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Janey’s Girl, the novel by Gayle Friesen of Delta, B.C., was nominated for the 1998 Governor General’s award for children’s literature in English. Previously, the book won the Red Maple Award (a young reader’s program in Ontario), the Canadian Library Association Award and the Violet Downey Award. The book is about a 14-year-old girl and her mother driving across Canada to visit the girl’s estranged grandmother. – Maclean’s, Kids Can Press
The American Family Association has praised a plan by a group of leading advertisers to pay writers to develop about eight family-friendly TV pilots for the WB network. The sponsors include McDonalds, Sears, General Motors, IBM, Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson. “This is an important step forward in the ongoing battle to clean up television,” said Tim Wildmon, vice-president of AFA. “These sponsors make television possible, and if Hollywood won’t listen to parental concerns about what is on the tube, Hollywood will listen to the ones who pay the bills.” – Evangelical Press News Service
“Religion and Ethics Newsweekly”, a US public TV series, has compiled a list of top 10 stories of the millennium. In chronological order, they are:
- The Great Schism in 1095 split Christianity into the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church;
- The crusades of the Middle Ages tried to defend the Holy Land from Muslims;
- The spread of Islam in the 13th century went into most of India and parts of Europe;
- The Gutenberg Bible in the 15th century was the beginning of mass distribution of religious teachings and ideas;
- Religious patronage of art, music and higher learning peaked during the Renaissance in Europe;
- Martin Luther’s 95 Theses in 1517 challenged the church and papal authority;
- Missionary movements began in the 16th century when Catholic missionaries brought Christianity to most parts of the world;
- Religious persecution in England brought Puritans to America to found a government open to the free exercise of religious belief;
- Challenges to religious ideas during the 19th century came from individuals such as Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx;
- The Holocaust in the 20th century saw the extermination of about six million Jews by the Nazis. – EPNS
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Left Behind, the best-selling end times book by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, will be made into a movie. Tyndale Publishing is financing the production with $17.4 million US. Filming is expected to begin next year, with a release date scheduled for September 2000. The production team includes Peter and Paul Lalonde, producers of Apocalypse and Revelation; Joe Goodman of Namesake Entertainment; and Ralph Winter, producer of Inspector Gadget and Mighty Joe Young. – EPNS
“World By 2000” is the cooperative effort of Trans World Radio, HCJB World Radio, Far East Broadcasting Company and SIM International to reach the unreached peoples of the world for Christ through radio ministry. However, the effort will not die with the arrival of the new millennium, but will continue under a new name, “World By Radio.” When it began on Sept. 10, 1985, WB2000 had radio programs in 93 of the world’s 372 mega languages. That left 279 languages untouched. As of July 1999, 104 additional languages were known to be receiving gospel programs and another 84 were found to be covered by other sources. – EPNS
Jeffrey Katzenberg, one of the founders of Dream Works SKG, received the John Templeton Foundation’s $25,000 US Epiphany Prize for The Prince of Egypt. The animated film about the life of Moses was honoured as “the most inspiring movie of 1998”. – EPNS
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