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Southern Baptist debate on abuse probe is extended for another week
Members of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee have again delayed a decision to waive attorney-client privilege in an investigation into alleged sexual abuse in the denomination, calling for another week of deliberations.

Southern Baptist Convention agrees to $1.6m investigation into sex abuse allegations
The Executive Committee agreed to fully fund an upcoming investigation into sex abuse allegations to the tune of $1.6 million.

God showed up amid 9/11 tragedy, says Ground Zero chaplain
Twenty years after the events of September 11, 2001, a Navy chaplain who ministered to hundreds of grieving families at Ground Zero has shared the incredible ways God showed up amid tragedy and provided comfort to those suffering.

Nearly half of millennials 'don't know, don't care or don't believe' God exists
And only 16% believe they will go to Heaven after confessing their sins and accepting Jesus as their Savior.

Religious persecution in China intensified during the pandemic - report
Police summoning and questioned pastors, and ordered churches to fly the Chinese flag and sing patriotic songs in services, among other forms of harassment.

America's churches are 'too segregated', say Christians
A new survey from Lifeway Research found that less than half of Americans believe the nation's churches are too segregated, yet most believe religious leaders play a "positive role" in improving race relations.

Missionary launches legal action after being deported from Turkey
David Byle, a Canadian-American Christian who was forced to leave Turkey after 19 years because of his evangelistic work, has filed a deportation complaint with the European Court of Human Rights.

Church set on fire by extremists after Christians refused to stop worshipping together
Suspected Hindu extremists set fire to a church in India's Andhra Pradesh state, burning it to the ground because local Christians refused to stop worshiping together.

Bethel's Bill Johnson says Christians should not view the miraculous as a 'controversial side issue'
The pastor said miracles were "the heart and nature" of who Jesus was and what He did during His time on earth.

Francis Chan: I healed deaf boy and girl in Myanmar - 'My faith was at another level'
Crazy Love author Francis Chan said that during a recent trip to Myanmar he, along with a team of other Christians, miraculously healed a number of individuals in a rural village, including a little boy and girl who were deaf.

NT Wright on Bible illiteracy and the Greco-Roman-Jewish world that Jesus lived in
"When we fail to care about or recognize the history, literature, and theology of the early Christians, we tend to make them in our own image."

Dozens of Christians convicted of terrorism are released from prison in Pakistan
An anti-terrorism court in Lahore has acquitted and ordered the release of 42 Christians previously imprisoned for rioting after two churches in Pakistan's largest Christian neighborhood were bombed in 2015.

Pastor who came back to life after being dead for 15 minutes credits prayer
A pastor in the UK who miraculously came back to life after being dead for 15 minutes has credited the "power of prayer" and "divine providence" for saving him.

Marriage is more about commitment and less about romantic attraction, says John Piper
Theologian John Piper has encouraged asexual individuals to "accept your present indifference to sexual desires" and remain open to relationships, as marriage is fundamentally based on commitment â not romantic attraction.

Keith Getty says modern worship songs are so 'dangerous' they're 'de-Christianizing' Christians
"In Christ Alone" writer Keith Getty is warning church leaders about the modern worship movement, which he describes as one of "cultural relevance" that is "utterly dangerous" and is contributing to the "de-Christianizing of God's people."

Muslim convert to Christianity says Jesus appeared to him every night for weeks
"A man wearing all white knocked at my door every night and I couldn't look at him because his face was so shiny and bright."