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More than 530,000 visitors since 2008 have enjoyed the annual Christmas celebration at the Billy Graham Library in North Carolina. This year’s event is being held each day of the week but ...

Despite the catastrophic damage wrought by Hurricane Helene, communities across the storm’s path have demonstrated astounding grit and open-hearted giving in support of Operation Christmas Child, a ministry of Samaritan’s Purse. In ...

Samaritan’s Purse has completed more than 210 helicopter and fixed-wing airlift missions to deliver emergency relief supplies to some of the most isolated and hardest-hit areas of western North Carolina and eastern ...

Texans on Mission do just what their name says – respond to a disaster or other crises, wherever and whenever they are needed. Members provided chainsaw and flood recovery crews for Louisiana, ...

Hurricane relief efforts by Samaritan’s Purse represent America at its finest, author and TV host Dr. Phil McGraw said. “All these orange shirts you see around and behind me are Samaritan’s Purse,” ...

First Baptist Church in Hendersonville, N.C., has found itself at ground zero in the wake of devastating Hurricane Helene. “I was hearing story after story; people are broken,” the church’s Kristi Brown ...

The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team has deployed crisis-trained chaplains to multiple areas across the southeastern United States in the wake of devastating Hurricane Helene. The category 4 storm slammed into Florida ...

More than 1,100 Baptist churches throughout North Carolina last week volunteered in their communities as part of Serve NC, a statewide project launched this year by the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. ...

The Southern Baptist Convention has elected Pastor Clint Pressley of Hickory Baptist Church in Charlotte as its new president. He was elected on the second runoff ballot following a vote by messengers ...

The rising tide of antisemitism at elite colleges in the Northeast has many Jewish students considering alternative schools in the South and Midwest. Scott Katz, for example, opted for Elon in South ...

Charges have been filed against a biological man who identified as female after stripping “completely naked” in front of a minor girl inside a Planet Fitness women’s locker room. Christoper Allen Miller, ...

More than 7,000 congregations now have left the United Methodist Church because of the denomination’s positions on sexuality issues. More than 2,000 have left this year alone. This total includes 366 churches ...

A former home of Billy and Ruth Graham is now a retreat for pastors, thanks to the efforts of actor Kirk Cameron, a North Carolina businessman and one of the Grahams’ daughters. ...

An adopted Ukrainian teen has been denied life-saving surgery by Duke University Medical Center officials because she is unvaccinated against COVID-19. The controversial decision by the hospital has left the girl and ...

The Faith & Freedom Coalition, a social conservative national grassroots organization headed by longtime Christian activist Ralph Reed, will spend between $36 million and $42 million on a nationwide effort to target ...

California is banning travel to more states who are banning breast removal and other surgeries on children who believe they are transgender. California Attorney Gen. Robert Bonta issued an edict preventing employees ...

The American Renewal Project is encouraging pastors and church members across the nation to seek office. In April 2014, Jerry Falwell Jr. called me saying he was in a bind. Liberty University’s ...

If Tuesday’s primary elections were any indication, Republicans will have a large advantage in voter turnout this year. In Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Kentucky, Idaho and Oregon, Republicans made up 55 percent of ...

New research is revealing which states have the highest love for reading. The data comes at a time when some feared reading was on the decline as the public seemingly spent more ...

North Carolina basketball coach Hubert Davis was excited to have his team in last weekend’s Final Four, but sports are not the most important thing in his life. Davis, who is in ...

And just like that, there were four. Yes, the Kansas Jayhawks made a return trip to the Final Four this year, the only #1 seed to do so.  They face Villanova. Here ...

The fate of race-based affirmative action programs in higher education will be reviewed in pair of cases that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear. These cases, Students for Fair Admissions ...

At a time when many school districts are implementing critical race theory, a North Carolina county is taking a different approach. Johnston County, N.C., is insisting that its local school board institute ...

Just days after Facebook banned Donald Trump for an additional two years, the former president has announced he will commence on a national “history tour.” The event promises a “never-before-heard inside view” ...

Census numbers released Tuesday show primarily Democrat states will lose seats in Congress while red states like Florida, Texas and Montana will gain seats. The numbers show that although much of the ...