If this is your first time visiting Bible Prophecy In The News, I’d like to invite you to subscribe to our RSS feed. Never miss an update.. Thanks for visiting!University of Oxford researchers will spend nearly $4 million to study why mankind embraces God. The grant to the Ian Ramsey Center for Science and Religion will bring anthropologists, theologians, philosophers and other academics together for three years to study whether belief in a divine being is a basic part of mankinds makeup.
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The top Vatican cardinal in charge of relations with Jews on Thursday denied that a new prayer for their conversion was offensive and said Catholics had the right to pray as they wish.
The Vatican had come under fire from Jewish groups in recent days for changing its Good Friday service to include a prayer urging God to let Jews “recognize Jesus Christ as savior of all men.”
Earlier this week, Pope Benedict ordered changes to a Latin prayer for Jews at traditionalist Good Friday services, deleting a reference to their “blindness” …

Malaysian authorities confiscated Christian children’s books, claiming the illustrations of prophets such as Moses and Abraham violate Islamic Shariah law.
The independent news agency Malaysakini reported the Internal Security Ministry confiscated the literature from bookstores in two cities and one small town in mid-December.
The Malaysian Embassy declined to comment on the news service’s Jan. 11 report.
The Rev. Hermen Shastri, general secretary of the Malaysian Council of Churches, confirmed the report and accused the government of persecuting Christians.
“The officials have offended the sensitivities of Christians because their publications and depictions of their …

Christian proselytism is discouraged, where not outright prohibited, throughout the Muslim world and Muslims who convert to Christianity (or any other religion) are subject to death according to Sharia law. Ironically, this situation is not applicable to the Muslim communities in the West: for where Muslim clerics struggle against the Christian missionaries in Islamic countries, Muslim missionaries in the West enjoy many freedoms and may welcome new converts.
The laissez-faire Western attitude concerning Muslim missionaries must be reviewed to deal with the case in the West regarding the principle of reciprocity …

A Muslim store worker at Marks & Spencer refused to serve a customer buying a childrens book on biblical stories because she said it was “unclean”.
Sally Friday, a customer at a branch of one of the famous stores, felt publicly humiliated when she tried to pay for First Bible Stories as a gift for her young grandson.
When the grandmother put the book on the counter, the assistant refused to touch it, declared it was unclean and then summoned another member of staff to deal with the purchase.
Mrs Friday was so …

An Islamic view of Jesus Christ is being portrayed by a director who shares the ideas of Iran’s hardline president in what he says it is the first film to show the “common ground” between Muslims and Christians.
Nader Talebzadeh sees his movie, “Jesus, the Spirit of God,” as an Islamic answer to Western productions like Mel Gibson’s 2004 blockbuster “The Passion of the Christ,” which he praised as admirable but quite simply “wrong”.
“Gibson’s film is a very good film. I mean that it is a well-crafted movie but the story …

Pope Benedict has taken a bold step toward greater understanding in this world by deciding to hold a meeting for Roman Catholic and Muslim leaders this year. The Vatican announced on the weekend the conference will be held in Rome in the spring.
It is a response to an open letter that 138 Muslim scholars from around the world sent to the Pope in October. That letter urged Christians and Muslims to look for common ground and pointed out that they believe in one God.
That letter itself developed out of what …

And lo, I awakened from a dream during this most blessed Christmas season.
Three Wise Men named Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), Sam Harris (The End of Faith) and Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great) traveled from afar to announce their tidings of great joy — there is no God, no king to rule over us, there is only us.
And suddenly, there was a bright light from the East, telling a tale from the wintry north, announcing this same good news to children. There is a world beyond this one, a …

They apologize for the ’sins of Christians,’ leave the deity of Christ open for discussion.
An attempt by leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) to win friends and influence Muslims is alienating another group evangelical Christians.
Reactions have been negative and strong. Islam expert Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo has called it a “betrayal” and a “sellout.” Dr. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Seminary (Southern Baptist), termed it “naiveté that borders on dishonesty.”
Others are just beginning to hear of it. In November, NAE President Leith Anderson and NAE Vice President Richard …

Believers of Christianity and Islam are competing to spread their respective holy book around the world, but distributors of the Bible have some advantages over the Koran.
The Bible is translated into 2,426 languages (complete or in part) and counting, including 900 English versions ranging from street slang to comic book-like translations, according to The Economist. On the other hand, the Koran is disadvantaged by the belief by some that the word of God must not be changed, even translation-wise.
Although most Muslims now accept translation of the Koran, it is still …