Beverly Geiger Bonnheim was 17 when the Ku Klux Klan bombed her synagogue in 1967. This weekend, at 75, she watched it burn again.
Humanitarian Impact of Attacks on Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure
Attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure have significantly deepened humanitarian instability, particularly affecting vulnerable populations. In January, the situation became critical in the Odesa region, Dnipropetrovsk oblast, and Zaporizhzhia, where entire cities were left without electricity following large-scale strikes.
Christians Among Victims In Iran Protests As Prayer Requests Echo Across The World
Christians have been shot as police respond to protests across Iran, a U.S.-based evangelist told Baptist Press, with Southern Baptists requesting prayer for persecuted Christians and others across the nation.
Canada’s Not-So-Secret Religion—Hockey
A fan carries a sign bearing the likeness of Jesus Christ into the hockey arena. Wait, that’s not the Savior—that’s Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid, garbed in robes with hair and beard in the biblical style, courtesy of AI.
Suspect in Jackson synagogue fire confesses; congregation determined to rebuild
The fire that ripped through Jackson, Mississippi’s only synagogue appears to be an act of arson on the part of a man who admitted to targeting the institution because of its “Jewish ties,” according to the FBI.
Pope Leo Confronts Trump on His Own Terms
Since his election in May as the first American pope, Leo XIV has become a political and temperamental counterweight to an incendiary American president.
The 17th-century Pueblo leader who fought for independence from colonial rule – long before the American Revolution
The U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall Collection contains 100 sculptures: two luminaries from each state. They include many familiar figures, such as Helen Keller, Johnny Cash, Ronald Reagan and Amelia Earhart. There are a few from the Colonial era, including founders such as…
What Worship Looks Like in a Government-Run Church Service
A controversial new leader in Washington, D.C., organizes worship services in a federal building, hosts the services, picks preachers to speak, invites staff and special guests to attend, and claims to do it to advance religion. That could describe Secretary…
The pope in a major foreign policy address blasts how countries are using force to assert dominion
In his most substantial critique of U.S., Russian and other military incursions in sovereign countries, Pope Leo XIV on Friday denounced how nations were using force to assert their dominion worldwide, “completely undermining” peace and the post-World War II international legal…
BWA Director Appointed to New Role with International Ministries
The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) announces that Julie Justus Williams, Director of Global Partnerships and Unity, has accepted a new role as Area Director for Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa with International Ministries (IM), also known as the…
Amy Grant releases wistful single about Jan. 6, Woodstock: ‘We’ve lost our way’
Contemporary Christian singer Amy Grant released a new single this week that wistfully reflected on whether the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, marked the end of the 1960s idealism supposedly embodied at Woodstock.
Warnock, declaring ‘spiritual crisis,’ urges public, private sectors to help meet needs
Shortly after joining Senate colleagues in midweek voting for a review of an environmental standard, Sen. Raphael Warnock sat in his Hart Senate Building office and talked about prayer and policy.