NASHVILLE, Tenn. (The Baptist Standard) — Among Protestant churchgoers, only a third spend time reading the Bible every day. The 2019 Discipleship Pathway Assessment study from Nashville-based LifeWay Research found those who regularly attend Protestant churches are inconsistent in their reading and thinking about Scripture. The study identifies Bible engagement as one of eight signposts […]
Continue reading …(Fox News) — For 16 years, a Kentucky church member has been giving away prescription glasses to the poor. His program, Kendall Optometry Ministry, has become so successful, it has helped thousands of people across 79 countries. But the state now says the program is illegal and it wants Holland Kendall, the president of Kendall […]
Continue reading …(The Independent) — The odds were not in Joan Walker’s favor on May 11 when she went into cardiac arrest and stopped breathing on the 10C bus leaving East Hampton for Montauk a little after 1:30 PM. She had just left work at Stop & Shop on Newtown Lane and had walked up to the […]
Continue reading …DALLAS (Baptist Press) — A Southern Baptist church employee in Texas and a Maryland Christian school have been dropped from public programs, accused of discrimination for promoting Bible-based views of marriage and gender. In the most recent case David Roark, communications and resources director of the Plano, Texas campus of The Village Church, was dropped […]
Continue reading … (Bitter Winter) — The CCP’s campaign to eliminate house churches is intensifying in the southern provinces of China. One of the most influential house churches in Fujian, Xunsiding Church, was forcibly closed down on May 31; and in Guangdong, Rongguili Church and the House of David Church, as well as multiple unofficial Protestant places […]
Continue reading …READING, Pa. (WPVI) — In a change of course, Reading Mayor Wally Scott says he will allow the LGBTQ rainbow flag to fly over City Hall for the first time. Action News first reported last week that the outgoing mayor was being accused of discrimination for canceling a gay pride flag-raising ceremony. In a video […]
Continue reading …OXNARD, Calif. (CBSLA) — A woman and her boyfriend were arrested Friday evening after a newborn baby died from strangulation shortly after being born, authorities said. Oxnard police officers responded to St. John’s Medical Center at 1600 N. Rose Ave shortly before 8 a.m. to reports of a suspicious injury. Upon their arrival, officers learned that […]
Continue reading …(Fox News) — Deputies in Tennessee are investigating after racial slurs and graphic images of male genitalia were spray-painted on a church this week. Pastor James Mitchell of Napier Pentecostal Church in Hohenwald, Tenn., about 60 miles southwest of Nashville, told Fox News that he discovered the graffiti when he arrived at the church on […]
Continue reading …WASHINGTON (Baptist Press) — North Korea’s decades-long attempt to eliminate Christianity has practically erased any knowledge of Jesus for citizens, attendees were told Thursday (July 18) at a Capitol Hill event sponsored by the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. The ERLC hosted the meeting on religious liberty under the dictatorial regime at a […]
Continue reading … READING, Pa. (WPVI-TV) — Reading Mayor Wally Scott is being accused of discrimination after canceling a gay pride flag-raising ceremony at City Hall on Monday. The outgoing mayor defends his decision though, saying that while he has nothing against the LGBTQ community, he views displaying the pride flag at City Hall as support for […]
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