Christianity

(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…

When Ana Sharp Williamson came home from her honeymoon in the summer of 2019, she moved in with her husband and began the process of deciding which church they should go to. She didn’t want to go to her childhood church, so decided to go to his until they found…

Temptation and "sex addiction" feature heavily in evangelical rituals and beliefs around gender roles. A mythical "heroic masculinity" underpins evangelical ideas on men and sex. No evidence links impulsive sexual behaviors with mass murder, experts say. See more stories on Insider's business page. For four days, as the country tried…

In 2017, beloved Bible teacher and evangelical personality Beth Moore had the chance to meet a theologian she’d long admired. As she later recounted on her blog, she was eager to share a meal with the iconic figure, left unnamed in her recounting, and talk about scripture. That encounter proved…

The Vatican on Sunday celebrated the 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines with a Mass led by Pope Francis along with Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle. The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines said the Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica was attended by Filipino Catholics living in Rome. Members…

(Philstar.com) - March 14, 2021 - 10:30am MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis will lead the Filipino community in Italy to celebrate the 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines. The celebration will be highlighted with a mass to be officiated by Pope Francis at St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday. Filipino Cardinal Luis…