Sam Blackledge was the 2018 valedictorian of Illinois’ West Prairie High School. As per tradition, he had prepared a speech to give before his classmates during the graduation ceremony. Minutes before Blackledge was to take the stage, however, school administrators demanded that the 18 year old modify his speech. The ordered alterations included the removal…

Over the past week, several well-known evangelical preachers and megachurch pastors have spoken out about a possible link between Biblical prophecy and the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. The opening of the embassy was a huge political statement from the U.S., and occurred on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Israel. Senior…

American President Donald Trump has welcomed home three Christian American detainees that were released from North Korea last week. The White House stated the gesture was a sign of goodwill ahead of the planned meeting between President Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Mr. Trump is hopeful about the meeting, earlier stating that…

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It’s amazing to see miracles can still happen even in modern society. This was the case with 13-year-old Trenton McKinley of Mobile, Alabama after he suffering severe brain trauma from a dune buggy accident. McKinley was playing at a friend’s house two months ago riding in a small utility trailer being pulled by a dune…

A French scholar has identified the outlines of passages from the Bible behind an eighth-century manuscript of the Qur’an. This discovery is extraordinary as it is “the only recorded palimpsest in which a Christian text has been effaced to make way for the Islamic holy text,” according to The Guardian. Dr. Eléonore Cellard discovered that…

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