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Religion News Blog
This religion news web log provides a daily selection of stories culled from a variety of sources around the world. Special focus on news about cults, sects, alternative religions and related issues.
Christian Daily News
A daily serving of stories culled from a variety of sources around the world. Emphasizes positive news.
ChristiantiyToday.com Daily news from Christianity Online.
Los Angeles Times
Pre-defined search for stories on religion.
Maranatha Christian Journal
Mission Network News     
News from the mission field around the world. Listen to 2 or 4.5 minute reports in RealMedia, MP3 or a Wav file.
Newsroom - Covering the religious dimension of news
Newsroom is "an interactive clearing house of story leads, reports, local contacts, analysis and commentary from a global network of news agencies, reporters and scholars." To view stories you must sign up (free). It is meant as a service to media professionals, helping "editors and journalists cover the religious dimension to news" and promoting "stories ideas from news agencies and reporters to an international news market."
New York Times
Pre-defined search for stories on religion.
One Way - Laatste Niews Daily Christian news in Dutch
Religion Today - Feature Story      Listen (Requires free RealPlayer)
Read the daily feature on the web, listen to it via RealAudio, or subscribe to the email version. Feature story archives
Religion Today - News Summary      Listen (Requires free RealPlayer)
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Yahoo! Religion News
Wire- and newspaper report.

Note: Cult-related news can also be found by using the pre-defined searches listed under the respective entries in the A-Z Index. See, for example, Scientology, Falun Gong, and Branch Davidians

COSmedia
Email service alerting subscribers to news coverage on Scientology
FACTnet
Provides a daily newsletter with news briefs on cult. [NOTE: currently suspended until sufficient funding is secured]
German Scientology News
English translations of articles on Scientology in German-language publications. Also covers other cults. Valuable, up-to-date service.
Los Angeles Times
Pre-defined search for stories on religion.
New York Times
Pre-defined search for stories on cults.
TranceNet.org
Daily listing of news briefs on cults. [NOTE: currently not being updated.]

Christianity Today
Christianity Today is an informative magazine that keeps a finger on the pulse of evangelical Christianity. It's site includes a few selected articles from the current issue. Older issues are online in their entirety a few weeks after publication. You'll also find a selection of recent news stories.
Christian WeekReligion News with a focus on Canada
Contemporary Christian Music Magazine
Includes the latest Gospel music industry news, Top 10 Charts, Album reviews, Interviews, background information, etcetera.
WORLD
Quite simply, my all-time favorite Christian News Magazine. WORLD is like TIME or Newsweek in that it provides up-to-date reporting. WORLD does so with the professionalism found in U.S. News & World Report.

Barna Research Group - Press Releases Stay on top of current religions trends and opinions with these online Press Releases
Christian Spotlight on the Movies
Basic premise of this site: People watch movies to let you know why you shouldn't watch them. Christian reviews of secular as well as Christian movies and videos. Incidentally: you can add your own comments to the reviews, so everyone will know you went ahead and watched anyway...
Church Net UK
EWTN
Eternal World Television Network. Religion News from a Catholic Perspective.
Freedom Forum - Religion Page
"The Freedom Forum is a nonpartisan, international foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people."
Prophe-Zine
An E-zine dealing with Bible Prophecy, World Events and Politics. (Remember to apply
1 Thessalonians 5:19-22).
RNS Religion Week
Brief roundup of the week's religion stories. By Religion News Service.

Christian Internet Broadcasting Network
Live and archived radio, video, and TV programs. Includes a wide range of music formats. Lots of great music, good interviews, and other interesting features. However, buyer Beware: also carries the ubiquitous Trinity Broadcasting Network - source, propenent and broadcasters of many heretical teachings.
Mission Network News     
News from the mission field around the world. Listen to 2 or 4.5 minute reports in RealMedia, MP3 or a Wav file.
Religion Today - Feature Story      Listen (Requires free RealPlayer)
Read the daily feature on the web, listen to it via RealAudio, or subscribe to the email version. Feature story archives
Religion Today - News Summary      Listen (Requires free RealPlayer)
Read the daily summary on the web, listen to it via RealAudio, or subscribe to the email version. News summary archives

Apologia Report
If you're involved in apologetics, you know it's next to impossible to keep up with the massive growth of information on cults, the occult, new religious movements, world religions, spiritual trends in modern culture, and general apologetics. That's why Apologia Report, an online subscription-based research journal edited by Rich Poll, updates you weekly via e-mail on the latest resources available so that you can stay current in your areas of expertise. Not only will you find information on how to subscribe to this excellent, one-of-a-kind resource (sample issue available online), but you can also become a member of AR-talk, a free-access, moderated e-mail discussion of apologetics resources, particularly those covered in Apologia Report.
ARS Week in Review
Rod Keller's helpful newsletter presents the best, most useful and informative information from among the thousands of posts in alt.religion.scientology.
Internet For Christians
Excellent newsletter providing lots of pointers to sites of interest to Christians.
Religion News Report
An archive of the "Religion News Report" newsletter. The newsletter, which is published by Apologetics Index once or twice a week, alerts apologists and counter-cult professionals to news regarding cults, sects, other religious movements, personalities, etcetera. "Religion Items in the News" is provided as a service to the members of the AR-talk apologetics resources discussion list. It is always posted there first. If you need news alerts on a timely basis, consider subscribing to AR-talk. Back issues are available here, where stories are linked to the appropriate entries in the A-Z Apologetics Index. Items added since Oct. 25, 1999 are also included in this searchable database.

Birmingham Post-Herald - Religion Page (Alabama)
Charlotte Observer - Religion Page (North Carolina)
Contra Costa Times - Religion Page (California)
Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Heritage Christian Newspaper (Texas)
Monthly publication. News and articles of interest to Christians in the USA and beyond.
Dallas Morning News - Religion Page (Texas)
Detroit News - Religion Page (Michigan)
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Religion Page (Texas)
Naples Daily News - Religion page (Florida)
Nederland Dagblad (Netherlands)
Dutch-language daily newspaper with a Christian perspective.
News & Observer - Religion Page
Orange County Register - Religion Section (California)
Star-Telegram - Religion Section (Texas)
Carries an extensive amount of religion reporting
Uitdaging (Netherlands) (Requires free Adobe Reader)
(Dutch language only). Monthly publication. If you speak Dutch (and who doesn't nowadays?), check up on the Christian news from Holland in Uitdaging, published by the Dutch affiliate of Campus Crusade for Christ). Easily the most informative source of religion news in Holland.
Wichita Eagle - Religion Section

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Evangelical Alliance UK - Press Releases
Religion News Service
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