Christian News

Foster Care Is How One Couple Is Helping Migrant Children

Amid general outcry over migrant children detained at the U.S. border, one couple in Florida has decided to use Bethany Christian Services to become transitional foster parents to kids who are unaccompanied immigrants. 

7 Churches Leave the UMC Over Views on Sexuality

At the Mississippi Annual Conference, seven UMC churches were approved to disaffiliate from the denomination out of disagreement with the church's stance toward LGBT individuals. One, however, had a reason that was slightly surprising.

This Church Is Showing the Love of God by Erasing Medical Debt

Grand Rapids First church in Wyoming, Michigan, is doing something incredible: paying off the medical bills of debtors in four counties, all to show people that God loves them.

Truth and Kindness Are Focus of Church’s Social Media Guidelines

The Church of England has issued its first social media guidelines, saying it hopes to foster kindness online and help the church be a “force for social cohesion” in the digital sphere.

PCA General Assembly Says ‘Yes’ to the Nashville Statement

The PCA General Assembly voted yesterday to endorse the Council of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood’s Nashville Statement by a vote of 803 to 541. 

Churches Take Action to Help Children at the Border As Leaders Debate

Amid news of dangerous, unsanitary conditions at migrant detention facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border, evangelical Christians are lending a hand to children at the border while advocating for more humane treatment.

Christians Targeted in Sahel Region Violence, Death Count Uncertain

The latest Mali conflict involves an attack on a Dogon village that resulted in the deaths of multiple men, women, and children. While accounts differ as to whether the number of people who died was around 40 or closer to 100, Open Doors reports that all who died were Christians.

Australians Are Funding Israel Folau’s Legal Battle $100 at a Time

Ousted rugby star Israel Folau is facing a new round of legal battles as he seeks financial support from followers who sympathize with the athlete's right to religious freedom.