British Library unites world’s earliest known Christian Bible digitally on the Internet

October 14th, 2009 NC church plans to burn Bibles, Christian booksCANTON, N.C. — A North Carolina pastor says his church plans to burn Bibles and books by Christian authors on Halloween to light a fire under true believers.

September 14th, 2009 LDS Church releases Spanish-language Bible editionSALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is publishing its own edition of a Spanish-language Bible. It's the first time the Mormon church has published an edition of the Bible in a language other than English.

September 2nd, 2009 LONDON - A British-based academic has uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest Bible hiding underneath the binding of an 18th-century book in an Egyptian monastery. According to a report in The Independent, Nikolas Sarris, a Greek student conservator, spotted a previously unseen section of the Codex Sinaiticus, which dates from about 350 AD, as he was trawling through photographs of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine's Monastery in Egypt.

September 1st, 2009 Idaho school sues state over Bible planBOISE, Idaho — A public charter school is suing Idaho officials, saying the state illegally barred use of the Bible as an instructional text. The Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund filed suit Tuesday in U.S.

July 15th, 2009 Rare 1502 hymnal given to UK university libraryLONDON — A church is donating a rare 1502 hymnal to a Manchester University library, where church members say it can receive better care. The Latin hymnal was published in London by Wynken de Worde, who was among the first to popularize printed works.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - The oldest surviving Christian Bible has been launched on the Internet, thanks to a painstaking conservation project involving institutions in the UK, Germany, Egypt, and Russia. High-resolution digital images of the pages in the fourth-century book, considered to be one of the most important texts in the world, have been created to view online.

July 6th, 2009 World's oldest Bible digitizedLONDON — The British Library says the surviving pages of the world's oldest Christian Bible have been reunited — digitally. The library says the early work known as the Codex Sinaiticus had been housed in four separate locations across the world for more than 150 years.

June 29th, 2009 Court won't get involved in Bible club questionWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stop a school district from blocking a group of Christian students from forming a Bible club on campus. The court refused to hear an appeal from the high school students who wanted to form the Truth Bible Club at Kentridge High School in Washington state in 2001.

June 18th, 2009 LONDON - British newspapers more than 200 years old are now available online, thanks to a new Internet service from the country's national library. Visitors can view news more than two million pages of newspapers dated as early as 1800 from 49 national and regional titles.

June 10th, 2009 Teacher accused of displaying Bible sues districtCOLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio school teacher fired over accusations that he preached Christianity in class says in a $1 million lawsuit that his free speech and civil rights were violated. John Freshwater, an eighth-grade teacher in Mount Vernon, northeast of Columbus, also says he was harassed because of his religion, was defamed and suffered a hostile work environment.

May 7th, 2009 LONDON - Four James Bond classics are to be digitally restored to mark the centenary of producer Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli, who financed the movies.

April 30th, 2009 LONDON - Internet search engine Google has become the world's first 100 billion dollar brand. It is worth almost 25 per cent more than rival computing corporation Microsoft, according to the annual BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Brands report.

April 23rd, 2009 Gates Found. pledges $57M to overseas librariesSEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will spend $57 million to improve Internet access at public libraries in Poland, Romania and Vietnam.

April 21st, 2009 LONDON - Men can guess a woman's age even when they are dead drunk, according to a new study. Males accused of unlawful sex with a minor can claim on 'reasonable grounds' that they were unaware of the girl being underage.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - The first task for the world's earliest computer - the Manchester-built Mark One - was to compose romantic verse. And now, an expert has recreated the "love poetry generator" on the Internet.