(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
(Life News) Vermont has agreed to a policy change that allows Christian foster parents to care for children without being forced to endorse gender ideology. The state’s decision comes after a lawsuit essentially forcing it to back down from revocation of foster-care licenses for families holding traditional religious beliefs on
(Christian Today) A Christian social worker whose offer of a job was withdrawn over public comments he made about marriage and sexuality has won his case at appeal. Touchstone Leeds, a mental health and wellbeing charity and NHS provider, withdrew the conditional job offer to Felix Ngole after discovering his past
(Baptist Press) Rick Boyne was in choir practice on Feb. 8 at Immanuel Southern Baptist Church when the church treasurer pulled him out and said something less than encouraging. “Pastor, we’ve got a problem.” “I’d heard that before, but nothing like this was going to be,” Boyne, pastor at the
(ICC) At least 70 members of the predominantly Christian Tiv ethnic group are feared dead following coordinated attacks on multiple communities in Chanchanji Council Ward of Takum Local Government Area, Taraba state, in northeastern Nigeria. Local sources told Benue Info-pedia that the attacks occurred simultaneously across several villages, overwhelming residents
(Trinity Fi) Last spring, in a dispute over new church bylaws, a large group of concerned members of the 90,000-plus member Second Baptist Church (SBC) of Houston formed the non-profit Jeremiah Counsel Corporation (JCC) and filed a lawsuit against the church’s former senior pastor Homer Edwin Young, new senior pastor Ben Young,
(ICC) Nigerian officials said that 163 worshipers were kidnapped on Sunday when heavily armed bandits raided at least two churches during services. The abductions reportedly occurred in a rural Christian community in the Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna state in north-central Nigeria. Sunday’s attack “was carried out by bandits
Update: Zachary Morgan has removed himself as one of the plaintiffs. (AZ Central) In October, three well-known pastors in Arizona sued a married couple and an independent journalist who were criticizing and accusing the church of misconduct. Leaders at Apologia Church in Mesa said the couple and journalist “defamed” them
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