AFP - Nov 12, 2009 (via Nicene Truth)

The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13 as a call to action on global warming.

The leading council of Christian and Orthodox churches also invited places of worship for other faiths to join a symbolic “chain of chimes and prayers” stretching around the world from the international date line in the South Pacific.

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Old Testament verse explored in Bahai context in “The Half-Inch Prophecy”

By Inge Grunwaldt
Friday, September 12, 2008

From Wikipedia

“The Half-Inch Prophecy” focuses on the following prophecy of the Old Testament: “In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.” (Micah, 7:12)

In William Sears’ version of the King James Bible this prophecy measures exactly one half an inch, but it contains a world of information.

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