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27-Year-Old Man Found Dead Behind Memphis Church Building, Shot and Reportedly Burned
On Tuesday, detectives in South Memphis discovered the body of 27-year-old Larry Thorn in the parking lot behind a church. He had reportedly suffered a gunshot wound. Per one witness, the body had also been burned.
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Dispute Over Abuse Hotline Reveals How Far the SBC Still Has To Go
The Southern Baptist Convention's abuse hotline was meant as an interim measure, but until recently, very little was known about how it operated. That led one survivor and longtime abuse advocate to ask some pointed and uncomfortable questions about the hotline in an online publication.
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Baptist Woman in Mexico Near Death After Alleged Beating by Catholic Leaders
A Baptist woman is hospitalized in critical condition after a beating tied to unjustly applied local customs and laws in an indigenous Catholic community in Mexico, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reported.
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Radical Muslims Kill Christian After Religion Debate
A 37-year-old father of four was killed on Jan. 2 after participating in a Christian-Muslim debate in eastern Uganda at which 13 Muslims put their faith in Christ, sources said.
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Rumors ‘The Passion of the Christ’ Sequel Is Shooting in Spring Confirmed To Be False
ChurchLeaders reached out to Mel Gibson’s creative marketing and communications agency representatives to ask if the rumors of the Passion sequel were true. They are not.
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Demi Lovato Ad Featuring Bondage, a Crucifix and the F-Word Banned in the UK
A poster of singer Demi Lovato wearing bondage-style clothing and lying on a bed shaped like a cross has been banned from the United Kingdom for being “likely to cause serious offence to Christians.”
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‘Cancel Culture Is a Tactic the Left Uses’—Kirk Cameron Hosts Controversial Pastor Douglas Wilson on ‘Takeaways’
In the course of the episode on cancel culture, Cameron sought the wisdom of Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson, who is a controversial figure for his views surrounding Christian nationalism and antebellum slavery.
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A Restored Medieval Depiction of the Crusades Shows How England Embraced Islamic Culture
An 800-year-old puzzle about a set of 13th-century floor tiles has added to historians’ thinking about the relationship of Europeans and Arabs at the time of the Crusades.