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iStock/Andrii Lysenko Every year on the third Sunday of June, tens of millions of people across the United States celebrate the fathers in their lives. Even though many have spoken of a fatherlessness epidemic in modern America, the federal holiday remains widely observed, with fathers receiving many gifts from their wives and children. The holiday […]
Fargo is the largest city in North Dakota. | Dennis Lennox Forget what you think you know about Fargo. With its population of 125,990 souls, the largest city in North Dakota is known, assuming it’s known at all, for the 1996 movie of the same name. Having only vague recollections of the film, I didn’t […]
Missionary Jordan Webb. | YouTube/ Video Uploads Jordan Webb, a married Christian missionary and father from Iowa convicted of sexual abuse in April after authorities presented circumstantial evidence that he likely infected a preschooler with gonorrhea, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison although he insists he is innocent. Webb, 31, served as a […]
iStock/Rawpixel New research conducted by the American Bible Society reveals that Christians heavily engaged with the Bible and their faith “flourish in every domain of human experience.” The American Bible Society released Chapter 3 of its State of the Bible 2023 report Thursday, titled “Flourishing and Hope.” Data in the State of the Bible report […]
ABUJA, Nigeria, June 15, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Unidentified gunmen on June 7 shot a Roman Catholic priest to death in southwest Nigeria, a church spokesman said. The Rev. Charles Onomhoale Igechi was killed as he drove in the Ikhueniro area of Benin, Edo state, the Rev. Augustine Akubeze, archbishop of the Archdiocese of […]
Eleven people were killed at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 27, 2018. | (Screenshot: CBS News) A jury has found the man charged with killing 11 people at a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, synagogue in 2018 guilty of all 63 federal charges leveled against him. In a decision announced Friday, 50-year-old Robert […]
God’s Country Song | PureFlix NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Christian walk isn’t always an easy one; often, it’s riddled with pain, brokenness and sorrow — and it’s necessary to highlight this reality in film and media to highlight God’s power and redemption. That’s according to the director and stars of the new PureFlix film “God’s […]
U.S. service members stand and salute during the playing of the national anthem at the dedication ceremony for the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, November 10, 2011. | REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Franciscan priests and friars are once again ministering to patients at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center two months after the […]
Michael W Smith | Screenshot: YouTube/Surrounded Did something “open the eyes” of Michael W. Smith’s heart? An endorsement of a controversial Bible translation from the Grammy-winning Christian singer appears to have disappeared after Smith offered his endorsement of The Passion Translation (TPT) version of the Bible late last month. Smith, a singer-songwriter whose career spans […]
Attending religious services in person is the preference among US adults, but a quarter of Americans still enjoy regularly watching online services following the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pew Research Center surveyed 11,377 adults in the USA between November 16-27, 2022. The key driver for the research was examining how Americans use technology in spirituality. The […]