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A retired Baptist pastor has been charged with violating the controversial buffer zone law in Northern Ireland after delivering an open-air sermon based on the Bible verse John 3:16.
A British court has thrown out the prosecution of a Christian preacher who faced charges stemming from a heated confrontation with an angry Islamic mob in Walsall. The judge dismissed the case after prosecutors declined to present evidence, citing insufficient grounds for proceeding with the charges.
Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the birth of George Leslie Mackay, the death of Alfred Edersheim, and the first St. Patrick’s Day parade in North America.
“I don’t know how you could hear my story and my testimony and not believe that there is a God.”
The seventh full week of the Trump administration was defined by new developments in both domestic and foreign policy. Here are five developments that have unfolded over the past week.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who faced U.S. Senate confirmation hearing Friday to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has seemingly changed his positions regarding hot-button cultural issues in recent years.
The Girl Scouts are being sued after a study commissioned by consumer advocacy groups revealed the presence of heavy metals and pesticides in their iconic cookies.
Nearly 200,000 Christians gathered in a village in Arunachal Pradesh, a northeastern Indian state, to protest the impending implementation of an anti-conversion law. The legislation, criticized as a tool for targeting the Christian community, is set to be enforced following a directive from the state’s High Court.
A Wisconsin teacher has become the latest to reach a settlement with his former school district after facing termination due to his religious objection to referring to trans-identified students by their preferred name and pronouns.
Sixty-five years after his father, the late Billy Graham, first preached in Addis Ababa, Franklin Graham returned to the Ethiopian capital for a two-day evangelistic outreach on March 8-9 dubbed "Encountering God," drawing hundreds of thousands and witnessing over 4,000 commitments to Jesus Christ.
For centuries, Judas Iscariot has been synonymous with betrayal. But for Luke Dimyan, who portrays Judas in “The Chosen,” the role is far more complex than a single act of treachery.
A day after being indicted on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child by a multi-county grand jury in Oklahoma, the bond for disgraced Gateway Church founder Robert Morris was set at $50,000 on Thursday as he faces the possibility of decades in prison if convicted on all counts.
A high court judge in Pakistan resigned last week after a media report exposed his alleged close ties with a criminal gang falsely charging Christians and others with blasphemy, sources said.
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said he utilized a frontier-era law most frequently used to prosecute cold cases to charge former megachurch pastor Robert Morris with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.
A homeless man alleged to have threatened a deadly gas attack on Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, on Christmas Eve has been indicted on a federal terrorism charge.
The Hamas terrorist organization announced on Friday that it is willing to agree to a deal that would see the release of American-Israeli IDF soldier Edan Alexander (20) and four bodies of deceased hostages — all of whom held dual citizenship.
Presbyterian Church (USA) has approved an amendment to its constitution that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
In late February, an estimated 7 million people from 225 countries and territories came together for Gather25, a 25-hour global prayer event led by Bible teacher and bestselling author Jennie Allen.
The Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem issued an urgent call for Israeli authorities to stop a government plan to seize and auction off properties that have been in the possession of the Armenian Christian Patriarchate for over 1,700 years.
Tara-Leigh Cobble’s chart-topping podcast ”The Bible Recap” has transformed the way people engage with Scripture, proving that hunger for the Word of God is far from dead.
