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Pope Leo XIV traveled over the weekend to Lourdes, France, one of Christianity’s most famous pilgrimage sites, where he prayed for the sick and suffering and met people connected to extraordinary healings that have puzzled doctors. Leo arrived in Lourdes Saturday evening during his apostolic visit to France and went to the Grotto of Massabielle,…

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Nearly 100 students have been baptized as part of a growing worship gathering at a Colorado Christian high school, where students are coming together after athletic events to worship, share testimonies and publicly declare their faith. Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch has seen 96 students baptized during five of the “5th Quarter” gatherings…

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Hundreds of people walked into a North Carolina lake and emerged from the water having publicly declared their faith in Jesus Christ during a record-setting day for one local church. Biltmore Church baptized 458 people during its annual Outdoor Baptism event in September marking the largest single-day baptism in the congregation’s 137-year history. The multisite…

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Celebrities, fellow pastors and his Dallas megachurch’s next-generation leaders celebrated Bishop T.D. Jakes’ 50th anniversary of ministry during a service Sunday (Sept. 13), as he thanked his congregation and family for their support during a tenure in which he “dared to be talked about.” “We can imagine, but we don’t know how much it cost…

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A 2,000-year-old ring bearing the name of Pontius Pilate is getting a fresh interpretation — and researchers say it could help explain a detail in the biblical account of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion. The ancient copper-alloy ring was discovered at Herodium, a fortress in the Judean desert, during excavations in the 1960s. It remained in storage…

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After a decade of excavations along the Sea of Galilee, archaeologists say they have identified the long-lost biblical city of Bethsaida, the setting of several events recorded in the Gospels and the hometown of three of Jesus’ apostles. Steven Notley, a biblical scholar and academic director of the El-Araj Excavation Project, says he is now…

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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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