The Christian Post's top 10 news stories of 2024 (part 1)

Top L to R: Israeli police officers and residents check the damage following a rocket attack from southern Lebanon that targeted the central Israeli-Arab city of Tira, on Nov. 2, 2024, JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images; Lakewood Church Pastor Joel Osteen on Feb. 11, 2024, Screenshot/Instagram/Joel Osteen; Bottom L to R: Methodist church pews, iStock/D:532811041; Bible on a school desk in a classroom, Getty Images; The Most Rev. Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury in London, England, on Nov. 18, 2019, Leon Neal/Getty Images.
Top L to R: Israeli police officers and residents check the damage following a rocket attack from southern Lebanon that targeted the central Israeli-Arab city of Tira, on Nov. 2, 2024, JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images; Lakewood Church Pastor Joel Osteen on Feb. 11, 2024, Screenshot/Instagram/Joel Osteen; Bottom L to R: Methodist church pews, iStock/D:532811041; Bible on a school desk in a classroom, Getty Images; The Most Rev. Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury in London, England, on Nov. 18, 2019, Leon Neal/Getty Images.

The year 2024 saw an unprecedented presidential election in the United States, natural disasters, continued unrest in the Middle East and ongoing debates about how to deal with fallout from sex abuse scandals and the LGBT movement within Christian denominations.

The Christian Post has compiled a list of the top 10 news stories of the year based on the topics that most interested our readers and what CP's editors viewed as the most significant events of the year.

Here are CP's top 10 news stories of 2024, counting down from Nos. 10-6. 

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