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China escalates war on Christianity, will ban foreign missionaries from spreading the gospel Christianity

China escalates war on Christianity, will ban foreign missionaries from spreading the gospel

Chinese state media has tried to justify the latest crackdown by saying it is necessary to prevent “threats to national political security.” Starting May 1, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will begin enforcing new rules that block foreign missionaries from preaching, sharing their faith, or organizing religious groups unless they…
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April 9, 2025
Aaron Renn might be right that Christians face ‘negative world.’ But is it new? Christianity

Aaron Renn might be right that Christians face ‘negative world.’ But is it new?

(RNS) — Aaron Renn, until recently a provocative but mostly unnoticed Substack writer, has been thrust onto the national stage with the release of his book, “Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture,” in which he portrays American evangelical Christians as a group in an unfriendly…
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April 4, 2025
TikToker Gets Almost 3 Years in Prison for Telling Picture of Jesus That He Needed a Haircut Christianity

TikToker Gets Almost 3 Years in Prison for Telling Picture of Jesus That He Needed a Haircut

By Spooky on April 3rd, 2025 Category: News Indonesian social media influencer Ratu Thalisa was recently sentenced to two years and ten months behind bars for telling a picture of Jesus that He needed a haircut. A court in Medan, Sumatra found Thalisa guilty of spreading hate speech against Christianity,…
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April 3, 2025
Acclaimed Writer Explains How He Left Atheism for Christianity, Says ‘I Now Feel at Home’ Christianity

Acclaimed Writer Explains How He Left Atheism for Christianity, Says ‘I Now Feel at Home’

Veteran Times columnist and renowned restaurant critic Giles Coren has publicly renounced his atheism and embraced Christianity, finding a... A veteran columnist for The Times newspaper in the United Kingdom says he has shed his atheism and embraced Christianity. Giles Coren has written for The Times since 1993 and is a…
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March 13, 2025
Clutched by the global faithful and draped on candles and statues, rosaries abound for Pope Francis Christianity

Clutched by the global faithful and draped on candles and statues, rosaries abound for Pope Francis

VATICAN CITY (AP) — As Pope Francis remains hospitalized in Rome, thousands of faithful from around the world have been gathering by St. Peter’s and by the hospital to pray the rosary for him. Dating to the Middle Ages and popularized in the 16th century, the chain of beads that…
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March 7, 2025
Martin E. Marty, religion historian and ‘churchman in the most serious way,’ dies at 97 Christianity

Martin E. Marty, religion historian and ‘churchman in the most serious way,’ dies at 97

(RNS) — Martin E. Marty, an eminent church historian, prolific chronicler and interpreter of religion and its role in public life, died at the age of 97 on Tuesday (Feb. 25) in a Minneapolis care facility where he spent his final years. Marty, who was also a warmhearted friend, mentor…
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February 27, 2025