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A crowd of 20,000 people poured into Wilmore, Ky., over the weekend to experience the Asbury University revival, even as school officials prepare to shift the public portion of the event to another site. The revival began on Feb. 8 during a regularly scheduled chapel service at Asbury’s Hughes Auditorium and has been going nonstop […]
Bishop David O’Connell | Facebook A California bishop, known for his peacemaking efforts and work with low-income and immigrant communities, has been found dead with a gunshot wound to the upper body. His death is being investigated as a homicide. Los Angeles Auxiliary David O’Connell, who was 69 years old, was found dead at his […]
JUBA, South Sudan, February 20, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Authorities in southeastern Sudan on Friday (Feb. 17) arrested a church leader for preaching to Muslims, according to a local Christian group. Yousif Ayoub Hussein Ali was detained during an open-air worship event in the Blue Nile state capital of Ad-Damazin, according to a press […]
A court in Mozambique, Africa, has denied bail for a pilot for the U.S.-based ministry Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) and two volunteers who were arrested over four months ago on suspicion of supporting insurgent activity. Ryan Koher, 31, and South Africans W.J. du Plessis, 77, and Eric Dry, 69, were denied bail earlier this month […]
Students crowd the altar at Hughes Auditorium at Asbury University during a revival event that began on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. | Josh Sadlon Asbury University, which has been the site of continual worship and prayer on campus for weeks and drawing tens of thousands of people to experience what God is doing, will move […]
An Emmy-nominated actor who plays the lead role in the upcoming film Southern Gospel says his personal Christian faith grew during the project’s filming and that he was even baptized on set. Actor Max Ehrich portrays Samuel Allen, a 1960s rock star who is given a second chance in life and becomes a pastor after […]
Todd Benkert, a Southern Baptist pastor who was on the Southern Baptist Convention’s task force to address sexual abuse policies, has stepped down from the team. Benkert recently filed a complaint against Florida church Hiland Park and another church where former SBC President Johnny Hunt had been restored to ministry work after he was accused […]
Pastor Aracely Courtenay served as an assistant pastor at Emmanuel Church of God in Brooklyn, New York, where her husband, Bishop Curt Courtenay, is senior pastor. | YouTube/Emmanuel COG NEW YORK — A Brooklyn congregation is grieving after the wife of its senior pastor, who also served as assistant pastor, was fatally struck by a […]
A Southern Baptist youth pastor who was previously placed on administrative leave for giving teens “I ♥ Hot Youth Pastors” stickers has returned from suspension. As Christian Headlines previously reported, Cory Wall, the student pastor at Fairview Baptist Church of Greer, South Carolina, was put on administrative leave last October for giving teens the stickers. […]
Legendary actor Kelsey Grammer began crying on national television this week while discussing his new movie Jesus Revolution, saying his wife Kayte calls the film the “best thing” he’s ever done. The five-time Emmy winner portrays Chuck Smith, a California pastor who opens his church and his home to a group of hippies who are […]