The number 40 has great significance in the Bible.
Perhaps best known is the 40 years that the Israelites were condemned to wander in the desert before being permitted entry into the Promised Land.
Maybe this mystical quantity will bear significance as we note, this month, the 40th year since the Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion in America.
A building in a village south west of Cairo housing a reception hall and nursery was destroyed yesterday by a mob following a rumour that it was a church.
According to Watani Newspaper, around 5,000 Islamist extremists armed with hammers axes and old electricity poles descended on the building in Fanous Village in Tamia District and razed the structure to the ground.
Pastor Faces Day in Court Over 'Crimes Against Humanity'
On Monday, Liberty Counsel will represent the Rev. Scott Lively, an evangelical pastor who was sued by the foreign group called Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG). The suit heard by the U.S. District Court in Springfield, Mass., alleges that Lively committed “crimes against humanity” in violation of “international law,” simply by sharing his biblical views on homosexuality during a 2009 visit to Uganda.
Rush Likens 'Normalization' of Pedophilia to Same-Sex Marriage
Radio show host Rush Limbaugh made controversial comments Jan. 7 when he told listeners there is a movement to “normalize pedophilia,” which he likened to the movement for marriage equality.
“There is a movement on to normalize pedophilia, and I guarantee you your reaction to that is probably much the same as your reaction when you first heard about gay marriage,” Limbaugh said Monday on The Rush Limbaugh Show.
How do you say goodbye for now to someone you love so much? Someone so precious—to us, so perfect. Only 40 years old, our youngest child, Robin, fought the good fight of faith against one of life’s greatest enemies. After a seven-year battle with cancer she left to be forever with Jesus on Friday, December 28.
In 2004 astronomers using NASA's, Spitzer Space Telescope, probed the dusty disks that surround young stars to look for the earliest signs of the formation of planetary systems. What they found coincides with the brief description of planet formation as described in the book of Genesis regarding earth's own formation.