A pastor says he doesn\'t know what is motivating an arsonist who is targeting African-American churches in the St. Louis area, outside of the fact the person is \"spiritually sick.\"
Ben Carson was one of six GOP candidates to give his or her personal testimony and positions on various issues at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas this week as part of the North Texas Presidential Forum, hosted by the Faith & Freedom Coalition and Prestonwood Baptist. Carson, Carly ...
Can military personnel collect toys for a Christian charity serving orphans worldwide? Not on our watch, activists say.
His Healing Hands Church and health clinic filed a lawsuit on Oct. 14 against the Lansing Housing Commission (LHC) for refusing to allow the church to use a community room for worship, even though other religious organizations are granted access to the space.
The National Association of Evangelicals has added its name to the list of Christian organizations now questioning the death penalty in the United States, a resolution from the association said Oct. 15. The resolution critiques the fallible nature of human systems of justice and says the United ...
In a week-long nationwide sting, over 500 law enforcement officials coordinated by the FBI rescued 149 children from human trafficking -- and the youngest one was 12 years old.
The majority of Americans still support the death penalty for those convicted of murder, but support for the punishment among the general population has declined precipitously since 1994, Gallup claims in its new findings. Most major American religious denominations also support abolishing capital ...
A Detroit pastor shot and killed a man who attacked him with a brick during Sunday morning services Oct. 18, the Detroit News has reported. The man who attacked the pastor had claimed the pastor had fathered a child with his wife during an extramarital affair.
Court proceedings have begun in the case of Cochran v. City of Atlanta, in which former Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran was unjustly terminated from his position—for being a Christian.Just a few weeks after the high-ranking civil servant was promoted, Cochran was suspended, then fired by Atlanta ...
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina says it is her faith that sustained her through the often painful attacks that come in a bruising presidential primary race. The former Hewlett-Packard CEO and Republican senatorial candidate credits a 2007 speaking opportunity at the Willow Creek ...
Time Magazine in 1971 labeled it \"The Jesus Revolution,\" and its followers were called \"Jesus people\" or \"Jesus freaks.\" When 80,000 young adults showed up in Dallas in 1972 to hear Billy Graham preach, Newsweek quickly dubbed the gathering the \"Christian Woodstock.\" The new film ...
Baseball great Lance Berkman is advocating the defeat of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), which – if passed – would allow men who \"identify\" as women to use women\'s restrooms and vice versa. In particular, the ordinance eases the path to public acceptance for transgenders.