The man suspected of killing six people and wounding dozens more at an Independence Day celebration near Chicago had planned the attack weeks in advance and dressed in women’s clothing to escape, authorities say. Those who find it difficult to share the Gospel with others may lack assurance in their own walk of faith, according to new research. Controversial televangelist Creflo Dollar, one of America’s most flamboyant proponents of the prosperity gospel, has renounced tithing and all his previo...
Jul 07, 2022•7 min
A judge issued a temporary block to a university policy that censored three Christian students who had expressed opposition to same-sex marriage on religious grounds. A new Gallup poll has found that only 38% of adults in the United States say they are “extremely proud” to be American, the lowest percentage recorded since the analytics and advisory company began asking the question in 2001. At least six people were killed in a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, ...
Jul 06, 2022•7 min
John Kirby, the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, defended President Joe Biden's comments about gas prices after facing criticism from billionaire Jeff Bezos. A media watchdog group is warning parents about a new animated series on Netflix from the creators of the controversial “Big Mouth” series over what it calls pornographic content. Seattle police arrested a street preacher on charges of being a risk to public safety for reading his Bible aloud at a public p...
Jul 05, 2022•6 min
Author Douglas MacKinnon, a former White House and Pentagon official, is on a mission to stop culture from canceling the Founding Fathers. In his new book, " The 56: Liberty Lessons From Those Who Risked All to Sign The Declaration of Independence ," he explores why the stories of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence are so essential — and why we shouldn't cancel the Founders. As an increasing number of pastors are now reporting they have considered quitting their jobs due to st...
Jul 04, 2022•7 min
The head of a noted religious freedom advocacy organization cited “the dominance of woke culture that thinks it’s OK to silence people who disagree” as the greatest threat to religious freedom in the United States and around the world. Nearly two-thirds of American consumers, including some 33% of those earning more than $250,000 annually, are living paycheck to paycheck, a new report from PYMNTS and LendingClub suggests. Christian Post reporter Ryan Foley joins "The Inside Story" to discuss the...
Jul 01, 2022•8 min
Polls released since the U.S. Supreme Court granted authority to regulate abortion to the states indicate that while a majority of Americans oppose the decision, most have nuanced views and think companies shouldn't take a stance on the divisive issue. A British man who claims he was pressured into having surgery to remove his genitals and has since suffered irreparable damage is suing the NHS clinic where he sought help for gender dysphoria. California voters will have a chance this fall to dec...
Jun 30, 2022•8 min
Abortion has now become illegal in several states following the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the U.S. Constitution does not contain a right to abortion. Police say a mob of about 60 people clad in all black vandalized a pregnancy resource facility and other businesses in Portland, Oregon, following the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. No arrests were made due to a lack of resources. The Christian Post has compiled a...
Jun 29, 2022•6 min
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a Washington school district was wrong to punish and fire a high school football coach for praying on the field after games. A pro-life pregnancy center in Virginia has become the first anti-abortion organization to face vandalism since the United States Supreme Court reversed the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide. The Church of England will adamantly oppose a proposed bill seeking to legalize assisted suicide in the United Kin...
Jun 28, 2022•6 min
The Supreme Court has overruled the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade, concluding that there is no constitutional right to an abortion. Here are seven reactions to the Supreme Court overturning Roe from various Christian faith leaders. They include a member of Congress, the niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and the son of the Rev. Billy Graham. The U.S. Department of Education has unveiled proposed changes to federal civil rights law designed to make it clear that protections against sex ...
Jun 27, 2022•7 min
Two Republican congressmen have introduced legislation that would allow adults who underwent body mutilating gender-transition surgeries as minors to sue the doctors who operated on them. The bill also includes a 30-year statute of limitations. North Carolina authorities are investigating the death of Christopher Hensley, a 35-year-old former youth pastor and father who died in police custody last Wednesday while he was being restrained. A recent Fox News segment about a trans-identified child h...
Jun 24, 2022•8 min
A regional body of The United Methodist Church has approved a resolution denouncing biological males participating in women’s sports. A group of Democratic U.S. senators is urging Google CEO Sundar Pichai to take action after a report from a left-wing activist group found Google may be directing users who search for abortion services toward pro-life pregnancy centers. In 206 years, Christ Church UMC in Southwick, Massachusetts, has survived changes to its name, facilities and membership. After m...
Jun 23, 2022•7 min
The Supreme Court has ruled that Maine cannot stop parents from using a state tuition program to send their children to religious private schools. Pro-life groups are slamming the Food and Drug Administration for permanently eliminating the in-person dispensing requirements for the abortion pill, thereby allowing women to obtain the drug by mail and end their pregnancy without seeing a doctor first. World swimming’s governing body, FINA, has decided to prohibit some men who identify as female fr...
Jun 22, 2022•8 min
While 81% of American adults say they believe in God, the percentage has dropped 6 points since 2017 and is the lowest since the Gallup polling firm started asking the question more than seven decades ago. The Jewish Yeshiva University in New York City is not a "religious corporation" and must recognize an LGBT club as the city's anti-discrimination law demands, a state judge has ruled. Andy McQuitty, who pastors the Texas megachurch Irving Bible Church, discusses his new book "Your Best Life La...
Jun 21, 2022•7 min
President Joe Biden has added “intersex” to the list of sexual identities his administration is recognizing as part of “pride month." Biden also declared his support for allowing children and adolescents with gender dysphoria to undergo body mutilating surgeries or use puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to look more like the opposite sex. The best studies tend to show the worst results when it comes to transition surgery. These studies, however, never seem to generate media coverage. Progre...
Jun 20, 2022•7 min
A megachurch in Georgia has agreed to pay $13.1 million to leave The United Methodist Church with its property, ending litigation between it and the mainline Protestant denomination. John MacArthur and Voddie Baucham are warning the nation's largest Protestant group to resist compromise amid a wave of internal disputes and controversies. Southern Baptists adopted a resolution Tuesday rejecting the prosperity gospel, calling it false teaching and distortion of Scripture, particularly regarding Je...
Jun 17, 2022•7 min
Messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Annual Meeting overwhelmingly approved a series of abuse reform recommendations in the wake of a report detailing how some SBC leaders mishandled allegations of abuse and mistreated abuse victims. Leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are calling for politicians to speak out against the increasing vandalism of churches and pro-life pregnancy centers ahead of an expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,...
Jun 16, 2022•7 min
Multiple conservative commentators are criticizing Fox News after the network embraced by millions of conservatives in the United States aired a profile of a trans-identified child during “pride month." Millions of American women of childbearing age have significant gaps in their understanding of the process and benefits of adoption, according to new research. Today Americans seem to fight more among themselves than together. My hope is that this Flag Day we will remember that no matter our poli...
Jun 15, 2022•7 min
Secular intolerance has a “chilling effect” on Christians who are having to practice “various forms of self-censorship” as they're finding it difficult to express their faith freely in society, according to a new report detailing accounts from four countries. Through its proxy militias, Iran is carrying out an “invisible jihad” against Christians in the Middle East with the aim of creating a Muslim demographic purity by producing conditions that would force Christians out of the region, accordin...
Jun 14, 2022•8 min
Naasón Joaquín García, the leader of Mexico’s largest evangelical church, was sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting three minor girls from his flock. In continuation of a cultural shift researchers have previously documented as a growing rejection of organized religion, a new study from Lifeway Research shows Americans are least likely to dismiss churches branded as nondenominational. Gospel pioneer Kirk Franklin apologized to an audience of thousands at a c...
Jun 13, 2022•8 min
A man was arrested near the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after making threats against the justice due to his likely support for overturning Roe v. Wade. A Virginia hospital has been accused of denying a Christian nurse a religious exemption to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate even though she claims to have been given a permanent exemption last year. Actor Matthew McConaughey visited the nation's capital this week and called for gun reform after a school shooting took the lives of ov...
Jun 10, 2022•8 min
A debate over the best legal approach to abortion and how it informs resolutions within the Southern Baptist Convention has resurfaced as messengers are set to gather for the denomination’s annual meeting next week. The Mennonite Church USA has voted to retire denomination-wide Membership Guidelines that prohibited pastors from performing same-sex weddings. A specific incident is suggestive that government has been pressuring social media platforms to suppress certain content about the pandemic....
Jun 09, 2022•8 min
Most Americans believe that legal abortion is "morally acceptable" for the first time, according to a new Gallup survey. A church in upstate New York marked LGBT pride month by hosting a pair of drag queens at a worship service. Christian Post Executive Editor Richard Land offers his thoughts on the recent SBC sexual abuse report and discusses where America's largest Protestant denomination goes from here. From CP Voices writer, Samuel Sey: The Daily Wire has been my favourite news outlet for se...
Jun 08, 2022•8 min
Seventy congregations in Georgia have decided to leave The United Methodist Church due in part to the mainline Protestant denomination’s ongoing debate over homosexuality. A Michigan church is stirring up strong reactions from the community after renting out a popular movie theater sign and quoting Bible verses on it ahead of a nearby LGBT “pride” event. Why do only four companies control 90% of the supply? The answer lies in the desire of the majority of voters to have the federal government re...
Jun 07, 2022•7 min
Starting in September, Andy Wood, who serves as lead pastor of Echo.Church in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Stacie, will officially become the new lead pastor of the California- based Saddleback Church, co-founders Rick Warren and his wife, Kay, announced. A majority of Americans believe allowing children to choose a “preferred pronoun” that does not correspond with their biological sex would only confuse them, according to a new poll. The Chinese government recently allowed journali...
Jun 06, 2022•8 min
Most American Christians want to share their faith, but only a minority of them have actively encouraged others to embrace Jesus Christ, according to new data released by Lifeway Research. After investing more than $300 to purchase the Meta Quest 2 (previously Oculus Quest 2) VR headset, creating an avatar as close as possible to my likeness, and dressing in my best virtual clothes, I went to church with just a few clicks. Hillsong Young and Free singer-songwriter Aodhan King recently joined Sad...
Jun 03, 2022•6 min
A pro-life leader is rallying her group to counter the promises of violence this summer from abortion extremists with acts of servitude following a leaked draft opinion indicating that most justices are inclined to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized abortion nationwide. Virginia has passed a law that defines religion as including actions and expressions, not just personal belief, which is viewed as a win by religious liberty advocates. A French former Catholic ...
Jun 02, 2022•7 min
For Christians looking to do low-risk evangelism, hospital chaplain, Bill Willenbrock, who has approached thousands of people on VRChat in his avatar self and finds way to talk with them about faith in God says the metaverse is like the subscription streaming service, Netflix, when it comes to finding them. A branch of Ukraine's Orthodox Church announced Friday that it's breaking from Russia over President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, declaring its "full independence" against Russia's s...
Jun 01, 2022•7 min
Far from America’s shores, U.S. war heroes who fought and died defeating Nazi Germany have found an eternal welcome among the Dutch people. According to astronomers, Americans may get to see a rare meteor storm on the night of the Memorial Day holiday. The storm is expected to be the brightest in years, with shooting stars filling the sky. The Justice Department said Sunday it will investigate law enforcement’s response to last week’s mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. From CP Voices: As a Ukrainia...
May 31, 2022•6 min
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is urging Christians in the United States to “take hold of our country” through prayer as the nation continues to mourn the loss of more than a dozen school- age children slaughtered in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. The Arizona Department of Education's list of student resources provides minor children with links to LGBT-themed chat rooms where they can discuss gender and sexuality, possibly without their parents' knowledge. The Southern Baptist Conve...
May 30, 2022•7 min
Former reality TV star Josh Dugger was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison Wednesday after his request for a retrial of two child pornography convictions was denied. Sonja Curry, the mother of NBA superstar Stephen Curry, revealed that she aborted her first child and nearly chose the same fate for the famous Golden State Warriors all-star when she learned she was pregnant with him. But she listened to the Holy Spirit and decided not to abort him too. Oklahoma has become the latest ...
May 27, 2022•7 min
