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On Friday, a 2-year-old boy with special needs was found dead at a Christian daycare run out of a home in North Carolina. He was discovered upside down in a five gallon bucket that contained three inches of water. 

News of the Iranian protests is only now getting traction with Americans, but for Iranian immigrants, it has been more than a month.

Portugal’s president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, is scrambling to quell an outcry over his comments appearing to make light of revelations that more than 400 people were victims of child sex abuse by members of the Portuguese Catholic Church.

An independent Baptist pastor has resigned from his elected position on the local school board, saying it proved incompatible with his duty to uphold the Bible.

Pope Francis presided over a special evening Mass to commemorate the opening of Vatican II, which brought the 2,000-year-old church into the modern era by allowing for Masses in the vernacular rather than Latin and a greater emphasis on the role of ordinary faithful in the life of the church.

Bishop T.D. Jakes' daughter Sarah Jakes Roberts will take the reins of his successful women’s-empowerment ministry. @BishopJakes @SJakesRoberts

Christian Cafe president and co-founder Sam Moorcroft says his dating service is meeting a need he felt keenly in the 1990s and which is still felt by single Christians today. Users have the option to go into detail about their faith—and are also required to be specific about other areas of life.

According to Lifeway Research, half of U.S. Protestant pastors (52%) say the current economy is having a negative impact on their churches, 40% say it’s having no effect, and 7% say it’s a positive factor.