern (ICC)
Mary, kidnapped in 2007
“We don’t know if our daughter is still alive,” Magda told ICC during a recent visit to Egypt. “We haven’t seen or heard from her in five years. Her kidnapper called us and said she was dead and buried.”
Mary disappeared in June 2007, but to her mother, Magda, it feels like only yesterday that she was sleeping peacefully in her own bed under the loving care of her parents. For those who lose a child, as Magda had, the pain never goes away.
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Today, the D-Day Landing Prayer Act took another step closer to becoming a reality. Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, responding to the
Franklin Roosevelt
wishes of veterans and their families, introduced this legislation which will add FDR’s D-Day Landing Prayer in its entirety to the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C., and urged his colleagues to pass it quickly.
Senator Portman made the following statement, “On D-Day, courageous Americans risked and sacrificed their lives to preserve our freedoms and end tyranny abroad,” said Portman. “That morning, President Roosevelt asked our nation to come together to pray for the men overseas. His words brought strength and comfort to many during one of the most challenging times for our nation and will forever be etched in our history.
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By Dan Wooding
Themi Adams
Fifty years ago Themi Adams was sharing the stage with The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. Despite his rocking past, Adams has since turned down a life of fame to serve God as a missionary to some of Africa’s most oppressed nations.
And now this man who at one time made legions of girls faint, and enjoyed a life of sex, drugs and rock and roll, has given it all up for the love of God.
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By Olivia Neeley
Marie Blackwell gagged loudly. But no one could hear her.
The deaf students on the bus were fast asleep. The bus driver, also deaf, seemed a million miles away.
“He looked like he was far away from me like a charter bus,” Blackwell recalled. “I felt like I couldn’t make it to him. So I just kept trying to get it up.”
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He says his Christian beliefs, Golden Rule, weighed into decision
By Mark Ellis
Obama with Robin Roberts at ABC
The “evolution” in President Obama’s beliefs about homosexual marriage is now complete. In a sit-down interview this afternoon in the oval office, he told ABC’s Robin Roberts he now affirms same-sex marriage, reversing his former opposition amid pressure from his political base.
“I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married,” President Obama told Roberts, in an interview that will air on “Good Morning America” Thursday morning.
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He pioneered the spiritual talk format, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in July 2010
Rich Buhler
By Dan Wooding
Southern California’s most beloved Christian broadcaster, Rich Buhler, died in an Orange County, California, hospital Monday evening, according to his son Keith. He was 65.
“Beloved friends and family, Rich is now face to face with Jesus. Last night (May 7th) at 10:30 p.m., in the hospital, our daddy completed his life’s course and enters now into the rest of our Lord,” Keith said.
A public memorial service is planned for May 19 at Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Anaheim.
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By Mark Ellis
Antonio Santana
His desperate need to find God – any god – landed him in a local mosque. Even some vivid dreams from Jesus failed to stop his surrender to Islam, but the power of God’s Word finally won his heart.
“I was the product of a one-night stand,” says Antonio Santana, who never knew his biological father. He and his brother and sisters grew up with minimal family structure and he always felt disconnected from his stepfather. “Both my parents always worked, and I could do whatever I wanted to do.”
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