Plug pulled on Power for Living in Germany
You've probably seen TV ads for Power for Living, in which celebrities talk about how God saved them. The ads are sponsored by the evangelical DeMoss foundation, and offer to send a book explaining the Christian gospel. In Germany, however, the ads haven't been taken so well, reports The New York Times. In the first two days of the $4.5 million campaign, about 50,000 people called to order the book. But the campaign didn't last much longer than that. The German government banned the ads (a national law bars all religious ads on TV and radio).

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