Hormoz Shariat preaches to a congregation of millions of Iranian Christians around the world, those who have scattered because of repression at home and those who, having stayed, have long been the target of arrest by Iranian authorities, frequently accused of being tools of Western powers.
Early Saturday morning (Feb. 28), as Israeli and American fighter jets began striking targets in Iran, every Israeli cellphone issued an air-raid siren alarm, the
Wiley Drake, a California pastor who rallied Southern Baptists to boycott Disney in the 1990s, has died.
Back in 2021, a group of evangelical families, including the founders of Hobby Lobby, began funding a new ad campaign, hoping to help skeptical Americans give Jesus a second look and to convince people to be a little kinder to one another.
Philip Yancey, a beloved evangelical author and speaker, will retire from public ministry after admitting to a long-term affair.
In 2023 and 2024, David Ha’ivri, an Israeli tour guide, didn’t offer his popular English-language Hanukkah or Christmas tours. Tourism had plummeted after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre and the start of the Hamas-Israel war, when nearly every international airline canceled flights to Israel.
Americans who had a positive religious experience as kids are most likely to keep the same faith as adults.
Religion in America might be best described in the words of rap artist LL Cool J: Don’t call it a comeback. At least not yet.
African Christian leaders attending a conference with faith-based health organizations in late November called for countries on the continent to do more to replace U.S. Agency for International Development funds cut by the Trump administration.
It’s 9 p.m. on Oct. 13, a Monday, on the University of Pittsburgh’s campus. There are two NFL games on TV and fall midterms are this week — but roughly 300 students are packed into a room in the student union building, clapping or raising their hands in worship.
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