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Police: Man Used Crucifix to Pry Open Church Donation Box
By Joe Peacock - AOL News(July 23) -- Any priest will tell you that the cross is a powerful icon, but it's certainly not intended to be used in this way. Surveillance footage at a church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., shows a man using a crucifix to pry open a donation box to take the cash. Police are accusing 48-year-old George Albert Horn of burglarizing St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, after breaking into the sanctuary through a window on June 26. He has been charged with burglary and theft for attempting to steal the contents. Read more at PalmBeachPost.com, and watch video at WSVN-TV. ...
Debate: Tax-Exempt Churches Can't Endorse Candidates
By not in system - AOL News(April 6) -- If you are on a drive in Gainesville, Fla., cruising down Northwest 37th Street, you might be a little surprised at a handwritten sign on the front lawn of the Dove World Outreach Center. It reads: "No homo mayor." Who would put up such an unpleasant message on the grass outside a Christian church? The culprit: Pastor Terry Jones. It seems that Pastor Jones is more than a little upset that an openly gay city commissioner is seeking the mayor's office in a runoff election this month. Jones' junior partner also appeared in a church-sanctioned six-minute video screed about the ...
Debate: Keep the IRS Away From the Pulpit
By not in system - AOL News(April 6) -- Pastors and churches shouldn't live in fear of being punished or penalized by the government. But in the ongoing discussion about whether church leaders can speak freely about electoral candidates from the pulpit, one argument frequently gets made: If a church wants to talk about the positions of electoral candidates, it can just give up the "gift" of tax-exempt status "bestowed" by the government. That would be compelling -- if it wasn't so completely wrong. That's because churches receive a tax exemption as a matter of constitutional right, not legislative grace. The U.S. ...
Immigration Reform: Biblical No-Brainer, Political Non-Starter?
By David Gibson - Politics DailyWith the future of health care reform still uncertain, faith-based groups are hoping to jump-start a movement for the "other" reform package facing Congress -- an immigration overhaul that has stalled despite President Obama's promise to push it forward this year. In a conference call with reporters this week, representatives of a range of religious groups were joined by two members of Congress to unveil a month-long campaign that will begin by delivering thousands of postcards to Capitol Hill offices, continue with some 100 events across the country during the President's Day recess and into ...
Megachurch Pastor Appeals for Nearly $1M in Donations
By not in system - AOL NewsLAKE FOREST, Calif. (Dec. 31) -- Evangelical pastor Rick Warren appealed to parishioners at his Orange County megachurch Wednesday to help fill a $900,000 deficit by the first of the year. Warren made the appeal in a letter posted on the Saddleback Church Web site. It begins "Dear Saddleback Family, THIS IS AN URGENT LETTER." "With 10 percent of our church family out of work due to the recession, our expenses in caring for our community in 2009 rose dramatically while our income stagnated," the letter reads. Still, Warren said the church managed to stay within its budget, but "the bottom ...
Automatic Holy Water Dispenser: Faith and Science Mix!
By David Gibson - Politics DailyAnd a bit of Italian style helps, too, as this Reuters report shows. The invention is not only terracotta (how long before Pottery Barn starts selling it?) but it keeps alive a tradition that was in danger of succumbing to swine flu fears, as we have reported before. The terracotta dispenser, used in the northern town of Fornaci di Briosco, functions like an automatic soap dispenser in public washrooms -- a churchgoer waves his or her hand under a sensor and the machine spurts out holy water. "It has been a bit of a novelty. People initially were a bit shocked by this technological innovation ...
Politics From the Pulpit
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyOn Sunday Christian pastors from 22 states will inject presidential politics into their sermons in open defiance of a federal law that bans campaigning by nonprofit groups. The organized protest was dreamed up by the Alliance Defense Fund. The right wing legal group is hoping to trigger IRS investigations that can then be challenged in court. A poster child of the movement is Rev. Wiley S. Drake, a California minister who was targeted by the IRS for endorsing Mike Huckabee from the pulpit. Drake was eventually cleared.Drake and 32 other pastors who have signed on to the "pulpit initiative" ...
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