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  Ty Rhame's explosive entrepreneurial hacks for business success

  (Partner Post) If you are serious about becoming a success in the world of business, it is essential to be proactive.

• Why has Rwanda closed 8,000 Christian churches?

  Headlines in Western media saying an African country has closed 8,000 churches are always going to make Christians sit up and take notice.

• How Compassion changes lives: we meet the graduates who prove charity sponsorship works

  Bonny and Brenda, both graduates of the Compassion programme, tell their own stories in their own words.

• Kind on film: Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' is a vision of Hell

  The Overlook hotel is Hell. It's a depository of souls, a place where tortured minds go to die – a lot like Scarborough.

• Vatican breaks silence to voice 'shame and sorrow' over damning Pennsylvania sex abuse report

  In a long statement that broke the Vatican's silence over a damning US grand jury report, spokesman Greg Burke said the Holy See was taking the report 'with great seriousness'.

• President Trump says Andrew Brunson is a 'great patriot hostage', threatens Turkey with more sanctions

  US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin assured President Donald Trump at a Cabinet meeting that sanctions were ready to be put in place if Brunson was not freed.

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  Robert Morris preaches on eternity as he returns to pulpit for the first time since near death experience

  Texas megachurch Pastor Robert Morris gave his first sermon since a near death experience earlier this year, receiving a strong applause from the Gateway Church community.

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  Kenneth Copeland claims God 'healed' rusty private jet after he prayed over it

  Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says God once told him to lay hands on a corroded private jet and that He would heal the plane when he did.

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  1,800 troops have come to faith at US army base in last six months, says chaplain

  Over 1,800 soldiers have made professions of faith in the last six months at an Army base in Missouri, a chaplain says.

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  Bethel Church pastor Beni Johnson says she's felt 'so much peace' despite cancer diagnosis

  Beni Johnson, co-pastor of Bethel Church in Redding, California, is being treated for a cancer diagnosis that "shocked" her.

• Church is not a business, says Soul Survivor's Mike Pilavachi – it's a family

  What's notable about 'Lifelines' is the way itdraws on the authors' personal experience and on their immersion in the real-life stories of God's people today.

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  Jack Phillips is back in court, this time for refusing to bake cake celebrating gender transition

  Jack Phillips, who won a Supreme Court case over his refusal to make a same-sex wedding cake, is back in court defending his objection to making a transgender-themed cake.

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  Teenager thanks God he's alive after being hit by lightning

  A 13-year-old boy who survived a lightning strike that doctors say was enough to stop his heart is now thanking God for sparing his life.

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  TD Jakes' wife shares photos of yoga session at The Potter's House

  Serita Jakes, wife of popular televangelist Bishop T.D. Jakes, shared photos of women at The Potter's House in Dallas doing yoga in the church

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  3 teenagers killed after church van crashes during youth group trip

  An end-of-summer trip for a Missouri church youth group ended in tragedy Friday morning when three teenagers were killed and 10 others injured after a van they were traveling in blew a tire and crashed.