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The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) in New York has been forced to cover up a massive painting of Jesus with a white curtain after complaints from an advocacy group, The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). The Foundation’s mission is “ensuring that all members of the United States Armed Forces fully receive the Constitutional guarantees of…

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Country music icon Dolly Parton celebrated her 77th birthday by releasing a song she received from God in a dream. “I got up, and I started writing this song over a period of weeks, months,” the music legend shared in an Instagram video announcing the release of  the new single, “Don’t Make Me Have to Come Down…

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Candace Cameron Bure took to Instagram to encourage her followers to read the whole Bible. “Who’s reading and listening to The Bible Recap with me?” she wrote. She told her followers it’s “never too late.” In her video message, she told her followers not to worry about falling behind and that “you’re right where God wants you…

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Billy Hallowell spoke with Rev. Lazarus Yeghnazar, founder of Transform Iran, on Faithwire last week to speak about the growing number of Christians in Iran, despite conversion to Christianity being illegal. Yeghnazar’s organization works with underground churches and shared that many conversions are a result of visions and dreams that people are having. The visions have such an impact that, despite the…

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Bear Grylls is the first to admit he’s something of an unconventional Christian. The survivalist and TV host is unabashedly open about his faith and how it serves as his foundation for an empowered life. But he doesn’t want to sanitize his message to make it inoffensive to a religious audience; frankly, he doesn’t have…

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