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Prominent NYC-based pastor and best-selling author Timothy Keller dies at 72
Timothy Keller, a pastor and best-selling author who founded the influential Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, died this morning at home after three-year bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 72. His family announced that he had been in hospice care, and that he died with...
Paul Schrader can’t shake his Christian faith, even with his latest movie, 'Master Gardener'
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Throughout his life, Paul Schrader has had a complicated relationship with Christianity. He grew up in a strict Calvinist home, went to a Christian college, left the faith and then eventually returned, albeit to a different denomination. And although he is widely...
Church members hoping whoever stole truckload of organ pipes will repent, shipment can be recovered
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Members of a Tennessee church are hoping and praying that whoever stole a moving truck over the weekend will repent after finding out what's inside: old organ pipes, and lots of them. Calvary Episcopal Church in downtown Memphis had loaded a Penske truck with...
Orthodox Easter mixes spiritual and pagan in equal measure
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Millions of Orthodox Christians across Eastern and Southern Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, have celebrated Easter, capping weeklong religious celebrations. The most important holiday on the Orthodox religious calendar is essentially an...
Ukrainians celebrate Palm Sunday in church marred by dispute
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Willow branches in hand, Ukrainians marked Palm Sunday in the country’s most revered Orthodox site that has been at the heart of a religious dispute playing out in parallel with Russia's war on Ukraine. Dozens of worshippers filled the grand Refectory Church...
Chinese Christian asylum seekers reported heading to US
BANGKOK (AP) — More than 60 asylum-seeking members of a Chinese Christian church who were detained last week in Thailand are en route to the United States, a religious freedom advocate who has been aiding them said Friday. A colonel in Thailand’s police immigration division...
Trump arrest prompts Jesus comparisons: 'Spiritual warfare'
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the most devoted Trump conspiracy theorists, there are no coincidences and timing is everything. So when ex-President Donald Trump was arraigned Tuesday on charges that he falsified business records to obscure hush money payments in an effort to influence the...
Thai police say Chinese church members to be deported soon
BANGKOK (AP) — More than 60 self-exiled members of a Chinese Christian church who were detained in Thailand after receiving U.N. refugee status will be deported by next week, probably to a third country, officials said Wednesday. Deputy national police chief Surachate Hakparn said...
Pastors: Palm Sunday a balm after Nashville school shooting
FRANKLIN, Tennessee (AP) — It’s Palm Sunday, and across the greater Nashville, Tennessee, region, many Christians headed to worship services grief-stricken and hurting for the lives stolen too soon in The Covenant School shooting. Their heartsick pastors sought to bring comfort...
Christian faithful mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Christian pilgrims participated in Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem at the start of the Holy Week. Worshipers carried palm fronds and olive branches and marched from the top of the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem's historic Old City, home to holy...
