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As we look back on our most popular articles of 2022, as always there is tragedy, but there is also hope. Controversy, loss, growth and honor are just a few of the words that characterize the events that have taken place among American church leaders throughout the past year.

Most criticism of President Joe Biden's Christmas address has been focused not on what he said but rather on what he didn’t say. 

Fulani herdsmen on Dec. 17 killed three Christians as they worked on their farm in Benue state, Nigeria, sources said.

The violence in Haiti made headlines in 2021, after the president’s assassination and the kidnapping of 17 American missionaries. More recently, the UN has warned of gang violence and a cholera outbreak.

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI is “very sick,” Pope Francis said at his weekly audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday (Dec. 28), and requested prayers for his predecessor, who is 95 and stepped down as pope in 2013.

Prosperity gospel preacher Jesse Duplantis applied the text of Isaiah 9:6, a passage often quoted during Christmas as a prophecy about Jesus, in a recent message in a way that some people took as blasphemous. 

Evangelist Trina Newman-Townsend was struck by a hit-and-run driver while taking Christmas gifts to children at a South Los Angeles shelter on Saturday afternoon. The beloved community activist, 62, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Southern Baptist Convention president Bart Barber recently offered some personal reflections on 2022 in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.