Two Middle East nations share a city named Tripoli.They share little else, apart from a Phoenician heritage and mutually near-unintelligible dialects of Arabic. One of their starkest contrasts concern...
Last year, a Washington Post journalist interviewed Ian Bradley, a professor of cultural and spiritual history here in the United Kingdom, about the accession of King Charles III to the throne. The re...
While longstanding offenders in Asia and the Middle East remain epicenters of persecution, Latin America and Europe occupy more space in an annual chronicle by the US Commission on International Relig...
Only 4 percent of Germans say they read the Bible every day, according to a poll conducted by Insa-Consulere and the German Christian news agency IDEA. A full 70 percent say they never read it at all....
The original purpose of fasting and abstaining was to draw people to repentance of sins and remembrance of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross to atone for those sins. When we use these traditions to draw u...
Why has there been a rise in antisemitic tropes, speech, and acts in recent years? Why have cultural moments of change in the West often led to the emergence of violence against Jewish people? And how...
Most Brits think churches and chapels are important for society
[photo1] Revesby St Lawrence in Lincolnshire.(Photo: National Churches Trust)
The number of Christians may be declining but af...
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 27, 2023 (Morning Star News) - A church pastor and three other Christians were killed in Sudan on Monday (Jan. 23) when suspected Islamic extr...
Young evangelicals listen to their pastors. Do pastors listen to them?
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"When students come back at semester breaks, that's when the conversations...
For most Christians, "legalism" is something to avoid--except when we're talking about the law of the land.
Consider how we usually tell the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery (John 8:...
Half of Brits think science and Christianity are incompatible
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Research by the Theos think tank reveals that around half of Brits think science and Christianity...