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  • Saddleback Church's 'Celebrate Recovery' Now in 17,000 Churches Worldwide

    Saddleback Church's 'Celebrate Recovery' Now in 17,000 Churches Worldwide

    More than 3,000 people from churches around the world attended Saddleback Church’s Celebrate Recovery Summit and helped commemorate the 20th year of the Christ-centered program for addictions, which originated at the Southern California church.

  • Saddleback Church Hosts First 'Radicalis' 3-Day Outdoor Festival

    Saddleback Church Hosts First 'Radicalis' 3-Day Outdoor Festival

    Hoping to inspire a new youth movement among college-age Christians, Saddleback Church held its first three-day outdoor festival featuring music, art, and teaching, at its 170-acre conference center in San Juan Capistrano, Calif.

  • 'Mother Teresa of Cairo' on Loving Outcasts in Garbage Slums

    'Mother Teresa of Cairo' on Loving Outcasts in Garbage Slums

    The final day of Willow Creek’s 16th annual Leadership Summit included an emotionally moving talk given by a soft-spoken Mama Maggie Groban, who ministers to the children and families in the garbage slum neighborhoods of Cairo, Egypt.

  • Willow Creek Church Is Not Anti-Gay, Pastor Clarifies

    Willow Creek Church Is Not Anti-Gay, Pastor Clarifies

    Willow Creek Community Church is not anti-gay nor anti-anybody, the founding pastor said Thursday as he addressed the sudden decision by the CEO of Starbucks to cancel his speaking engagement at the church this week.

  • Harvest Crusade: Greg Laurie US Outreach to Kick Off

    Harvest Crusade: Greg Laurie US Outreach to Kick Off

    The Harvest Crusades, which is led by evangelist Greg Laurie and opens in Anaheim, Calif., Friday, has been drawing such a massive response on the Web that organizers are planning for broadcast venues throughout the United States.

  • Mars Hill Church: Don't Call Us 'Campuses' Anymore

    Mars Hill Church: Don't Call Us 'Campuses' Anymore

    A Seattle-based megachurch is dropping the use of campus and its leaders are now referring to each of the other 11 locations (eight existing and three future) where Sunday sermons are delivered by video broadcast as a church.

  • Judge Rejects Illinois Inmate's Request for 'Satanic Bible'

    A federal judge rejected a convicted inmate's request to have a copy of Anton LaVey’s "The Satanic Bible" inside his cell at an Illinois prison on Monday.

  • Churches Provide Financial Relief With Back-to-School Backpack Campaigns

    Churches Provide Financial Relief With Back-to-School Backpack Campaigns

    Churches participating in back-to-school backpack giveaway campaigns that provide notebooks, paper, and pens to children in need are delivering financial relief to families at no better time. Heading into the fall, school supplies cost 25 percent more than last year

  • T.D. Jakes, Pastors Upset After Rating Drop, Dow Jones Plunge

    T.D. Jakes, Pastors Upset After Rating Drop, Dow Jones Plunge

    U.S. pastors vented on Twitter their frustration as the nation boiled under news of the first-ever credit rating downgrade in its history Friday and the Dow Jones Industrial Average's 600-plus point plunge Monday.

  • Megachurch to Add 2 More Campuses in Charlotte

    Megachurch to Add 2 More Campuses in Charlotte

    Already recognized as one of the fastest growing churches in the nation, Elevation Church will launch two more campuses in September. Responding to critics who say the church is franchising like a shopping mall, the lead pastor said, “We are trying to franchise – franchise the healing power of Jesus."

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