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A record-setting University of Tennessee quarterback who opted to return for another season instead of turning pro says he wants to use his talents to “spread the Word of Jesus Christ.” Tennessee’s Hendon Hooker, who announced in December that he would return for the 2022 season instead of placing his name in the NFL Draft, […]
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 16, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of a Christian evangelist on Feb. 6 beat and tied him up to be burned to death after he returned home for a funeral in eastern Uganda, he said. Malingumu Bruhan, 34, returned to Kaliro District for his grandfather’s funeral in Muhira village, Nawaikoke, […]
The Fast and the Furious actor and R & B singer Tyrese Gibson announced that his mother passed away on Valentine’s Day after a weeks-long battle with COVID-19 and pneumonia. “On behalf of my family and everyone who ever spent any time praying for my mother, this is the saddest moment of my life,” Gibson […]
On Tuesday, the Republican-led Senate in Arizona voted in favor of a bill that will ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The move comes ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision regarding a Mississippi law outlawing abortion after 15 weeks, which could lead to Roe v. Wade being overturned. Arizona Sen. Nancy Barto, who […]
The families of nine victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have agreed to a $73 million settlement in a lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used to kill 20 first-graders and six teachers. According to the Associated Press, the families and one survivor of the shooting sued Remington in 2015, saying […]
The Association of Related Churches (ARC) is facing criticism for claiming that payments to ARC from its member churches are voluntary. ARC is one of the largest church planting organizations in North America. In an interview in October 2021 with The Roys Report, ARC President Greg Surratt denied a report that a former ARC Church […]
(RNS) — The United Church of Christ has now paid off more than $100 million in medical debt for people across the United States. The UCC announced Monday (Feb. 14) that it used $200,000 from one of its annual Giving Tuesday campaigns to purchase and pay off $33 million in medical debt for residents of […]
(RNS) — Black and Latino Christians often turn to their pastors for mental health care, even when those clergy have limited expertise in working with those who are mentally struggling, according to a new study by the Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University. Daniel Bolger, a doctoral candidate at Rice University who co-authored […]
The U.S. State Department is urging American citizens in Belarus to leave the country immediately amid the possibility of a Russian attack on neighboring Ukraine. So far, the U.S. State Department has relocated its embassy location in Ukraine to the western city Lviv, shuttering its doors in Kyiv, the nation’s capital. On Thursday, Belarus and […]
A Minnesota pastor and his wife have resigned following allegations of abuse and concealing abuses committed by family members on the church staff. Mark Perryman, the senior pastor of Northridge Church, an Assemblies of God congregation in Owatonna, Minnesota, reportedly resigned last Sunday. His departure comes less than a week after his son-in-law, former associate […]