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Fox News host Tucker Carlson voices his concerns following the Nashville school shooting on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will prevent the passage of a proposal by a powerful ally in his governing coalition to punish Christian proselytizing with jail time

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said he would prevent the passage of a proposal by a powerful ally in his governing coalition to punish Christian proselytizing with jail time. The proposal had raised an uproar with evangelical Christians — one of Israel’s strongest and most influential supporters in the United States. The bill was introduced in January by a pair of ultra-Orthodox Jewish lawmakers, including Moshe Gafni, who heads the parliament’s Finance Committee.

Lauren Green, chief religion correspondent for Fox News, spoke to Dr. James Spencer, head of the D.L. Moody Center in Massachusetts, about steps needed by Christians to stay strong in faith.

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An update to Foxe's book of martyrs, Rev. Johnnie Moore's new book includes stories of Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Christians who died for their faith throughout the years.

The Chinese government has been ramping up its persecution of Christians and house churches while also clamping down on Christianity online as it demands allegiance to Xi Jinping.

Lent is a season of spiritual reflection and sacrifice in the weeks leading up to Easter Sunday, one of the most important holidays on the Christian calendar.

All proceeds of the parade go to the Island Foundation Seashore Schools and Texas Sealife Center.

The group behind two Super Bowl commercials promoting the Christian faith responded Monday to attacks from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and others.

St. Valentine is a legendary Christian martyr who is connected to Valentine’s Day. Here are the various stories about his origin and how it relates to the holiday of love.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday that she did not believe Jesus would spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl advertisements that "make fascism look benign.”

A Christian group's massive $20 million Super Bowl ads campaign faced backlash on social media after officially debuting Sunday night during the game.

David Morring of Dallas’s Lerma is one of the creative minds behind the “He Gets Us” campaign, which targets “spiritually open skeptics.”

On Super Bowl Sunday, advertising’s biggest night, religion rarely makes an appearance among the much buzzed about beer and fast-food commercials.

One in 10 Americans thinks the country should be an explicitly Christian nation. Most of them are staunchly right-wing.

A spokesperson for the Church of England said “Christians have recognised since ancient times that God is neither male nor female.”

Christian evangelicals have been stepping up conversions, creating a backlash -- and a political opportunity for Hindu nationalists.

Father Mike Schmitz, a Roman Catholic priest and podcaster, said he remains hopeful despite the decrease in the number of Americans who identify as Christian.

Some 200 million people are marking the holiday, one of the most important dates in the faith.

It's a new year and 2023 means that you get a fresh start. If you make a resolution and fail, don't worry. Christianity is a faith that offers second chances.

A new report from the Family Research Council showed that dozens of churches have been vandalized with pro-abortion attacks since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Revelations about policies at Dave Ramsey’s company raise questions about religious freedom for companies. It's a battle playing out in the courts.

The medieval piece, or "Harpole Treasure," offers a glimpse into the style of elite 7th-century Christian women, archaeologists working in Northamptonshire, England, say.

"These artifacts haven't seen daylight in more than 1,300 years," one archaeologist said. "To be the first person to actually see it – it's just indescribable."

A 1,300-year-old gold and gemstone necklace uncovered near Northampton in central England is being hailed as a find of major significance

A 1,300-year-old gold and gemstone necklace uncovered near Northampton in central England is being hailed as a find of major significance.

As monks chanted prayers in Saint John’s University church, members of the student LGBTQ organization, QPLUS, were meeting in their lounge at the Minnesota institution’s sister Benedictine college, a few miles away. To Sean Fisher, a senior who identifies as non-binary and helps lead QPLUS, its official recognition and funding by Saint John’s and the College of Saint Benedict is welcome proof of the schools’ “acknowledging queer students exist.” The Christian teachings they ascribe to differ from societal values over gender identity and sexual orientation, because they assert that God created humans in unchangeable male and female identities, and sex should only happen within the marriage of a man and a woman.

Tensions over gender identity and sexual orientation pervade the campuses of hundreds of U.S. Catholic and Protestant universities.

A perfect storm is brewing among Trump, Fuentes, Ye … and Twitter.

Figures like corporate-marketer-turned-prophet Lance Wallnau have been appearing with candidates all over the country this year, preaching spiritual warfare.

Donald Trump's son had his rant flipped back on him.

The editor-in-chief of Christianity Today talks with David Remnick about faith in American politics. Plus, Mike White on “The White Lotus.”

"Christian nationalism" has been a heavily discussed and hotly debated topic in American politics this year, but it's not clear everyone is talking about the same thing.

Amid a violent crackdown on Iranians protestors, a new British government report details the shocking treatment handed out by the regime against the country's tiny Christian population.

Kyrie Irving never fails to find himself in the middle of some controversy - he did so again on Thursday by tweeting out an anti-Semitic film.

Indian police say they are deporting three Swedish citizens who violated their visas by trying to convert people to Christianity in India’s remote northeast region

By the time the red, white and blue-colored microphone had been switched off, the crowd of 3,000 had listened to hours of invective and grievance. Another said she would “take a bullet for my nation,” while a third insisted, “They hate you because they hate Jesus." Then retired three-star Army general Michael Flynn, the tour's biggest draw, invited people to be baptized.

This MAGA Republican wants to strip all American women of their full citizenship. All of the Republicans I have ever met disregard this part of the Constitution, especially on the abortion test. MAGA Republicans have already proven they have no respect for life, they killed police on Jan. 6, 2021. They are MAGA Republicans. Hank ShiverMissionNew topicsrequestedOver and over the letters to the editor explode with the same rhetoric.

The Miami Herald editorial said there was an overlap between white supremacy and Florida Gov. DeSantis' "Christian nationalist shtick."

As some evangelicals push to restrict civil rights for trans people, other Christians use similar sacred texts and traditions to build a theology that embraces trans lives as part of God's creation.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, released his health records in order to spotlight Democratic rival John Fetterman’s recovery from a stroke. A doctor released a four-page letter saying Oz is in “excellent health.”

The March for the Martyrs is in its third year with the aim of raising the spotlight on persecuted Christians throughout the world. The gathering is set to take place in Washington, D.C.

A new study shows that America's Christian majority has been shrinking for years, and if recent trends continue, Christians could make up less than half the U.S. population within a few decades.

Thinkers on the new right try to turn Trump’s impulses into a philosophy.

Christians are projected to become a minority in the U.S. within decades if current trends of young people leaving the faith continue without limitation, according to Pew Research.

Christians are projected to become a minority in the U.S. within decades if current trends of young people leaving the faith continue without limitation, according to Pew Research.

A new report finds that the number of people choosing to disaffiliate from Christianity is increasing – and could overtake the nation's Christian majority.

Doug Mastriano prayed Congress would "rise up with boldness" on the 6th of January in a December 2020 Zoom call published by Rolling Stone.

Doug Mastriano prayed Congress would "rise up with boldness" on the 6th of January in a December 2020 Zoom call published by Rolling Stone.

A fight over "Gender Queer" spiraled into a battle that jeopardized Jamestown’s only public library, as neighbors clashed over who gets to decide free speech.

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Christians have celebrated their “Holy Fire” ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

More than 400 Detroit families came to Faith Xperience Church to watch 10,000 eggs drop from a helicopter!

Pope Francis has made an Easter plea for peace in Ukraine and in other wars in the world.

Jessika Sessoms grew up in a conservative Black evangelical family, attended Christian schools, and often heard that being gay was an abomination, until she understood that she was queer when she was studying to become a missionary at Liberty University.

(Tiziana Fabi/Pool photo via AP)ROME – The Vatican declared Monday that the Catholic Church won't bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.”The Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued a formal response to a question about whether Catholic clergy have the authority to bless gay unions. Since gay unions aren't intended to be part of that plan, they can't be blessed by the church, the document said. Francis has endorsed providing gay couples with legal protections in same-sex unions, but that was in reference to the civil sphere, not within the church. At the time, Argentine lawmakers were considering approving gay marriage, which the Catholic Church opposes. AdSpeaking of families with gay children, he said: “You can’t kick someone out of a family, nor make their life miserable for this.

(AP Photo/Marianne Armshaw, File)PORTLAND, Ore. – Luis Palau, an evangelical pastor who was born in Argentina and went on to work with Billy Graham before establishing his own powerhouse international ministry, died Thursday. The Luis Palau Association said he died at his home in Portland, Oregon. “This is hard news, but Luis is experiencing the beauty of the Lord face to face.”Born to an affluent family in Buenos Aires, Palau rose from obscurity to become one of the most well-known international Christian evangelists. How many people we’ve reached with the Gospel.”His radio programs, including the international Spanish-language “Luis Palau Responde,” are broadcast on 3,500 stations in 48 countries, and his Portland-based Luis Palau Association organizes dozens of events each year on five continents. “Luis Palau was the Apostle Paul to the Spanish-speaking world.

Pope Francis delivers his speech during a meeting with bishops and priests, at the Sayidat al-Nejat (Our Lady of Salvation) Cathedral, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 5, 2021. The pontiff’s landmark visit has been months in the making and is the first papal visit to Iraq, one that eluded his predecessors. The Alitalia flight, with both Vatican and Iraqi flags, carrying the pope and his delegation landed just before 2 p.m. (1100GMT). Dozens of Christians are gathering at the Church of the Virgin Mary in Baghdad hours before Pope Francis was due to land in Iraq for a first papal visit to the war-weary country. The papal visit has raised alarm among public health experts, who fear large crowds will inevitably gather to see the pope.

Iraqi Christians place a cross on a church in Qaraqosh, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Iraq's Christians are hoping that a historic visit by Pope Francis in March will help boost their community's struggle to survive. Iraq’s Christian communities in the area were dealt a severe blow when they were scattered by the IS onslaught in 2014, further shrinking the country's already dwindling Christian population. Many hope their struggle to endure will get a boost from a historic visit by Pope Francis planned in March. The Chaldean Catholic Patriarch, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, estimated that 1 million Christians have left Iraq since 2003 and about 500,000 remained.

Travis Lowe, second from right, pastor of Crossroads Church in Bluefield, W.Va., raises his arm during services Sunday Jan. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)BLUEFIELD, W.Va. – If you’re Christian in Bluefield — and most everyone is, in this small city tucked into the Appalachian Mountains — you have your choice. Or you can venture up East River Mountain to Crossroads Church, where Pastor Travis Lowe eschews Bradford’s fiery political rhetoric, seeking paths to Christian unity. AdJoe Biden carried parts of Bluefield itself, small splotches of blue in the sea of red that is West Virginia. But Mercer County gave more than three-quarters of its votes to Trump, and Bradford and his pronouncements are very much in line with that.

The Christian imagery and rhetoric on view during this months Capitol insurrection are sparking renewed debate about the societal effects of melding Christian faith with an exclusionary breed of nationalism. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)WASHINGTON – The Christian imagery and rhetoric on view during this month’s Capitol insurrection are sparking renewed debate about the societal effects of melding Christian faith with an exclusionary breed of nationalism. The rise of what’s often called Christian nationalism has long prompted pushback from leaders in multiple denominations, with the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty forming the Christians Against Christian Nationalism coalition in 2019. “But as a Christian, my highest allegiance is to Christ.”Yet some supporters of former President Donald Trump say that denunciations of Christian nationalism are a way of attacking them politically. Ad“The fact that we saw QAnon, white supremacy and white Christianity all carried together in a violent attack on the Capitol means that particularly white Christians have got some real soul-searching to do,” said Jones, author of two books on white Christianity in America.

From the tree that stands tall and beautiful in Rockefeller Center to the humble Charlie Brown Christmas tree, it wouldn’t be Christmas without the traditional tree. Christmas trees are part of the Christmas spirit, but when and how did this all become such a staple in the Christmas tradition? By the 1890s Christmas ornaments were arriving from Germany and Christmas tree popularity was on the rise around the U.S. The first Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center was in 1931. Workers at the Rockefeller Center construction site put their money together for a 20-foot Christmas tree because they were thankful to have jobs during the great depression.

Dubbed Not Our Faith, the new super PAC plans to roll out six-figure TV and digital ads focused on Christian voters — particularly the evangelical and Catholic voters who helped power Trump to victory in 2016. Urging Christians to break from Trump, the ad states that they “don’t need Trump to save them. “Trump eked out 2016 with unprecedented support from white evangelicals and, important to note, a really strong showing among Catholics. Whether Biden backers’ bid to peel away evangelical support from Trump is making headway remains to be seen. But the new PAC sees room for a wide-ranging connection with Christian voters beyond Trump’s white evangelical base.

SAN ANTONIO – Dia de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a merger of two traditions, Mexico’s Indigenous customs and Christianity. This merger began when the first missionaries arrived in Mexico after the Spanish conquest. The missionaries took existing beliefs about the dead and Christianized those rituals. The combination of traditions brought about change and was difficult for the Indigenous people of Mexico. Find more Day of the Dead stories on KSAT.com: