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1. Tortured Evangelist Supernaturally Escapes High-Security Prison by Simply Walking Out

Liu Zhenying fell to the floor convulsing, his frail body coursing with electricity. Prison guards, electric-shock batons in hand, stepped back unashamedly as he lost consciousness. Inside Nanyang Prison, ...

Created on 13 September 2018

2. Tortured Evangelist Supernaturally Escapes High-Security Prison by Simply Walking Out

Liu Zhenying fell to the floor convulsing, his frail body coursing with electricity. Prison guards, electric-shock batons in hand, stepped back unashamedly as he lost consciousness. Inside Nanyang Prison, ...

Created on 13 September 2018

3. Fred Price Names Son Pastor

Fred Price, founder of one of the nation's first black megachurches and an icon of the faith movement, will step aside on March 15 to install his son, Fred Price Jr., as senior pastor of Crenshaw Christian ...

Created on 27 February 2009

4. Pentecostalism Still Burns

While membership in the nation's largest Christian communions declined last year, two Pentecostal denominations showed an increase. The Assemblies of God (AG) of Springfield, Missouri, and the Cleveland, ...

Created on 27 February 2009

5. Teens Fast to Relieve World Hunger

Countering perceptions that today's youth are selfish and lazy, hundreds of thousands of teens from 7,000 youth groups will fast, pray, fundraise and serve neighbors in need this weekend to raise awareness ...

Created on 26 February 2009

6. Pro-life Pastor Defiant

A pro-life pastor facing prison time for offering sidewalk counseling at an abortion clinic in Oakland, California, returned to the same sidewalk on Tuesday, praying with a handful of others for God to ...

Created on 25 February 2009

7. Obama: 'We Will Rebuild

Last night, in his first appearance before a joint session of Congress, President Obama delivered an optimistic speech, repeatedly telling the nation that though the economic climate may be dark, clearer ...

Created on 25 February 2009

8. Holy Spirit's Reach Studie

This week the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles received a $6.9 million grant to study Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity -- one of the world's fastest growing religious movements. ...

Created on 24 February 2009

9. Teen Prostitutes Rescued

In a three-day sting operation involving 29 cities and all levels of law enforcement, the FBI reported today the recovery of 48 children nationwide who were trapped in the sex trade, some as young as 13. ...

Created on 23 February 2009

10. A Bitterless Breakup

Three Indiana churches belonging to the Presbyterian Church (USA) will break away from the national church on April 15. The leadership from Covenant Presbyterian Church of West Lafayette, First Presbyterian ...

Created on 23 February 2009

11. Engle: 'I'm Burning Insid

Lou Engle, founder of TheCall, is imploring Christians to pray beginning this Sunday night for "reformation" to come to California's government. Engle, a strong supporter of Proposition 8, a measure on ...

Created on 20 February 2009

12. Israel Publication Kind to Messianics

Christian leaders were pleased this week to learn of a feature-length story that recently appeared in a Jerusalem Post publication giving fair treatment to Israel's Messianic community. The minority religious ...

Created on 20 February 2009

13. Pastor's Jail Term in Limb

The case of a pro-life pastor facing prison time for offering sidewalk counseling at an Oakland, California, abortion clinic will be "in limbo" until March 20, according to his legal firm. At his sentencing ...

Created on 20 February 2009

14. Canadians Cry Out

Hundreds, possibly thousands of Christians are gathering Saturday on the remote island province of Newfoundland in northeastern Canada to fast and pray for God to impact their nation "for righteousness' ...

Created on 19 February 2009

15. Singled Out?

A lawsuit filed last week against officials of the Los Angeles Community College District claims a professor censored and threatened to expel a student at Los Angeles City College following the student's ...

Created on 18 February 2009

16. Pro-life Pastor Faces Jail

A pro-life leader faces up to two years in prison and as much as $4,000 in fines for offering sidewalk counseling at an Oakland, California, abortion clinic. Pastor Walter B. Hoye, founder of the Issues4Life ...

Created on 17 February 2009

17. Sharia Used As Truce Carrot

On Monday Pakistan suspended military offensives and imposed Sharia law in parts of the nation's North West Frontier Province, a gesture intended to calm a major insurgency there led by the Taliban terrorist ...

Created on 16 February 2009

18. Wildfires Down Under

As the death toll continues to climb from the worst wildfires in Australia's history, Christian leaders are rushing aid to hundreds of victims left injured or homeless by bushfires that ravaged the southern ...

Created on 12 February 2009

19. Livni Edges Win in Israel

In extremely tight parliamentary elections held in Israel on Tuesday Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister and leader of the centrist Kadima Party, appeared to have gained one seat more than tough rival ...

Created on 11 February 2009

20. Christian Bus Driver Upset With Atheist Ad

A London-based ad campaign targeting the sides of hundreds of buses in England with, "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life," hit a snag this week when the promotion reached Southampton, ...

Created on 10 February 2009