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Christianity in America took a hard-hit in 2007 as the death of several influential and well-respected leaders shocked the nation and the religious community.

There are seven major prophetic signs of the Second Coming, and ever since we started tracking them all seven have been in some stage of fulfillment.

So much for our "way of life" - you know, the one our leaders told us they went to war to save. The deeply English, deeply Christian city of Oxford, one of the homes of free thought, is now being asked to accept the Islamic call to prayer wafting from mosque loudspeakers over its spires and domes.

SEX education lessons should be given to schoolchildren as young as five as part of a bid to combat soaring levels of teenage pregnancy and sexual disease, Scotland's most senior public health doctor said last ...

Now that he has his moment in the political spotlight, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee does not want his days at the pulpit to be scrutinized.

It is a provable fact that G-rated family movies make more money on average than 'edgier' movies with a PG-13, lots more money than movies with an "R" rating, and any movie with a more restrictive rating than that is unlikely to break even on its production costs. I'm not merely expressing my opinion based on my own personal tastes in film. The numbers bear out my contentions.

In the confines of a glass-walled room outside the sanctuary of Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, three families embraced in a powerful show of forgiveness. Just three days after a shooting rampage that left five young people dead, the families of two victims — Philip Crouse and Tiffany Johnson — put their arms around the uncle of the gunman. They shed tears, spoke, prayed and huddled in a circle, hands resting on one another's shoulders.

A church planter in India's Assam State was struggling to launch a Bible-based Adult Literacy class. Elian had trained through Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Mission India.

This postman delivers much more than mail. Mailman Eric Wills, 30, wears a large smile after drinking a nice cold drink supplied by a concerned neighbor after cutting Clifford Andrews lawn.

To give or not to give? As the nights get colder and Christmas draws closer, Christians face again the question of how to care for the homeless.

I am reading Willa Cather's My Antonia , and I want to share the boy narrator's description of his quiet Midwestern grandfather: Grandfather's prayers were often very interesting.

A video of an abortion practitioner is making its way across the Internet featuring a November appearance by Alberto Hodari at Wayne State University in Michigan. The campus pro-abortion organization invited him to speak and Hodari tells them his status as an abortion practitioner gives him license to lie to women.

A home beside Bethany Lutheran Church once welcoming camaraderie, the sharing of religious faith and discussion of scriptures is now silent.

What is then the true gospel and what are its components? What did Jesus really mean when He said, "Follow me!"? . This is one of the crucial issues facing the evangelical community in our day.

The news agency Fides is reporting that 150 Hindu extremists have leveled the Church of Divine Mercy to the ground before its construction could be finished. On December 5 at about 7am a gang of about 150 extremists forced the workers to leave the premises and then began to destroy the building and the machinery for construction.

A pastor and some church members were recently assaulted in India. The attack took place in Virajpet, located in India's Karnataka State.

One never wins a popularity contest by naming names even though it is biblical to do so. I wonder how the sheep are to avoid some wolves if names aren't used, but this one pains me. I have appreciated the ministry of Pastor John Hagee. His books have been well written with good substance. He is a powerful preacher. And, he is an ardent friend of Israel, also known as a Christian Zionist. He heads what is known as "Christians United for Israel."

May I Say Perfectly Attuned The music of Christmas is filling the air, and multiplied church programs honor Christ's birth.

Police investigating four abortion clinics in Barcelona used frequently by British women have been horrified to find purpose-built machines attached to the drains that were used to crush foetuses.

As WND has reported, the company currently is offering a 10 percent discount on flights to New York for the holidays, but only if you obtain the tickets through the airline's "microsite" web page designated ...