(Religion Unplugged) Three Kuki-Zo Christian pastors were shot dead on May 13 after armed gunmen ambushed two vehicles travelling through Kangpokpi district in Manipur. The killings led Kuki-Zo organizations to suspect that a Naga militant faction may have carried out the attack in coordination with valley-based Meitei insurgent groups. Manipur’s
(Jon Harris) Russell Brand was known as a promiscuous drug using celebrity playboy type up until April 2024, when he announced a sudden conversion to Christianity and baptism. Skeptics, like Bill Maher, understandably wonder if it is another publicity stunt, especially in light of subsequent charges that he committed rape
(Premier Christian News) Researchers at the University of Glasgow have recovered 42 missing pages from an early New Testament manuscript, offering new insight into how biblical texts were copied, used, and understood in the early medieval period. The manuscript, known as Codex H and dated to the sixth century, contains
(Church Leaders) A former Southern Baptist pastor in Ohio has pleaded guilty to four charges involving child sex abuse. Silas Shelton of Blanchester Community Ministries in Blanchester, Ohio, offered the guilty plea in exchange for prosecutors dropping charges of rape, gross sexual imposition, and arson. Shelton initially faced 12 charges. He was arrested in October
(DSNTR) I thought I had heard it all. I really did. Paula White has spent years building a reputation as one of the most brazen purveyors of prosperity nonsense in modern evangelicalism—name it, claim it, decree it, declare it, speak it into existence. The whole tired script. I’ve watched it,
(ICC) Christians across central Nigeria are holding funerals following attacks during and after Holy Week that left at least 157 people dead in rural communities. Eight Christians were killed in a late-night attack on Mbwelle village in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau state, part of Nigeria’s Middle Belt, where
(International Christian Concern) Gunmen killed at least 30 people during a Palm Sunday attack in Ungwan Rukuba, a community in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau state, Nigeria. The incident occurred during the evening, when armed men reportedly entered the community and opened fire on residents. Eyewitnesses described the
(Christian Post) A prominent Christian counseling organization has removed Grace Community Church of Sun Valley, California, formerly led by the late Pastor John MacArthur, from its list of certified training centers. The Association of Certified Biblical Counselors recently removed GCC from its list of approved training centers, after requests to
(Premiere Christian News) The Oklahoma House of Representatives voted unanimously on March 17 to pass House Bill 4227, a sexual abuse measure known as the “Cindy Clemishire Act.” Cindy Clemishire, an Oklahoma native, was sexually abused as a child by Gateway Church founder Robert Morris in the 1980s. She brought
(Premiere Christian News) Ilia II, the Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, died on Tuesday after being hospitalised, said senior cleric Metropolitan Shio. He had been admitted for massive internal bleeding the previous evening. He was 93. The spiritual leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church for just shy of half a century, Ilia II oversaw
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