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In 2009, Christian recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman’s world turned upside down. Chapman and his wife, Mary Beth, adopted their daughter Maria Sue from China in 2004. A few years later, when their daughter was five years old, one of the Chapmans’ sons accidentally struck Maria Sue with an SUV in the driveway, tragically ending…

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Earlier this year, a powerful scene unfolded: a North Carolina trooper pulled a driver over for speeding. Instead of giving them a ticket, the officer prayed with a man fighting cancer. A photo of the encounter has since gone viral, showing North Carolina State Highway Patrol Trooper Jaret Doty leaning into a car as he…

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Police say someone broke into the altar at a New York City church, stole a $2 million gold relic, and took the head from a statue of an angel at some point late last week. The incident happened between 6:30 p.m. on May 26th and 4 p.m. on May 28th at St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic…

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Actress Candace Cameron Bure took to social media to share that a dark presence had recently attacked her home, affecting her family. The “Full House” star said she noticed that everyone had been acting differently for days. She said in a video, “My house is usually really peaceful and happy. (But) everyone’s been irritable, including…

President Trump’s core support base is evangelical Christians, but according to his former lawyer Michael Cohen, Trump has disrespected them on more than one occasion. Evangelicals, who make up one in four Americans, were credited with helping Trump win the White House with 80 percent voting for Trump in 2016. In Cohen’s new book, “Disloyal:…

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