President Obama plans to name Joshua DuBois, a 26-year-old Pentecostal pastor and political strategist who handled religious outreach for the Obama campaign, to direct a revamped office of faith-based initiatives, according to religious leaders who have been informed about the choice.
The office, created by President George W. Bush by executive order at the start of [...]
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Theresa Flores is trying to stop the human-trafficking trade, especially as it involves to teenagers. Flores, who was blackmailed into sex slavery as a teen, spoke yesterday at Vineyard Church.
The late-night calls began when Theresa Flores was 15.
In 1980, before everyone had a cell [...]
The following is an excellent, but brief exposition from Paul Chasteen which was published in Charisma. Discipline, control, restraint and restriction of the desires of the flesh should be at the top of the church’s teachings, but they’re not. Perhaps the explosion of sexual immorality so common among Christians can be attributed to this failure to consistently teach [...]
In the 1800s, slaves shipped from Africa to North America cost their eventual owners the modern-day equivalent of $24,000 to $40,000.
These days, you can just go to Haiti and buy a child for $300, and you can use that child for whatever you want.
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Justin Dillon, maker of the documentary “Call+ Response,” [...]
Meet Shyima, a modern day Cinderella.
Shyima was nine years old when she started working for a well-to-do Egyptian family – the Ibrahims - who moved from Cairo, Egypt to Irvine, California. She spent long days ironing, cooking, dusting, mopping, and laundering. In exchange, she received $45 a month and slept in the non-heated, non-air conditioned [...]
WA families are being ripped apart by a self-styled cult leader whose followers believe they have repressed memories of rape
About 20 people have become devotees of a New Age “healer”, Matthew Meinck, who owns a retreat property in Chittering Valley.
Meinck, an Australian-born former monk, believes that people retain in their bodies memories of abuse that [...]
The pastor of a Dallas-area mega-church challenged married congregants during his sermon Sunday to have sex for seven days in a row — and says he’s practicing what he preaches.
The Rev. Ed Young, 47, says he believes society promotes promiscuity, and he wants to reclaim sex for married couples. Sex should be a nurturing, spiritual [...]
A twisted actor is to star in a sick theatre play based on the ordeal of incest monster Josef Fritzl’s victims.
The play - titled “Pension Fritzl” (Guesthouse Fritzl) - will star Austrian actor Hubert ‘Hubsi’ Kramar who was once arrested when he turned up at a high society ball dressed as Adolf Hitler.
Organisers say the [...]
At her father’s recent funeral in an Alabama church, Chevara Orrin of Winston-Salem listened to one civil-rights veteran after another praise him.
Her father, the Rev. James Bevel, was an icon of the civil-rights movement who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to tear down the walls of segregation.
What saddened Orrin was that [...]
KELOWNA, B.C. — A Kelowna woman whose supervisor slapped her on the backside and offered her marijuana, lingerie and truck tires in return for sex has won a $32,000 award after a decision by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.
The tribunal heard that 27-year-old site safety officer Kori Harrison was also encouraged to dress sexier while [...]
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