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A Christian student is threatening legal action after her school wouldn’t allow her to decorate her paid parking spot with Bible verses. Sabrina Steffans, a senior at Grand Island High School near Buffalo, New York had her own paid parking spot at the school According to Steffans, students at the school are allowed to decorate…

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A Connecticut seventh-grade social studies teacher believes her school is retaliating against her after she refused to remove a crucifix from her classroom. Marisol Arroyo-Castro, a devout Catholic, has taught in the Connecticut public school system for over 30 years. During the last ten years, Arroyo-Castro has kept a rubber cross on her desk as…

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A mine in the Egyptian desert could hold the first-ever extra-biblical evidence of Moses’s existence. Moses is a key figure in both Jewish and Christian faiths, credited for helping bring the nation of Israel out from slavery under a tyrannical Egyptian Pharoah. It’s the stuff of cinema and has been the source of inspiration of…

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Archaeologists announced the discovery of an ancient coin minted in the decades following Christ’s resurrection. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced that a “Redemption of Zion” coin was found near the Temple Mount. The coin would have been minted around the fourth year of what is known as the Jewish Great Revolt. The coin features a…

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Acts of hostility against Christian churches are on the rise, according to a new study released by the Family Research Council (FRC). The FRC released its first report in 2022, which covered data going back to 2018. Since that point, each year the report has been released has found more incidences of hostility towards churches.…

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AI chatbots are becoming more commonplace, with some even coming into faith circles as so-called AI Jesus. But a recent study is showing that these AI Jesus chatbots may have some nefarious outcomes. For example, the AI from the “Ask Jesus” app greets users by making an alarming claim: “Greetings, my dear friend. It is…

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Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of an ancient Canaanite blade factory in Israel. The workshop, which made the blades for the purposes of agricultural use, was found flint  at Nahal Qomem, near the southern Israel city of Kiryat Gat. The site had been originally discovered two years ago during work for a new neighborhood in…

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An ancient seal discovered near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount may have ties to the Bible. Archaeologists with the Temple Mount Sifting Project uncovered a seal with the name “Yed[a‛]yah (son of) Asayahu.” Archaeologist Mordechai Ehrlich made the discovery, which was described as a “rare and exceptionally well-preserved clay sealing, impressed by a stamp seal inscribed with…

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  Only 45% of America’s Gen Z identify as Christian. And as America ages, experts believe former religious generations will be replaced by increasingly non-religious individuals. “A big part of what’s happened in recent decades is that as older cohorts of highly religious older people have passed away, they have been replaced by new cohorts…

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In a scene ripped from the pages of Exodus, the Sea of Galilee has turned blood red. It serves as an ominous sign to some locals, given the account in Exodus 7 when Moses turns the Nile to blood as a sign of God’s judgment upon Egypt, marking the first of ten plagues to strike.…

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