Christian News

Stedfast Baptist Church in Hurst, Texas is being evicted from its building after the church’s pastor, Jonathan Shelley, preached that those who practice homosexuality are “worthy of death.” 

Compared to the beginning of 2021, more U.S. Protestant churches are gathering in person and more churchgoers are filling the pews. The return to pre-pandemic attendance levels has stalled, however, in recent months.

Shortly after 5 p.m. PST on Monday, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a worker reporting gunfire inside The Church In Sacramento, located in the Arden-Arcade area.

Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, a Democrat in Oakland, introduced a piece of legislation that would reduce residential parking requirements for newly built religious institutions to allow for the construction of housing.

In cities with some of the largest Ukrainian populations in the United States, worshipers prayed for peace and an end to war Sunday (Feb. 27) as Russia threatened its western neighbor for the fourth straight day.

Harry Blake, a young civil rights leader, was among those at Little Union Baptist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana, when mounted police burst through the doors during a memorial service for four girls killed in a church bombing. Blake needed at least seven stitches after police finished beating him.

It doesn’t require a personal connection with the country of Ukraine to pray on its behalf. But for many Southern Baptists, the ongoing invasion and fighting there has made it personal nonetheless.

According to a new report from The Lancet, at least 5.2 million children across the world are "COVID orphans" —that is, they have lost a parent or caregiver for a COVID-19-associated reason.