Sergei Karpenko's Chicago church is now almost entirely made up of refugees from the Russian war against Ukraine.Many of them aren't from a church background, so the pastor of Bible Church of Ukraine-...
More pastors are encouraging members to adopt and provide foster care at a time when adoptions have declined in the US.A Lifeway Research study found more than 2 in 5 US Protestant churchgoers (44%) s...
Enid Almanzar was shocked the first time she walked into an evangelical church. She had been raised Catholic and was used to stained-glass windows, ornate crosses, portraits of saints, and statues of ...
Hajj Atiya, an elderly Sudanese woman living in Khartoum, was already ill.And then the war started."The planes bombed from above, the bullets were flying below," she said. "We stayed in our house, afr...
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) saw its largest membership decline in more than a century last year, and church attendance has not rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, even though a significant sur...
Rachel Kerr James was the first medical professional to arrive on the scene of the US embassy bombing in Saigon in March 1965. She saw the smoke, mangled metal, and scores of people wounded by the bla...
Rioting mobs have taken the lives of at least six people and destroyed or burned down 25 churches in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. Since May 3, thousands of victims, the majority of them C...
While longstanding offenders in Asia and the Middle East remain epicenters of persecution, Latin America and Europe occupy more space in an annual chronicle by the US Commission on International Relig...
In the forest compound owned by the founder of Good News International Church, Kenyan police have discovered dozens of starving people and 65 bodies buried in unmarked graves. They arrested two people...
Ron Hamilton wrote hundreds of hymns and worship songs, including "Rejoice in the Lord," "Here Am I, Lord," and "I Saw Jesus in You." He was also a composer and published 20 Christmas cantatas.But he ...
Charles Stanley once took a punch to the face for his church. The longtime pastor and oft-praised preacher, who died on Tuesday at age 90, fought hard to lead in his Southern Baptist congregation, ear...
George Verwer had a question.When the 18-year-old and his friend finished praying in a dorm room in Maryville, Tennessee, Verwer looked at his college buddy and asked, "Well? Are you ready to go?"Dale...
Victor Glover will pray his way to the moon.When the Artemis 2 takes off sometime late next year, four astronauts will strap into a gumdrop-shaped capsule atop a tower of rockets taller than the Statu...
For four days, Lebanon had two time zones.Scheduled to switch for daylight savings on March 26, the nation's Sunni and Shiite political heads postponed it until the end of Ramadan to ease Muslim fasti...
When conservative Anglicans from around the world gather next month in Rwanda, they could begin to explore a new framework of leadership in response to the Church of England's recent move to let its c...
On a recent afternoon on the grounds of St. Andrew's Church, young men and women danced in a semicircle, swinging to the beat of drums. The group's leader gestured intently as she marched, signing to ...
Prayer outside abortion facilities is drawing prosecution in multiple cases across the UK.
Adam Smith-Connor prayed silently on a public street in Bournemouth, England, earlier this month, his back...
Tom Kehler has worked in artificial intelligence for more than 40 years, as a coder and a CEO. He grew up a preacher's kid and got into mathematical linguistics in high school. After earning a PhD in ...
Hispanic churches in the United States face unique challenges but are finding success in building community within their congregations and reaching those outside their walls.
Lifeway Research partn...
Jack Hayford, the Foursquare Church leader who taught evangelicals that God is enthroned in the praises of his people, died on Sunday at the age of 88.
Hayford was the longtime pastor of the Church...