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By Adrienne S. Gaines
Gay and youth advocacy groups accused Manifested Glory Ministries in Bridgeport of abusing a teenager in the 20-minute video and said the ministry should be investigated.
The video, which the church removed from YouTube, shows the teen convulsing on the floor as ministers hold him down and command "homosexual spirits" to leave him. (View a segment of the video at the end of this article.)
"Rip it from his throat!" one woman yells. "Come on, you homosexual demon! You homosexual spirit, we call you out right now! Loose your grip, Lucifer!"
Robin McHaelin, executive director of the gay youth advocacy group True Colors, told the Associated Press (AP) she planned to report the church to the Connecticut Department of Children and Families. "They have this kid in a full nelson," she said. "That just seems abusive to me."
Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission said Manifested Glory is being attacked for exercising its religious liberty. "This church is being unjustly maligned for a spiritual practice that goes all the way back to Christ and the apostles," he said. "The New Testament records very strange activity associated with demonic spirits. Jesus and the apostles confronted these bizarre situations by praying for deliverance."
"The fact that the video may be strange or uncomfortable should not be surprising, but it is not a reason to attack people who are simply trying to help," he added. "People have been delivered out of homosexual lifestyles ever since the church began."
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 Al-Qaida's North Africa branch on Thursday said its members killed an American aid worker in Mauritania this week for allegedly trying to convert Muslims to Christianity, according to the Associated Press (AP).
In an audio statement released to Al-Jazeera TV, al-Qaida of the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the murder of 39-year-old Christopher Ervin Leggett of Tennessee. Witnesses said he was shot several times on Tuesday by at least two gunmen who rushed up to him on a street in Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott.
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 Former Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed has launched a new political organization that will use the Internet to mobilize a new generation of socially conservative voters, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition will target both faith-based groups that have long supported the GOP as well as Democratic-leaning constituencies, including African-Americans, Hispanics, young adults and women.
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By Paula White
 "Does anybody really care?" Do you hear it? That's the cry of the lost soul—and it's all around us. "Will someone please help me?" "Can anyone tell me that life is worth living?" "Please love me and accept me just the way I am!"
Rarely do we hear the cry spoken. But we see it in the depths of the eyes of the mother living next door who is wondering if her husband will come home tonight. It is painted across the face of the child who woke up this morning not knowing if there will be food on the table. It echoes in the silence of the young 17-year-old on her way to the clinic to abort her second child.
"Does anybody really care?" If we listen, not with our ears, but with our spirits, we will discern the cry of the human soul. It has coffee with us in the morning. It carpools with us throughout the week. It sits at the desk next to ours; it lives next door. And although it is not articulated, it speaks volumes.
It was my cry for years. When I was the tender age of 5, the man whom I perceived to be "Superman," my own personal hero—my father—committed suicide. At the age of 6, I began to be sexually abused. These events catapulted me into a frantic search for love—often in all the wrong places. My heart's plea was, "Somebody please love me. Somebody please care."
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