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The Chinese government has continued its growing crackdown on Christians within the country. Elder Zhu Longfei was arrested on August 9, 2023 by Shunde police for “illegal business operations.” Longfei is an elder at Shengjia Church, a house church which means is does not recognized the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) authority over it through the…

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The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case between Southern Methodist University (SMU) and the United Methodist Church (UMC). The issues began in 2019 as the UMC battled over the issue of ordaining LGBTQ clergy and performing same sex marriages. At the time, the UMC voted in February 2019 to uphold the “Traditional…

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Nottingham University of England is being slammed for issuing a trigger warning on multiple medieval English works, including Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales for “expressions of Christian faith.” The trigger warning sent out from the university to students taking the module “Chaucer and his Contemporaries” warned them of “incidences of violence, mental illness and ‘expressions of…

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Evangelist Greg Laurie, senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in California, is standing firm in his decision to lead a prayer at a recent Donald Trump rally, stating that his actions were not politically motivated but rather centered on his calling to share the gospel. Laurie emphasized that his role as a pastor transcends political…

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