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Pilgrims are flowing back to the traditional site of Jesus' baptism on the Jordan River as Israel removes 40-year-old land mines and improves the area, but barbed wire and armed soldiers testify to the area's tense past.

Located in a closed military area on the West Bank a few kilometers from Jericho, the site -- Qasr el Yahud -- has been revered since the fourth or fifth century as the place where John the Baptist recognized Jesus as the Messiah

 

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Hundreds of Muslims, angered by the prospect of a government-closed church re-opening in their neighborhood, protested outside the church yesterday, causing the provisional military authority to back away from its promise to allow Orthodox clergy to reopen it.

Protestors started gathering on Thursday afternoon (May 19) outside the Church of the Virgin Mary and St. Abraam in Ain Shams, a poor section of northeastern Cairo. The church was scheduled to reopen that day, but protestors surrounded the building, preventing anyone from getting into it and trapping priests who were inside.

 

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Eleven members of one of Iran's largest evangelical house church movements, who were charged with 'action against the order of the country' and drinking alcohol, have been acquitted by an Iranian court, BosNewsLife learned Friday, May 20.

The charges referred to their involvement in a house church meeting and to taking communion wine, Iranian Christians said earlier.

 

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According to cult leader Harold Camping earthquakes would today already have obliterated various locations at the international date line, with the destruction rolling east time zone by time zone.

None of that has happened. The false prophet had earlier scheduled the earth's destruction in 1994.

 

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