An unidentified arsonist in Israel set fire to a Jerusalem church building that has long been a focal point for anti-Christian sentiment in a Jewish ultra-Orthodox-leaning neighborhood, church officials said. On Friday (Oct. 29) shortly before 1 a.m., someone broke the basement windows of the Jerusalem Alliance Church Ministry Center and set fire to its […]
According to the results of an election-day survey by the Faith and Freedom Coalition (FFC), self-professed evangelicals and social conservatives made up the largest single voting block in the midterm elections held on Nov. 2. The survey results, released after the elections, showed that the two groups cast 29 percent of the votes, and a
Next week, for the first time in its 103-year history, the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) will not hold its annual Holy Convocation in Memphis, Tenn.–and city officials there have been bracing all year for the economic hit. The nation’s largest Pentecostal denomination is still headquartered in the city known for its blues and
In charismatic circles, the term revivalist often brings vivid memories of past and present evangelists such as Kathryn Kuhlman, Oral Roberts and Benny Hinn. But Banning Liebscher, founder of the Jesus Culture movement, hopes to bring that concept to today’s generation of teens and young adults. “For us, a revivalist would be someone whose life is completely His,”
Islamic extremist assault and security force operation leave at least 58 dead. Amid questions about lax security, mourners gathered in Iraq this week to bury the victims of Sunday’s (Oct. 31) Islamic extremist assault on a Syrian Catholic Church in Baghdad, one of the bloodiest attacks on the country’s dwindling Christian community. Seven or eight
Well-known worship leader Darlene Zschech will soon be leaving the Australian megachurch where she has served for 25 years to become senior pastor of a nearby Pentecostal church. Zschech, whose songs “Shout to the Lord,” “The Potter’s Hand” and numerous others over the last decade made the name of Hillsong Church in Sydney synonymous with
This weekend a South Carolina pastor held a rally on the steps of the Georgia Capitol calling for Bishop Eddie Long to step down until the investigation into allegations that he used his influence and money to coerce young men into sexual relationships were proved false.
Bishop H. “Prophet” Walker of True Light Pentecost Church in Spartanburg, S.C., told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Long “had no right to continue as a leader of the Christian church.” During the rally, Walker emphasized that he has no authority over Long but that members of Long’s church New Birth Missionary Baptist in Lithonia, Ga., should force him to step down. “They have to understand that this is their church, not Bishop Long’s,” Walker said.
Gospel singer Delia Knox hadn’t walked in 22 years when she stood from her wheelchair, lifted one knee, then the other, and took careful steps across the front of a Mobile, Ala., civic center in August.
Knox leaned heavily on her husband and the pastor hosting the service, former Brownsville Revival leader John Kilpatrick, as she moved feet she hadn’t felt in decades, stopping on occasion to rest and crying all the while as the congregation shouted and leaped.
“It’s overwhelming,” she told the Mobile Press-Register after walking again in a service the following week. “It’s a God thing. I can’t even put words on it.”
Jesus prayed in John 17 that the world would know His followers by their love. Yet nearly half of evangelicals recently polled in America cite a lack of love as one of the primary contributions U.S. Christians have made to society. Some 48 percent listed a lack of love for others, as well as violence,
Larry Stockstill, pastor of Bethany World Prayer Center in Baton Rouge, La., is calling church leaders to do more than just talk about living right. At the Summit on Integrity, a one-day gathering of ministry leaders, he’s urging them to commit to a lifestyle of integrity that encompasses every area of private and public life.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct. 25 (Compass Direct News)—Police in Sudan evicted the staff of a Presbyterian church from its events and office site in Khartoum earlier this month, aiding a Muslim businessman’s effort to seize the property. Christians in Sudan’s capital city told Compass that police entered the compound of the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC)
Weighing about 100 pounds and facing hospitalization, award-winning vocalist Candy Christmas, former member of southern gospel group The Hemphills, says she hit rock bottom. In 2004 her doctor, seeing Christmas’ depression was winning the war inside and out, suggested medication or admittance to a hospital. But deep inside, Christmas knew there was another way to
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