By BOB MIMS | The Salt Lake Tribune The Salt Lake Tribune It shook the fundamentalist Christian world to its roots: Hank Hanegraaff , the darling of evangelicals as host of the long-running, nationally syndicated "Bible Answer Man" broadcast, had joined the Greek Orthodox Church. Hanegraaff, for nearly 30 years president of the Christian Research Institute, an evangelical apologetics ministry, also has written 20 books opposing purported cults and heresies and non-Christian faiths. If ever evangelicals had a doctrinal superhero, Hanegraaff was he. But on Palm Sunday, in a video released via social media , there was the 67-year-old Hanegraaff kneeling for "Holy Chrismation" — a rite of anointing with oil accompanying baptism — inside St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church of Charlotte, N.C. Within days, Bott Radio Network, a 107-station strong, evangelical broadcasting empire, severed its longstanding relationship with him; other criti...
A huge May Day wreath in Heraklion, Crete, is vying for a place in the Guinness World Records Book. The wreath, made of more than 20,000 flowers contributed by the prefecture's florists, has a diameter of 18 meters and weights more than 1.5 tons. It stands outside the Heraklion City Hall, and more than 30 people worked on its construction.
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