On the anniversary of 9/11, I learned that we need extraordinary prayer in this time of national crisis.

Hiruy Tsige, Ethiopian national overseer, relates how they are starting to reach out to the Ghurage tribe, another largely unreached ethnic group of 1.8 million people, living about 100 miles southwest of Addis Ababa, the capital city.

The Rutherford Institute is asking the Supreme Court to hear a case in which a Bible reading was banned from school.

The Institute is representing Donna Busch who was invited to read the Bible to her son’s class in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. John Whitehead, founder of The Rutherford Institute, summarizes the case, which began in October 2004.

“They had a week where the child in the kindergarten class could read their favorite book — and his favorite book was the Bible, and she wanted to read a few passages from the Psalms,” Whitehead explains. “It wasn’t anything about Jesus or whatever. It was one of those Psalms that talks about God, but it’s not overtly religious.”

Busch went to the school on the scheduled day, but ran into a problem upon arriving. “The principal actually met her at the school door, knew she was coming, and said she couldn’t bring the Bible in the school,” he says. “But [the principal] said they could go ahead and read from another book, a Halloween book — which many people consider Halloween a religious holiday because it deals with spirits and ghosts — but you couldn’t read from the Bible.”

Whitehead adds that kind of hostility toward religion should never be found in an American public school. The case was lost in lower courts, so The Rutherford Institute is asking the Supreme Court to take the case.

The case is the focus during one episode of the DVD series Speechless: Silencing the Christians.

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A chaplain at a Michigan veterans’ hospital has been invited to return and minister to patients.

From reading some old books I’ve discovered a missing spiritual dimension. The Lord is inviting us to reclaim it.

Tim Hill opens the Symposium on the Great Commission on Monday night, September 14.

Hundreds gather at Mount Paran Church of God in Atlanta for the Symposium on the Great Commission.

All services of the Symposium on the Great Commission will be broadcast live on the Church of God Web site beginning Monday, September 14 at 7:00 p.m.

The International Day Of Prayer for the persecuted church is set for November 8.

The Religion Newswriters Association today announced the winners of its 2009 contests for excellence in religion reporting in the mainstream media.