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By Leonardo Blair, Senior Features Reporter Wednesday, November 29, 2023 Bishop Carlton Pearson preaches a sermon in a photo published in 2006. | Creative Commons/Scott Griessel Despite being ostracized in life by many traditional churches after he rejected the orthodox idea of Hell at the height of his work as a pastor, multiple churches, including […]
Tears streamed down my face as I watched this year’s Christmas commercial from Chevy. While scrolling through social media, I saw the warnings to grab Kleenex, but I wasn’t expecting it to hit me like that—the commercial centers around an older woman with Alzheimer’s. The extended family is gathered for Christmas, and a granddaughter takes […]
Grammy-winning Christian singer Lauren Daigle says in a new interview that she has a heart for adoption and has made an “adoption pact” with her friends, pledging to adopt at least one child in the future due to the abundance of children in need. The two-time Grammy winner made the comments to People ahead of […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Features Reporter Wednesday, November 29, 2023 The late Pastor Jonathan Frazier, 37, of Roam Ministry in Orlando, Fl. | Facebook/Jonathan Frazier Nearly six months after Pastor Jonathan Frazier of Roam Ministry in Orlando, Florida, was shot dead in front of nearly 100 people during an event at his church that he also […]
LAHORE, PakistanNovember 29, 2023 (Morning Star News)A court in Pakistan this month granted bail to a Christian falsely charged with blasphemy, but he and his family have separated and gone into hiding amid threats to their lives, sources said. Haroon Shahzad, 45, was released from Sargodha District Jail on Nov. 15, said his attorney, Aneeqa […]
Casting Crowns frontman Mark Hall initially didn’t want a movie made about his band. And if one were ever made — he says, jokingly — he wanted Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington, or Morgan Freeman to portray him. “I don’t have any car chases or shootouts in my story,” he says, laughing. Eventually, though, Hall did […]
Christian artist, Grammy, and Dove Award-winner Lauren Daigle has been named Billboard’s Top Christian Artist of 2023. “It’s been an incredible year,” Daigle told Billboard following the announcement. “New creative collaborators, a new producer, new writers, and most of all new friends. Our fans on the road have been so incredible, and we can feel […]
Recent attacks by radical neighbors on a church in a small Christian community near Karachi, Pakistan, endangered the lives of a pastor, his family, and his congregation. On October 24, 2023, a group mainly comprised of fruit and vegetable sellers with extremist ideologies targeted the church during a prayer service. One of the vendors arrived […]
Hans Schmidt, 26, was shot on Nov. 15 while preaching on the street on the corner of 51st Avenue and Peoria in Glendale, Arizona, when an assailant shot him in the head. According to a GoFundMe set up by family friend Brad Currell, the bullet “traveled through his brain and is still inside on the […]
Actor Kristoffer Polaha is opening up about his journey to Christ, saying he explored the world’s religions and survived six years in a spiritual “wilderness” before God got his attention through a woman who eventually became his wife. Polaha stars as the lead character in the new Angel Studios film The Shift — which opens […]