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LA County grants partial religious exemption to Christian lifeguard after Pride Flag dispute, plaintiff says

The Los Angeles County Fire Department has agreed not to force a Christian lifeguard to raise a Progress Pride flag at his work station after he filed a religious discrimination lawsuit, according to the plaintiff’s attorneys. “For nearly a year, the Los Angeles County Fire Department has ignored Captain Little’s pleas for a religious accommodation. In response to our federal …

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Evangelical leader reflects on 2 Corinthians: 'Rock the boat' to promote God's truths

“I believed, and so I spoke” (2 Corinthians 4:13). These words come from the Second Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians, an epistle in the New Testament — and provide inspiration for Christians who work in the media, Troy Miller, president and CEO of the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), told Fox News Digital. “These words call to mind the …

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'Jesus is here': Thousands join Eucharistic procession in Washington, DC

Washington, D.C. – Thousands of people turned out in Washington, D.C., on Saturday as part of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in a public display of faith and devotion to Jesus Christ. The pilgrimage was one of four from across the country that will converge in Indianapolis, Indiana, in July, ahead of the National Eucharistic Congress. Pilgrims along the “Seton Route,” …

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Father of New Jersey girl, 6, who died following badminton accident shares daughter's child-like faith

The father of a 6-year-old New Jersey girl who died from head trauma after a freak accident involving a badminton racket on the final day of a family vacation shared his daughter’s faith and the hope they held onto in the midst of tragedy. Jesse Morgan, whose 6-year-old daughter, Lucy, unexpectedly died following a badminton accident while playing with her …

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Southern Baptists poised to enact controversial ban on churches with women pastors

From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the classic hallmarks of a Southern Baptist church. On a recent Sunday, its pastor for women and children, Kim Eskridge, urged members to invite friends and neighbors to an upcoming vacation …

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Normandy churches honor D-Day paratroopers as biblical heroes in stained-glass windows

The American paratroopers who dropped from the sky into Normandy, France on June 6, 1944, appeared sent from heaven. In the eyes of the people looking up from the ground of occupied France on D-Day, the climactic event of World War II, they were indeed saviors. “For me, when they landed, they were like heroes in a movie,” Paul Renaud, …

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Anne Frank's spirits soared on D-Day: 'Friends are on the way,' she wrote of heroic GIs

The heroes of D-Day won a spiritual victory when they selflessly crawled from the ocean and fell from the sky into Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944 — 80 years ago this week. Their triumph spread almost instantly across the occupied nations of Europe on D-Day, even as military success was still far from certain. Evidence of the spiritual impact …

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New book 'The War on Warriors' by Pete Hegseth highlights a patriot's concerns about a 'woke' military

The new book by bestselling author and co-host Pete Hegseth of “Fox & Friends Weekend” — “The War on Warriors,” out on June 4 from Fox News Books — minces no words about the state of today’s military as he sees it. The personal memoir is his fifth book and was a passion project for him, he said. “I love …

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South Carolina priest says feast of Corpus Christi is a reminder that God wants 'to be with us'

“Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Those …

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Las Vegas stadium will be site of 'Day of Gratitude' for America's veterans, families: 'We honor them'

The California-based Christian organization CityServe is hosting a “Day of Gratitude” in Las Vegas on June 8, honoring America’s veterans and their families with a day of music, fun and charity. “We’re calling it the ‘Day of Gratitude,’” CityServe co-founder and CEO Dave Donaldson told Fox News Digital in a video interview. The timing of the event, Donaldson said, is …

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