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A North Carolina church has installed the first openly lesbian Bishop in the South. Sarah Fisher was installed as the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina. She is in a same-sex union with another woman, Reverend Mandy Brady. Gay bishops are not a new thing for the Episcopal Church. Rev. Gene Robinson…

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A controversial moment involving longtime charismatic minister Kevin Leal is drawing strong reactions online after he instructed an 18-year-old aspiring businessman to eat a page from the Bible during a church service. The unusual scene unfolded earlier this year during an Encounter Conference at The Rock Family Worship Center in Parkersburg, West Virginia, where Leal…

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Pope Leo XIV has issued a historic apology for the Vatican’s role in legitimizing slavery, acknowledging for the first time that past popes authorized the enslavement of non-Christians during the colonial era and failed for centuries to condemn the practice fully. The apology came Monday in the pope’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, a sweeping document…

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Pope Leo XIV is calling for strong global regulation of artificial intelligence, warning that unchecked AI development could threaten human dignity, jobs and even peace itself. In a sweeping new encyclical titled “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnificent Humanity”), the pope described artificial intelligence as one of the defining moral and social challenges of the modern age. The…

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A Long Island church community is praying for healing after a Sacred Heart of Jesus statue was found beheaded in what police are now investigating as a possible hate crime. According to Suffolk County Police, the vandalism happened at the Church of St. Mary in East Islip, New York, where parishioners discovered the damaged statue…

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Archeologists have given an update on excavations on a site that could be one of the most important Biblical cities mentioned in the Bible. Steven Notley, the academic director of the El Araj Excavation Project, gave a presentation where he essentially confirmed that the site known as El Araj was once the ancient city of…

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Controversy surrounded megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll after his Mother’s Day post on X, which some felt was inappropriate. On May 10th, which also marks the second Sunday in May, when the U.S. celebrates Mother’s Day, Driscoll tweeted, “Mary was a teen mom, and Jesus had no earthly father. It’s a good thing there was no…

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A dried up river in the Middle East could be the key to the end times. The Euphrates River, which spans 1,800 miles through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq has been shrinking at an alarming rate according to researchers. Satellite data dating from 2003 shows that river has lost some 34 cubic miles of freshwater. A…

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A megachurch pastor has gone on record claiming that President Trump’s understanding of the Biblical role of government surpasses that of Pope Leo XIV. Pastor Robert Jefress of First Baptist Dallas went on “Fox News Live” just a few days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio attended a meeting with the Pope. “The Pope is…

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John Piper is weighing in on one of Christianity’s most debated questions: what happens immediately after a believer dies? During an episode of “Ask Pastor John,” the longtime pastor and founder of Desiring God firmly rejected the doctrine known as “soul sleep,” the belief that a person becomes unconscious after death until the final resurrection.…
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