About 120 international Christian students attending a Bible college in Ohio could possibly face deportation after their school was recently denied recertification with the U.S. immigration exchange student program.

Although President Barack Obama plans to announce Thursday night an immigration overhaul that could allow nearly 5 million illegal immigrants to remain in the country, the 120 foreign Christian students at Marietta Bible College are in a bind after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement declined to issue the school recertification into the the agency’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

In doing so, the school’s international students must either find a new school to transfer to or they will face deportation starting in February 2015. Additionally, the college may no longer accept international students.

bout 120 international Christian students attending a Bible college in Ohio could possibly face deportation after their school was recently denied recertification with the U.S. immigration exchange student program.

Although President Barack Obama plans to announce Thursday night an immigration overhaul that could allow nearly 5 million illegal immigrants to remain in the country, the 120 foreign Christian students at Marietta Bible College are in a bind after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement declined to issue the school recertification into the the agency’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

In doing so, the school’s international students must either find a new school to transfer to or they will face deportation starting in February 2015. Additionally, the college may no longer accept international students…Read More

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Southern Baptists recently gathered for prayer at the First Baptist Church in Ferguson, Missouri as the nation awaits the grand jury decision in regards to the Michael Brown shooting Aug. 9.

The jury is deliberating whether or not to indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, who is white. Wilson shot and killed Brown, an unarmed black18-year-old male.

The Baptist Press reports the North American Mission Board’s Gary Frost and Arkansas pastor Bill Elliff led the prayer summit.

“You know all the stuff that has been going on in North County St. Louis,” Jim Breeden, director of missions for St. Louis Metro Baptist Association, said during the Nov. 13 prayer summit. “We need and will take all the prayers we can get. But it’s not really about North County or about race relations; it’s really about God’s people humbling themselves and coming before the Lord.”

Participants prayed for repentance, the Ferguson community and beyond as well as pastors in the greater St. Louis area.

There are people poised for destruction and hoping all literal hell breaks loose,” Frost told the Baptist Press. “That’s the atmosphere we’re dealing with. But it’s not a matter of policing.

“Only God can heal and thwart the tactics of the enemy.” Frost said, referring to Satan. “We need to pray that God would thwart the plans of all the agendas that have shown up here for the purposes of advancing any person and not the glory of God.”

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Officials at a West Tennessee Christian University sparked a fiery debate over Christian values Wednesday for standing by their decision to invite embattled comedian Bill Cosby to serve as keynote speaker for the school’s benefit dinner scheduled for next month, despite outcry from an advocacy group for victims of sexual assault.

David Brown, leader of the Memphis Chapter of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, charged in a WREG report that if the officials at Freed-Hardeman University — a private Christian institution associated with the churches of Christ — go ahead with plans to host Bill Cosby at their benefit dinner on Dec. 5, he will protest.

Cosby, who declared in a New York Post report in 2013 that, “I am a Christian” is facing mounting allegations of rape from multiple women. The allegations have resulted in him being dropped from projects with NBC, Netflix and TV Land, according to CNN. Freed-Hardeman University, however, is standing by its position, infuriating Brown.

“If he does show up Dec. 5 to the auditorium, I’ll be out there protesting, and I won’t be alone,” Brown threatened, according to WREG.

“I know this is about raising money, but you can raise money more admirably than this,” he continued.

Brown explained that he sent a letter to the university, saying, “If you keep him as your keynote speaker, your fine university will hurt so many, and you will never know the harm that you have done.”

In a response to his letter, Brown said the university noted: “oh, we are glad you got healed from your problem; however, we are still going to go forward.”

In interviews with The Christian Post on Thursday, officials at the university noted that the decision to invite Cosby to speak at the benefit dinner was made in the spring and pointed to a statement on the school’s Facebook page as their official response to the fiasco…Read More

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An American Christian couple in Qatar is facing a death sentence after their adopted daughter died unexpectedly in their home on January 15, 2013.

The Qatari government alleges that Matthew and Grace Huang starved their 8-year-old daughter Gloria to death to traffic her organs.

Matthew Huang, an engineer, had agreed to work on engineering projects in Doha for the Colorado-based company MWH Global. He and his family moved to the Middle East with their two sons and a daughter, each adopted from Africa.

**CBN News Reporter Charlene Aaron spoke with Matthew and Grace Haung via Skype from Doha Qatar. Click play for their story.

The couple was charged with murder and on March 27 they were sentenced to three years in prison. They spent 11 months in an Islamic prison before a judge granted bail last November.

There was no physical evidence that the child suffered starvation or trauma. While it is unclear how Gloria died, the Haungs said she suffered from an eating disorder common to some children from impoverished countries.

But Qatari police immediately suspected foul play…Read More

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I’ve been reciting the Pledge since preschool, and to me the phrase ‘one nation under God’ sums up the history and values that have made our country great.”
Samantha Jones, a high school student in New Jersey, is standing up for her right to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in full. Samantha and her family asked a state judge Wednesday to dismiss the American Humanist Association’s latest attempt to remove the words “under God” from the Pledge.

“I’ve been reciting the Pledge since preschool, and to me the phrase ‘one nation under God’ sums up the history and values that have made our country great,” said Samantha Jones, a senior at Highland Regional High School. “I think it’s empowering to know that, no matter what happens, I have some rights the government can never take away. No student should be silenced just because some people disagree with timeless American values.”

This is the second time the atheist group, the American Humanist Association (AHA), has asked a state court to declare the federal Pledge illegal. Their first state-level suit, raising identical claims, was unanimously rejected by Massachusetts’ highest court earlier this year…Read More