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Country music icon Dolly Parton celebrated her 77th birthday by releasing a song she received from God in a dream. “I got up, and I started writing this song over a period of weeks, months,” the music legend shared in an Instagram video announcing the release of  the new single, “Don’t Make Me Have to Come Down…

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A NASA astronaut who formerly held the American record for cumulative days in space says he believes science and the Bible are in harmony, not conflict. Astronaut Jeffrey Williams took part in four space missions from 2000 to 2016, first on the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the next three aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International…

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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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Researchers have confirmed that the Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, contains references to King David of the Bible. The stele is a basalt stone slab that was discovered originally in 1868, east of the Dead Sea. A missionary named F.A. Klein had found the stone, which piqued the interest of scholar Charles Clemont-Ganneau, who sent…

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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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Lifeway Research has released a new survey that reveals that female Protestant churchgoers spend more time with God than men. The survey was conducted between September 19-29, 2022 and involved 1002 Americans. The survey focused on Protestants and non-Catholics. According to the study, 65 percent of churchgoers intentionally spend daily time with God, with 21 percent…

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Christians in Jerusalem are speculating that the toppling and vandalism of over 30 graves at a historic Christian cemetery in Jerusalem is a “hate crime.” The vandalism occurred at Protestant Church on Mount Zion, with police officers responding to a call earlier this month. A tweet later shared footage of two men entering the cemetery on a…

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