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Attorney: Ohio Mosque a Threat to Runaway Teen

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The attorney for a runaway teen who claims her Muslim parents threatened to kill her for converting to Christianity claimed in court documents Monday that the Ohio mosque the girl’s family attends has ties to Islamic terrorist organizations such as al-Qaida.

Orlando attorney John Stemberger said Rifqa Bary should be put in state custody because she is in “clear and present danger” from the Noor Islamic Cultural Center near Columbus. He said the mosque hosted extremist speakers and supported a Muslim scholar with ties to the militant group Hamas.



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Earl Paulk’s Former Church Sold

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The 51-acre campus of an Atlanta-area megachurch that used to be home to one the nation’s most influential charismatic congregations has been sold.

The Cathedral at Chapel Hill, founded by the late Earl Paulk Jr., was purchased by Greater Traveler’s Rest Baptist Church in Decatur, Ga., for $17.6 million, according to CNL Specialty Real Estate in Orlando, Fla., which brokered the deal that closed on Friday.

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George Wood Re-Elected to Lead AG, Woman Elected to Executive Presbytery

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George O. Wood was re-elected general superintendent of the Assemblies of God (AG) today during the denomination’s biennial General Council meeting being held this week in Orlando, Fla.

Later in the day, the 3 million-member Pentecostal denomination elected a woman to the Executive Presbytery under a newly adopted resolution that calls for greater representation of women and pastors under the age of 40 on the denomination’s governing board of directors.

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Christians Rally to Defend Prayers in Jesus’ Name

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A former military chaplain who battled the U.S. Navy over the right to pray in Jesus’ name is waging a similar fight in Lodi, Calif., where the City Council in May temporarily banned sectarian prayers before meetings.

Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt expects several hundred people-some from out of state-to join him tonight at 6 p.m. for a “Stand Up for Jesus” prayer rally protesting a city policy requiring all prayers to be “non-sectarian and non-denominational.”

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New Tribes Mission Co-Founder Dies at 98

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Robert “Borneo Bob” Williams, co-founder of Florida-based New Tribes Mission, which plants indigenous churches in remote areas worldwide, died Wednesday in Fresno, Calif., at the age of 98.

Through his 70-year ministry, Williams planted hundreds of churches in Indonesia, where he and his late wife, Rena, began their missionary career in 1939. During the next six decades, he established schools, clinics, a small boat ministry and a seminary that has trained and sent out hundreds of native Indonesian pastors, teachers and evangelists.

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