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In a year when one disaster seemed to follow another, the United Methodist Committee on Relief’s longtime investment into the training and support of church members who respond — both in the U.S. and globally — is paying off.

The statement Fred Luter, along with 19 other leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention, urged “collective repentance” for the mistreatment of people of color and the “systemic injustice” in SBC churches.

“The greatest gift you can give an inmate is hope,” one prisoner says.

Bleary, barefoot, apparently numbed by a week of captivity, more than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, were welcomed by the governor of Katsina state Friday.

Rev. Ralph D. West is one of several Black pastors dismayed by a recent statement from Southern Baptist seminary presidents denouncing critical race theory (CRT) and intersectionality. 

Claremont United Methodist Church, known for its hot-button Christmas displays, is this year featuring a mural of “Black Lives Matter” protesters behind the holy family.

A letter written by an apologist on staff with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) sheds light on how that organization has handled the allegations of sexual abuse concerning its late founder.

Christian actor and filmmaker Kirk Cameron has drawn criticism for organizing large outdoor gatherings of mostly maskless people to sing Christmas carols in protest of California’s COVID-19 restrictions.