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Last week, controversial pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, held a “burning service” after his sermon. During the burning service, church congregants threw items deemed by the church to be related to the occult into a large bonfire. The event is part of Locke’s sermon series on deliverance titled […]
Support for an immigration reform plan that includes a pathway to citizenship for those in the country illegally has plummeted within the past decade among white evangelicals, who are the only religious demographic to oppose a proposal that has been backed by Republican and Democratic presidents, according to a new survey. The Public Religion Research […]
(RNS) — A Tennessee-based health care provider will pay $75,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit involving an Apostolic Pentecostal nurse who wanted to wear a “scrub skirt” to work. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said the company denied the nurse’s right to religious accommodation. Wellpath LLC hired Christian nurse Malinda Babineaux in 2019 […]
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 3, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists on Saturday (Jan. 29) stopped an evangelist on his way to participate in a debate about Christianity and Islam in Kampala, Uganda and beat him unconscious, he said. Charles Kamya, 43, said he was about 300 meters from the open-air debate site in the […]
An employee for a delivery service in Florida who was fired after he refused to work a Sunday shift has won an anti-discrimination case against his former employer. According to The Christian Post, the Tampa Bay Delivery Service, an Amazon delivery service provider based in the Tampa Bay area, will have to pay $50,000 in […]
(RNS) — Bruce Lindsay never expected to own a church. But when his mother died shortly before the pandemic, he wanted to use his inheritance to do something extraordinary. “My mother, if she were alive today, I think would have a great chuckle at what I’ve purchased,” said Lindsay. “I found myself surrounded by a […]
(RNS) — An Oregon church is suing the coastal city of Brookings, arguing that an ordinance restricting the church’s meal program for the unhoused violates its right to religious freedom. St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon filed the lawsuit against the city on Friday (Jan. 28) in Oregon’s U.S. District Court. […]
The rate of growth for all religious people is about 1.27 percent, while the rate for non-religious people is -.52 percent. Meanwhile, the growth of the number of atheists bumped only .18 percent. 2. Christianity is growing. Christianity is growing at just over a 1 percent rate, with projected growth at about 2.56 billion Christians […]
The eyes of the world may be on Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics, but the head of a religious liberty watchdog says China’s persecution of Christians is nevertheless escalating. “It is getting worse,” David Curry, president and CEO of Open Doors, told Christian Headlines. China was No. 17 on this year’s 2022 World Watch List, […]
AUSTIN AND LINDSEY ADAMEC JOIN THE GMA AND LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL ON JULY 22 FOR THE #LOVEGOESVIRAL CONCERT SERIES; Husband/Wife Duo Announce New EP, Sound Of The House, Releasing Sept. 11 NEWS SOURCE: Merge PR July 21, 2020 21 July 2020 – Brentwood, TN / Jacksonville, FL – Integrity Music’s Austin […]