Experts debate the origin of the date- or nut-filled pastry, but Middle Eastern believers love the taste and the Good Friday symbolism in its shapes. The Middle East’s favorite sweet symboliz...
“We’re not being political. We’re just trying to get you what you need.” Palm Sunday looked different this year for a small majority-immigrant church in Fort Worth. For part of the serv...
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Few Protestant traditions continue the footwashing that Jesus did at the Last Supper. Some want a revival of the practice. Americans get cold feet when it comes to footwashing, experts say. M...
More than 100 years ago, Latin America’s most secular country abolished Christian holidays. Local church leaders have struggled to reclaim them since. This week, millions of Latin Americans a...
She won a Grammy for “We Sing Praises,” collaborated with her brother Andraé on “Jesus Is the Answer,” and worked with everyone from Billy Graham to Michael Jackson. Sandra Crouch, the...
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As Moscow and Kyiv trade insinuations over concert hall killing claimed by ISIS affiliate, Christian leaders focus on compassion and forgiveness instead of blame. Russian evangelicals used Sund...
Battling accusations of forced conversions, the church faces escalating threats, false arrests, and assaults on their institutions, reports the Evangelical Fellowship of India. The number of vi...
Seminary head Jeff Iorg steps in after multiple resignations, failed searches, and back-to-back interim leaders. After more than two years of uncertainty and at times, chaos, the Southern Bapti...
Their pastors are mostly evangelical, sometimes bivocational, and eager for additional workers and funding to better serve their communities. Pastors of Hispanic Protestant churches in the Unit...
Annual report grades 198 nations and territories, with 9 in 10 harassing believing communities. China and Nigeria score the worst. Government restrictions on religion are at a global high. So...