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A California pastor announced that the church he leads will continue to meet for Sunday services despite its building being damaged by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake last month. “The foundation is in pretty good shape, but the walls have moved. Windows are broken. Some doors won’t shut,” Pastor Rod Sanderson of Rio Dell Baptist Church […]
ABUJA, Nigeria, January 2, 2023 (Morning Star News) – One Christian was killed and 53 were kidnapped on Dec. 25 in southern Kaduna state, Nigeria after at least 40 Christians were slain in the week leading up to Christmas, sources said. Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists on Dec. 25 attacked Angwan Aku village in Kajuru […]
Getty Images/Cristian Bortes/EyeEm A federal judge has temporarily blocked the state of New York from enforcing its new law banning guns in houses of worship against a pastor and church who argue that the law violates their constitutional rights. Judge John L. Sinatra Jr. of the Western District of New York ruled last Thursday that Senate Bill […]
Top left to right: Bodie, Twitter logo by Reuters/Brendan Mcdermid. Bottom left to right: Greg Locke; Lysa Terkeurst; Steven Furtick Some of the sensational and pivotal moments of 2022 are found in the most popular reads from The Christian Post. While some of these stories were edifying, others prompted debates and raised new concerns for […]
In a televised special tonight, Amy Grant will become the first contemporary Christian music star to be recognized at the Kennedy Center Honors. This distinction is well deserved: her total career album sales have exceeded thirty million with over one billion global streams. She has received six Grammy Awards and twenty-six Dove Awards, including […]
SURABAYA, Indonesia, December 29, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Muslim villagers in West Java, Indonesia on Christmas Day stopped a congregation from celebrating Christmas in a home, according to various sources. The interference came within hours of Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s historic visits to two churches in nearby Bogor, where he urged congregations to continue harmonious […]
An Anglican priest is urging leaders of the Church of England to denounce the recent arrest of Isabel Vaughn-Spruce, a British pro-life activist, for silently praying outside of an abortion clinic in Birmingham. “No one should ever be arrested for silent prayer. Not in the U.K., not anywhere,” the Rev. Calvin Robinson tweeted on December […]
Shama Mrema | Courtesy of Shama Mrema When it comes to poking fun at church culture, comedian Shama Mrema doesn’t have to look far for content. He simply thinks back to his childhood as a church planter’s kid in Africa, his time as a student at a Bible college in South Carolina, or his brief […]
Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images It all started, as most bombshells do these days, with a cryptic tweet. On May 8, Elon Musk tweeted, “If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya,” which, as one might expect, spurred no small conversation on Twitter about Musk’s eternal destiny. When one of his now 122 million […]
Bodie Kuljian performs on NBC’s “The Voice” Season 22 in a video posted online Nov. 28, 2022. | YouTube/The Voice “The Voice” winner Bryce Leatherwood shared his love for fan-favorite Bodie after fans chanted the latter’s name during the season finale, stressing that he, too, would’ve rooted for his fellow contestant. Leatherwood, who won season […]