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Bodies of 8 Evangelical Christian leaders found in mass grave

BY  :  Christian Daily International   In an event that has shaken the country, Colombian authorities located on Tuesday a mass grave in a rural area of the municipality ofCalamar, department of Guaviare, which contained the bodies of eight Christian religious leaders. The victims, natives […]

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Jimmy Swaggart, famed televangelist brought down by scandal, dies at 90

BY   :    Michael  Gryboski  Christian Today   Jimmy Swaggart, the popular Pentecostal preacher and televangelist who garnered national headlines for his extramarital affairs, has died at the age of 90 following a cardiac arrest. Swaggart’s official Facebook page announced Tuesday morning that “Brother Swaggart has finished […]

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Southern Baptists passed abuse reforms last year. Now they have to make them stick.

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BY : Bob Smietana Religion News service A volunteer task force charged with implementing SBC reforms to address abuse said recently that its work will likely require more time. Messengers vote at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Anaheim, California. (RNS) — For decades, […]

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John Cooper Urges Christians: Don’t ‘Throw Water’ on God’s Work at Asbury

BY : Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor Skillet frontman John Cooper is encouraging the Christian community to pray for the Asbury University revival instead of criticizing it, saying that revival never looks “exactly like what we think it’s going to look like.” The revival on the Wilmore, […]

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Priest and pro-life volunteer cleared over silent prayers

BY : Staff writer  Christian Today A Catholic priest and pro-life volunteer have been cleared in court today after being charged by police for praying silently inside an abortion clinic buffer zone. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce and Fr Sean Gough were charged with “intimidating service-users” of the […]

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Why students at a Kentucky Christian school are praying and singing round the clock

BY :  Bob Smietana Religion News Service Students have packed the chapel and overflow spaces at Asbury University for nearly a week, holding round-the-clock prayer and worship. People attend a revival in Hughes Memorial Auditorium on the campus of Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. RNS — […]

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Half of Churchgoers Say Their Church Needs to Be More Ethnically Diverse: Lifeway Poll

BY :  Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor Half of Protestant churchgoers say their church needs to be more ethnically diverse, according to new Lifeway Research data that also shows pastors are investing more time on the issue than they were six years ago. The poll of 1,000 Protestant […]

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The challenge of being single in the Church

BY  : Christian Today  Christian Today speaks to Lauren Windle, author of Notes on Love, about the challenges of dating and singleness in the Church. CT: Your most recent book was called Notes on Love: Being Single and Dating in a Marriage Obsessed Church. What prompted you […]

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Docuseries on Black church highlights history, links to biblical orthodoxy

BY  :  Adelle M. Banks Christian Today ‘We wanted to show the substantive differences between the denominations but also show that the primary arguments were not about orthodoxy,’ said producer Justin Giboney. (RNS) — A new docuseries featuring Black clergy and scholars aims to explore […]

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50-Plus-Hour Revival Sweeps Asbury University: Students ‘Stayed All Night’

BY  :  Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor  What began as a regular Wednesday chapel service at a Christian university in Kentucky has blossomed into a 50-plus-hour revival that was still ongoing Friday and drawing national interest. The revival at Asbury University’s Hughes Auditorium in Wilmore, Ky., was […]

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Samaritan’s Purse sends 52-bed field hospital to Turkey

BY  :  Christian Today Yonat Shimron  In the wake of what may be Turkey’s deadliest earthquake, Samaritan’s Purse, the Christian humanitarian relief organization, announced it would send a 52-bed emergency field hospital to the city of Antakya, historically known as Antioch. The organization, run by […]

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John MacArthur’s Church Rejects Elder’s Calls to ‘Do Justice’ for ‘Awful Patterns’ in Abuse Case

BY  : Molly Law | C.com Editor  Christian Headlines A lawyer and former elder of John MacArthur’s Grace Community Church (GCC), Hohn Cho, accused the megachurch in California of continuing with “awful patterns” in supporting abusers, thereby endangering their victims, as reported today by Christianity Today (CT). According […]

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