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More than 100,000 Christians from around the world are expected to gather in Los Angeles in April for a week-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Azusa Street revival, considered the start of the modern Pentecostal/Charismatic movement.

The centennial celebrations on Apr. 25-29 in downtown Los Angeles will bring together Pentecostal/Charismatic leaders and adherents for community outreaches, ministry training, and a tour of the community’s historic landmarks. (more…)

One of Africa’s oldest tribes is witnessing a Christian revival. The Masai people, who were once fierce African warriors, are now abandoning some of their old religious practices and dangerous traditions to experience a touch from God.

Tanzania is famous for one of Africa’s crown jewels, the majestic Mount Kilimanjaro. Rising some 19,000 feet, Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain on the African continent.

But here, at the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, something more majestic is rising — the sound of ancient tribal voices praising the Lord. (more…)

German scientists have discovered a new source of methane, a greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in its impact on climate change.

The culprits are plants.

They produce about 10 to 30 percent of the annual methane found in the atmosphere, according to researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany.

The scientists measured the amount of methane released by plants in controlled experiments. They found it increases with rising temperatures and exposure to sunlight.

“Significant methane emissions from both intact plants and detached leaves were observed … in the laboratory and in the field,” Dr Frank Keppler and his team said in a report in the journal Nature.

Methane, which is produced by city rubbish dumps, coal mining, flatulent animals, rice cultivation and peat bogs, is one of the most potent greenhouse gases in terms of its ability to trap heat. (more…)

A television station in England will host a two part special hosted by scientist and evolutionist Richard Dawkins which will put forth the premise that religion is the greatest problem the modern world has today. It is entitled, “Root of All Evil?” and says that teaching religion to children is “child abuse.” (more…)

An article by AP reports that Israel has suspended contact with evangelist Pat Robertson after he said that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke was divine punishment for withdrawing from the Gaza Strip. Groups including Robertson had been planning to build a Christian tourism center in the northern Galilee region, where Christ’s ministry took place. Israeli tourism minister Abraham Hirchson took special care to note that the ban was only for Robertson, not other evangelical Christian groups.

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Author and Bible teacher Hal Lindsey appeared Tuesday night on Fox News Channel’s Hannity and Colmes and was startlingly frank about his views of the Muslim religion. He told how he had been removed from TBN, a Christian network for saying that the radical Muslims were practicing the true Muslim religion as layed out in the Koran. (more…)

UNAids says there an estimated 40.3m people currently living with the virus across the world, with almost 5m infected in 2005.

And it warns there are growing epidemics in Eastern Europe and Central and East Asia.

But the report says falls in HIV incidence have been seen in certain groups, including sex workers and their clients in Thailand and Cambodia. (more…)

(Reuters)Polygamy may have been a factor behind the unprecedented wave of riots that swept France over the past three weeks, senior conservative politicians said on Wednesday.

Bernard Accoyer, leader of the Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) in the National Assembly lower house of parliament, told French radio that children from large polygamous families had problems integrating into mainstream society.

The Financial Times quoted Employment Minister Gerard Larcher as saying large polygamous families sometimes led to anti-social behavior by youths who lacked a father figure and made employers reluctant to hire them. (more…)

Across Europe,the conflicting currents of secularism, Christianity, and Islam are compelling Europeans to wrestle with their values as never before. (more…)

Rumors about the Prince of Wales’s conversion to Islam may well be inaccurate; even so, the fact that spokesmen official and unofficial felt compelled to deny this fact results from persistent speculation about Charles’s religious loyalties that arises out of his statements and actions of recent years. And these, in turn, reflect a larger trend in Western society. (more…)