BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A police officer who was working security at a church in Alabama is in critical condition after responding to a robbery in the neighborhood and being shot by a teenager. According to reports, narcotics detective John Finke was off duty on Sunday morning and was assisting with security at Church of the […]
PUNTA GORDA — A pastor in Belize recently delivered an impassioned speech in opposition to a proposed bill that, while seeking to protect those who identify as homosexual or transgender, would actually discriminate against Christians in the public square. The pastor’s words were met with great enthusiasm by those gathered, as they often broke into cheers […]
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – An order to close a church building in the city of Oran, Algeria was issued last fall but was not conveyed to the pastor until last weekend, sources said. Pastor Rachid Seighir did not receive the Nov. 10, 2019 closure order until Saturday (Jan. 11), he said. “This official document was […]
KOUNTZE, Texas — A 19-year-old in Texas has been arrested after remarking online during a live church feed, “Where’s the shooter? I wanna see another shooting again.” According to reports, as Open House Ministries in Liberty was live-streaming its Sunday service on Facebook on Jan. 5 when Brady Martinez of Kountze left the now-deleted comment. “We […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — The Arkansas Baptist State Convention is being sued on accusations that it ignored warnings that a pastor was allegedly sexually abusing underage boys. A lawsuit filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court claims that Teddy Hill, former senior pastor at Millcreek Baptist Church in Hot Springs, repeatedly raped a teen boy […]
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — The sister of the troubled transient man who opened fire inside of a Texas church on Sunday, killing two before being taken down by a security guard within seconds, says that he likely carried out the attack because he was haunted by his brother’s suicide and that day was his brother’s […]
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (USA Today) — A gunman who was fatally shot by parishioners after opening fire at a Texas church service had been given food by the church many times and was being closely watched before his rampage began, church leaders say. Keith Thomas Kinnunen, 43, slipped into the Sunday service at the West […]
NEW: Video shows man opening fire at Texas church before he is shot by a security guard; 2 dead, 1 critical (blurred to hide victims, viewer discretion is advised) pic.twitter.com/hulXR7MYIy — BNO News (@BNONews) December 29, 2019 WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (ABC News) — Two victims were killed and three others were injured when a gunman […]
(Ghana Web) — A video of members of a so-called church drinking their church leader’s bathwater has angered the Ghanaian public. The video, which became an instant internet sensation for the wrong reasons, had the so-called “man of God” directing his church members to drink water he had soaked his body in. … Unfortunately, […]
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A local news reporter in Georgia has filed a sexual battery report with the Savannah Police Department after a man smacked her buttocks live on air as she was covering a marathon — a man who turns out to be a youth minister at a United Methodist church. “To the man who […]