Assistant Majority Leader, Sen. Dick Durbin (Illinois), is the second leading Democrat in the United States Senate. In a Senate Floor speech on Monday, Durbin urged Americans to break all ties with Bank of America. He told the  bank’s customers to “get the heck out of that bank. Find yourself a bank or credit union that won’t gouge you for $5 a month …”

NEW DELHI, May 1– With elections underway in India, its 2.3 percent Christian minority – which faced a deadly spate of attacks in the eastern state of Orissa last year – is praying for a secular party to come to power.

Theology is ‘wrestling with the unfathomable mystery of God’, but to enlighten rather than to obscure, says Simon Barrow, paying tribute to two Mennonite scholars and pastors, Alan and Eleanor Kreider, as part of a festschrift entitled'Forming Christian Habits in Post-Christendom'.This short piece appears as part of afestschriftfor Alan and Eleanor Kreider, who spent many years at the London Mennonite Centre. The book was co-published in July 2011 by the Institute of Mennonite Studies and Herald Press in the US.

FRANCONIA -- It seemed almost like a‘two against one’deal.

The female shark -- not quite a year old now -- was starting to act like a hunter in the huge display tank where she has lived 198 days with a number of smaller sharks, tuna and other fishes and turtles, aquarium scientists said.

After two HIV vaccine trials were halted for safety reasons last year, a new trial is set to commence within the next few months in South Africa and the United States. Scientists will test a new vaccine formula produced in South Africa. It will be the first time a HIV vaccine manufactured in a developing country will be trialed in the developed world.

Contact: Audra Jennings, The B&B Media Group, 800-927-0517 ext 104DALLAS, Aug. 18, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ -- Worn down by the troubles in your life? Overwhelmed by piled-up problems? Worried about others who are hurting? In his book, Sifted: God's Scandalous Response to Satan's Outrageous Demand, Rick Lawrence offers fresh biblical perspective on pain, based on a single Scripture snapshot: Luke 22:31-32."Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for yo Source: The B&B Media Group

Visitors to Philadelphia looking for music might think of only two options: the world-class orchestra, or national tours performing in big stadiums. But it's the smaller clubs in between where they'll find dance parties, open-mic nights, songwriter showcases, even the rare concerts where hip kids don't mind if their parents tag along.

SuperFunScience.com will be awarding at least $10,000 of college scholarships within the next 12 months. These merit based scholarships will be available for students enrolled in one of SuperFunScience.com's new science programs to be released on Tuesday November 11, 2008. Bring science home, and make it fun with SuperFunScience.com.

 

King Juan Carlos (R) of Spain bows to Pope Benedict XVI while Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (L) and opposition leader Mariano Rajoy look upon his arrival at Barajas airport during ...