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Violence broke out in Burkina Faso’s national capital, Ouagadougou, Sunday, as the headquarters of President Rock Kabore’s political party was burned and looted by protesters upset with his administration’s inability to thwart extremist violence that has run rampant in recent years.
This week — Jan. 23 to Jan. 29 — marks the anniversary of the birth of a prominent Welsh Methodist preacher, the death of a renowned American missionary and a major battle in Europe that likely inspired the creation of the hymn “We Gather Together.”
While the U.S. island territory did manage to recover its hospitality and tourism industry, nobody knew that recovery would be short-lived.
A group of Catholic clergy and laity in India has said that “the complete silence” of India’s bishops despite a rise in attacks on Christians and other minorities is “shocking” and urged the Catholic Bishops Conference of India to speak out.
Over the years, I have learned a very important truth: a sense of family is not the same thing as a family. I was looking at the issue of poverty and orphan care through a narrow lens — believing that tangible resources were the answer to the question of how to help children in vulnerable communities thrive.
When people are psychologically manipulated to do the bidding of the preachers, they are dishonoring God. There should be liberty in the presence of the Spirit, and worshipers should be allowed to serve God freely and honor God freely with their gifts.
Roads still contain craters, buildings continue to lay in ruins, there is little-to-no access to electricity or clean water and what little food is available is unaffordable to the average Haitian.
Allowing biological men to request transfers to women's prisons is a misogynistic policy and yet another attempt at the erasure of biological women. This harmful policy must be opposed wherever it arises
Going forward, we must make sure that elections are fair and just — that it is easy to vote, but difficult to cheat. And the place to do that is in the state legislatures — according to the Constitution Joe Biden swore to uphold.
Since Herod was a political leader, I believe it is likely that the leaven Jesus was warning against was political entanglements. I believe that such entanglements often pollute a person’s pure devotion to the Kingdom of God.
President Biden closed out his first year in office with 40 judges placed on the federal bench, a record number of confirmations not seen since Reagan.
Oscar Amaechina, the president of Afri-Mission and Evangelism Network in Abuja, Nigeria, shares the challenges and blessings he's experienced as a missionary reaching the unreached with the hope of the Gospel.
Mainstream media is raving about an 8-year-old boy coming out as bisexual on the popular television series “Law & Order: SVU,” but Christian organizations that specialize in entertainment believe that the development is “disappointing.”
Here are five memorable speeches given by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. over the course of his public career. They include remarks given at the March on Washington and words spoken the day before he was assassinated.
