Syria broke into the top 10 countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian for the first time in nearly a decade in Open Doors’ 2026 World Watch List (WWL) as more than 388 million Christians worldwide faced high levels of persecution or discrimination last year.
A Scottish charity, which had canceled bookings made by a local church and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association for its conference center, has apologized for violating the United Kingdom's Equality Act as part of a legal settlement.
One of Canada’s largest churches has placed its pastor on leave after sexual misconduct allegations were made against him.
A church in Massachusetts has donated 200 backpacks full of various supplies and Bibles to two police departments to aid the local homeless population.
Many people don’t know the stories behind their favorite Christmas carols. That’s where ‘Hark! The Stories Behind Our Favorite Christmas Carols’ comes in, a new podcast that explores the meaning and making of some of the best-known and most-loved Christmas carols.
With hymns blaring in our favorite coffee shops and retail stores and major television networks replaying “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” you would think most everyone who walks into our churches during Advent season would understand the basic contours of the Christmas story. And yet you’d be surprised to know there…
In light of the Advent season of waiting, Louie Giglio, the pastor of Passion City Church in Atlanta, Georgia, shared with his congregation that Jesus is coming back “soon” yet many won't make it to Heaven and some will be deceived by Satan's “game of deception.
Stephen Cottrell said "the most astonishingly beautiful part of the story of Advent and Christmas" was Mary's 'yes' to the angel.
VBS Previews set to help churches ‘maximize kingdom impact’; First Baptist, Hendersonville, passes blessing on to others; Former Bills great Mark Pike, son of Kentucky Baptist pastor, dies from cancer.
RICHMOND, Va. (BP) – Shalom, quiet stillness at dawn, a sleeping baby. What places and experiences come to mind when you think about peace?
The plumber who recently discovered an undisclosed sum of cash and checks stacked inside a wall at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, seven years after some $600,000 was reported stolen from a safe received a $20,000 reward from Crime Stoppers of Houston. Meanwhile, a church executive offered a possible theory of how the money ended up in the wall.
