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Evangelist Oral Roberts dies in Calif. at age 91
TULSA, Okla. - Oral Roberts, who helped pioneer TV evangelism in the 1950s and used the power of the new medium - and his message of God's healing power - to build a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name, died Tuesday. He was 91.
Nations:U.S. People:Jerry Falwell Charles Grassley
2009-12-15
Health-care reform: Can I get a witness?
As health-care reform continues to embroil the masses, a thread of religious opinionators has, in recent days, woven themselves into the tapestry of debate, begging the question: What would Jesus do about health care?
People:Rick Warren Mike Huckabee Activities:2009 US Health Reform
2009-08-18
Inaugural Pastor: The Two Faces of Rick Warren
Rick Warren has spent his entire career building a reputation as an Evangelical who doesn't cause the kind of outrage and protests that have greeted his selection to deliver the invocation at Barack Obama's Inauguration. Warren wasn't a polemicist like Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson; he was the one who talked about a loving Jesus, who promised that God had a purpose for your life.
Nations:U.S. People:Rick Warren Barack Obama John McCain Jerry Falwell George W. Bush
2009-01-19
Pastor who helped get "under God" in Pledge dies
ALEXANDRIA, Pa. - A church official says the clergyman credited with helping to push Congress to insert the phrase "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance has died in Alexandria, Pa. The Rev. George M. Docherty was 97.
Source:(AP)
2008-11-29
Disgraced pastor returns, as Christian businessman
Earlier this month, a guest took the pulpit at Open Bible Fellowship in Morrison, Ill., a 350-member church surrounded by cornfields. The speaker was an insurance salesman from Colorado named Ted Haggard.
Nations:U.S. U.K. Source:(AP)
2008-11-23
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