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  Jim Bakker claims first horseman of the Apocalypse is riding through America and Trump is a 'respite' before the End Times

  Controversial televangelist Jim Bakker has claimed that God spoke to him as he was reading Revelation 6 in the Bible and told him that the first horseman of the Apocalypse has been released upon the world, with President Donald Trump being a "respite" before the End Times.

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  Rob Bell isn't cool: 3 proofs from an interview

  Rob Bell's new Holy Shift Tour of the UK starts today, and you may be wanting to avoid it.

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  Church of Scotland minister fights for Christian family threatened with deportation

  A Church of Scotland minister has started a petition to try and persuade the UK government not to deport two teenage brothers to Pakistan.

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  False freedom: Why Christians need to beware of the money trap

  We live in an area of refined materialism, with the desire to increase, upgrade, customise and insure.

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  Suspect charged with 5 murders after shotgun attack on Maryland newsroom

  A Maryland man was charged with multiple counts of murder on Friday, a day after police say he rampaged through a newsroom in Annapolis

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  Blessing the murder of children? How to read Psalm 137

  'O daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us – he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.'

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  Believe it or not: Euro evangelicals back new freedom of religion movement

  The European Platform against Intolerance and Discrimination (EPRID) launched its new #FoRBDefender movement this week under the slogan, 'Believe it or not, it's my Right!'

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  Running out of gas: lessons from an unlikely crisis

  While the abundance of C02 is damaging our global atmosphere, the lack of it in bottle form is arguably damaging the atmosphere in our hot and football-thirsty land.

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  'Heartbreaking' Nigeria violence sees hundreds of Christians killed

  Days of violence between mainly Christian farmers and Muslim Fulani herdsmen in central Nigeria have cost scores of lives and led to accusations that the government has lost control of the situation.

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  Is carbon-based life the only way to be a Christian?

  It really is the case that carbon and the other elements essential for life were made in the stars. We are all made of star-dust.

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  Saddleworth Moor firefighters thankful for Salvation Army support

  The fires have spread because of the prolonged hot weather and are visible for miles around.

• Pope Francis is popular with the world's Catholics – but he is fighting fierce internal battles

  When Pope Francis wanted to appoint a woman as deputy head of the Vatican press office in 2016, he quickly ran into opposition from the Catholic Church's male-dominated hierarchy.

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  Woman says pastor stopped her from coming to church after missing Sunday services without his permission

  Azoia Williams, a young Mississippi woman who says she attended Zion Chapel Church of God in Christ in Bolton "since birth," claims she was kicked off the church's membership roll by her former pastor this week for missing two Sundays without his permission.

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  Billy Graham's daughter says she's more worried about the state of the church than today's secular culture

  Evangelist and author Anne Graham Lotz, the 70-year-old daughter of legendary evangelist Billy Graham, has said that most people in today's American culture are essentially living as 'practical atheists'

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  Bishop slams 'unjust and inhuman' policies that drive people to foodbanks

  In a hard-hitting address to Colchester Foodbank, Rt Rev Roger Morris said foodbanks were 'a sign that on the whole we have failed'.