Christianity

Before Robert Aaron Long burst into three Atlanta massage spas and allegedly killed eight people — six of them women of Asian descent — he was a teenager struggling to conform with Evangelical teachings on “purity culture” and abstinence from sex. The Rev. Chul Yoo knew Long back then. A…

Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza Except in exceptionally affluent neighborhoods, no panic buying occurred upon the ECQ2 declaration during the Holy Week, nor after this was extended by another seven days. Well, what did you expect? No work, no pay; no pay, no shopping; ergo no panic buying, only panic.…

Through the many upheavals of the Trump era, one trend has remained strikingly stable: the mobilization of the white evangelical community as diehard supporters of the forty-fifth president. It’s a convergence of interests that, on paper at least, appears unlikely in the extreme. Trump’s acquaintance with the Bible and its…

(scyther5/Getty Images) His friend J. R. R. Tolkien provided a compelling, ingenious argument, one worth remembering this Easter Sunday. Shortly before he was admitted to Oxford University in 1916 to study English literature, C. S. Lewis, a recent convert to atheism, got into an argument with a friend about Christianity…

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Sunday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to provide succour to Nigerians "crying for someone to librate them every day." The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Olasupo Ayokunle who made the observation during his lecture entitled "Call To Lead At A…

(RNS) — There’s a preacher in the house — or at least, in the Senate. “A vote is a kind of prayer — to God.” That’s what Sen. Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s first Black senator, said in his first floor speech in the Senate chamber. Warnock is also senior pastor at the…

Mixed reactions have continued to trail the comment made by Bishop David Oyedepo, the Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church worldwide, over the hijab crisis rocking schools in Kwara State. Kwara has been in the news recently amid a face-off between Christians and Muslims over the use of hijab…

The President, Association of Missionaries in Nigeria, Oscar Amaechina, has called on ministers of the gospel in Nigeria to shun prosperity theology “which is a pandemic worse than COVID-19“. He made the assertion in a conference organised by Afri-Mission and Evangelism Network for pastors and Evangelists in Abuja at the…

Chief among these was what to do with “ancestor worship.” Consistent with Confucian emphasis on respect and devotion to one’s ancestors, many Chinese honored their ancestors by maintaining the names of the deceased on bamboo slips or pieces of paper or even stone tables, sometimes burning incense or lighting candles.…

Eight more women have alleged that the Malawian leader of Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG), Prophet Shepherd Bushiri raped them. The rape charges, dated back to 2016 would be added to the existing allegations of fraud, money laundering, jumping bail and breaching of the foreign policy. He was accused by prosecutors…