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Candace Cameron Bure took to Instagram to encourage her followers to read the whole Bible. “Who’s reading and listening to The Bible Recap with me?” she wrote. She told her followers it’s “never too late.” In her video message, she told her followers not to worry about falling behind and that “you’re right where God wants you…

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Billy Hallowell spoke with Rev. Lazarus Yeghnazar, founder of Transform Iran, on Faithwire last week to speak about the growing number of Christians in Iran, despite conversion to Christianity being illegal. Yeghnazar’s organization works with underground churches and shared that many conversions are a result of visions and dreams that people are having. The visions have such an impact that, despite the…

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Bear Grylls is the first to admit he’s something of an unconventional Christian. The survivalist and TV host is unabashedly open about his faith and how it serves as his foundation for an empowered life. But he doesn’t want to sanitize his message to make it inoffensive to a religious audience; frankly, he doesn’t have…

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The Mall of America continues to face backlash for its treatment of a Christian man wearing a “Jesus Saves” shirt. The video, which was shared on various social media outlets, shows a man named Paul Shoro in a confrontation over his “Jesus Saves” shirt with mall security guards. In the video, Shoro is seen wearing a bright…

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A study entitled “Faith After the Pandemic: How COVID-19 Changed American Religion,” released by The Survey Center for American Life through the American Enterprise Institute, has found that one-third of Americans appear to have permanently dropped out from church attendance since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The study included Christians, Jews, and Mormons and found that 13 percent…

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