Catholicism Declining in Latin America, Pew Research Finds
Loading the Audio Player... The number of Catholics in Latin America is shrinking, while a growing percentage of Latinos are religiously unaffiliated, new research found. Despite ...
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Hillsong’s Brian Houston says father was ‘serial pedophile,’ given retirement package after firing
Brian Houston, the founder and former global senior pastor of the Hillsong Church network, told a court in Australia that his father, Frank, was a serial pedophile but received a retirement package ...
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Lessons from Unsettling Advent
In this issue of A Public Witness, we want to share some of what we’ve learned from our Unsettling Advent series this year. We hope these insights will be meaningful in these last few days before we celebrate the birth of Jesus.
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SBC Pastors Launching Leadership Institute to Benefit Black Churches
A Southern Baptist Convention entity that focuses on the interests of historically African American congregations in Maryland and Delaware will soon create a leadership institute
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Utah church invests in community Christmas | Baptist Press
PRICE, Utah (BP) – Gospel Community Church lives up to its name at Christmas.
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Kentucky pastor plans to teach, encourage potential pastors | Baptist Press
FRANKFORT, Ky. (BP) – A Frankfort pastor whose small church has members who regularly supply pulpits in the Franklin Baptist Association is planning training in 2023 for those interested in preaching and teaching the Bible more effectively.
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Vatican Defrocks Priests for Life Director Frank Pavone for ‘blasphemous communications’
The Vatican has defrocked Fr Frank Pavone, the national director of Priests for Life and a leading Catholic voice against abortion in the United States, for blasphemous communications on social media ...
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UMC Pastor Suspended after Arkansas Conference Rejects Second Disaffiliation Vote
A regional body of the United Methodist Church has suspended the senior pastor of an Arkansas congregation that held a second vote to disaffiliate from the second-largest Protestant denomination in ...
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Legal matters should concern churches, expert says | Baptist Press
LAYTON, Utah (BP) – When God created Gary McKean, He gave him flat feet, and gave Southern Baptists McKean’s legal expertise.
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‘Celebrate Life!’ musical celebrates 50th anniversary, scheduled for Carnegie Hall | Baptist Press
Leslie Anne Tarabella was in elementary school when her father, Cordell Harrison, minister of music at Myrtle Grove Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fla., began to make plans to produce “Celebrate Life!”
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Pastors Urge Congregations to See the ‘darkness,’ ‘waiting’ of Christmas Season
While many consider December as a time of celebrations and parties, some pastors have urged their congregations to focus on the darkness and the waiting of the Advent season
