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Another Baptist pastor shot dead in Myanmar; US gov’t urged to take action

BY  : Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor    Myanmar’s military junta has shot and killed a Baptist pastor in the Christian-majority Chin state, the third killing of a pastor there in about three and a half months, according to a religious freedom group that is […]

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Persecuted Chinese pastor recounts torture, warns CCP ‘trying to crush’ religion: ‘A heavy burden’

BY  :  Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter   WASHINGTON — Ding Shuqi, a pastor from the persecuted Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China, urged the world earlier this week to remember the suffering of Chinese Christians, whose freedoms he said are being crushed by […]

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Algerian police seize Bibles as 12 Christians arrested for holding non-Muslim service

BY  : Morning Star News   Special forces police in Algeria raided a worship service at a humanitarian shelter on Sept. 4, arresting all 12 Christians present on suspicion of holding an unauthorized, non-Muslim religious service. The House of Refuge shelter in L’Ayaida, 36 kilometers […]

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Josh Howerton says America is ‘prodigal nation’ finding its way back to God

BY  :  Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter   Lakepointe Church Pastor Josh Howerton says he sees a “resurgence of the purposes of God” taking place across the U.S. as Americans grow increasingly weary of what he calls “a non-ignorable dark force in the world.” The […]

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Texas police ‘doing the bidding’ of ‘anti-Christian leftists’ in latest street evangelism arrests: attorney

BY  :  Ian M. Giatti, Christian Post Reporter   A Texas attorney and longtime First Amendment advocate says police were acting in support of “anti-Christian leftists” when they arrested four people who were protesting against abortion. The arrests took place near the Alamo in San […]

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Afghan Christians at risk of ‘genocide’

BY  :  Staff  Writer  Christian  Today   Christians in Afghanistan are at risk of a “genocide” according to Martin Parsons, an expert in religious freedom and Islamic extremism and former aid worker to the country. Writing for The Critic, Parsons spoke of his experiences in the […]

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Global church body concerned for Armenian Church amid dispute with state

BY  :   Staff  Writer  Christian  Today   The World Council of Churches (WCC) has spoken out in support of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), which has been engaged in a years long cold war with the Armenian government. The WCC also said it was concerned […]

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UMC pastor, Democratic nominee for Senate says atheists, non-Christians ‘going to be in Heaven’

BY  :  Ian M. Giatti, Christian Post Reporter    A Kansas pastor and Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate told his church in a newly resurfaced sermon that he believes people from all religions will inherit eternal life apart from the saving work of Jesus […]

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Trump, mission org. confirm release of kidnapped American missionary pilot

BY  :  Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter   President Donald Trump and the Evangelical Christian mission organization SIM International have confirmed the release of American missionary pilot Kevin Rideout, who was abducted in Niger last October. “Kevin Rideout, a wonderful Christian Missionary, is back in […]

Religion
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Are churches missing out in the bitcoin boom?

BY  :  Peter Crumpler Christian Today   Earlier this summer, a church on England’s south coast made headlines, when it declared it was going to accept bitcoin as donations. Sean Theunissen, elder and operations lead at Claygate Church, based in Bournemouth, Southbourne and Poole, emphasised: “Bitcoin […]

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IDF closes off Christian village to ‘protect’ it from ‘relentless’ settler attacks

BY  :  Staff  Writer  Christian  Today   The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have surrounded the only all-Christian village in the West Bank in an apparent move to protect the town from regular attacks by Israeli settlers. Over the last year the village of Taybeh has […]

Religion
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Food bank stops supplying church after pastor called Native American ritual ‘idol worship’

BY  :  Michael Gryboski, Editor   A Wyoming church located on a Native American reservation has filed a federal complaint against a local food bank it accused of discrimination after the church’s pastor garnered headlines for denouncing the Sun Dance ritual of the Northern Arapaho […]

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