>> john the baptist.nscription is in greek and dated properly no lart than 350 ash ad. >> after that the oldest inscription ever found. part of the verse from the nativity story of luke about simeon the old man who held the baby jesus. >> you have seen the inscription. in fact you discovered them. how do you know they are authentic. >> good question. we are living in an age of forgeries. the inscription which were there almost 30 feet in the air. it's impossible to forge something like that today. >> a forger would want to forge something he can sell and you cannot sell something this big. >> there's no way again it has been up there for the last almost 1700 years, and it will always be there. >>> like absalom's tomb christianity survived a variety of assaults. these days it's a best selling book that has many people angry and upset. .. >> a woman's name has been ven rated for centuries. mary magdelene. her life in jesus's life has been at the certainty of debate more than ever. >> the da vinci code is th

. >> ( dramatized ): in those days, john the baptist appeared in the wilderness of judea, proclaiming "repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near." >> john the baptist was a renowned kind of eccentric, it appears, from the way that josephus describes him. but he seems to have had this quality of a kind of prophetic figure, one who was calling for change. so he is usually thought of as being off in the desert wearing unusual clothes-- a kind of ascetic almost. >> john is taking people out into the desert, crossing the jordan. he is recapitulating the exodus, and he is planting little, ticking time bombs of apocalyptic expectation all over the jewish homeland, waiting for god to strike, as it were. >> narrator: it was as john's disciple, the gospels say, that jesus submitted to the ancient jewish rite of baptism. >> the evidence that jesus was a follower of john is as strong as anything historians can find about jesus. the reason is a certain embarrassment in the texts, trying to explain why on earth would jesus be apparently inferior to john. if he goes and is baptized by john, th

monday preceding the convention african-american faith leaders gathered at the historic friendship baptist church of charlotte north carolina. the guest speaker was dr. calvin bust, pastor of the great absiddian church of new york where he succeeded his father as pastor and was the first black from new york to serve in the u.s. congress, and got over 67 bills passed through congress including title seven, head start, national student loan program, but that preacher dr. butts had lifts us to the seventh heaven with his oratory and after the service was over as i followed the platform party out to the foyer of that great cathedral there i looked up and i beheld a beautiful quilt at the center of many other quilts that the quilting ministry of friendship church had put on display, and when i saw that quilt that caught my eye i said to the pastor "dr. clifford jones, i want that quilt. i want that quilt ." dr. jones says "it's yours". when he took me to the car the limousine was there waiting for me and before i close the door i looked at him again and i said "dr. jones i want that quilt". he

they were called to the providence baptist view shelter after a woman began pounding on the door. she was covered in blood and told the man who answered that she had a baby but she didn't have the infant with her. thinking she had been assaulted, are the worker called 911. >> she was a little hysterical, said she wanted to come, she wanted to come in at first. and then when she came back with the baby, she did not want to come in. >> by the time police arrived, the woman had handed the child off to someone else. of the baby wasn't breathing, but officers were able to revive it on the way to the hospital. the mother could face charges for child endangerment and abandonment. >>> it's not doomsday, but it's something we'll never see again in our lifetimes. a repeating date. >> 12/12/12 is lucky! how couples are taking advantage. >> reporter: let's see what the may ans are cooking up. >> >> mother nature does have a doomsday date. we are actually close to it. >> reporter: he is originally from what is southeastern mexico, formerly the mayan region. >> it is the end of an era, the end

it makes less difference whether you're a catholic or baptist than whether you believe in traditionalvalues or morality or whether you're a post-modernist. you had the same america you had in 1972 when 75% of americans leave in homes where they're married. romney would have won in a landslide he. only 48% of americans are married and living in homes. when 53% of our babies that are now born to women under 30 are born out of wedlock, we're in deep trouble. >> for land the antidote to social problems is the return to religion. >> spiritual revival. i do not see us, the traditional values folks, winning this struggle without a spiritual revival that ripens into an awakening and culminating into a rep mags. the single greatest advantage, bob, that an american can have today and trumps all others is is to be born into a home with a mother and a father who stay married to each other. if you're born into such a home, it trumps religion. it trumps ethnicity. it trumps economic rank. it trumps iq. it trumps everything. yet, over half of our children have lost that home by the time they're 7. a

jean-baptiste niard, nhk world, doha. >>> the south china sea territorial dispute may be about to get more complicated. another emerging kmiec power has suggested it might get involved. patchari raksawong in bangkok has details. >> the dispute in the south china sea already involves a number of asean nations as well as china. the united states has also expressed its concern over the potential flashpoint. and now a senior indian official has indicated that country, too, is anxious to counter the maritime assertiveness of china. nhk world reports from new delhi. >> reporter: india's navy chief held a media conference on monday, in which he addressed the spreading maritime power of india's big east asian rival. he expressed admiration for china but also sounded a note of alarm. >> it's impressive and certainly a concern for us which we continuously evaluate and work out our options and our strategy. >> reporter: admiral joshi raised eyebrows when he suggested that the indian navy was ready to send warships to the south china sea. >> translator: whenever we're needed to defend our nationa

and even the idea that his family were baptists and then they were mormons and now they're catholics, and they didn't know what they came in -- [inaudible] come on, i'm an immigrant. i know what faith i came in. to us, it's so important. it's like the year we were born. so that's all i have to say, thank you. >> guest: well, a lot of people who have contacted me have said that they find it hard to believe that he did not know the exact date that his family came. ultimately, that will be a question that will be argued about, i think, for a long time. but you do get at this very interesting dynamic between the different groups within what we call latinos or hispanics. and you are right to point out that some latinos who are not cuban have a sense of resentment because cubans have a different immigration policy than noncuban hispanics. wet foot/dry foot, it's easier to come into the united states if you are from cuba than if you, say, are trying to escape a regime in nicaragua that you don't like run by a sandinista, former sandinista daniel ortega or, say, trying to escape a drug war in

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correspondent elizabeth prann looks at the red tape between alberta baptist and new house of worship. >> i heard the wind. >> 82-year-old dorothy couldn't believe her eyes when she saw what the 2011 tornadoes did to her tuscaloosa church. >> i was shocked to see how much damage it did. >> after serving the community since 1920, alberta baptist was danieled beyond repair when the storm hit. congregants were forced to use another church miles away for sunday prayer. >> the heart of the city was ripped apart by the tornado. >> the spirit of service still remains on the old site. parishioners use parking lot for weekly meetings and the community service. >> we became a distribution spot. >> people were coming in from all over the united states. with supplies, food, clothing. >> for more than a year. the state of the church was uncertain. roadblocks like reanalysis tants from insurance companies and the special building permits required by fema threatped reconstruction plans. but the charm leaders worked hard to clear hurdles and cut through red tape. >> we didn't know if we could come bac

john was turning an ancient ritual into a new sacrament. >> john the baptist.ism. and he said, this is the man i've been waiting for, this is the person i'm preparing the way for. and he expected jesus to be the messiah of israel. >> and that's the message jesus took to the jewish people. as the gospels tell us, he returned home, found his first disciples among galilean fishermen. and soon he called attention to himself, by casting out demons, and healing the sick. >> those healings would have attracted greater and greater crowds, and those crowds then would have provided the base for jesus' other teachings. was jesus a healer and an exorcist? oh, i think so. quite a good one, in fact. >> a healer, an exorcist and soon, a miracle worker. according to the gospel of john, jesus' first big public miracle was at the wedding at kana, turning the water to wine, and saving his friend's party. science can never say whether a miracle really happened, but scholars say there would be no mistaking the message that jesus was sending. >> in turning water to wine at the weddi

. >> baptist from haiti.overty is not a sin. >> i wish for wish for a world without boarders and walls, age 53, argentina. [ applause ] >> i wish for a world where the children are more just and more kind and fair in the world than the one we know. president, barack obama. >> and now, this is a good one, that donna and i can very strongly identify with. i wish that male fashion designers would be forced to wear the things that they create for women like stelleto heals and it gets better. and that all politicians would have to live by the rules and laws they come up with for the rest of us like the ones on food stamps and the minimum wage by isabel, ienda >> i promise that i will not take my clothes off in public. >> i wish it would snow in the morning so nobody does not have to go to school for two weeks, michael age 13 from long island, new york. >> free medical care for everyone, dorothy, age 72, new york, new york. >> i wish for all of the lonely people in the world to find happiness. daniel, steele, the a

. >> the baptist church. can you see right there, copper wire was cut.copper requires and if you notice, the bolt cutters were stuck to it. >> this is a copper thief trying to steal the copper for strap money, tried to steal copper rigged up to an electrical outlet. >> the two guys involved. one guy at the street cutting off the power supply. this guy was messing with around the fuse box. the wrath of god came down. the guys got away they'but theyn the lookout for a guy with electrical burns. >> and burned hair. >> that looks like god is trying to do something to you immediately. which looks like it happened right here. >>> a special time for those with laptops or tablets nearby. >> we call it video to go because we're going to break. click on best of "rtm," another great video waiting for you there. >> and lots more great videos still to come. >>> it's a police chase caught on camera and headed to an ugly ending. >> she's still ramming the police car! >> see what happens to the woman who won't stop -- next. >>> sword fight in hush horush traffic. now on

experiment of the ban on assault weapons shows it had d no effec >> in april 1968 i was in ebenezer baptist churcin atlanta for the funeral of martin luther king. in june of 1968, i was workiking for robert knedy in cacalifornia when he was murdered. since those two events, more americans have died by fire arms than in all wars this country has fought, in combat or out of combat. guns are crazy. unless we confront that reality -- it is not just a estion of training.. i doo not disagree about mental health. it is s absolutely lunacy to have half the guns in the world in the united states of america. that is something that hahas s to be different. one other point about newtown. dillon shockckley was 6 years old. he was a spepecial-education uden his p parents issued a statement. we take great solace that dylan died in the loving arms of his favorite teacher, a special- education teacher, , an marie murphy. 52, mother of four. the teachers of that school, the principa psychologist, the teacher that by protecting their children, saving their children, comforting theirir children, those th survi

the fact that the homeless shelter inside the baptist church was open 2:00 this morning may have saved a baby's life. it started when a staff member her the front door buzzer >> there was a lady at the door covered in blood. she said she wanted to come in. we didn't know -- we didn't know her she didn't have anything with her. he went to let his supervisor know. >> reporter: when he came back she was gone but returned with a newborn in her arms. >> she was a little hysterical. she said she wanted to come in at first. then when she came back with the baby, she did not want to come in. >> reporter: witnesses say the woman handed the baby to a man on the street and she took off. police showed up and took the baby to the hospital. one drove the other officer performed cpr and the baby survived. a back-up team of officers found the woman and took her to the hospital. some police officers are calling the two cops heroes. police also give credit to the shelter. >> the officer said that if we hadn't been here they may not be alive now. >> reporter: that baby was responsive when police found hi

sadly, westboro baptist church aren't the only american christians trying to exploit the tragedy foredly nonchristian goals. former governor and former human being, mike huckabee went on his fox show this week and said this... >> we ask why there's violence in our schools but we systemically remove god from our schools. should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage? >> john: now, mike this massacre was not caused by take god out of the schools or a lack of government-sponsored nativity scenes or as you mentioned later in the interview taxpayer funded abortion pills which actually don't exist. here's a tip for our fundamentalist christian friends. if you believe god is everywhere, it is impossible to remove him from our schools. when you say not having god in public schools leads to massacres like this, technically, you're really blaming james madison because our constitution guarantees a wall between church and state. so those of us who support what madison wrote are the actual conservatives on this issue. taking the bible out of context is something right wi

haines iii, senior pastor at friendship west baptist church. dr. haines, welcome to the show. >> thank you, professor dyson. >> isn't it ironic, dr. haines, through this entire debate the focus has been on the wealthiest americans paying more taxes, not people who will lose unemployment benefits come january 1st? you're the pastor of a huge church in dallas that talks about poverty and social injustice. what's your reaction to this? >> well, not only is it ironic. i think it's almost sinful, especially during this season where we have just celebrated the birth of one who was born homeless. i think that unfortunately if the wise men had been replaced by the speaker of the house as well as the senate minority leader, instead of he bearing gifts they would have taken away from him unemployment benefits. so i find it painfully sinful that this is both immoral, because when we talk about any faith expression that faith expression is always concerned about those who are most vulnerable. and please understand, we're not talking about persons who are going

the fact that the homeless shelter inside the baptist church was open 2:00 this morning may have saved a baby's life. it started when a staff member her the front door buzzer >> there was a lady at the door covered in blood. she said she wanted to come in. we didn't know -- we didn't know her she didn't have anything with her. he went to let his supervisor know. >> reporter: when he came back she was gone but returned with a newborn in her arms. >> she was a little hysterical. she said she wanted to come in at first. then when she came back with the baby, she did not want to come in. >> reporter: witnesses say the woman handed the baby to a man on the street and she took off. police showed up and took the baby to the hospital. one drove the other officer performed cpr and the baby survived. a back-up team of officers found the woman and took her to the hospital. some police officers are calling the two cops heroes. police also give credit to the shelter. >> the officer said that if we hadn't been here they may not be alive now. >> reporter: that baby was responsive when police found hi

. >> we're in the second sunday of advent but last sunday i think the emphasis on john the baptist who prepared for the part of the advent and preparing for the christ to come. so i think as you say whatever gets you into the christmas the preparation. i like the idea. candles, lights, all of that. if it gets you to the christ. >> the san francisco symphony is a beautiful series during december. all kinds of christmas music. >> let's come back to the move for christmas. you do this with howard thurman. >> i think we can talk about howard thurman when we come back. >> okay. thank you for being with us. and i hope you're with us this last segment. some juice! woman: it's gonna be good! she's excited. little bit of kale. please don't put this online. woman: i'm putting it all over the line! it's wet. it needs something. no, it'll go. woman: don't break my juicer! looks good. you ready to try it? woman: come on, baby! announcer: challenge your kids to be active and eat healthy. it's ok. it's ok! all right! announcer: they might surprise you. she took another sip. you saw it? announcer: sea