The ’Splainer: Who is Our Lady of Fatima and what is the ‘Third Secret’?
Source: Religion News Service By David Gibson and Kimberly Winston | 17 hours ago (RNS) The ’Splainer (as in “You’ve got some ’splaining to do”) is an occasional feature in […]
The Early Christians Ebionites – Closest to the Quranic Description of Christianity
Promoted post: National Geographic Video: Who is God with Morgan Freeman Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Ebionites are the closest to the Christianity that […]
Viral pontiff: Francis dances with Hasidic Jews at the Vatican
Source: Religion News Service By Josephine McKenna VATICAN CITY (RNS) It’s rare to see Pope Francis bopping behind the walls of the Apostolic Palace. Actually, if anyone has ever seen […]
Texas House OKs letting adoption groups deny non-Christians
Source: Associated Press By MEREDITH HOFFMAN AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Many state-funded Texas adoption and foster care agencies routinely deny non-Christian, gay, and unmarried applicants on religious grounds — and […]
Jakarta governor Ahok sentenced to two years in prison for blasphemy
Source: The Guardian BY Kate Lamb in Jakarta and agencies Shock sentence comes after hardline Islamist groups called for Christian official to be jailed for referencing Qur’an verse. Jakarta’s Christian governor […]
A Top Christian Official in Indonesia Has Been Given an Unexpectedly Harsh Sentence for ‘Blaspheming Islam’
Source: Time BY Yenni Kwok The outgoing Christian governor of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, was found guilty of blasphemy by a court in the […]
Who are Jehovah’s Witnesses?
Source: The Conversation The Russian Supreme Court recently sanctioned Jehovah’s Witnesses as an extremist group. This ruling criminalizes Jehovah’s Witnesses who express their beliefs and allows the Russian government to […]
Christianity’s most important church?
Source: BBC Disaster struck twice over the centuries, causing extensive damage to Jerusalem’s most important church – but restoration has finally been completed. Original Story
Head of Anglican church visits Christian refugees in Jordan
Source: Associated Press By SAM McNEIL and OMAR AKOUR AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The head of the Anglican Church met with Iraqi refugees Tuesday during a visit to Jordan in […]
Francis and Benedict: Two popes, two divergent approaches to Islam
Epigraph: And thou shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are savants […]
Learning about Mormonism from a Ted Talk with a sense of humor
Ted Talk: Letting Go of God When two young Mormon missionaries knock on Julia Sweeney’s door one day, it touches off a quest to completely rethink her own beliefs, in […]
China convicts Christian lawyer of subverting state power
Source: Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court has convicted a prominent Christian human rights lawyer on charges of subverting state power and sentenced him to three years in […]
Pope Francis faces another delicate — and dangerous — task in Egypt trip
Source: Religion News Service By Christopher Lamb VATICAN CITY (RNS) Even as Pope Francis was on his way to the violence-plagued Central African Republic almost two years ago, security advisers […]
Among white evangelicals, regular churchgoers are the most supportive of Trump
Source: Pew Research Center BY GREGORY A. SMITH White evangelicals overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election and were a key part of his constituency. As his presidency […]
Pope Francis Calls For ‘Revolution Of Tenderness’ In Surprise TED Talk
His Holiness Pope Francis: Why the only future worth building includes everyone … Source: Huffington Post By Ed Mazza; Overnight Editor for Huffpost Pope Francis delivered a stern warning to […]
America is abandoning independent Christians in China
Source: Religion News Service By Chloë Starr | April 21, 2017 (RNS) When Xi Jinping and Donald Trump had their first face-to-face meeting earlier this month in Mar-a-Lago, the plight of […]
Christian Women On Twitter Unload About Misogyny In The Church
Source: The Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg A Twitter hashtag about Christian women has revealed some ugly truths about misogyny in the church. Christian author Sarah Bessey started the thread […]
Step Inside The Technicolor World Of The International Church Of Cannabis
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg HELEN H. RICHARDSON VIA GETTY IMAGESA photo of the interior of the International Church of Cannabis. 670 At Denver’s newest church, the aim is to […]
Jakarta governor likely to be spared jail if found guilty of insulting Islam
Source: The Guardian Kate Lamb in Jakarta Indonesian prosecutors call for two years’ probation for Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, instead of maximum five-year prison term Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as Ahok, […]