Read more Christians stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/9482/christians.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:30:07 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73995/christian-group-boycotts-gap-over-holiday-ads.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Christian group has launched a boycott of the Gap over its religion-neutral holiday ads. The American Family Association, already ticked off by last year’s campaign, which wished consumers a “Merry Gap-mas,” hit the roof over this year's “Go Christmas, Go Hanukkah, Go Kwanzaa, Go Solstice.” The tagline "looks like...http://www.newser.com/story/73995/christian-group-boycotts-gap-over-holiday-ads.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 13 Nov 2009 14:15:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71742/runaway-muslim-girl-sparks-furor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn Ohio teen has found herself straddling the fault line between the world's two biggest religions after converting to Christianity and running away from her Muslim parents. A judge in Florida, where 17-year-old Rifqa Bary was being sheltered by pastors she met on a Facebook group, has ruled that she...http://www.newser.com/story/71742/runaway-muslim-girl-sparks-furor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Oct 2009 5:40:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69827/egypt-kills-all-pigs-but-pigs-eat-all-trash.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen the Egyptian government decided to kill all of Cairo’s pigs last spring in a pre-emptive measure to combat swine flu, they apparently forgot that the pigs performed a vital function in a city with poor public services: eating trash, the New York Times reports. The zabaleen, Cairo’s Christian minority,...http://www.newser.com/story/69827/egypt-kills-all-pigs-but-pigs-eat-all-trash.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 20 Sep 2009 12:48:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69786/crowds-flock-to-churchs-porn-talk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOver a thousand people are descending on an Atlanta-area church this weekend for 3 days of talks on pornography, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The "Porn Talk" event, one of many put on by anti-porn Christian group XXXchurch.com, seeks to address the harm pornography is doing to children, families, and...http://www.newser.com/story/69786/crowds-flock-to-churchs-porn-talk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 19 Sep 2009 6:55:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66511/forget-chastity-marry-earlier-say-evangelicals.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe evangelical stress on abstinence until marriage is fantastic, writes Mark Regnerus—himself devout—in Christianity Today , "but promoting it has come at a cost." Doing so has "turned our attention away from the damage that Americans are doing to the institution of marriage by discouraging it and delaying it,...http://www.newser.com/story/66511/forget-chastity-marry-earlier-say-evangelicals.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 10 Aug 2009 18:47:15 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65886/pakistan-muslims-torch-christian-houses-6-dead.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSix people are dead after Muslim protesters torched houses in a Christian neighborhood of Pakistan’s Gojra City yesterday, CNN reports. The demonstrators, who were protesting an alleged desecration of the Koran at a Christian wedding last weekend, set fire to between 40 and 50 houses. A crowd burned 15 houses...http://www.newser.com/story/65886/pakistan-muslims-torch-christian-houses-6-dead.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 02 Aug 2009 9:36:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65865/praying-dad-guilty-in-sick-daughters-death.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Wisconsin jury has convicted a man of reckless homicide for praying instead of taking his ill daughter to the doctor, the Wausau Daily Herald reports. Dale R. Neumann, 47, faces up to 25 years in prison in the 2008 death of his 11-year-old daughter, Madeline Kara Neumann, who suffered...http://www.newser.com/story/65865/praying-dad-guilty-in-sick-daughters-death.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 01 Aug 2009 15:52:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64415/obamas-health-czar-brings-god-into-lab.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFrancis Collins, President Obama's nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health, is a pioneering biologist who led the team that mapped the human genome. He's also an evangelical Christian—a rarity among scientists, only 7% of whom say they believe in God. For Michael Gerson of the Washington Post...http://www.newser.com/story/64415/obamas-health-czar-brings-god-into-lab.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 15 Jul 2009 9:00:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56005/easter-fire-engulfs-40-christian-houses.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA massive Easter Sunday fire engulfed dozens of summer cottages at a Christian center in Alton Bay, NH, the Union Leader reports. The 40 homes were unoccupied when the blaze started at around 4:30 pm, but one firefighter was hurt in a propane tank explosion. The blaze raged for...http://www.newser.com/story/56005/easter-fire-engulfs-40-christian-houses.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 13 Apr 2009 1:10:24 CDT