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A Pennsylvania church is nearing completion of a cross standing 108 feet high on its property, with the sizeable Christian symbol expected to be finished this month. Hilltop Baptist Church of Indiana, Pennsylvania, just north of Pittsburgh, is constructing the large cross with volunteer help, hoping it’ll serve as a beacon for evangelism outreach. In…

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Smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to pour smoke along the East Coast of the United States, including the New York City area, also known as the city that never sleeps, making it look red like it was the planet, Mars. Could this perhaps be a sign of the End Times? Canadian officials contacted other countries…

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A Colombian flight attendant recently discussed how Justin Bieber led her to save her faith in Jesus. In a recent episode of “The Becket Cook Show,” Victoria Mandylor shared her upbringing leading up to her conversion, reported by CBN News. She said of Bieber, “Yeah, he planted a seed. He was another person that was…

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Sotheby’s auction house sold a 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible for $38 million in New York. It’s one of the world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts and brought the second-most highest price for a historical document at auction. The 26-pound book, whose five-inch stack of parchment has 396 pages, sold after a five-minute battle between two bidders competing…

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A stained-glass window showing Jesus Christ as a person of color has brought analysis into the role of slavery, race, and gender in 19th-century New England. The window, which ornaments St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Warren, Rhode Island, illustrates Jesus as a dark-skinned man while talking to a dark-skinned Samaritan woman at the well. Another…

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