While continuing as America’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday announced that its already declining membership dropped by 457,371 in 2022, returning it to the same level it was in the late 1970s, the Washington Times reports.
A UK court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Christian mother against her son’s primary school, which she alleges is indoctrinating pupils as young as five on LGBT issues and not allowing parents to opt their children out.
As calls to take a cautionary approach to artificial intelligence (AI) continue to percolate, a persecution watchdog is sounding the alarm on how the emerging technology could harm oppressed Christians.
The annual National Day of Prayer broadcast expects to reach nearly 110 million U.S. households through television, radio and online platforms this year.
A new report shows an ongoing decline in membership of the Presbyterian Church (USA), with the denomination losing more than 100 congregations and over 53,000 members last year, the Christian Post (CP) reports.
Christians associated with an organized evangelistic outreach at the recent SatanCon in Boston claimed approximately 100 people converted to Christianity during the event.
Amid an ongoing “fractious debate” in the United Methodist Church over LGBT issues, a circuit court in Florida last month dismissed a lawsuit filed by congregations wanting to leave the UMC with property but without paying the exit costs required under the denomination’s regulations, UM News reports.
A new study shows that 18 Christian colleges have closed or merged since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Christianity Today reports.
The fourth Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) has issued an official statement rejecting any Anglican church leader who accepts homosexuality, has called for a “resetting” of the worldwide Anglican Communion after the Church of England voted to approve blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples who married under civil law, the Christian Post (CP).
A new study shows that, since the COVID-19 pandemic, less than half of Americans who identify as born-again Christians believe that Jesus lived a sinless life when He walked the earth 2,000 years ago, the Christian Post reports. Published in the American Worldview Inventory 2023, the study was carried out by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University under the supervision of pollster George Barna.
Social media influencer Oli London said rediscovering faith helped convince him to detransition, stop life-altering gender reassignment surgeries, and turn his life around.
Thousands of people paid their respects over the weekend to late U.S. preacher Charles Stanley who built a global evangelical broadcasting empire from the pulpit of his First Baptist Church in Atlanta.
The city of Chicago has agreed to pay $205,000 in settlement of a case brought by four Christian college students who were barred from sharing the Gospel in the city’s Millennium Park in 2018, Christianity Today (CT) reports.
A new study by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (AAS) has brought to light a previously hidden section of the Gospel of Matthew, Christian Today reports. The study and its findings have been published in the New Testament Studies journal.
Attacks on churches escalated in the first quarter of 2023 consistent with a years-long trend of rising vandalism, arson and shootings, none worse this year than the deadly rampage at the Covenant School in Nashville.
A new faith-based movie based on Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac placed third at the US box office at the weekend, BN News reports. Titled His Only Son, the film was produced by Angel Studios, the streaming platform which also produced The Chosen series.
The United Methodist Church is being sued by 186 of its congregations in Georgia after it put a “pause” on allowing anymore churches to disaffiliate over an ongoing strenuous debate within the denomination on LGBT issues, the Christian Post (CP) reports.
The UK’s Evangelical Alliance (EA) is expecting to see a surge in churches joining its ranks as conservative congregations leave the Church of England in protest over its decision to allow voluntary blessing ceremonies for same-sex civil marriages, Christian Today (CT) reports.
Twenty students made professions of faith in Christ and were baptized during an annual 72-hour worship event at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, earlier this month.
U.S. President Joe Biden was briefed about a massive shooting at a Christian primary school that killed six people, including three children, the White House said.