The rapper explained his newfound zeal for Christianity to the televangelist and Lakewood Church’s 45,000-member congregation and their online followers.
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An American professor reflects on his work with students at a Christian liberal arts university in Lithuania, many of whom come from war-torn countries.
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Three march founders were removed after having come under fire over the past year for supporting Louis Farrakhan, a minister respected in the black community and reviled in Jewish circles for his anti-Semitic remarks.
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(OPINION) The definition of evangelicals as white and Republican is a fairly recent phenomenon in American history.
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The Mexican government has granted political asylum to the resigning Bolivian president Evo Morales as violent protests spread throughout the South American nation in response to accusations of electoral fraud. The overthrow had elements of both politics and religion.
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(OPINION) Let’s start with a loaded question. But it’s a questions that journalists really need to ask, because of trends during recent events in Catholic life. Is the Vatican’s press office helping to push a progressive agenda that could forever change the Catholic church?
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(OPINION) Most people think the Church suppressed freedom of thought until the Enlightenment, and that journalism emerged as the Church lost its power. But researchers have never studied in detail how exactly newspapers emerged from a Christian culture long before other societies, until now.
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A year after the faithful Catholic Supreme Court justice was confirmed, he remains a polarizing figure politically during the Trump era.
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(BOOK REVIEW) Discovering Pope Francis is in a way an opportunity for fans of this papacy to defend him. It also tries to lay out common ground between those who may be liberal or conservative politically, but also Roman Catholic.
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The terror organization lost its territory and its caliph. Its ideology will be much harder to defeat, say those who have studied the group’s evolution and theology.
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In 1794, a traveler stopped at a farm and asked for shelter. When he fell sick, he begged for a priest to visit, but the Lutheran household refused. The man died. Things were never the same for Middleway, West Virginia.
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(OPINION) The battle for the future direction of the church was played out among the bishops who participated in the synod aimed at addressing issues affecting Catholicism in the region of the Amazon that encompasses a great swath of South America. It’s ramifications, however, could very well impact the global church.
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One of the largest Hindu festivals is also celebrated by Sikhs, Jains and other faiths. In India’s capital, Diwali featured a laser show to discourage firecracker smoke, which in past years has polluted the city with days or weeks of smog.
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Faith leaders in New York gathered to remember the victims of the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue last year. The shooting was part of a larger trend that continues to threaten Jews and others in American society and around the world.
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Kashmiris are keeping shops closed and their kids home from school in a mass civil disobedience movement to show that life is not going back to normal after India stripped the Muslim-majority region’s autonomy from its constitution.
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For the first time in Brazil’s history, evangelical Christians have the political representation to create laws that fit their religious convictions. Kivitz, pastor of Brazil’s most influential evangelical megachurch, reaffirms the right of Christians to defend their values in the public sphere but not to impose them on the whole of society.
Read MoreThe 20-year-old triggered Hong Kong’s extradition bill protests and is accused of murdering his then-pregnant girlfriend last year. He was released to Taiwan authorities on Wednesday, accompanied by his pastor.
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India’s affirmative action policy for Dalits excludes Muslims and Christians. A petition filed by several human rights activists and Christian organizations is challenging the policy’s constitutionality.
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(OPINION) Efforts to disconnect Jerusalem from Jewish (and thus Christian) history are a fairly recent endeavor. Thankfully, in the meantime, sources documenting Judaism and Christianity’s historical roots are increasing exponentially.
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Northeast Syria is a hub for religious freedom and pluralistic values, but this may no longer be the case. Among the first victims of Turkey’s war against northeast Syria were Christians, with reports of deaths, demolished homes, and broken crosses flooding social media.
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