“And when he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight” (Acts 1:9). Today, 40 days after Easter, is known as the “Feast of the Ascension,” “Ascension Thursday,” and “Solemnity of the Ascension of Jesus Christ.” It’s a commemoration of Jesus Christ’s bodily ascension into heaven following …
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A Ukrainian-born American pastor is contributing to supporting efforts for chaplains on the front lines against the ongoing Russian invasion. Andrew Moroz — a lead elder at Gospel Community Church in Lynchburg, Virginia — is currently volunteering in Ukraine, helping military chaplains to recuperate from the traumas of the conflict. “I show up where I’m needed and invited. I come …
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A rural Florida elementary school has reportedly disbanded a new student-led Christian club on campus after receiving a legal complaint from an atheist group which called the religious meeting unconstitutional. The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) wrote a letter to Hamilton County Schools after discovering students at the district’s only elementary school had started hosting a chapter meeting for the …
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Reims, France, boasts the best of European travel condensed into a single little city. It’s the home of crowned kings, Christian faith, Gothic majesty and luminescent wine. It’s also where a sad, weary world toasted the defeat of Adolf Hitler and his evil National Socialist German Workers Party in World War II. COLUMBIA’S FORMER PRESIDENT DWIGHT EISENHOWER WARNED THE WORLD …
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A group of nearly 1,400 Catholic middle school students from Northern Virginia spent a recent Saturday strengthening their faith, making new friends and enjoying fellowship — with the event’s organizers believing the students are building a critical foundation for lifelong involvement in the church. The 20th-annual “BASH” is the Diocese of Arlington’s largest gathering for middle school-aged children. It was …
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FIRST ON FOX: A new Billy Graham statue is going to be placed at the U.S. Capitol building next week, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association shared with Fox News Digital on Monday afternoon. “It’s a rare honor,” the organization said in materials shown to Fox News Digital. The statue is to be unveiled on Thursday, May 16, in a ceremony …
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It took just a few days for United Methodist delegates to remove a half-century’s worth of denominational bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriages. But when asked at a news conference about the lightning speed of the changes, the Rev. Effie McAvoy took a longer view. “Oh, it didn’t take days, honey,” she said. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH VOTES TO LIFT …
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan formally opened a former Byzantine church in Istanbul as a mosque on Monday, four years after his government had designated it a Muslim house of prayer, despite criticism from neighboring Greece. Turkey formally converted The Church of St. Saviour in Chora, known as Kariye in Turkish, into a mosque in 2020, soon after it similarly …
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Verses fom the Acts of the Apostles, the fifth book of the New Testament, are particularly noteworthy today. “While Peter was still speaking these things, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the word. The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit should have been poured out on the …
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If you come to Colorado in the summer and spend a weekend with my family, we’ll likely force you to go over one of the nearby mountain passes with us in some kind of four-wheel- drive vehicle. The narrow roads are unpaved, bumpy, and sometimes a little too close to the edge of cliffs and steep drop-offs on the side …
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