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Jan 12 2023
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California church vandalized three times since Christmas, suspect apprehended
Among the latest in an ongoing series of attacks on Catholic churches in the United States, St. Mary Catholic Church in Escondido, California, has been vandalized three times since Christmas.
Father Scott Herrera, the church’s pastor, told CNA Thursday that he believes the vandal, who was caught on security cameras in all three incidents, is the same person.
Herrera said that
Catholic News Agency
Jan 03 2023
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Fire damages downtown former home of Portland Korean Church
A fire at a downtown building that once housed Portland Korean Church sent clouds of smoke billowing over Southwest 10th Avenue and Clay Street on Tuesday evening.
The three-story former church building experienced another fire in September 2020. The congregation sold the building in 2015, and it has been vacant.
Firefighters with Portland Fire & Rescue said they don’t
The Oregonian
Jan 08 2023
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Biden Plans MLK Day Speech at Atlanta Church Headed by Warnock
Perhaps best known for its annual Film Festival, Cannes is a city located on the French Riviera. Receiving some of the country's finest weather, the city is a vacation hotspot for creatives andartists alike. However, one such local's chance encounter with art took him down a totally unexpected career path – and he owes it all to skateboarding.
Bloomberg
Nov 07 2022
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3 Principles for Settling Political Spats in the Church
Every election season, some Christians remind us that “Jesus is not a Republican or a Democrat.”
But every election season, other Christians tell us that it’s wrong to vote for a candidate who supports abortion, or that Christians should vote only for candidates who will fight racial injustice.
With issues of grave moral import on the ballot—human life, religious liberty,
Christianity Today
Nov 23 2022
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Nearly one-third of churches split from regional Methodist church body amid ongoing schism about sexuality
Hundreds of churches split from a regional body of the United Methodist Church (UMC) over the weekend as the second-largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. continues to hemorrhage congregations.
Delegates at a special session of the UMC's North Carolina Conference voted 957-165 on Saturday to approve the departure of 249 conservative congregations in the regional body that wanted to
Fox News (Online News)
Dec 21 2022
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Report: Attacks on Christian Churches Nearly Triple in Four Years
Attacks on Christian churches have nearly tripled in the last four years, according to a 84-page report released by Family Research Council (FRC) in December.
Between January 2018 and September 2022, FRC found 420 documented acts of hostility against 397 separate churches in the United States.
Many cases included incidences of vandalism, bomb threats, arson, and gun-related
Breitbart News
Jan 15 2023
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Biden honors Martin Luther King at Ebenezer church with nods to 2024 and voting rights
ATLANTA – Joe Biden, in a Sunday sermon at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, used the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic pulpit build bridges with Black voters as he gears up for a reelection bid. Alluding to his failure to deliver on a key campaign promise – to restore voting rights protections erased by the Supreme Court in 2013 – he recalled King’s “epic struggle for civil rights and
The Dallas Morning News
Nov 30 2022
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Christians Become Minority in UK, Calls Grow to Cancel Church of England
For the first time in history, new U.K. census data reveals a majority of people in England and Wales don't call themselves Christian anymore – a result that has sparked calls for the end of the church's involvement in government and schools.
New data for 2021 released Tuesday by the Office of National Statistics shows 46.2% of people identified themselves as Christians, compared with
CBN
Sep 22 2022
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How Should the Church Respond to Political Polarization?
We’re currently living through a moment of significant political polarization. How should the church respond?
Guilherme De Carvalho: With or without polarization, the church’s task is always the same: to give apostolic witness to the gospel and its implications for the world. Evangelical churches need to rediscover Christian social doctrine and the witness of the gospel. This is the
Christianity Today