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Once a high-dollar escort, Ateba Crocker is now a woman’s advocate for Christ…
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Telegraph
Cancer patients have been left free of the disease after being treated with a new drug which harnesses the power of their own immune cells.
Four of 38 patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma have seen “complete regressions” following treatment, while five others saw reductions of 50 per cent in their tumours.
The drug, which could prove cheaper than other therapies that try to achieve the same effect with cells, works by activating the body’s own defences to attack the cancer.
The results have been described as an “exciting” and “significant” development in the use of immunotherapy, the process of using the body’s own immune system to fight disease.
While the trials were only carried out on patients with the blood cancer, it is hoped the methods can be adapated to tackle other cancers…
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CBN.com – BEATITUDES
Since moving to Mozambique in 1995, and giving away everything they had, Heidi and Rolland Baker have learned to depend on God for everything.
“If God does not show up, we are dead,” says Heidi.
Living among the poor has allowed Heidi to see firsthand how when they embrace the life of the Beatitudes, they are truly blessed.
“The Beatitudes are God’s recipe for revival. They are a portrait and description of Jesus. When we walk as Jesus walked, we will be blessed,” shares Heidi…
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Haaretz
A moment before beginning his supper, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on their plates.
It takes a few seconds to digest this sight: The son of a Hamas MP who is also the most popular figure in that extremist Islamic organization, a young man who assisted his father for years in his political activities, has become a rank-and-file Christian. “I’m now called Joseph,” he says at the outset.
Masab knows that he has little hope of returning to visit the Holy Land in this lifetime.
“I know that I’m endangering my life and am even liable to lose my father, but I hope that he’ll understand this and that God will give him and my family patience and willingness to open their eyes to Jesus and to Christianity. Maybe one day I’ll be able to return to Palestine and to Ramallah with Jesus, in the Kingdom of God.”…
CityNews.ca
Ask some people what they think of today’s average teenager and you won’t always get the most positive response. But that may be because they never met 14-year-old Corey Warburton. The Grafton, Australia youngster was on his way to a local skate park Down Under when he came across a scene that would challenge the bravery of someone twice his age.
It started when he spotted a piece of paper that turned out to be a woman’s suicide note, and then found her clothes and her glasses discarded on a bridge. When he looked into the waters below he got the shock of his life - he saw the body of the distraught author of that final farewell message floating face down in the murky depths.
Without time to hesitate and finding he didn’t have his cell phone, Corey made the riskiest choice of his life - he jumped off the bridge and went in after her. He caught up to the 70-year-old victim but his heroic race against time didn’t end there. For more than half an hour, he struggled to keep both of them afloat, trying desperately to reach dry land, as the woman lapsed in and out of consciousness…
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WorldNetDaily
A dozen strangers rushed to help a 70-year-old man after he lost thousands of dollars in a windstorm while leaving a Southern California bank.
Ludwig Geier was leaving the First National Bank in Torrance with a money-stuffed envelope when he fell, spilling 200 bills onto the parking lot, the Torrance Daily Breeze reported. The blustery wind began to carry his money away when several people came running to his rescue.
“It was gone in no time,” Geier said. “I had flip-flops on and couldn’t run that fast.”
A dozen Good Samaritans recovered 96 percent of Geier’s money and immediately returned it to the machine shop owner…
New Scientist
A wider of range of plant material could be turned into biofuels thanks to a breakthrough that converts plant molecules called lignin into liquid hydrocarbons.
The reaction reliably and efficiently turns the lignin in waste products such as sawdust into the chemical precursors of ethanol and biodiesel.
In recent years, the twin threats of global warming and oil shortages have led to growth in the production of biofuels for the transportation sector.
But as the human digestive system will attest, breaking down complex plant molecules such as cellulose and lignin is a tricky business.
Food crisis
The biofuels industry has relied instead on starchy food crops such as corn and sugar cane to provide the feedstock for their reactions. But that puts the industry into direct competition with hungry humans, and food prices have risen as a result…
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Brooklyn Watson was in a school prayer gathering of 30 students when a gunman opened fire, killing three and injuring five. When she had an encounter with God, she was able to believe in Jesus and eventually forgive the gunman…
By Peter J. Smith
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Bush Administration has proposed new rules to guarantee that all recipients of federal aid under federal health programs will not discriminate against hiring doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals who have moral objections to abortion and abortifacient birth control according to a report by the New York Times.
The proposed regulations would require that hospitals, clinics, researchers, and medical schools sign “written certifications” before receiving federal funding under any program run by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HSS).
The rules would also apply to state and local governments, and forbid them from disqualifying hospitals and other institutions that refuse to perform abortions from receiving grant money.
The Times reports that the HSS proposed the new requirement in order to make sure that federal money would not “support morally coercive or discriminatory practices or policies in violation of federal law.”
Those individuals or organizations found discriminating against health care workers or entities who object to abortion on the basis of “religious beliefs or moral convictions” would face the consequence of loss of federal aid.
The Times says the proposal defines abortion as follows: “any of the various procedures - including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action - that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation.”
The decision has been greeted with ire from pro-abortion advocacy groups, which claim that the proposed regulations would mean less contraception - including the abortifacient Plan B emergency contraceptive.
“The proposed definition of abortion is so broad that it would cover many types of birth control, including oral contraceptives and emergency contraception,” Mary Jane Gallagher, president of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, told the Times.
However the pro-family group Concerned Women for America (CWA) says the regulations are overdue to protect healthcare workers from facing the choice of violating their moral and religious convictions or leaving their field.
“For over 35 years, federal laws have protected the conscientious rights of healthcare professionals, but they were not fully implemented for lack of thorough regulations to enforce them,” stated CWA President Wendy Wright. “As more controversial drugs and procedures get introduced, and additional pressure is put on healthcare providers to either compromise their moral commitments or lose their jobs, the need has become greater for regulations to catch up with the law.”
Wright added that she found it ironical abortion proponents who call themselves “pro-choice” are determined to deny the choice of a doctor to refuse abortion.
“Clearly, abortion advocates do not believe in the ‘right to choose’ if the choice is not to participate in abortion or provide drugs that can take the life of a human being,” said Wright, who pointed out that abortion advocates were attempting to muddle the issue by twisting the HSS definition of abortion.
“When abortion advocates claim this regulation would discourage providing ‘contraception’ it reveals that their definition of ‘contraception’ includes drugs that would cause abortion.”
WTOC-TV
A New York family never thought they’d be traveling all the way to Georgia today to see their long lost pet Rocko.
“I’m very excited,” said owner Jorge Villacis.
“Well we had Rocko two months prior to him getting lost and it meant a lot to us,” said owner Nicholas Naranjo.
Rocko’s family hasn’t seen him in five years.
The 40 pound Beagle is a native New Yorker but by chance showed up at the Liberty County Animal Control Shelter.
“Rocko’s a very nice animal,” said LCAC Director Randy Durrence.
Durrence has been tending to Rocko since the fourth of July.
“It’s amazing that he made it this far,” said Durrence.
But how did a Beagle from the Big Apple make it’s way all the way to Liberty County? Durrence has his own theory…
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow
A woman in Fort Myers, Florida, has forsaken her former life, become a Christian, and is now ministering to other troubled women.
Jeanie Turner came to Christ after five failed marriages, and broke addictions to alcohol and cigarettes. After a recovery period and immersing herself in the Bible, she began reaching out to other women – and she did so by talking to prostitutes on the streets and women in “adult entertainment” businesses.
“We’ve helped 70 women out of the adult night clubs…
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Author Karen Kingsbury shares her deeply personal story of salvation and how her husband helped lead her to an authentic relationship with Christ…
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Janet L. Folger
On Friday night, a little after midnight, I got a frantic knock at the door. It was my neighbor from across the street telling me that her house was on fire. I grabbed the phone and dialed 9-1-1 as I ran out the door to see a house billowing with smoke and flames – so much smoke that it had set off the smoke detector in the house next door to me.
I was giving the address to the 9-1-1 operator when I realized there was still someone inside. My neighbor’s son was in the house and his bedroom was consumed with flames. I started screaming his name and directing the operator where his bedroom was so the firemen would know once they arrived.
His mother described the flames that consumed the mattress of his bed and his entire bedroom. The flames had since spread and the thick, black smoke filled the house and neighborhood, keeping any of us from attempting a rescue…
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The founding member of the classic rock group America retells how he rose to fame and how Jesus met him at his lowest point.
