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With Russia invading Ukraine, its president, Vladimir Putin, has been painted by many in the western media as the most evil man in the world. Commentators are asserting that this premeditated act is evil. I do not disagree. To see a war in Europe nearly 80 years after the end…

(RNS) — Gallup recently found that a record percentage of Americans (7.1%) identify as LGBTQ. Young people are especially driving the increase, as more than 20% of Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2003) and 10% of millennials (born between 1981 and 1996) identify as LGBTQ. (By contrast, fewer than…

For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now   For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS   | Updated: Monday, February 21, 2022, 23:27 Thanjavur (TN), Feb 21: The CBI on Monday launched its probe into the death of a 17-year-old school girl, allegedly by suicide, amid charges she was forced to convert to Christianity.…

A recent attempted examination of the supposed connection between ‘Christian nationalism’ and January 6 falls short in its analysis. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC) and the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) recently released a lengthy document titled “Christian Nationalism and the January 6,…

The rate of growth for all religious people is about 1.27 percent, while the rate for non-religious people is -.52 percent. Meanwhile, the growth of the number of atheists bumped only .18 percent. 2. Christianity is growing.Christianity is growing at just over a 1 percent rate, with projected growth at…

CHICAGO (RNS) — Clarence “Coodie” Simmons is a believer. Simmons believed a young music producer and aspiring rapper named Kanye West was going to be a star. The filmmaker believed God was directing his life when he upended it to follow West, now Ye, from Chicago to New York City…

For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now   For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS   | Published: Monday, February 14, 2022, 23:48 New Delhi, Feb 14: The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the CBI to proceed with the probe into the suicide of a 17-year-old girl in Thanjavur who was allegedly coerced to…

(RNS) — See if you can spot the lie: Joel Osteen has three private jets named “The Father,” “The Son,” and “The Holy Spirit”; Jim Bakker has a full amusement park on his property — complete with Bible story-themed rides; Jerry Falwell Jr., in his youth, participated in an underground…

(RNS) — Christena Cleveland refuses to be placed in a box. Having built a career as a social psychologist and public theologian on the faculty of Duke Divinity School and with a busy speaking schedule, in 2019, Cleveland left her position and her talks on racial reconciliation behind to found…

At Thursday’s 69th National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., President Joe Biden provided a jarring sound bite that demonstrates why America doesn’t need the National Prayer Breakfast. In his remarks, Biden called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) his friend. Then he said of the man who created a new…