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  Apr 16, 2019

  SWBTS removes stained glass honoring Paige Patterson, conservative SBC leaders

  Stained-glass windows at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary immortalizing leaders of the conservative resurgence within the Southern Baptist Convention have been removed.

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  Apr 16, 2019

  Rick Warren criticized for hosting Rwanda president at Saddleback Church

  California megachurch pastor and author Rick Warren is facing criticism for his decision to invite Rwanda President Paul Kagame to speak at Saddleback Church about the transformation of the Central African nation since the genocide against the Tutsi in 1994.  

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  Apr 15, 2019

  New Museum of the Bible exhibit to explore relationship between science and the Bible

  The Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. has announced plans for a year-long exhibition examining the often contentious relationship between science and the Bible over the course of history.  

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  Apr 15, 2019

  American missionary in Paraguay gunned down in home by suspected robber

  An American Christian missionary in Paraguay was killed in his own home last week by a suspected robber after serving as a missionary for over 25 years, according to his sponsoring agency.

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  Apr 14, 2019

  'Running from pimps': Colorado megachurch turns meth homes into a center for homeless moms

  A nonprofit associated with a Colorado Springs megachurch has converted two former “methamphetamine houses” in the most violent part of town and incorporated them into a three-year-old program that is helping break homeless single mothers and their children out of the cycle of poverty.

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  Apr 12, 2019

  Baltimore schools to allow transgender students to use preferred pronouns, locker rooms

  Baltimore City Public Schools' board of commissions approved a policy that goes above state requirements by allowing transgender students to use their preferred names and pronouns and access locker rooms and bathrooms of the opposite sex.

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  Apr 12, 2019

  Giant billboard launched in Times Square to oppose New York’s ‘abortion extremism’

  The pro-life student association Students for Life of America is sponsoring a giant video advertisement this week in Manhattan’s Times Square, speaking out against New York’s “abortion extremism.”

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  Apr 11, 2019

  Family fears health of US pastor imprisoned in China is deteriorating after Bible sent home

  After over 10 years of ministering to prisoners in China, the family of American pastor David Lin is finally raising awareness and calling on the Chinese government to end his unjust imprisonment as they fear that his health may have taken a turn for the worse.  

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  Apr 9, 2019

  Mark DeYmaz shares how churches can generate multiple sources of income by leveraging their assets

  Prominent multiethnic church movement leader Mark DeYmaz is warning that tithes and offerings will no longer be enough to sustain healthy churches and suggests that congregations look for alternatives like creating for-profit businesses to generate more revenue.

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  Apr 7, 2019

  Rwanda genocide 25 years later: How a Christian nation overcomes its troubling past

  Although just two-and-a-half decades removed from the brutal murder of nearly 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus by extremist Hutus and security forces, the predominantly-Christian country today looks much different than it did in the summer and spring of 1994.