Source; Pew Research Center As Protestants prepare to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, new Pew Research Center surveys show that in both Western Europe and the United States, the theological differences that split Western Christianity in the 1500s have diminished to a degree that might have shocked Christians […]
Source: Independent BY May Bulman The number of Britons who say they have no religion has hit a record high, new data has revealed. More than half of the British public […]
Source: Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston (RNS) When Superstorm Sandy hit the New York metropolitan area in 2012, the floodwaters in Lower Manhattan were still rising when some pastors pointed […]
Source: Huffington Post As of yet, only one pastor has resigned from Trump’s evangelical council, and this Tuesday, many evangelical pastors signed the Nashville Statement, which in its fifteen articles condemn […]
After public pressure Joel Osteen has seen the light, and will now open his spacious 16,800-seat megachurch to hurricane refugees. Osteen’s megachurch, Lakewood Church, is located near downtown Houston, and would make an ideal refugee center from those trying to escape the flooding. However, the 16,800 seat megachurch was closed during and […]
Source: BBC News In the Netherlands, thousands of Iranian Muslim migrants and refugees are converting to Christianity, despite conversion from Islam being considered apostasy in Iran and punishable by death. […]
Source: The New York Times By DEREK LAM HONG KONG — Since I was 16 years old, I have wanted to be a pastor. I was raised in a Christian family […]
Source: Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston | August 23, 2017 (RNS) — There were no burning crosses or other hijacked symbols of religion on obvious display when white nationalists descended on Charlottesville, […]
Source: USA Today BY Jonathan Merritt, Opinion contributor In the wake of President Trump’s waffling on white supremacy, his supporters and advisers have abandoned him in droves. After a wave of […]
A psalm of David. 1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley,a]”>[a] I will fear no evil, […]
Source: Deutsche Welle Pakistani police have arrested a Christian teenager after he was allegedly caught burning pages of the Koran. It’s the latest incident in Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy-related arrests and vigilante killings. Police said Sunday that Asif Massih, an 18-year-old member of the minority Christian community, was caught “red handed” desecrating […]
Source: Reuters KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistani soldiers on Saturday carried the flag-draped coffin of German-born Catholic nun Ruth Pfau to a state funeral where she was honored after devoting her […]
Source: Reuters By Doina Chiacu and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two prominent religious conservatives defended U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday after he was widely criticized for blaming both white […]
Source: NPR By SARAH MCCAMMON A group of alumni from one of the country’s most influential evangelical Christian universities is condemning their school’s president for his continued alignment with President Trump. […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey August 18 Evangelical author Eric Metaxas (left) and megachurch pastor A.R. Bernard (right) at the White House on May 4, 2017. (Photo courtesy of […]
Source: Vox In the weeks leading up to Sunday, August 13, Emily C. Heath, a United Church of Christ pastor in Exeter, New Hampshire, was preparing her sermon for that […]
Source: Vox ANNISTON, Alabama — The morning after white supremacists and neo-Nazis sparked violent clashes in Virginia, the Rev. Titus Roberson delivered a 45-minute sermon to his historically black church […]
Source: Religion And Politics By Marie Griffith The hatred exhibited by an array of white supremacists this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, horrified much of the nation. The frenzied scenes of […]
Source: BuzzFeed News BY Mary Ann Georgantopoulos A Tennessee mother and her middle school–aged son are suing the child’s private Christian school claiming officials did not protect the boy from repeated […]
Source: The Guardian Ram Maya Sunar had two miscarriages. Then she had a daughter, who died of pneumonia when she was one. “My second child died from tuberculosis at just […]