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Jesus is getting evicted. A Baptist church in South Carolina plans to take down a hand-carved statue of Jesus Christ because it’s believed to be too Catholic. The statue, along with accompanying artwork depicting scenes from Christ’s life, will be removed Thursday. The art will be removed because a majority of the congregation voted that…

Sam Blackledge was the 2018 valedictorian of Illinois’ West Prairie High School. As per tradition, he had prepared a speech to give before his classmates during the graduation ceremony. Minutes before Blackledge was to take the stage, however, school administrators demanded that the 18 year old modify his speech. The ordered alterations included the removal…

Trenton McKinley was out with a friend in March. The two were playing with a dune buggy. McKinley took a turn being pulled behind his friend in a utility trailer. Suddenly, McKinley’s friend hit the brakes. McKinley managed to toss his friend’s four year old niece to safety, but his heroics meant he was caught…

Over the past week, several well-known evangelical preachers and megachurch pastors have spoken out about a possible link between Biblical prophecy and the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. The opening of the embassy was a huge political statement from the U.S., and occurred on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Israel. Senior…

American President Donald Trump has welcomed home three Christian American detainees that were released from North Korea last week. The White House stated the gesture was a sign of goodwill ahead of the planned meeting between President Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Mr. Trump is hopeful about the meeting, earlier stating that…

The Trump administration has opened an embassy today in the Arnona neighborhood of Jerusalem, completely erupting decades of previous US policy towards Jerusalem. The embassy is being viewed by those that both love and hate it as a major departure from traditional US diplomacy. U.S. administration officials and senators are in Jerusalem for the inauguration…

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It’s amazing to see miracles can still happen even in modern society. This was the case with 13-year-old Trenton McKinley of Mobile, Alabama after he suffering severe brain trauma from a dune buggy accident. McKinley was playing at a friend’s house two months ago riding in a small utility trailer being pulled by a dune…

All those who live in Missouri are apparently safe from Armageddon. At least, that is what Jim Bakker is claiming. According to the televangelist, the best way to survive the apocalypse is to buy one of his cabins in the Ozark Mountains and fill it with six of his “Extreme Survival Warfare” water bottles. Each…

When was the last time you saw people really, truly getting along with those who were different? The odds are that it’s probably been a while. Oh, there is no doubt you have seen people who are of different races, genders or sexual orientations who seem to be the best of friends, but what about…

A French scholar has identified the outlines of passages from the Bible behind an eighth-century manuscript of the Qur’an. This discovery is extraordinary as it is “the only recorded palimpsest in which a Christian text has been effaced to make way for the Islamic holy text,” according to The Guardian. Dr. Eléonore Cellard discovered that…

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