Category Archives: Spiritual
More faith-based films along lines of ‘Blind Side’
Hollywood also is making more movies like The Blind Side, with themes of inspiration, sacrificial love, atonement and forgiveness — but with little or no overtly Christian pitch. Coming up: • Get Low (August; Sony Pictures Classics). Robert Duvall plays … Continue reading
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Decaying old churches face ‘trouble in paradise’
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) — About halfway through Sunday service at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, as worshippers passed around the collection plate, a chorus of screams pierced the air. Chunks of the ceiling in the 52-year-old church near Hickory , … Continue reading
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Indonesian Muslims told to change prayer direction
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Muslims learned on Friday they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country’s highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa. Muslims are supposed to face … Continue reading
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