(RNS) – The Rev. Samuel Wynn admired Billy Graham and his evangelistic association for decades, joining its spiritual crusades and urging fellow Christians to do the same. But no more. “I will never again support anything by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association,” said Wynn, the superintendent of a United Methodist Church district in Fayetteville, N.C. [...]
Re-posted: SANTA ANA, Calif. (Oct. 25, 2012) – A Christian leader in Egypt is calling for prayers for a huge four-day evangelistic festival starting Friday in the desert north of Cairo. The unique event is expected to draw 50,000 people from all over Egypt. Hundreds of buses will transport the crowds every day from [...]
More Details Emerge of Syrian Pastor, Family Murdered by Muslim Militants The Middle East director of Christian Aid Mission revealed more details about a Syrian Christian pastor shot and killed along with his wife and three children by a band of Sunni Muslim militants who stormed into a house church meeting earlier this month, CBN [...]
Caleb (Randy Wayne) is a teenager who dreams of becoming a sponsored skater and escaping his troubled life. When the teen finds a stack of old love letters between his ill, overworked mother (Rosanna Arquette) and absent father (John Schneider), Caleb sets out to find the dad he’s never known and discovers that he has [...]
Reposted from: Billy Graham Evangelistic Association In the face of widespread insecurity, fear, and hopelessness, our nation desperately needs your prayers. Today we are surrounded by the effects of forgetting—even forsaking—God, both as a nation and as individuals. The problem is too big for human effort. Our nation has a heart problem, and only [...]
Posted: Monday, September 24, 2012, 11:21 (BST) The Bishop of Peshawar in Pakistan is asking Christians to pray after a church was destroyed. According to Anglican Alliance, thousands of people stormed the compound in Mardan, near Peshawar last week. They burnt down the church and destroyed the homes of two priests and the headteacher of [...]
By Dan Delzell , Special to CP August 8, 2012|7:52 am As Olympians are currently striving in London to earn medals and get on the platform, I think of all the Christians in the world today who are focused on winning a different kind of medal. St. Paul described this holy pursuit with these [...]
We need a theology that accounts for Christian athletes’ on-the-field failings. Katelyn Beaty Gabby Douglas had “a good feeling” when she arrived in London last week. “It was raining and I thought, It’s going to be a great day,” she told People. “My mom used to tell me when I was little, ‘When [...]
By Andrea Madambashi , Christian Post Correspondent August 10, 2012|7:26 am Hundreds of young Brazilian Christians from Junta de Missões Mundiais (World Missions Board – JMM) have committed themselves to sharing the Gospel with people from all nations converging at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. For the past two weeks 175 volunteers from the [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 12:12 (BST) Over 200 young people gathered near the Olympic Park were encouraged to live for a higher glory. Bishop Thomas McMahon of Brentwood and Bishop Richard Moth of the Forces were there to celebrate with the youngsters at St Francis of Assisi Catholic church in Stratford. Bishop [...]
