. >> plus christians translating the bible into their native tongue and turning the good news into this african country. >> hello i am efrem graham. >> i am heather sells. george and wendy on assignment. >> three people died against christians in northern nigerian church this week. the latest attack in a radical islamic group against them. >> multiple attacks on homes and churches. there have been calls for revenge and forgiveness. george thomas brings us the story from cannen nigeria. >> it was a beautiful day, we came to celebrate the birth of jesus christ. people started coming as early as 6:00 a.m. it was going to be a joyous occasion. but it never turned out that way. a vehicle packed with explosives drove up this busy street and stopped in front of the street. this man and 17 month old son had just walked out. >> within minutes husband widowers, wives widows, children orphans and parents were childless. >> suicide bomber knew precisely went to strike shortly after 8:00 that christmas morning, one service just concluding and the next just about to begin. >> 26 of the 44 people that

>> they want to clearly communicate the truths of the bibl bible. >> they would like to be a part of it. maybe some are skeptical. as we go through this, we believe we are open minded and this independence group will inform and help us contextualize how we want to translate these terms. >> bob, we appreciate you for joining us today. >> thanks for having me on. i appreciate you offering our perspecti perspective. >> you can post your comments at our "christian world news" facebook page. >>> up next, our exclusive interview with evangelist franklin graham in japan. why he believes the country could be on the brink of a spiritual revival. >> one year after the disaster in japan, franklin graham's ministries are working to meet physical and spiritual needs, george thomas talked with him in japan. >> a year has passed, japan's northeast coach on march 11th. >> there are those images that will never, ever be the same again, image of the scarf stuck in the middle of this ocean, and this beach 40 kilometers the fukushima dai-ichi plant. >> sendai, largest city is back on its feet. roads cle

first, me reading the bible - just like jimmy swswaggart. no, i don't hit it on my hand or anything like that. but we went out to north shore congregation israel reformed synagogue here in the chicago area, and we will come and talk shortly to rabbi bronstein, who does a wonderful job on our dimensional triangle. but what i did is i just - i wanted to take a bible, and i picked up one of the psalms. the psalms, in many cases, are, well, they're songs about the great mythic tradition. and i just picked one psalm, i think it's 139, unless it's 136, but it's right in the 130s, and i'm just going to read it, and listen for how the creation myths, the liberation myth or exodus myth, and then the sinai myth are encapsulated in this. and then you can kind of imagine david perhaps - king david sitting around playing his lyre after the goats are milked or whatever they did back there or the figs are eaten, and he's singing the mythic drama, and people are sitting around the campfire, and they're listening, and it's undergirding or underscoring their

you're the first who has ever come clutching a bible. >> i brought it as a gift. from one irish catholic boy to another, i brought you a bible as a gift. >> thank you. i will value this. >> i know you get a lot of christian guests. >> not even kirk cameron brought me a bible. your book managed to achieve the impossible. absolutely everybody has gone potty right and left. the right is way too graphic and explicit, and then on the left. who is this guy? saying that women have to be submissive, succumb to their man's advances whenever he wants them, all of that. >> i don't know if i said that. >> you did say that. >> well, we'll get there. >> what was the idea behind that? >> as a pastor, i answer a lot of questions, i do a lot of counseling and finally writing down a lot of things that we have been teaching, my wife and i, grace. as well as a lot of our own story, mistakes we have made and -- >> there's a lot of sex in this book. >> the first half of the book is on marriage and friendship. you move quite quickly from friendship into sex. unusually for a man of cloth

saying i was reading the bible wrong. you hoped he would read it more fairly but by the time they're pretty university was founded it was desegregated but i hope scholars of seven history do more. does seem as it is being pulled apart the first explicit ideas of kristian nationalism coming to the four those put in forward to tocqueville and even though the political and legal situation had changed they held onto their superiority but they were no longer racially superior they had to feel superior elsewhere. that gives rise to a high per patriotism the you don't find. he ramps up and if you close your eyes and you listen to governor palin talk about american exceptional lonesome, it is straight from the fall well play book. and you cannot appeal superior to the black folks in me will to the rest of the world. because we are american. >> host: it seems the obvious critique is you pose the psychological view on those. i could elaborate but. >> i am in the armchair and data like to be the psychologists but but also in the pol

from one irish catholic boy to another, i brought you a bible as a gift.et a lot of christian guests. >> not even kirk cameron brought me a bible. >> absolutely everybody has gone party right and left. the right is way too graphic and explicit, and then on the left. who is this guy? saying that women have to be submissive, succumb to their man's advances and all of that. >> i don't know if i said that. >> you did saya. what was the idea behind that. >> as a pastor, i answer a lot of questions, i do a lot of counseling and finally writing down a lot of things that we have been teaching, my wife and i grace, a as well as a lot of our own story, mistakes we have made and -- >> you translate from friendship into sext. unusually for a man of cloth, you're clean on it. >> if you're married, you should enjoy one another. and it heads off a lot of problems. >> i had sex until i became a christian. i became a christian at age 19. i'm not trying to throw stones at people or pretend that i've done it all right. i was sexually active and i became a christian, and read

>> the bible says on six occasions -- >> but what do you think? >> i believe that all sex outside of heterosexual marriage. homosexuality is wrong, single people having sex is wrong. >> but given that eight states in america now have legalized gay marriage, that's fine, right? >> well, no. well, it's amazing, because there were anti-sodomy laws and anti-fornication laws on the books just a few generations. >> no one's taking much account of the anti-fornication laws. >> i don't want to be the ones to enforce those laws -- >> but my point is, the bible is what it is. it's an extraordinary book, which is govern people's moral and personal behaviors for thousands of years. however, like everything in life, shouldn't we be dragged kicking and screaming into each modern era and be adapted, like the american constitution. because my view about this is not that i don't respect christians or catholics or whoever, who absolutely swear by every word of it. it's that i just don't believe anyone who's genuinely christian should be spouting bigoted opinions ab

the bible plays a great part. lis and i both put our hands on the bible swore to uphold the law when we became federal prosecutors. jenna: what about that, lis? >> that is true but if you don't want to put your hand on the bible or don't endorse the bible and you're excluded and excluded by a legislative branch that is the problem. i do not like the way they're going about it. i don't agree with what they're saying about the bible one iota but really they do have a case because other entities are excluded. why don't we have a year of the koran. jenna: make a point about ronald reagan. you brought this up. proclamation made in 1983. president reagan came out in 1983 declared the year of the bible. it was challenged by aclu but upheld by a federal district judge. what is the difference there? >> it was but the law changed since 1983 that being upheld. i don't think it would be upheld anymore, jenna. at this point when you do have the ten commandments and separation of the churches and in the schools, we have hanukka

we also believe in demon possession, since i believe the bible and the bible has a lot to say about peopleho are demon-possessed, being possessed by an evil spirit. so if she's being possessed at all, and being channeled for anything at all, it's for a demonic being, and he's conned her into believing he's ramtha. even she herself had some doubts when this first came up - this bright, shining light, she was afraid of it. she knew the bible said satan is transformed into an angel of light, but she couldn't get any help from her denomination, i think, which was the assembly of god. and she got some spiritualist to straighten her out and explain to her what was happening, and so somebody said - had all these scientists come over a while back, and they checked her out, her pulse rate and all this. i have a thing here on shamanism, where it says the shaman goes through the same thing when he's being possessed - his heart rate quickens, d he gets superhuman strength, and something's really happening there - what is it? is it god or is it the devil? and we believe it's the devil, all right? and w

hey, doug. >> reporter: jenna, you can read the bible and read in public but you can't read the bibleccording to this preacher in hemet, california. >> god has shown existence of creation his visible attributes are clearly seen. >> reporter: in february of last year pastor mark mackey was arrested after reading the bible in front of this dmv office in hemet, california. >> this is what the united states is coming to. you can stand here talk about anything --. >> reporter: his lawyer calls it another example of christian persecution in modern day america. he was cited for impeding an open business but the dmv office was closed. >> well, it's crazy. >> reporter: mackey says he thought his speech was protected he was standing here on public property. he says he wasn't blocking anyone and was standing over 50 feet from the entrance of the dmv. >> he is creating an intimidating situation for people who simply want to get their driver's licenses renewed. >> reporter: dan conaway is constitutional attorney and he says preaching in public is okay. >> he released --. >> reporter: but not when

he also flipped on segregation and said i was just reading the bible from. he wish he had taken the insight to question his way of reading the bible a little more thoroughly, but that is not how he preceded. and by the time liberty university was founded, he was desegregated. those no longer part of the issue. i preface this in the book and i hope scholars of southern history will do more on this. it does seem to me that in the 1950s and 60s as jim crow is being pulled apart is when you see the first explicit ideas about christian nationalism and christian -- the american exceptionalism coming to the fore. and there's a beautiful quote in the book in toqueville where he's talking about the aristocrats and how even though the political and legal situation changed, psychologically they had to hold onto their feeling of superiority. in the d.c. the sense that if there were no longer going to be racially superior they had the feel they need elsewhere. and what that gives rise to is israel hyper page or two of them in the sense of american exceptionalism that you

to the bible, the bible does say i've chosen you, not because of anything you did. there was no merit in israel, so there is this idea of chosenness that god singled out a group of people toll do something. >> were they chosen or favorites? >> i chose my wife. do i favor that person? >yes, i do! >> i think that we really want to go to the question. i think we need to define what we mean by favorite first. if that doesn't mean that god doesn't have choices or situations that he wants to execute in a certain way, and i think that's going to be crucial to answering the question of favoritism. >> maybe the question becomes does god define favorite the way we define favorite and how do we define favorite. you were dealt the card of being the youngest in the family. you were dealt the things you were born into. there is a dealer. there are some cards. we will play a game to help us think about favoritism. you have cards in front of you. this game is called the card you're dealt. >> is this a competitive game? >> oh, no. >(buzzer). >> so you each have some cards, and i'll

but i'm really glad we did, that it not only reaffirms how i really believe, but the bible tells youtized, and just to - like my father said - to do it here in jordan river is something really special. ♪ god is so good, ♪ god is so good, >> baptism pictures the gospel of the lord jes christ. the gospel is, christ died for my sins, and was buried, and rose again. now, baptism by immersion has always been the biblical way. even those who sprinkle that the ancient, primitive way of baptizing was always by immersion, which is what the word literally means - it means immersed, to immerse. and so if you've truly accepted christ in your heart, we believe that you will follow through with obeying him in being baptized, to show forth to whoever is there, as a witness and a testimony that you have accepted christ, you believe he died for you, he was buried for you, and that he rose again, and you are identifying publicly with christ in his death, burial, and resurrection. this also associates you with god's people - his church - and you're saying, "i'm one of these folks." that's what baptism

there was connection to the scriptures and the bible songs.singing along and what did jen do? >> jennifer's body was thrashing back and forth uncontrollably and she would be moaning in pain and all of a sudden, she would start praying out loud and talking to the lord and her voice was clear and we could understand him and she was praising him and saying things she didn't know. she didn't know she was hurt and she was saying thank you for healing me and raising me up. she could sing all the songs on the wow worship cd. she knew all the bible verses, but didn't know what a shoe was. she didn't know she had a brother or 2 plus 2 was 4. >> steve: what's your memory of that time? >> during this time the lord really outpoured his spirit on my life. i'm very thankful for that and how he just really gave may supernatural peace that i can't even really put into words. >> steve: but your memory was very clear when it came to bible passages and songs. >> yes. songs. she could sing all the songs and yet she couldn't -- she didn't know anything else. >> st

kept the bible by himself. could quote the bible like that. knew the bible very well. definitely feared god. when things went bad, god, why are you doing this to me. when things went well, he thanked god for them. i'm sure his church attendance went down. the famous prayer in the movie, that was long before the -- about a month before the battle of the bulge. he called the chaplain and said, we need all these guys praying. they're not doing enough. that's kind of the origin of the prayer. it was patton's idea. he asked the chaplain, how many of these guys are going to sunday services. he said, well, not enough, sir. that was an element of the patton prayer was to get soldiers to go to church more to pray for the success of the third army. >>> during the movie there was a big point made about his belief in reincarnation. one, is that true? two, could you elaborate on that? >> yes, very true. in the movie in north africa he drops to one knee and recites poetry. the poem is called through a glass and darkly. he looks up to bradley and said, do you know who wrote that? he

god says i mean the bible says that god made the world and god made man but the bible doesn't say how so there's nothing in the bible that is anti evolution in my opinion climate change is a much more recent phenomenon and i agree that there has been some global warming but the global warming appears to be about one degree over a period of about one hundred years so i think any sane person would recognise that when clo in climates do change up and down there is some room for disagreement so i haven't seen the tennessee law but i'm not global warming i think there's more recent the science is not established any scientists will tell you that there is room for debate no there are simply not a fact no room for debate. there is no room for debate global warming is happening on his anthropogenic it is it is caused by human beings and one degree increase has been pretty split over the last thirty years and you know these things. i just said that there has been a one degree of global warming but the question is not whether the globe is warmed by a degree but whether or not that that it wheth

of course the bible was written centuries og. i'm a roman catholic and i am a practicing proman catholic. when i was a kid growing up, it was a mortal sin to eat meat on friday. and then after we changed popes, you didn't have to abstain on fridays and it wasn't a synonym. i'm worried, why do we allow this kind of pontiffical action to not have any kind of flexibility. because it was a mortal sin when i was a kid and it's not a sin today. >> here's a story from "the huffington post." from the headline if you could just briefly tell us this story as well. >> it was a debate we were having on the floor about whether or not we should continue to provide funding to planned parenthood who provides services for, you know, breast canner, breast screenings, contraceptive pills and 3% of their business is for abortion services, none of the federal money was going for that purpose. and one of my colleagues started talking about second trimester abortions and was reading from a book and describing a leg being sawed off. i just was stunned b

>> not the bible.all we really have is each other. >> i think that's called a sweatshop, people. >> people always think it's in the house and just drinking. but no, sometimes we're not drinking, and it's so hard because you have the cameras on you from the minute you wake up to the minute you go to sleep. and if you get up when you're sleeping, they still see you, and they come in with the cameras. >> when do those guys sleep? >> they don't. >> there's someone on call 24 hours a day. >> snooki is on the cover of "us weekly," one of the highest selling ever. she's pregnant, announced that she's getting married. you're tight with her. tell us a little about that. >> she's very excited. this is what she's wanted for a while deep down inside. she's happy with gianni, so good for her. >> what's he like, gianni? >> gianni is cool. quiet. >> decent guy? >> i guess. >> he seems it. we don't really know that much. >> the last time she said on, i said you know what you need to do, snooks, take it from a mother f

fasting, bible studies, training, the work of the lord will go on. that is the promise of the lord. i will build my church. the gates of hell will not prevail against it. it includes the ministry among muslims. >> lucille talusan, cbn news, mindanao, philippines. >>> coming up, the safe helping haiti shadow children. >> hard to believe it has been two years after haiti's earthquake. hundreds of thousands are living in tent cities. >> stan jeter reports on what is known as the miracle village. >> reporter: he lost his right leg during haiti's powerful 2010 earthquake. frits is now rebuilding his life in miracle village, a self-sustaining settlement for amputees and other survivors. it is the latest project by florida pastors bobby and sherry bernet who moved to haiti 20 years ago and began running a school and orphans. they couldn't ignore the dead and wounded hit in port-au-prince. they converted their place into a clinic. >> they have heard this is the place where they are going to get care. we know people that suffer horrible tragedies need peace and quiet and love and support. it

. >> is there a bible down there? you read that much? >> no, it's just there for good luck.peace? i'm at peace with myself. i have to be. there's a certain time you have to look at reality and say, this is home. this is home. this is home. you can't focus on what's going on out there. can't let it get to you. just have to forget about the outside world and understand that this is a world now. and this is reality. this is home. i can sit here and say, i did what i had to do. regardless of the consequences. can't sit here and kick myself in the ass for it. it happens. >>> next on "lockup: raw" -- >> i'm in here for heat of passion. i caught my wife with somebody. >> the spouse killers. >> i had tried to make it look like a suicide. i mean, my husband had been suicidal. he had a history of being suicidal. >>> i'm page hopkins, here's what's happening. 36 people are dead after 100 twisters roared through a dozen states. the storms left a path of destruction from alabama to kentucky. >>> rush limbaugh says he is sorry. the radio host has apologized, quote, for the insulting word

, this health care law is some -- biblical, go into the bible and show anywhere where jesus christ made anybody do anything for the benefit of someone else. made them do that. you're not going to find it. the other thing is, access versus pay. my fiancee is an emergency room nurse. and i often have gone to hospitals and everyone has access to health care. the question is how is it going to be paid for. illegal immigrants here in houston, you walk into our public hospitals, it's jammed with people that are getting access to health care. the question is who is going to pay for it? we have those that are that say they are of faith, well, there are catholic hospitals, there are methodist hospitals, protestant, presbyterian hospitals, they champion how many members that they have and from the collections that they receive on sunday services if they are concerned about the indigent not being able to receive proper health care, then establish hospitals and don't line their pockets and drive mer say des benz. we don't have competition when it comes to health care in this country. you know, we w

. >> they read their bible the first night -- and i think they slept with their bible -- the next businessmorning it was put in the safe deposit box. >> this is the first jackpot win since power ball raised its price to $2. >> a local diner is up for grabs online. the capital city diner is for sale on ebay. the ad calls it a chance to own a true peace of americana. the owner says the restaurant can be moved anywhere in the country. so far there has only been one bit -- $20,000. not enough to meet the seller's minimum. >> maybe that rhode island woman could buy it. you could buy several of them. >> tomorrow we will get better. into the 60's. let's get started. we look up this evening at sky conditions looking out live across the river into the city from one of our hd rooftop cameras in arlington. temperatures will start to fall a little more quickly. look at the averages -- 52 and 35 degrees. it has done really cold this time of year. we are not heading there this winter. 81 -- we will have their the spring, but not in the next few days. 50 degrees in fredericksburg. with nightfall, we see

you always hear people talk about the bible belt. this is a map of evangelicals in the united states. the dark brown are most of them. when they talk about the bible belt, that's what they are talking about, that area right there. if we take it in closer on louisiana, you can see why this is rick santorum territory. this section down here is where you'll get the bigger part of the catholic part of the state, if you visit new orleans or something like that, you may have the impression that catholics dominate the state. they are the largest christian group in the state. if you add up all the protestants, they come close to being at the same level. the simple truth is, by having this going, rick santorum was able to get a very important state here and you know why it's important? because this bridges him to may. in april, he will be going to a series of state where is the religious influence will not be as good. new york, rhode island, delaware, connecticut, places like that where religion doesn't play in voter's minds the same as it do

and i think they slept with the bible. >> reporter: it's the third largest powerball jackpot in historywhite has chosen to take as a lump sum of $210 million. and no one expecting her to be changed by it. >> salt of the earth. for anybody that takes a lottery ticket and stores it in a bible, you know is a good person. >> reporter: her odds at winning were not so good, though. one in 175 billion. chris clackum, nbc news. >> miss white looks like a woman of few words who when she speaks them, you better listen or she will go up side your head. >> you know it. >>> we're going to have a little peyton manning news for you coming up. >>> we're also going to hear from -- a couple former redskins talking about money. joe gibbs gave them for big hits. the capitals looking to push themselves into the playoffs and the wizards woes continue. you have to >>> hello, everybody, and welcome back. taking a look at what was a fairly chilly afternoon, with plenty of sunshine not bad out there. the sun going down 46 degrees. winds out of the south at 13 miles an hour. the temperatures are going to drop fai

whoever wins north alabama, this is the bible belt of alabama.people that think the whole state is the bible belt. >> evangelicals there. >> this is where james won the primaries in '94 and '98. this is where riley was governor in 2002 and 2006. franklin, colbert, jackson. >> across that stretch? >> correct. down here, again, demographically, the gulf coast of alabama looks like the gulf coast of south carolina. looks like hilton head. >> it was a romney area. >> right. mobile county, baldwin county is where romney should do well. what's interesting is 77% of the vote four years ago was evangelical. huckabee won by four points. romney is only getting a quarter of that vote. what may save him is the votes being split by two candidates. they are both getting a third of it. the irony is romney wants it candidates to go away eventually but he needs them both. >> this is alabama. let's show mississippi. this is evangelical. you can see how deep it is in alabama. mississippi, it's pretty much the entire state. >> that's right. a similar demographic pat

when they talk about the bible belt it is that area right there. if we take it to louisiana, you can see why this is rick santorum territory. this section down here is where you will get the bigger part of the catholic part of the state. if you visit new orleans or something like that you may have the impression that catholics dominate the state. they are the largest christian group in the state but if you add up protestants they are close to the same level. the simple truth is by having this going, rick santorum was able to get a very important state here, you know why it is important? because this bridges him to may. in april he will go to a series of states where theo religious influence doesn't play the same as it does in louisiana that is strongly religious. if you get through may in to april, then he gets places like arkansas, kentucky and other states where he may be able to play texas which is religious support a lot and might bring him support, as it did in louisiana. >> he moves beyond the bible belt now. thank you, tom foreman. great stu

but they are very upset about this being the year of the bible.re do you put this, sort of the in the general conversation about where we are as a country? >> it's a great point that you raise, chris. we are so divided as a country. unfortunately in politics today. they're so often driven by negative. by finding what divides us. by highlighting the bad things about the other person running for office. and that's a sad, sad reality. we don't celebrate the things that draw us together. we don't call people to look to the greater good or follow their angels. if people running for office did that, we would have a less divisive. >>> it's called pink slime. the belief is it may be in your kids' lunch meat. the details on the by-product ban coming up next. my employees are like family. and, i want people that work for me to feel that they're sharing in my success. we purchase as much as we can on the american express open gold card. so we can accumulate as many points as possible. i pass on these points to my employees to go on trips with their families.