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A 237-year-old African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church has made headlines after it elected its first woman to serve in leadership. Mother Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia announced it had elected Rev. Carolyn C. Caveness to replace its former pastor, Rev. Mark Kelly Tyler. Tyler had served as head pastor for 16 years. Caveness had been…

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Event organizers are celebrating an “historic” turnout of the first-ever “March for Jesus” held in Dublin, Ireland. Event organizers estimated that around 12,000 people attended the event, which brought marchers from the Garden of Remembrance to Dáil Éireann. Participants in the event sang worship songs and held up signs such as “Jesus can change your…

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The Episcopal Church is reporting growing numbers in worship despite the denomination losing 40,000 members last year. As of 2023, the denomination boasts 1.547 million people and accounted for 6,754 congregations. This number is down from 2022, which reported 1.584 million members and 6,789 congregations. However, the 2023 Parochial Report stated that the number of…

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A 1,500-year-old stone tablet inscribed with the oldest known rendition of the Ten Commandments is set to make history as it heads to auction at Sotheby’s in New York next month. This 115-pound relic dates back to the Late Roman-Byzantine period and stands as a rare and powerful testament to Judeo-Christian beliefs. The tablet is…

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A popular European retailer has removed a Christmas sweater from its line of merchandise after Christians took offense to the sweater’s messaging. The retailer, Debenhams, featured the purple sweater on its website with the phrase, “A Gay in a Manger” written across, a play on the popular Christmas hymn, “Away in a Manger.” The shirt…

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In a powerful message delivered recently, Pastor Greg Laurie, founder of the Harvest churches in California and Hawaii and of the renowned Harvest Crusades, made a bold claim regarding former President Donald Trump’s return to the political spotlight. Laurie believes that Trump’s recent election victory is no coincidence but rather part of a divine mandate…

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For the first time since the catastrophic fire in 2019, the bells of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris rang out in harmony, filling the air with a sound rich in history and hope. This chime marked a monumental moment in the restoration of one of the world’s most beloved Christian landmarks, signaling a return to…

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John Piper discussed the role of Satan in suffering on a recent episode of “Ask Pastor John.” A questioner asked his opinion about the biblical story of Job and his wife’s response to their suffering. In the biblical story, Satan approaches God and challenges him on Job’s faithfulness, insisting that Job is only faithful to…

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  Business Insider recently featured a story on Churchy Answers That Help You, or Cathy for short, a faith-based chat bot that utilizes the traditions of the Episcopalian church to respond to people’s search for truth and guidance. Cathy was developed by TryTank Research Institute, with the intention to “translate” the Bible into everyday language…

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A new study is suggesting that two of Jesus’s biggest miracles involving fish could have been accomplished through scientific rather than divine means. The feeding of the 5,000, one of the few miraculous incidents recorded in all four Gospels of the New Testament, and the “miraculous catch of fish” both occurred along the Sea of…
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