The Presbyterian Church in America has scrapped a panel on political polarization over its inclusion of a New York Times columnist who supports same-sex marriage and drag queen “story hour” presentations to children. The PCA had invited columnist David French, a former church member, to participate in the “Supporting Your Pastor and Church Leaders in […]
A teenager was arrested in Louisiana over the weekend after he attempted to enter a Catholic Church armed with a rifle and was stopped by parishioners and held until police arrived. The harrowing incident occurred on Saturday morning at the Saint Mary Magdalen Catholic Church south of Lafayette in the city of Abbeville when the […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge Monday lifted a ban on the social media platform X showing Australians a video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church. The temporary ban was put in place April 22, but the judge rejected the application from Australia’s eSafety Commission to extend the court order that […]
First Baptist Church of Alexandria, one of the nation’s oldest Southern Baptist congregations, faces expulsion for having a woman pastor. Kim Eskridge, pastor for children and women, “is among our longest-tenured staff being in this position with this title for nearly 20 years,” First Baptist said in a statement. But the Southern Baptist Convention of […]
Dwight L. Moody, an 1800s American evangelist, once said, “I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found out I would have to go against the current.” And it’s true, isn’t it? To […]
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally opened a former Byzantine church in Istanbul as a mosque on Monday, four years after his government had designated it a Muslim house of prayer, despite criticism from neighboring Greece. Turkey formally converted The Church of St. Saviour in Chora, known as Kariye in Turkish, into […]
On Sunday mornings, millions of faithful Christians gather in churches across the country to worship and serve. Many churches even call their worship areas sanctuaries, so it’s easy to believe that if anyone should feel safe and secure in public, it’s at church. Unfortunately, we know that evil is […]
A pastor found himself looking down the barrel of a gun Sunday when a man rushed the front of his church during the sermon. Video of the incident posted to the church’s Facebook page showed Pastor Glenn Germany preaching at Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church in North Braddock, Pennsylvania, when a man entered the frame of […]
The United Methodist Church has overwhelmingly given its stamp of approval to same-sex marriages. The 523-161 vote to make the change came last week, according to WTVD. Several delegates opposed the changes, including Nimia Peralta of the Philippines, who said, “God designed marriage to be between a man and a woman.” She rejected the convention’s […]
The Catholic Church is undergoing a transformation in many parts of the United States. Many Catholics, unsettled by the changes wrought by Vatican II 50 years ago and more recent ideologies like “liberation theology,” crave the familiar orthodoxy that Catholics found comfort in for hundreds of years and had largely been abandoned by the […]
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