By: Carol Kuruvilla – huffpost.com – July 16, 2019 As churches and immigration advocates raced to protect undocumented immigrants last week from threatened nationwide raids, one Texas megachurch took a different approach. Prestonwood Baptist Church’s mission team spent time last week ministering to Border Patrol agents and their families in El Paso ― handing out food, backpacks and other give-aways to show their...

By: Afshin Ziafat – billygraham.org – January 30, 2019 Disowned for Jesus: A Former Muslim’s Journey to Christ I was born in Houston and grew up in a devout Muslim home. My dad was very involved in the Iranian Muslim community. When I was 2 years old, my family moved to Iran, where my parents are from. But when I was 6, the Islamic...

By: Ryan P. Burge – christianitytoday.com – May 24, 2019 By now, Southern Baptists recognize that their movement is in a decline that shows no signs of changing course. By their own measures, they’re not adding as many new believers to their flocks each year—the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) went from baptizing 321,000 in 2007 to 246,000 last year. Plus, despite adding...

By: Ross Douthat – nytimes.com – April 23, 2019 The murderous radicals who set off bombs and killed hundreds on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka chose their targets with ideological purpose. Three Catholic churches were bombed, and with them three hotels catering to Western tourists, because often in the jihadist imagination Western Christianity and Western liberal individualism are the conjoined...

By: Associated Press – nbcnews.com – February 19, 2019 More than a decade after the Southern Baptist Convention rejected the idea of creating a database of ministers credibly accused of sexual abuse, leaders said on Monday night the possibility is on the table. The denomination already was looking at how it could better respond to abuse when two Texas newspapers published an...

By: Lukas Mikelionis – foxnews.com – January 29, 2019 Christian woman on death row in Pakistan acquitted Pakistan’s Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of a Christian woman who was sentenced to death for blasphemy, ruling that she is now free to leave the country where she’s facing death threats. Asia Bibi previously spent eight years on death row before being...

By: News Editor – christianaction.org – November 5, 2018 The federal 4th Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled oral arguments for and against a high school’s teaching of Islam that the Christian Action Network found is advancing Islam over Christianity. With this, the arguments stage of the process for the case of Wood v. Charles County Board of Education is slated...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – October 29, 2018 Last week a bona fide Trump superfan launched a campaign of terror against the people and entities that Trump repeatedly attacks, often with rhetoric that is absurdly over the top. Also last week, a man who hates Trump launched a dreadful attack against a synagogue, killing eleven Jewish Americans in the...

By: Doug Stanglin & Jane Onyanga-Omara – usatoday.com – September 12, 2018 Pope Francis, signaling the Catholic Church’s inability to defuse long-running clergy sex scandals, on Wednesday summoned the presidents of Catholic bishops conferences worldwide to the Vatican in February to discuss protecting children and preventing sexual abuse by priests. The meeting, on Feb. 21-24, is believed to be the...

By: Josh Shepherd – stream.org – February 22, 2018 This week, the world mourns the death of Reverend Billy Graham. He preached the Christian gospel to more than 215 million people worldwide during his lifetime. Graham also met with and advised every U.S. President since the World War II era. Several Christian ministries Graham founded remain active, notably Christianity Today...