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Maine’s highest court has ruled that a father can prevent his daughter from attending a Christian church with her mother, rejecting the mother’s argument that the restriction violates her First Amendment rights. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court unanimously upheld a lower court’s custody order in Emily A. Bickford v. Matthew A. Bradeen, a case involving…

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Archaeologists excavating beneath one of Christianity’s holiest sites have uncovered new evidence that appears to align with a striking detail in the biblical account of Jesus’ crucifixion and burial. The excavation at Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre is helping researchers reconstruct what the landscape looked like around the time of Jesus. Among the discoveries…

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A group of community merchants is joining a legal battle to keep a near-century old cross and Nativity scene from being removed from an LA neighborhood. The trouble began in 2025 when a member of the El Pueblo community in LA, Jack Gerritsen, sued the city, asking for the removal of the cross and Nativity,…

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Archaeologists have uncovered a site that matches the Bible’s description of Jesus’s tomb. Excavations began beneath Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which is said to have been built over the site of Christ’s crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. The excavations have been ongoing from 2022. The project began after long-sought after renovations were approved to…

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Grammy-winning gospel singer and pastor Donnie McClurkin is sounding the alarm over what he calls a “dangerous” teaching after a prominent Atlanta pastor used the word “abracadabra” to illustrate the power of spoken words. During a service at Perfecting Faith Church in Freeport, New York, McClurkin criticized New Birth Missionary Baptist Church Pastor Jamal Bryant…

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