http://www.christianworldmissions.com Providing the latest news and information about Christian World Missions. Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:55:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is October already and time mount up and ride for a great cause! On October 13 I will be heading out for a 100km ride to support my favorite fund raising event “Ride for Refugees”. I am looking for your help to make my 100km ride worth the journey. ... http://www.christianworldmissions.com/ride-for-refugess-2007.html VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Relatives seeking information on two Israeli soldiers who were seized by Hezbollah militants in northern Israel at the start of last year's Lebanon war met Wednesday with Pope Benedict XVI. Benedict listened to the appeal by relatives of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, who are making ... http://www.christianworldmissions.com/pope-meets-relatives-of-israeli-soldiers.html Palestinians are among those who mourned the death of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein this past weekend. According to some analysts, one of the key reasons Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza held Hussein in such regard is because of the generous financial support the former Iraqi dictator gave them ... http://www.christianworldmissions.com/palestinians-mourn-death-saddam-hussein.html A congregation north of San Francisco has become the latest to break ties with the Episcopal Church. Members of St. John's Episcopal Church in Petaluma voted to leave the denomination, which has become alienated from other parts of the Anglican Communion since consecrating an openly homosexual bishop. The rector of ... http://www.christianworldmissions.com/jesus-had-nothing-to-say-about-homosexuality.html A white marble sarcophagus believed to be the final resting place of the apostle Paul has been unearthed from beneath the altar of Rome's second-largest basilica after centuries hidden from view, but those curious about its contents will have to wait still longer. Vatican experts say they want to examine ... http://www.christianworldmissions.com/paul-sarcophagus-unearthed-from-under-an-altar-in-rome.html Christmas trees are going back up at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The trees were removed over the weekend after a rabbi complained that the airport's holiday decor did not include a menorah for Hanukkah. But when the airport got word that the rabbi was not planning to sue, it decided to ... http://www.christianworldmissions.com/rabbi-complains-about-christmas-decor.html That's the subject of a study being released today by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which has lost members amid divisions over homosexuality. Last year, delegates to the denomination's national meeting split almost evenly on whether to let homosexuals in long-term relationships serve as clergy. The proposal, which needed ... http://www.christianworldmissions.com/lutherans-talk-about-human-sexuality.html In a public rebuke of the Episcopal Church, a conservative diocese in California has voted to affirm its membership in the worldwide Anglican Communion. San Joaquin Bishop John-David Schofield calls it a first step toward a formal break with the U.S. Anglican denomination, though the proposal makes just minor changes ... http://www.christianworldmissions.com/public-rebuke-of-the-episcopal-church.html A Rutgers University student who has found a unique way to promote dialogue between Jews and Muslims says she hopes she's "planting a seed" that will flourish elsewhere. Danielle Josephs persuaded school officials to set up a living environment that includes a handful of students from various backgrounds. The Middle ... http://www.christianworldmissions.com/promoting-dialogue-between-jews-and-muslims.html You could call Earlene Scott a Bible detective. The Ohio retiree buys Bibles at auctions and estate sales and then tracks down descendants of their original owners. Scott says she has reunited about a dozen families with the treasured information about their family histories. Scott notes that many Bibles not ... http://www.christianworldmissions.com/earlene-scott-the-bible-detective.html