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November 5, 2021

Sunday, November 7, will be International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians

Christians around the world will join in prayer for the persecuted church this Sunday. The International Day of Prayer for Persecuted…

November 4, 2021

Membership slide continues in mainline Episcopal Church

Membership in the Episcopal Church continues to decline. In one report, the number of baptized members dropped from 1.798 million to…

November 1, 2021

Rural areas, small towns still have almost half of all churches

Church congregations are shrinking in the United States, and it may be felt most in rural areas. The latest Faith…

October 31, 2021

Pastors feeling overwhelmed, survey finds

More than six in 10 pastors of evangelical and historically black Protestant churches agree that “the role of being a…

October 28, 2021

A century after partition and civil war, Ireland’s churches are cooperating

Leaders from Ireland’s main Christian traditions held a “Service of Reflection and Hope” in Armagh, Northern Ireland on Oct. 21,…

October 25, 2021

Alliance for Life assists organizations working for the unborn

Now more than ever, the fight for the lives of the unborn has waged into a widescale war. An administration…

October 22, 2021

Christian Employers Alliance sues Biden administration over transgender mandates

Two Biden administration mandates that force religious nonprofit and for-profit employers to pay for or perform gender transition surgeries, procedures, counseling…

October 21, 2021

Study: Attendance hemorrhaging at small & midsize US congregations

A new survey of 15,278 religious congregations across the United States confirms trends sociologists have documented for several decades: Congregational…

October 21, 2021