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A man reading the Bible. | Getty images Scripture engaged Americans donated more than $100 billion to charity last year, giving more on average to churches and other charitable organizations than the other subgroups surveyed, according to a new report. The American Bible Society released the eighth chapter of its annual “State of the Bible” […]
ABUJA, Nigeria, November 30, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists in the past month killed at least 30 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria and 10 in Kaduna state, where they also demanded payment for a corpse after collecting ransom for the Christian they kidnapped and killed. In Plateau state’s Bokkos […]
The widow of a well-known Vineyard church leader is suing the pastors of a California Vineyard church for fraud and the alleged misappropriation of $62 million. Earlier this year, the “mother church” of the Vineyard movement, Vineyard Anaheim, left the denomination. It was founded in 1977 by John Wimber. In a statement at the time, […]
First Lady Jill Biden unveiled this year’s “We the People” themed White House holiday decorations on Monday. “The soul of our nation is, and always has been, ‘We the People,’” Biden said, according to a White House press release. “And that is what inspired this year’s White House holiday decoration.” As reported by NBC-Bay Area, the […]
U.S. Rep. A. Donald McEachin (D-VA) died on Monday following a years-long battle with colorectal cancer. He was 61. “Valiantly, for years now, we have watched him fight and triumph over the secondary effects of his colorectal cancer from 2013. Tonight, he lost that battle,” McEachin’s chief of staff, Tara Rountree, said in a statement […]
Police officers secure the scene after a drive-by shooting outside the New Season Church in Nashville, Tenn., on Nov. 26, 2022. | Screenshot/WSMV Family members and friends of a 19-year-old woman shot dead in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier this month were forced to run for their lives after a church where the woman’s funeral was being […]
Timothy Jason Jeltema, a former student minister in Texas, was sentenced to five years in prison on Nov. 17, 2022, after pleading guilty to online sexual abuse of a minor. | Tomball Police Department A Texas man who used to be a student minister at a Southern Baptist church has been sentenced to five years […]
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 29, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A group of Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda seriously wounded a pastor and his wife in an attack on a meeting at their church on Nov. 18, he said. The knife attack on an evening service of Believers’ Church in Nansonko village, Kibuku District came in […]
The days before and after Thanksgiving make for an odd holiday. Most Americans barely sit down to dinner before Elvis, Santa, and Mariah Carey invade their lives. Then comes the corporate fever dream known as “Black Friday,” followed by its digital sequel “Cyber Monday.” In all that time, there is precious little room left […]
JUBA, South Sudan, November 27, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Sudan on Nov. 21 arrested and jailed a church leader on charges of “witchcraft” for leading a prayer meeting for his ailing mother, sources said. Pastor Abdalla Haron Sulieman was leading a prayer meeting for his mother, who suffered from an infection in […]