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Originally published in USA Today A quarter of Methodist congregations in the US are leaving the United Methodist Church as one of the country’s largest Protestant denominations wrestles with issues of sexuality and gender identity. More than 7 600 of United Methodist’s approximately 30 000 congregations had voted to leave as of this week, and […]
Originally published in All Israel News The funeral of Urija Bayer, 20, a German Christian believer who died on Sunday after being critically wounded while fighting for Israel in the Gaza Strip, drew a crowd of thousands of mourners on Tuesday. The report of his death and the story of the Bayer […]
Originally published in Christian Today The High Court has ruled that it is legal to criminalise activities like prayer and reading from the Bible within a buffer zone around an abortion clinic in Bournemouth. A legal challenge against the buffer zone was brought by Christian Concern and Livia Tossici-Bolt, a […]
Originally published in CBN News Calvary Temple is India’s largest church with more than 300 000 members. Now, it’s on a mission to build 40 more megachurches in the next 10 years. Most roads in Hyderabad on Sundays lead to Calvary Temple. Shortly after 4 am, side streets around the […]
Originally published in The Christian Post More than a month after leaders of International House of Prayer Kansas City announced that at least one allegation of abuse including “sexual immorality” made against the ministry’s founder Mike Bickle has “some credibility”, the embattled minister confessed on Tuesday to sinful misconduct he […]
Originally published in Faithwire Close to a quarter of young British people said recently they would be open to banning the Bible if they believed its pages contained “hate speech”. Whitestone Insights, a polling group, surveyed 2 088 adults in the United Kingdom, asking them if they agreed with the […]
Originally published in CBN News. While the world focuses on Israel’s war against Hamas, an ongoing conflict threatens a tiny Christian nation at the intersection of Europe and Asia. Armenia is facing a potential genocide at the hands of its militant neighbor, Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s army is five times larger than […]
Originally published in Worthy News Christians urged prayers after the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a bomb blast at a church service in the southern Philippines that killed at least four people and injured dozens. The bomb went off Sunday during Catholic mass in a gymnasium at Mindanao State […]
Originally published in AllIsraelNews On Wednesday morning, a group of Knesset [Israeli Parliament] members, Evangelical Christians and Jewish leaders gathered at the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem to pray for the nation, the citizens, Israel Defence Forces and the hostages. The Day of Prayer and Support for Israel was hosted by […]
Originally published in Fox News Over 100 000 people marched through London on Sunday with a message of solidarity against antisemitism, marking one of the largest demonstrations of its type since 1936. The protest against antisemitism comes as the numbers of antisemitic incidents continue to rise following the Oct. 7 invasion of Israel by […]