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Jimmy Swaggart, the popular Pentecostal preacher and televangelist who garnered national headlines for his extramarital affairs, has died at the age of 90 following a cardiac arrest.
Sierra McClain is used to playing characters with conviction. Whether as Nessa Parker on "Empire" or Grace Ryder on Fox's "9-1-1: Lone Star," the 31-year-old actress has always been drawn to roles that require emotional depth and strength of spirit. But in her latest project, McClain isn't playing a character. Instead, she is stepping into a calling from God.
Leaders at Pastor J.D. Greear's 12,000-member multi-campus The Summit Church are defending him and the organization after a docuseries on their failed merger with Faith Baptist Church in Knightdale, North Carolina.
Wes Campbell, the longtime manager and owner of the Grammy-nominated Christian band Newsboys, is facing new legal troubles as he and several family members are being sued for $5.4 million by a former pastor in Tennessee.
Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley says he doesn't think it's a coincidence that the best year of his athletic career happened to be the year he truly "found" his faith in Christ, crediting God for the remarkable accomplishments on the football field.
Dr. Ben Carson suggested during a podcast last week that the increasingly irrational nature of America’s political and cultural battles suggests that supernatural forces are playing a role in them.
A former pastor at a church in Maryland was indicted on child sex abuse charges in Massachusetts, stemming from alleged actions that occurred in 1980.
When it comes to supporting the state of Israel, Texas megachurch Pastor Robert Jeffress says he’s siding with Sen. Ted Cruz — and the Bible.
A man who was accidentally shot last month is crediting his cross necklace with saving his life after the bullet hit the jewelry and spared him from experiencing a far worse outcome.
Theologian N.T. Wright recently emphasized that while God transcends gender, using traditional male pronouns like “Father” remains theologically appropriate when understood in light of Scripture.
A former California pastor who stole $200,000 from his church while their founder was dying during the COVID-19 pandemic will now have to pay back all the money and spend two years in state prison for his crime.
An Iraqi-born Chicago man faces the possibility of 130 years in prison after he was convicted of using social media to promote violent jihad and recruit operatives to carry out attacks on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
Three months after reports of the killing of hundreds of civilians in Syria’s Alawite coastal areas shook the world, a new, comprehensive report by Reuters revealed that almost 1,500 civilians were murdered by a variety of groups — including some under the command of the new Syrian government.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning staffer at The Washington Post, awarded for his reporting on a Republican Senate candidate accused of sexual misconduct, has been charged with possessing child pornography.
Speaking at the Ibero-American Congress for Life and Family, Travis Weber, a lawyer and vice president of policy and government affairs at the Family Research Council, emphasized that "the restoration of God's design for the family and human dignity is urgent" in the midst of the moral and cultural chaos that the world is experiencing today.
A newly released report shows that the American public has mixed feelings about integrating religion into multiple aspects of life, with most Americans supporting chaplains in public schools while opposing teacher-led school prayer.
A group of Christians who have repented of homosexual or transgender behavior gathered at the California state Capitol in Sacramento last Thursday to speak out against cultural and government resistance toward those who desire to leave the LBGT lifestyle.
In the last five days since the Israel-Iran conflict began, hurrying into bomb shelters and hearing the sounds of alarms and explosions has become a way of life for Eli Birnbaum in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Educator Ananthi Jebasingh received the Colson Center’s Wilberforce Award, recognizing the impact she has made over the decades teaching children in India's slums through her Good Samaritan School.
