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  • Historic Christian Church to Be Converted Into Mosque; Members Take Down Cross From Altar

    12/08/2016 8:59:07 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 57 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 12/08/2016 | Samuel Smith
    A Christian congregation in Connecticut that dates back to the 1600s has sold its church building to a Muslim group that plans to turn the building into a mosque. (Photo: Facebook/United Congregational Church)United Congregational Church in Bridgeport, ConnecticutAccording to The Wall Street Journal, the historic United Congregational Church will sell its 1920s Georgian-Revival style church building to the Bridgeport Islamic Community Center for a price of $1 million.The church dates back to the Colonial Era, when it was founded in 1695 as the Ecclesiastical Society of Stratfield. In 1916, the congregation merged with another congregation and officially became the United...
  • Abortion pill investor Warren Buffett created ‘church’ to get women illegal abortions

    12/03/2023 8:05:14 PM PST · by Morgana · 14 replies
    Live Action News ^ | January 11, 2023 | Carole Novielli
    Warren Buffett is a philanthropist whose billions have been funneled to pro-abortion organizations for decades, including many behind the expansion of the abortion pill. While some of this is well-known among pro-lifers, what is less known is that Buffett was also instrumental in creating a “church” as a front for referring women for illegal abortions prior to Roe v. Wade — a “church” that eventually merged into Planned Parenthood Los Angeles. Warren Buffett’s abortion pill philanthropy Warren Buffett’s Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation was among the original investors in Danco Laboratories, the U.S. abortion pill manufacturer. In addition, the Washington Post...
  • Church in Australia Votes in Gay Priests

    07/18/2003 11:26:56 AM PDT · by NYer · 4 replies · 68+ views
    Associated Press ^ | July 17, 2003
    SYDNEY, Australia -- The leaders of an Australian Christian church voted Thursday to allow homosexuals to become priests, drawing protest from within the congregation. Members of the Uniting Church opposed to the change warned it could trigger a mass exodus of followers from the church. After two days of heated debate, more than 75 percent of delegates at the Uniting Church's national assembly in Melbourne voted for gays in the clergy. The Uniting Church was formed in 1977 by a merger of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational denominations. The church, Australia's third largest Christian denomination, already has some gay clergy but...