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Christian Leader Urges Churches to Return to Personal Discipleship

BY  :  Christian Today Staff Writer   A respected Bible teacher has challenged Christian leaders across Asia to place personal discipleship back at the centre of ministry, warning that organisational success should never replace investing in the spiritual growth of individuals. Speaking at the Asia Conference on […]

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Belfast churches ‘heartbroken’ over unrest

BY  :  Staff  Writer  Christian Today   Belfast churches are praying for their city and the nation after another night of unrest following a brutal knife attack. Protests and rioting have followed the stabbing of Stephen Ogilvie, with homes and vehicles set on fire, and […]

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Four sentenced to death over terror attack on Nigerian church

BY  :  Staff Writer  Christian Today   Four Islamic militants who carried out a deadly terrorist attack on a Catholic church in Nigeria have been sentenced to death. Idris Abdulmalik Omeiza, Al Qasim Idris, Jamiu Abdulmalik and Abdulhaleem Idris attacked St Francis Xavier Catholic Church […]

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Poll suggests quarter of British Christians are ‘Christian nationalists’

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BY  :   Staff  Writer  Christian  Today   Around a quarter of Christians in Britain identify as Christian nationalists or are sympathetic to its ideas, a mini survey by Premier Christian News has suggested. The research, which asked the views of 260 Christians, was part of […]

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Christian congresswoman introduces bill to mandate ‘In God We Trust’ on federal buildings

BY  :  Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter    A Republican member of Congress from Illinois introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday to mandate that the national motto acknowledging God be displayed in every federal building. Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., introduced the […]

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IDF soldiers jailed for desecrating statue of Mary

BY   :   Staff  Writer  Christian  Today   Two Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers have received brief prison sentences after putting a cigarette into the mouth of a statue of the Virgin Mary in occupied Lebanon. The incident is not the first in which IDF soldiers […]

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Calls for investigation into disappearance of Protestant missionary in southern Mexico

BY   :  Obianuju Mbah  Christian  Today   A 79-year-old Protestant missionary has been missing for more than six weeks in southern Mexico after reportedly being abducted by armed men while carrying out evangelistic work in Guerrero State. Human rights organisation Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has […]

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Iraqi court rules in favour of Christian woman challenging Muslim religion status

BY  :  Obianuju Mbah  Christian Today   A court in Iraq has delivered a favourable ruling for a young Christian woman seeking to change her officially registered religion from Islam to Christianity. The decision has been hailed by religious freedom advocates as a potentially significant […]

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Xi Jinping’s CCP is re-writing the Bible

BY  :  Samuel Ben-Ur, Op-ed contributor    The Chinese Communist Party is rewriting the Bible. As part of Xi Jinping’s “Sinicization of Christianity” campaign, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) plans to ensure Christianity in China is instilled with “core socialist values.” Pursuant to that effort, the […]

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Christians among main victims of Islamist violence in eastern DRC

BY  :   Obianuju Mbah  Christian  Today   Christians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facing escalating violence from an Islamic State-linked militant group accused of massacres, abductions and systematic terror attacks across villages and churches, according to a major new Amnesty International report. […]

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Christians petition for protection of pastors in Colombia following murders

BY  :   Staff  Writer  Christian Today A new campaign has been launched aimed at restoring special protection to religious leaders in Colombia, following a series of killings and kidnappings by armed groups. The campaign zeroes in on Decrees 1066 and the National Protection System (NPS). […]

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Can the Middle East learn how to respect religious freedom from Kurdistan?

BY  : Staff  Writer Christian Today   The European Parliament has heard how Kurdistan can act as a model of religious tolerance for the wider Middle East. Kurdistan is the region of the Middle East traditionally inhabited by the Kurdish people. It is not an […]

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Children of detained Pastor Ezra Jin, Jimmy Lai hoping for fathers’ release after Trump-Xi meeting

BY   :  Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor    The children of two men imprisoned by Chinese authorities, house church leader Pastor Ezra Jin and Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, say they’re counting on President Donald Trump to raise both cases when he meets Chinese […]

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