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 […]
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Hillsong releases first new album since 2018: ‘These Same Skies’
Originally published in Aleteia. Hillsong Worship is back with their first full-scale release since 2018. The new album, These Same Skies, features 11 original songs from some of the most talented minds of the group. The record is already available now across all digital platforms, but a CD release is coming on […]
TRUE STORY: The boy who could have been a model — Mark Roberts
Written by Mark Roberts on Nov 8 2021 Colossus of Rhodes. (PHOTO: flickr) The Colossus of Rhodes was a gigantic statue of the Titan, Helios: The sun god, who stood 100 feet (30.48m) tall and rested on a marble pedestal, fifty feet (30,24m) high. The statue stood in the Greek city […]
One Christian dead and over 100 kidnapped after attack on church service in Nigeria
Christian campaigners are pleading with the Nigerian government to take action to stop the assault on Christians after yet another deadly attack. One Christian was killed and over a 100 others kidnapped in an attack on a church service in Nigeria over the weekend. Gunmen opened fire during a service […]
The worship service: then and now — in one lifetime! (2)
In my last column I traced the changes that have taken place in the Church’s worship services. For the most part these were neutral’ changes. They were more superficial cultural changes that did not affect the deeper levels of our Christian being. We observed movements from formal liturgies to freer […]
‘Over 340 million persecuted’: believers set to mark International Day of Prayer for Oppressed Christians
Originally published in CBN NewsEach November, the call goes out around the globe for Christians to come together and pray for the persecuted church. Organisers of this year’s International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians say intercession is needed now more than ever as hundreds of millions of believers are experiencing attacks […]
Ethiopia: Christian crisis looms as rebels advance
By Elizabeth Kendal — originally published in Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin Enabled by foreign powers – particularly Egypt, the Sudanese military and the US Biden administration – the Marxist, separatist Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF, also known as the Tigray Defence Force) and the ethno-nationalist Oromo Liberation Army (OLA, formerly […]
Christian nation builders connect at virtual Africa Leadership Summit
Christian nation builders from more than 14 African countries, North America and Israel participated in a virtual Africa Leadership Summit (ALS) meeting from October 23 to 24, The biannual ALS gathering in Israel of African and diaspora leaders with a heart for Israel was postponed last year because of Covid-19 […]
Prophetic decrees released during 21-day fast for elections
During each day of a 21-day fast for the local government elections the Holy Spirit gave her prophetic decrees to release over the nation, said Janet Brann Hollis of SA Back to God which called the time of prayer and fasting. She said that in this way they heeded a […]
ConCourt considers dignity of unborn human life
By Cause For Justice After hearing arguments in the Voice of the Unborn case today, the Constitutional Court must decide several weighty questions. At first glance, it needs to consider whether all parents have the right to bury the remains of their unborn children. On a much deeper level, however, […]