pentecost comes from the greek word for "50."t falls 50 days after the celebration of easter or pascha. western christians, who follow a different calendar, celebrated pentecost last week. for hindus, it's the ten day festival of dussehra, which marks the appearance of the sacred river ganges on the earth. devout hindus believe bathing in the ganges will help wash away their sins. thousands have gathered along the river banks to offer special prayers and to take a holy dip. >>> that's our program for now. i'm kim lawton. you can follow us on twitter and facebook, where i have a fan page, too. find us on youtube, and watch us anytime, anywhere, on smart phones. there's also much more on our website. you can comment on all of our stories and share them. audio and video podcasts are also available. join us at pbs.org. as we leave you, more music from paul simon. ♪

it involved getting the pentecostals, a religious group, i think five or seven of them had rushed into our embassy during the carter administration . and you couldn't expel them because you knew what the soviets would do to them. and so they were sitting there and they were kind of a symbol of what's wrong with that system . and with me as kind of a midwife, i helped to arrange a meeting of the ambassador with president reagan. and it was a result of a dinner that you invited my wife and i to over in the white house one snowy evening. it was so snowy that the reagans couldn't get a chopper to take them to camp david. they couldn't get a car to take them to camp david, so they were stuck in the white house. our phone rang and they said, how about coming over for dinner. we had a wonderful time talking about one thing and another. i said to the president, hey, the ambassador is coming over to my office next tuesday, late afternoon, if you'd like to talk to him, i can stuff him in a car and bring him over here. if you don't want people to know it, i can come in the east wing and go up to

this year marks the 11th anniversary for the annual pentecost sunday event. our correspondence attended one significant gathering in the philippines. >> reporter: in the philippines, there were christians who prayed in the streets, crying out to god for mercy and forgiveness for the sins of the land. while other believers throughout the country joined the meeting by interceding in their own churches. for one particular church, it was extraordinary. >> the christians here are expecting a new significance on this global day of prayer, as the philippine president asserts himself, called upon god for the transformation of this nation. >> let us remember that the strength we need from prayer is the strength we can rely on as we move forward on this great planet. >> reporter: the way to the straight path of righteousness has always been a key note battle cry. >> i believe the coming of the president really was something. it is a very important principle, that when the head of the state comes, the wisdom, and the blessings of the lord is really poured upon the leade

dispatched dozens of reporters, and maureen dowd to alaska to investigate sarah palin's creepy pentecostalism and they had tongues with witch doctors praying away homosexuality, banning library books and hiding condoms. meanwhile anderson cooper told us barack obama's black liberation theology under reverend wright had nothing to do with actual issues. "the new york times" told us obama's faith was none of voters' business. um-hum. you know, it wasn't that long ago that "the new york times" was urging the country to pray for the astronauts of the apollo 13 mission, on its front page, or that knbc was signing off its broadcast night after johnny carson with the sermonette, "let us pray" and the navy prayer. it really was not that long ago but the situation is dire and a lot has changed in a very little time. when "newsweek" devotes its easter issue to a cover story announcing the decline and fall of christian america, on easter, and no one is outraged, you know it's gotten bad. i think it would be one thing if the attack on american faith was just part of a liberal political agenda but when it

these people don't know it. [ laughter ] >> yes, my parents are traveling minister, they're pentecostal and i was raised singing in church. that's why we were so poor. >> jimmy: were you allowed to watch tv or anything like that? >> no, i wasn't allowed to watch much tv and it was censored. although my mother would put her birth date as the code. >> jimmy: so your parents had tv for them but not for the kids? >> yeah, funny. >> jimmy: my parents wouldn't get me cable and i called child protective services on them. laugh- >> i wasn't able to eat deviled eggs because they were called deviled eggs. i had to call them angel eggs. get this, i wasn't allowed to watch "the smurfs." and now i'm a smurfette. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: yeah. >> stick it to 'em, hey! >> jimmy: they must be horrified? >> are they coming to your premiere? >> i'll be here tomorrow. my 91-year-old grandmother who is hilarious, she'll be here tomorrow. >> jimmy: did she like this sort of thing? >> well, she doesn't acknowledge that i'm actually famous. she doesn't care. [ laughter ] >> yeah, but she's proud of m

finally tonight pinhead or patriots, in west virginia a pentecostal pastor made mat believed that he being bitten because god would protect him. well last saturday he was bitten by a rattlesnake and he died. with respect to his family, you don't test god. if you are a believer you should know that we as humans cannot understand the big picture in the spiritual realm. we can only speculate on why things happen. rattle snakes are different. god is not going to protect you if you annoy them. don't be a pinhead. same goes for great white sharks. don't annoy them. that is it for us tonight. please check out the fox news factor website. different from billoreilly.com. also we would like you to spout off about the factor. plenty to talk about after tonight's program. o'reilly at fox news.com. o'reilly at fox news.com. name and town, name and town, name and town. if you wish to opine, word of the day, do not be a mooncalf when write to go the factor. we are asking you if you are writing from an exotic place, let us know about it. we've had antarctica and

walker, cools mes up with the process to straighten your hair and black women pentecostal tell you notyou want to wear an afro and your mother tells you you can't. hi, mom. when we see natural hair, it is very different, we're making a kind of statement even if we're not making a statement. a political statement to those on the outside and those on the interior it says we want to accept ourselves the way we are. >> yeah. >> for who we are. >> and it feels like no hair stale doesn't signify something to somebody. if you wear a relaxer that signifies something. the picture of "the new york times" cover. we remember this, right, from 2008 campaign, and -- excuse me, not "the new york times," the "new yorker." president barack obama rendered in an outfit he wore in real life, right? as problematic that comes from an actual thing, but then there is michelle obama, wearing a hair style which, just by representing her in that way, it tells you -- that is the burning constitution. that is the -- because an afro is inherently radical somehow. >> can i add on to what anthea is saying. the debate

subliminal neeta dispatched dozens of reporters to alaska to invested the -- to investigate sarah palin pentecostal cooper told us that barack obama's black liberation theology of reverend wright had nothing to do with actual issues. "the new york times" told us that obama's fayed was none of voters business. -- obama's faith was none of voters business. it was not that long ago that "the new york times" was asking us to pray for the astronauts of apollo. it really was not that long ago. but the situation is dire and a lot has changed in very little time. when newsweek devotes its issue to the fallen decline of christian america on easter, and no one is outraged, you know it has gone bad. i think it would be one thing if the attack on american faith was a liberal political agenda. but when it is coming from the media, i think it is pretty clear that christian values are in jeopardy, as is freedom of speech and freedom of religion. and because they are attacking the values of 80% of the country, they really are not mainstream anymore. so i thank you for your time and i know that you will see to be c