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Gideons International is rushing 350,000 Bibles to shelters in the Gulf Coast. You can visit their website to make an online donation.

The Gideons International are sending 40,000 Personal Witnessing Testaments (New Testament, Psalms, Proverbs) to be distributed at the Astrodome and other relief centers in Houston. My camp in Clear Lake is the focal point for organizing Gideon volunteers to help with the distribution. We are doing this in cooperation with the Salvation Army. If you are a Gideon, or a minister, and would like to help the Salvation Army and Gideons minister to the people and distribute the New Testaments please freep mail me your name and phone number and either myself, the Salvation Army or a Gideon organizer will...

If Katrina has taken everything from you, and you then turn to the Bible for help, you are an idiot. At least that’s the perspective of several posters to a blog run by Michael Hyatt, the CEO of Thomas Nelson, a Nashville-based Bible publisher. The story started with Hyatt’s offer of assistance: ". . . we will donate 100,000 Bibles to the relief efforts. Why Bibles? This afternoon, an official in Baton Rouge said on Fox News, “We need water, food, ... and Bibles.” This is something I knew we could help with. Samaritan's Purse, an organization headed by Franklin...

Greg Griffith is taking donations of Bibles to distribute to those stranded in shelters far from their homes. Please send what you can to:Greg Griffith ------------ Jackson, MSPlease mark your package with the words “Bible donation.”

Leicester hospitals were struggling to escape a public relations disaster last night after the trust's chaplain stalled a request from Gideons International to be allowed to replace patients' bedside Bibles. His decision was interpreted on the front pages of tabloid newspapers yesterday as tantamount to banning the Bible from NHS wards. University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust disputed claims that it thought having the Bible on the wards might offend non-Christians. But its spokeswoman was unable to say whether the Gideon Bibles would be allowed to remain in patients' lockers, tells the Guardians Unlimited. The hospital managers also claimed that...

Officials say they have no way to disinfect books If you're scheduled for surgery in New Brunswick, Canada, bring your own Bible if you need a source of comfort – one hospital has removed copies of the Good Book from patients' bedside tables in order to control infection. "We have disinfection processes to disinfect other surfaces, but we don't have anything to disinfect books," Jane Stafford, a spokeswoman for the River Valley Health Authority, which operates the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital, explained to Canada's CBC News

A U.S. based think tank critical of the Saudi government has added its voice to allegations that authorities in the kingdom routinely destroy Bibles. "As a matter of policy, the government either incinerates or dumps Bibles, crosses and other Christian paraphanelia," The Saudi Institute said in an article posted on its website. "Although considered as holy in Islam and mentioned in the Koran dozens of times, the Bible is banned in Saudi Arabia, and is confiscated and destroyed by government officials," it said.

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS Bibles banned on playgrounds Legal group challenges restriction on student activity during recess Posted: May 12, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com     An elemenatary school principal who barred students from reading the Bible during recess after a complaint from parents is violating the Constitution, according to a public-interest law firm challenging his actions. In a letter to the Knox County School District in Tennesee, the Alliance Defense Fund declared the principal of Karns Elementary School is on "shaky constitutional ground."   "The Constitution does not prohibit Bibles during recess; it prohibits the wholesale banning of...

A 72-year-old Southern Baptist from Myrtle Beach, S.C., has been detained for distributing Bibles in the United Arab Emirates. Vivian Gilmer, a grandmother and member of First Baptist Church in Myrtle Beach, S.C., was on a mission trip with the Tom Cox Evangelistic Association in the Middle East country when she was charged with illegal activity by government authorities Feb. 21, according to the Myrtle Beach Sun News. Another American, Marie Bush of Waxahachie, Texas, also is being held in Dubai. The women are prohibited from leaving the country but are expected to be released sometime this week, Bruce Crawford,...

Lawyers for the man accused of kidnapping US teenager Elizabeth Smart have filed a motion for the jury to be sequestered during the trial and the Bibles removed from their hotel rooms. Lawyers for Brian David Mitchell, 50, argued in motions that intense media coverage of the case could influence jurors if they are not sequestered. They asked that Bibles and other religious texts be removed from jurors' hotel rooms to "prevent prejudicial exposure". Authorities have said Mitchell, a self-proclaimed prophet, wrote a manifesto before kidnapping Utah teenager Elizabeth in which he declares himself a messenger of God and says...

(Click logo to return to home page)Local group serves deployed troops one Bible at a timeSTORY AND PHOTO BY PATRICK BUFFETT CASEMATE STAFF WRITER At first glance, Suite 6012 in a Newport News office tower seems like any other business. Administrative assistants fuss over computer keyboards and issue the occasional “may I help you?” in response to the chatter of incoming phone calls. Doorplates mark the presence of higher-level personnel assistants and financial managers. A closer look, however, reveals an aspect of this office that sets it apart from any other in the world. Throughout each business day, teams...

Campaign mail with a return address of the Republican National Committee warns West Virginia voters that the Bible will be prohibited and men will marry men if liberals win in November. The literature shows a Bible with the word "BANNED" across it and a photo of a man, on his knees, placing a ring on the hand of another man with the word "ALLOWED." The mailing tells West Virginians to "vote Republican to protect our families" and defeat the "liberal agenda." Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said Friday that he wasn't aware of the mailing, but said it could...

Distribution of Bible prompts complaint Student's mom unhappy with the version THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOBILE - A public school let an evangelical group distribute Protestant versions of the Bible to students, prompting complaints from a Roman Catholic mother. Leigha Arnez said she doesn't have a problem with the Bible but she would rather her 10-year-old son be brought up on the Douay-Rheims translation favored by many Catholics, not the King James Version handed out by members of Gideons International. She also was concerned that parents were not notified before the group gave away Bibles in a hallway at Semmes...

Bible-in-schools effort collecting signaturesCalifornia initiative would make Scriptures textbook for grades 1-12 Posted: January 7, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A proposed California initiative that would provide the King James Bible as a textbook to public-school students is now being circulated for signatures. Organizers of the effort now have until May 24 to collect 598,105 valid signatures, which would put the initiative on the statewide ballot. As WorldNetDaily reported, the proposal makes the case that the King James Bible of 1611 is "one of the supreme achievements of the English Renaissance, and is rightly regarded as one of the most influential...

Bible may be banned from city hospitals Health region wants to be fair to all faiths Robin Summerfield Calgary Herald Monday, October 20, 2003 Rev. Robert Greene ADVERTISEMENT Bibles in bedside tables may become contraband at hospitals under a proposal from the Calgary Health Region. If the policy is approved, the Gideons International Bible, a bedside staple, will be removed from all hospital rooms in the city and all distribution and display of any printed religious materials in hospitals will be banned. The policy, which is still under review and likely won't be decided for at least two months,...

Charlie Daniels: "You know I got some flack for writing this song. Some people called me some names. I don't care" Simple Man I ain't nothin' but a simple man They call me a redneck I reckon that I am But there's things going on That make me mad down to the core. I have to work like a dog to make ends meet There's crooked politicians and crime in the street And I'm madder'n hell and I ain't gonna take it no more. We tell our kids to just say no Then some panty waist judge lets a drug...

CHRISTIANBURG, Va. -- A woman was sentenced to 60 days in jail for sending marijuana in Bibles to her jailed boyfriend. Olivia Perkins, 28, said her delivery was intended to ease the migraines her boyfriend was suffering. ``I was hoping that it would at least help his headaches. I didn't know what else to do. He would just suffer,'' she testified. ``Jail's not supposed to be fun. But I felt that he shouldn't have to suffer either.'' The claim did not spare her jail time at her sentencing Wednesday. ``Anyone who is caught sending narcotics into the jail is going...

"Thou shalt not place Bibles in our casino hotel rooms." Such is the commandment from the flashy, new Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, home of the Borgata Babe cocktail waitress and shower-stall-for-two. Borgata Casino in Atlantic City, N.J. The Press of Atlantic City reports the $1.1 billion resort opening this summer is breaking ranks with all other casinos, and is refusing to allow the Gideons to place a Bible in any of its 2,002 hotel rooms. "What we've found is there's such a diversity of gaming customers that visit Atlantic City, by putting one generic publication in there you're not...

Muslim-majority Malaysia has banned 35 books considered "detrimental to public peace," including a translation of the Bible and some Muslim titles. The ethnic Iban people, once known as the headhunters of Borneo Island, say the ban has caused anxiety and confusion among church congregations, according to the official Bernama news agency. Peter Chung, archbishop of Kuching, the capital of Sarawak state, said the authorities have not said why the Iban language bible was banned. "We have not received any explanation," he said. The Sarawak Tribune News said the ethnic Scripture translation, published by the Bible Society of Malaysia, has been...