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State officials have suspended the child care license of Antioch Church of God in Christ in Detroit, in response to numerous ...

Till's cousin will share what he remembers about the night his cousin was kidnapped, tortured and lynched in 1955 ...

By Nelson Semanu BOANDOH-KORKOR & Elizabeth BOANDOH-KORKOR Last week, we introduced key strategies for succeeding in bi-vocational ministry. Here, we present the conclusion of that discussion. Then ...

While many traditional denominations are struggling to maintain their numbers, the Pentecostal and charismatic churches in ...

As a Christian, my most solemn duty in loving my God is to love my neighbor. Nowhere in the gospel am I called to denigrate ...

February 2 marks the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. St Bede wrote of Christ as the Temple itself A sublime if slightly rubbed illumination stands at the start of the Gospels in the Codex ...

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The unquenchable fires in Los Angeles, heartbreaking school shootings — and now, yet another tragedy has struck. All 67 lives were lost onboard the American Airlines plane that collided with an Army ...

As a Christian, my most solemn duty in loving my God is to love my neighbor. Nowhere in the gospel am I called to denigrate ...

Lutheran minister Nadia Bolz-Weber urged attendees at her recent Oklahoma City "Red State Revival" to gather in person more often and focus on Christ.

The exorcisms that Jesus performs in the Gospels are some of his most dramatic miracles. They are also some of the most difficult for me to understand spiritually.