Brandon Showalter and Leah MarieAnn Klett

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  Dec 29, 2020

  China: Christian who saw her work as 'God's will' sentenced to 4 years in prison for Wuhan reporting

  A Christian reporter who saw her work as God’s will has been sentenced to four years in prison in Shanghai after she documented the coronavirus outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.

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  Dec 28, 2020

  China bans Christmas activities, forces some churches to halt services

  Christians in China faced increased persecution throughout the Christmas season, with authorities shutting down many worship services and caroling events.

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  Dec 27, 2020

  Dinner Churches and how the coronavirus is shaking up the traditional model (part 2)

  What is the future of the post-COVID Christian church? If you ask two men involved with the Fresh Expressions movement, it may be taking place on a different night of the week and not Sunday and it may happen over dinner. And more broadly, many longtime American churchgoers are going to have to reconsider how they do church.

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  Dec 26, 2020

  Microchurches and how the coronavirus is shaking up the traditional model (part 1)

  What is the future of the post-COVID Christian church in the United States? For a pair of millennial pastors, it meant leaving what they loved doing in pursuit of discipleship coupled with the sober recognition that existing church structures, even within those where the Gospel was being faithfully proclaimed, were not only woefully inadequate but hampering the Kingdom of God from advancing.

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  Dec 25, 2020

  David Platt warns Christians not to 'exalt gifts over the giver' this Christmas

  Pastor and author David Platt has urged Christians to fight consumerism this Christmas by enjoying God and proclaiming His name and glory to a lost world. 

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  Dec 24, 2020

  Alexa and Carlos PenaVega make Christmas giving a family affair: 'Our faith is everything'

  For acting couple Carlos and Alexa PenaVega and their family, charitable giving is both a Christmas tradition and a reflection of their Christian faith. 

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  Dec 23, 2020

  'Important and exciting' ritual bath from Jesus' time discovered at the Garden of Gethsemane

  The remains of a 2,000-year-old ritual bath have been discovered at Gethsemane — the place where Jesus Christ prayed before He was betrayed by Judas — marking the first archeological evidence linking the pilgrimage site to the New Testament era. 

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  Dec 23, 2020

  Parents erect 3rd billboard warning against trans medicalization of kids

  A group of concerned parents of trans-identifying teenagers have erected another billboard drawing attention to the harms of the medicalization of gender after being censored earlier this month. 

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  Dec 23, 2020

  Rick Warren: COVID-19 has 'revealed a fundamental weakness in the Church'

  Many churches across the U.S. are scrambling in the wake of COVID-19 because they’ve focused solely on worship instead of other aspects of ministry, Pastor Rick Warren of the California-based Saddleback Church has said.

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  Dec 22, 2020

  Man who raped 10-y-o daughter to get trans surgery funded by taxpayers, move to women’s prison

  A federal judge has ruled that a man convicted of raping his 10-year-old daughter will be allowed to get gender reassignment surgery while in prison, paid for at taxpayers' expense.