By Melissa Wuske Religious Groups Barred in Angola The southern African nation of Angola banned a number of religious groups after a deadly military raid on Light of the World community, an apocalyptic group started by former Seventh-Day Adventist Jose Kalupeteka. The government ordered the disbanding of United Pentecostal Church, Hope Evangelical Church in Angola, […]
By Melissa Wuske Conflict over Campus Student Leaders Colleges and universities around the country have created “all-comers” policies that state student organizations must welcome any student as a member and a leader in the group. These policies have proved especially tricky for religious student groups. “I don’t feel there is any way you can fulfill […]
By Melissa Wuske Chef-Prepared Meals for Seniors—at Home “The number of seniors out there who aren’t eating properly is shocking to me,” said Barrett Allman. His son, Nathan, thought of a solution to nourish seniors who are living on their own, and the whole family helped put it into practice. Chefs for Seniors, based in […]
By Melissa Wuske Turkish and Armenian Christians Seek Reconciliation A shocking scene at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan marked the hundredth anniversary of the massacre—Turkish and Armenian Christians were joining hands and praying for reconciliation. In 1915 the Ottoman Empire systematically killed an estimated 800,000 to 1.5 million Armenians. In the century since the […]
By Melissa Wuske The Ultimate Compact Bible The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute has created a minute-sized Bible that puts pocket-sized Bibles to shame. Researchers etched the entire Hebrew Bible on a chip the size of a grain of sugar. The engraving was done by an ion beam focused on a silicon wafer coated in a […]
