By BILL RADFORD THE GAZETTEMay 14, 2007 - 11:43PMAn international Christian organization has bought the SilverWood Hotel and Conference Center, with plans to transform it into a campus for training and equipping missionaries.The sale comes a little more than a year after an investment partnership headed by former Colorado Springs City Councilman Dawson Hubert bought the hotel, then called the Park Plaza hotel, for $2.8 million.

AO PAULO, Brazil- Indian rights groups are criticizing Pope Benedict XVI for insisting that Latin American Indians wanted to become Christian before European conquerors arrived centuries ago.The pope said Sunday that pre-Columbian people of Latin America and the Caribbean were seeking Christ without realizing it.

Greenpeace activists have started construction on a replica of Noah's Ark, 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) above sea level. Many people believe that Mount Ararat is the place where Noah's Ark landed after the floods.

Thousands of Spaniards wish to quit the Roman Catholic Church. But the church does not want to let them go. In Madrid and Valencia, the bishops have gone to court to fight a legal battle against the mass exodus.This is the last step in the ongoing fight between the Catholic Church and the growing anticlerical movement in Spain.

Venezuelan Minister for the Indigenous People Nizia Maldonado criticized Monday a version disseminated in Brazil by Pope Benedict XVI, according to which evangelism was neither imposed by conquerors nor alienated the indigenous peoples of the Americas."The imperial invasion resulted in the largest genocide in Latin America.

Naveen NairCNN-IBNPosted Thursday , May 03, 2007 at 20:47Updated Thursday , May 03, 2007 at 21:42DOUBTING THE DIVINE: The centre's director and eight others in the organisation have been booked under various charges.DOUBTING THE DIVINE: The centre's director and eight others in the organisation have been booked under various charges.Other stories in the sectionThiruvanthapuram (Kerala): The Divine Retreat Centre in Kerala's Muringoor's claim to fame is that it is the largest Catholic healing centre in the world.

Dear Family & Friends,Stephanie and I are back from our trip to India! What an awesome God we serve! Our team of 15 people had safe flights there and back (16 hours!), and had an incredibly easy time in customs in India, which was amazing.

Here's the challenge - on May 27th, join other whale defenders in a global gathering to support the whales - by taking to the streets for the Big Blue March.

Five blacklisted fishing trawlers that we have repeatedly exposed for illegal fishing in the North Atlantic are now heading for the scrap heap. For years, ineffective fisheries legislation allowed the

From the Indian mutiny to Wilberforce and his Christian missionaries, we should recognise the dangers of interfering in others' religious beliefs.When the first Mughal emperor, Babar, invaded India in 1526, he was advised that the way to rule Hindus was never to interfere in their faith.