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An Arkansas pastor and his congregation are grieving the deaths of his two daughters, who were killed recently by a train. The pastor and son survived the collision. The pastor’s wife was not in the vehicle at the time of the accident. According to The Christian Post, Pastor Chad Fryar of Crossroads Cowboy Church in […]
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 26, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A Christian housecleaner in Pakistan was beaten and illegally confined for a week by her Muslim employers after she tried to leave her job due to pregnancy, she said. Asma Gulfam, a 28-year-old Catholic maid in the Paka Ghara area of Sialkot District, Punjab Province, said […]
iStock/fotoember A teacher at a Christian school in Florida is in jail and facing charges of having inappropriate interactions with a student. The teacher, Angela Stewart, 53, was quietly sent home from Lighthouse Christian School on May 22 after the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office notified the school that it had opened a criminal investigation into the […]
Nightfall in Gdansk, Poland. | Dennis Lennox More than a thousand years of Christianity means there are plenty of things to discover in Poland. Poland is an obviously old nation. However, the country in its current incarnation is still relatively young and only dates to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. That’s because […]
Getty Images A 33-year-old pastor and former city employee was gunned down near a Boston middle school during the bustling afternoon rush hour. The pastor, identified as Daniel “Danny” Mayers of Haverhill, was discovered in his vehicle suffering from gunshot wounds. The site of the shooting was about half a mile away from St. Mark’s […]
Much has been documented about the growing mental health crisis among American teenagers. Young people, however, are not the only ones struggling. Middle-aged women, particularly white women over the age of 45, account for nearly 60% of all Americans who have been taking antidepressants for more than five years. To be sure, with this […]
The Church of Scotland is preparing an official apology and a statement to acknowledge its involvement with historic chattel slavery. The Faith Impact Forum, on behalf of the church, has published a “Legacies of Slavery Report” examining its role in the transatlantic slave trade. The report looked at a 131-year period from the Act of Union in […]
According to tradition, St. Thaddeus and St. Bartholomew evangelized the region of Armenia in the first century. In the year 301, it became the first nation to declare itself Christian. Through centuries of warfare and oppression, its Christian identity has endured as part of Armenian culture, despite repeated attempts by neighbors to stamp it out. In 1915, the Turkish […]
The CSB Explorer Bible for Kids was awarded the accolade of ‘Bible of the Year’ at a Christian Book Awards event hosted by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (EPCA). It is the first time in 18 years that a children’s resource Bible has received the award at the event, which was held in Nashville, Tennessee, on […]
The family of pastor, author and filmmaker Michael Catt on Wednesday revealed that his health and cancer have worsened as they requested prayer for him, his wife and his daughters during the “few months he has left this side of heaven.” From 1989 to 2021, Catt served as senior pastor of Sherwood Baptist Church (Albany, […]