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Originally published in CBN News. Evangelist Franklin Graham is recovering after successful heart surgery on Monday at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic. Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse ministry reports that he developed a disease called constrictive pericarditis which includes inflammation and hardening of the pericardium, the sac around the heart. The hardening compresses the heart and […]
Originally published in Christian Headlines A new Texas law that prohibits abortions if a fetal heartbeat is detected has led to a 50% decline in abortions in the state, according to a new University of Texas study. Researchers at the university’s Texas Policy Evaluation Project studied data from state clinics […]
Originally published in The Christian Post The most popular place for single adults over 30 to meet a future spouse is no longer recommendations from family, friends and neighbours, but online, a new study conducted in the United Kingdom shows. Since 2017, according to Relative Strangers: The Importance of Social Capital […]
Originally published in Vox. On October 29, Maine’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention will start enforcing a rule requiring all health care workers in the state to be vaccinated against Covid-19 — unless the Supreme Court intervenes to stop it. Does v. Mills is the first significant case to reach the justices […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News £400 000 (nearly R8 million) has been donated in just four weeks towards creating an Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer. The 51.5m structure in the West Midlands will include a million bricks each representing an answered prayer. Since the project received the go-ahead from the […]
Originally published in Lifesite News A federal judge on Wednesday blocked enforcement of the successful pro-life Heartbeat Act in Texas, following the Biden administration’s lawsuit against the state. The law is estimated to have saved over 5,000 babies’ lives in just over a month. In a 113-page ruling, US District Judge Robert Pitman, who […]
The Texas Supreme Court denied Planned Parenthood’s request on Monday to proceed with its lawsuit challenging the Lone Star State’s pro-life heartbeat law. The Texas Tribune reports America’s biggest abortion provider asked the court to declare the law unconstitutional. The law bans abortion once the baby’s heartbeat is detected, as early […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Biblical archaeologists say they have discovered a boat-like formation matching the biblical description of Noah’s Ark as they used a ground-penetrating radar at a rocky spot in eastern Turkey that some speculated to be the location of the original vessel. Archaeologists associated with a […]
Originally published in Christian Today Taher is a Christian convert who lived in one of the most oppressive nations in the Middle East – it is not even possible to name his home country for security reasons. He was caught sharing his faith and could have gone to prison, or […]
Originally published in CBN News David Yonggi Cho, pastor of the world’s largest megachurch, died this morning, his church said in a press release. He was 85. Cho is the founder of Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea and spent decades spreading the gospel in that country. At the time […]