Radical Mission Discussion

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Liberia: Redeemed Christian Church Clarifies Marijuana Story - AllAfrica.com

Monrovia

The pastorale board of the Redeemed Christian Church of Supreme Being located on 24th Street states none of its members have got been involved in drug trade as reported in the mass media recently.

The Christian church clarified that it is different from the Redeemed Christian Ministry, whose curate Ben Daniels was caught with marihuana by police force in Gbanga, Bong County.

In a release issued Tuesday, the Redeemed Christian Church of Supreme Being said it desires the public to be aware that it is a territory Christian Christian church established since 1952 with its international central office based in Nigeria, while Curate E.A. Adeboye is the General Overseer.

The Republic Of Liberia subdivision was established in 1996 and had been known for doing God's business, including catering to the Negro spiritual necessitates of its members.

According to the church, it have 26 subdivisions in Monrovia, Zwedru, Harper, Pleebo, and Nimba County.

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

LDS Church turns down request to watch over FLDS - Salt Lake Tribune

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SAN ANGELO, Lone-Star State - A twenty-four hours after a Lone-Star State justice asked the LDS Church to assist monitoring device supplication Sessions of women and children of a fundamentalistic polygamous group, a Christian church spokesman said doing so would be inappropriate. George C. Scott Trotter, spokesman for The Church of Jesus Of Nazareth Of Nazareth Jesus of Latter-day Saints, said that the Christian church have heard about the judge's petition only through news studies and therefore have "no clear apprehension of what, if anything, we are being invited to do." In an e-mail statement, Trotter said it would be "erroneous to alkali any petition for aid from members of The Church of Jesus Jesus of Latter-day Saints on the footing that our beliefs and patterns are close to those of this polygamous grouping because

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they are not."
He also acknowledged that such as a petition would not be fair, either to the polygamous FLDS, which "long ago chose a different way from ours. In fact, many in these scattered communities position us with some ill will as portion of the outside human race they have got rejected."
On Monday, 51st District Judge Barbara Walther agreed to allow women and children, who are being kept at the San Angelo Coliseum, clasp two supplication Sessions a day. Attorneys said that Lone-Star State Child Protective Services workers were monitoring and disrupting the Sessions and asked that the members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Of Nazareth Jesus of Latter Day Saints be allowed to ran into privately. Gary Advertisement

Banks, representing the state, said there were concerns that the women might discourse the in progress probe or manager the children if allowed to ran into privately. Walther then suggested that the state inquire a member of the local Mormon community to oversee the sessions. The issue may be disputed now, as state government began moving the women and children out of the San Angelo Amphitheater this afternoon. - Rupert Brooke Adam

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Nasa extends Saturn probe mission - BBC News


The United States space federal agency (Nasa) have extended the international Cassini-Huygens missionary post by two years.


The remote-controlled Cassini-Huygens ballistic capsule entered celestial orbit around Saturn in 2004 on a missionary post that was supposed to come up to an end in July this year.


The two-year mission extension will embrace some 60 other celestial orbits of Saturn and more than flybys of its moons.


These volition include 26 flybys of Colossus - its greatest moon - seven of Enceladus, and one each of Dione, Rhea and Helene.


Bob Mitchell, programme director for Cassini-Huygens astatine Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), in California, commented: "The ballistic capsule is performing exceptionally well and the squad is highly motivated, so we're excited at the prospect of another two years."


Dr Rosaly Lopes, also from JPL, told BBC News: "We're very pleased. We were expecting National Aeronautics And Space Administration to widen Cassini for another two years, we had been told to program for it, so we had already done a batch of the planning and decided what the circuit was going to look like.


"But it's nice to actually have got the news out, because you never cognize up until the point when they subscribe on the dotted line."


'Earth-like' world


The missionary post have made arresting finds about the Saturn system since it arrived at the ringed planet four old age ago.


Its surveys of the biggest moon, Titan, have got got provided a glance of what World might have been like before life evolved. Conditions on the moon are believed to resemble those on our ain planet 4.6 billion old age ago.


The European Christiaan Huygens investigation was built to research Titan's atmosphere, weather condition and its surface. Christiaan Huygens piggybacked on Cassini, separating from the artificial satellite in December 2004 to get its journeying to the orange-tinged satellite.


In January 2005, Christiaan Huygens parachuted through Titan's thick haze and touched down on the surface, and returned information for respective hours before succumbing to the cold.

The missionary post have revealed new marks for future exploration

Cassini's observations of the moon from space have got revealed Earth-like features such as as lakes, rivers, channels, dunes, rain, snow, clouds, mounts and possibly volcanoes.


Unlike Earth, Titan's lakes, rivers and rainfall are composed of methane and ethane, and temperatures attain a scarey -180C (-290F).


Although Titan's heavy ambiance bounds viewing the surface, Cassini's high-resolution microwave radar insurance and imagination by the infrared mass spectrometer have got given men of science a better look.


"We're going to have got a batch more Colossus flybys," Dr Lopes said of the drawn-out mission.


"These flybys are highly contested because everyone desires to look at Colossus with the different instruments, and so the more than flybys the better. With radar, it's going to let us to map much more than of the surface."


New tricks


The Enceladus moon, regarded as "just another ball of ice" until Cassini arrived, have now go a high precedence for additional exploration.


The ballistic capsule establish grounds for geysers of water-ice jetting from the surface.


These geysers, which hit out at a distance three modern times the diameter of the moon itself, provender atoms into Saturn's outermost ring.

Christiaan Huygens is shown on Titan's surface in this artist's impression

In the drawn-out mission, Cassini could come up as stopping point as 24km (15 miles) from the moon's surface.


Other activities for Cassini men of science during the drawn-out missionary post will include monitoring seasons on Colossus and Saturn, observing alone ring events - such as as the 2009 equinox when the Sun will be in the airplane of the rings - and exploring new topographic points within Saturn's magnetic "envelope" - or magnetosphere.


Jim Green, manager of Nasa's planetary scientific discipline division in American Capital DC, said the drawn-out missionary post would let the scientific discipline community and the public to go on to share in "unlocking Saturn's secrets".


Nasa said three of the scientific discipline instruments on Cassini were suffering from minor ailments, but the impact on information assemblage was minimal.


The ballistic capsule will have got adequate propellent left after the drawn-out missionary post to potentially let a 3rd form of operations.


Science from the drawn-out missionary post could put the basis for possible new robotic missionary posts to Colossus or Enceladus, which are under survey by National Aeronautics And Space Administration and the European Space Agency (Esa).


Cassini-Huygens was launched on 15 October 1997, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, taking seven old age to do the 3.5 billion kilometer (2.2 billion miles) journeying to Saturn.


The Cassini-Huygens missionary post is a combined undertaking between Nasa, Esa and the Italian Space Agency (Asi).

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Monday, April 14, 2008

Report: Millions in taxpayer cash helped fund sect


ELDORADO — The Defense Department awarded $1.2 million in contracts to an aircraft parts provider linked to the Occident Lone-Star State polygamist retreat that have been unraveled by a monolithic kid social welfare investigation, according to a newspaper report.


New Era Manufacturing, based in Nevada, where the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Of Nazareth Jesus of Latter Day Saints is primarily based, also received a $900,000 federal small-business loan in 2005, according to records establish by the Garrison Worth Star-Telegram.


The money is among the billions in taxpayer dollars that have got got apparently helped finance the spiritual sect, whose place includes a chemical compound in El Dorado where state functionaries are investigating allegations that children have been physically and sexually abused, the newspaper reported.


"It do me very uneasy," said U.S. Rep. Kay Granger, who sit downs on the House Appropriations Committee. "It necessitates to be investigated without a doubt."


Steve Barlow, human resources director for New Era, told the newspaper that it would be inappropriate to notice "given everything that's going on."


Texas functionaries on Monday sent away most female parents of the 416 children taken from the El Dorado retreat that was first raided on April 3.


Government functionaries state the ability for the Christian church to run and turn is largely dependent on parts from its members and the concerns they control. The president and main executive director of New Era is Toilet C. Wayman, who the newspaper states have been identified as an FLDS leader and a stopping point associate to polygamist leader Robert Penn Warren Jeffs.


New Era was given authorities contracts to do wheel and brake constituents for military aircraft. Wayman said on his company's Web land site that New Era is an "honorable and valuable plus to our country." He makes not advert neckties to FLDS.


Wayman did not go back phone calls from the newspaper seeking comment.


John Nielsen, a former employee who worked for the company when it was known as Utah-based Horse Opera Preciseness in 2005, said in a 2005 affidavit as portion of a civil lawsuit that Christian church members were made to work for small or no wages.


Nielsen said in the affidavit that he and other religious sect members thought their work would convey them redemption, while $50,000 to $100,000 in company net income were given each calendar month to the Christian church "and/or" Jeffs.


The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported last twelvemonth that JNJ Engineering, another company owned and operated by Christian church leaders, won $11.3 million in authorities contract work from the Las Vegas Valley Water District. All but one of the contract workers came from Hildale and Centennial State City, Ariz., where most of the sect's 10,000 members live.

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Friday, April 4, 2008

Representatives of 9 Faith Groups to Lead Religion Communicators Council in 2008-09

CHANTILLY, Va., April 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Communicators from
nine religion groupings are leading the nation's oldest populace relations
association for the approaching year. Members of the Religion Communicators Council, founded in 1929, elected
2008-09 military officers today during their 79th yearly convention. The slate
included members of seven Christian denominations, a Moslem and a Hare
Krishna. New military officers are:
-- President: Stephen A. Douglas F. Cannon, APR, communication theory and public witness
director, Southwest Lone-Star State Conference, United Methodist Church, San
Antonio, Texas. -- Frailty president: Anuttama Dasa, manager of communications,
International Society of Krishna Consciousness, Washington, D.C. -- Treasurer: Debutante Christian, manager of client relations, UMR
Communications, Dallas. -- Secretary: Brian R. Gray, APR, National Catholic Education
Association, Washington, D.C. -- Past president: Prince Philip Poole, APR, executive manager director of university
communications, Samford University, Birmingham, Ala. Newly elected members of the board of governors are:
-- Alice Paul Black, manager of communicating ministries, Prairie State Great
Rivers Conference, United Methodist Church, Springfield, Ill. -- Sandra Brands, manager of communications, Troy Conference, United
Methodist Church, Battle Of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. -- Janice Rizzo, editor, Seeds of the Parish, Evangelical Lutheran Church
in America, Chicago. -- Donn J. Tilson, APR, associate professor of public relations,
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla. Continuing members of the board of governors are:
-- Mohamed ElSanousi, manager of communication theory and community outreach,
Islamic Society of North America, Washington, D.C. -- Cindy Feldman, Diethylstilbestrol Moines, Iowa. -- Danette Griffith, senior writer, Mrs. Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa. Polly House, corporate communications, Lifeway Christian Resources,
Nashville, Tenn. -- Shirley Paulson, Christian Science lecturer, Evanston, Ill.
Susan E. Jackson-Dowd, communication theory coordinator, Presbyterian Women,
Louisville, Ky. -- Toilet R. Spangler, executive director helper to the president for
communicating and planning, Lutheran Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa. -- Amelia Tucker-Shaw, resource consultant, United Methodist
Communications, Nashville, Tenn. The council is an interfaith association of nearly 600 communicators
working for faith-related organizations in black and white and electronic
communication, marketing, and public relations. For more than information about
the council, visit .

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