Christianity

A South England church plant is incorporating faith and heavy metal music to draw metal fans to Christ. The church, called Fire and Blood, was started by friends Rob Byrne, Roger Kiralfy and George Papachristodoulou. The three friends are all Christians and lovers of metal music. "I was exploring metal…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Pope Francis was heckled by an elderly Greek Orthodox priest on Saturday as he arrived for a meeting with the head of the country’s Orthodox Church, evidence of the lingering distrust between some Orthodox and Catholics centuries after Christianity was cleaved in half. “Pope, you are…

CHENNAI: Conversion from one religion to another religion will not change the caste of a person which he belongs to, Madras high court has ruled, nixing a bid by a Dalit man, who embraced Christianity, to obtain an inter-caste marriage certificate to get priority in government jobs. Dalit-converts are treated…

The suspected terrorist who appeared to blow himself up outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Remembrance Sunday has been named as 32-year-old Emad Al Swealmeen.  Officers from Counter Terrorism Policing North West have said that they “strongly believe” Al Swealmeen was the passenger who was proclaimed dead at the scene when…

Britain raised its terrorism threat level Monday, hours after an explosion outside a hospital in Liverpool, as police named the suspected suicide bomber believed to have made the homemade device before dying in the blast. Interior minister Priti Patel said intelligence officials had increased the threat assessment to “severe” —…

A northern mockingbird perches on a branch. Photo by Patrice Bouchard/Unsplash/Creative Commons (RNS) — It is early morning in the Great Smoky Mountains. Kevin Burrell is half asleep and wrapped tightly in his sleeping bag. Before surrendering his warm cocoon to the chilly morning air, he hears the call of…

Devasahayam Pillai, an 18th-century Hindu convert to Christianity, would be the first Indian layman to be made a saint.  Blessed Devasahayam Pillai, along with six other Blesseds, will be canonised by Pope Francis on May 15, 2022, during a Canonization Mass in St Peter's Basilica in Vatican. The declaration was…

As liberalism falters, the vestigial religious practices of post-Christian cultures could become functional parts of Christian politics once again. A European politician, known to cohabit with his girlfriend out of wedlock, triumphantly waves a rosary at a political rally. Another European leader, who presides over a deeply secularized post-Communist society,…

In a year of contentious protests, last summer's gay pride march in Budapest was a relatively tame affair. A sizeable crowd rallied in front of Parliament to protest legislation from Hungary's ruling Fidesz Party that restricts the teaching of gay and lesbian issues in public schools. The inevitable counter-protest was…

In a recent interview with Faithwire, Fox News’ chief religion correspondent Lauren Green explained how the mainstream media today incorrectly portrays religion, including Christianity. Green, who grew up in a Christian home, noted that the Western world promotes that all religions are the same, otherwise known as pluralism. She added…