A city in southern China is offering cash to citizens willing to inform on “illegal religious groups,” ramping up China’s crackdown on underground churches. The Guangzhou Department of Ethnic and Religious Affairs officially announced the offer on its website to anyone who provides information about the structure of an illegal religious group, or information leading…

In France, there has been a startling trend over the last few months. Their churches are being vandalized. With the recent desecration of a dozen Catholic churches in France in just one week, investigators will not rule out the possibility of arson for the most recent fire at Notre Dame. Notre Dame is undoubtedly the…

This week is Holy Week. For Christians across the globe, this week marks the anniversary of the most important and momentous moments in human history. As such, the crowds of pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land swell, and their numbers in Jerusalem grow enormously. Every one of them is hoping to walk where Jesus took…

They say a picture tells a thousand words and this couldn’t be truer. Reuters Philippe Wojazer captured this somber yet breathtaking photograph of a cross still standing after the Notre-Dame Cathedral caught fire. When the dust finally settled, this incredible image of the cross was left. Despite the flames going up for hours, look at…

Shae House, a resident of Lynchburg Va., says she recently spotted an image of what appears to be Jesus when she was walking along the Blackwater Creek trail ABC 3340 reports. It took me all morning but I finally see Jesus on the rock on Blackwater Creek Trail. Do you see what we see?? pic.twitter.com/6qKghK6uaO…

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