“I do have a satisfied feeling when I play,” Grace Street said. “When I’m not there, there is no one else to play, and that’s not what you would want to hear.”
Since 2022, Russia has increased its enforcement of a law that criminalizes “insulting the religious feelings of believers” as part of the government’s campaign to present itself as the defender of “traditional values.”
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a member of Cypress Baptist Church, Benton, spoke to a group of students at a Calvary Baptist Academy assembly.
According to a recent Lifeway Research study of U.S. adults, 53% say someone should be considered a regular churchgoer or regular church attender only if they attend church services at least weekly.
In a world facing serious problems of hunger, poverty and environmental degradation: “We need hope, and we need it badly,” said Father Emmanuel Katongole, professor of theology and peace studies at Notre Dame University.
Though no longer affiliated with a Southern Baptist Convention entity, World Changers is still “Baptist through and through,” said David Flatt, executive director of World Changers.
The number of professing Christians in the United States is rapidly decreasing and has fallen from about 80% of the U.S. population in 2007 to 62%, as reported in February 2025 by the Pew Research Center.
States are increasingly passing laws that criminalize not only sexual abuse, but the grooming process that often precedes the abuse.
Department of Veteran Affairs Secretary Douglas Collins has instructed the agency’s employees to report any instances of anti-Christian bias, including any policies that are “hostile to Christian views.”
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