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Thousands of church leaders join the 2007 Willow Creek Leadership Summit in South Barrington, Ill. The summit was featured live via videocast in cities across the globe.
Julia Veach, the wife of best-selling author and popular millennial Pastor Chad Veach, is sharing her inspirational story of faith as the mother of a child living with a debilitating brain disorder, and a role model to young celebrities in Hollywood.
Marquise Goodwin, the San Francisco 49ers wide receiver who scored an emotional touchdown in his team's first win of the season Sunday, just hours after he lost his baby due to a premature birth. Still, he found reasons to give God the glory.
March 27, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) - When she made the decision to compete to be Miss North Dakota, 20-year-old Macy Christianson said to herself, "If I'm going to do this, I'm going to do it for God."
The former Miss America contestant, who as Miss North Dakota now travels around the state speaking to schools and advocating against drunken driving, says she takes advantage of "any opportunity I have to stand up for what I believe in."
OTTAWA, March 24, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) - Putting economic growth at the forefront, the Trudeau government's 2017 budget projects $7 billion in spending over the next 10 years to create new institutional daycare spaces in a move one faith-based critic called "soft coercion."
The measure would only make 40,000 new spaces by 2019, when Justin Trudeau's Liberal government is up for re-election. After that, the yearly allotment would increase from $550 million to $800 million. One news report said
A new report by the Pew Research Center has found that the overwhelming majority of Americans support paid family and medical leave for workers, Christian Telegraph reports according to Catholic News Agency.
More than 80 percent of adult Americans surveyed believe that women should have paid maternity leave, and just under 70 percent support paid paternity leave.
When it comes to paid leave for new fathers, there are significant generational differences. Of those under 30 years of age, 82
March 23, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) - Planned Parenthood closed two more abortion clinics in Pennsylvania after shutting three at the end of last year, an branch of the national abortion business announced March 13th.
A Southern Baptist member of the U.S. Senate has asked the State Department to explain its diplomatic strategy for gaining the freedom of American citizens wrongly imprisoned overseas, Christian Telegraph reports according to Baptist Press.
A Southern Baptist religious freedom advocate, meanwhile, encouraged advocacy for all prisoners of conscience.
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., sent a letter Thursday (March 16) to urge Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to establish a diplomatic approach th
March 17, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) - As the Disney Corporation experiments with a "gay" subplot in its remake of Beauty and the Beast, the recent ratings flop of an ABC miniseries extolling "gay rights" confirms that Americans are not tuning in to pro-LGBTQ programming.
With great fanfare, ABC launched its "epic" miniseries, When We Rise, about the "gay rights" revolution. As Heatstreet reported, "When We Rise received saturation ad coverage during the Oscars ahead of its premiere this week."
March 2, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) - More than 150 conservative leaders are urging President Trump to sign an executive order "protecting the practical exercise of religious freedom."
The letter, sent yesterday, is from the Council for National Policy, currently led by the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins.
It began by thanking Trump for "beginning to reverse" the "devastating trend" of Obama-era policies hurting religious freedom.
"You have rightly noted, at the National Prayer Breakf
MELBOURNE, Florida, February 21, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) - First Lady Melania Trump kicked off her husband's rally on Saturday by leading the Lord's Prayer before a large and enthusiastic crowd.
"Let us pray," Trump began after extended cheers as she took the dais before an estimated 9,000 supporters at Melbourne-Orlando International Airport.
She then recited the Our Father, with rally attendees joining in, audibly toward the end of the prayer, that Jesus taught his disciples.
OXON HILL, National Harbor, Maryland, February 24, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) - "As long as we have faith in each other and trust in God, then there is no goal at all beyond our reach," President Trump told CPAC this morning after thanking Christians for voting for him.
"I wanna thank, by the way, the evangelical community, the Christian community, communities of faith," Trump said.
He called the support he received from evangelicals "amazing."
The debate over First Lady Melania Trump's reading of the Lord's Prayer at a rally in Melbourne, Florida, for her husband, President Donald Trump, has continued to rage, with some conservatives calling it a genuine expression of faith, with others, including a pastor, suggesting it was manipulative.
The American Family Association, which has both praised and criticized Trump's administration on different issues, argued that Melania Trump delivered a "powerful" reading.
The Rev. J. Wendell Mapson, Jr., senior pastor of Monumental Baptist Church of Philadelphia, gave a lecture earlier this week sponsored by The Baptist Pastors and Ministers Conference of Philadelphia and Vicinity (BMPC) on the state of the church following the Barack Obama administration.
A letter is imminent from the Trump administration advising schools they are no longer encouraged to let transgender students use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their perceived gender identity, Christian Telegraph reports according to Baptist Press.
(Worthy News) - The share of U.S. adults who describe themselves as Christians has been declining for decades, but the U.S. Congress is about as Christian today as it was in the early 1960s, according to a new analysis by Pew Research Center. Indeed, among members of the new, 115th Congress, 91% describe themselves as Christians. This is nearly the same percentage as in the 87th Congress (1961 to 1962, the earliest years for which comparable data are available), when 95% of members were Christia
As religious persecution continues to grow around the world, a diverse group of religious leaders, scholars and human rights advocates are urging President Donald Trump to nominate within his first 100 days in office the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.
WASHINGTON, DC (ANS - February 3, 2017) -- President Donald Trump was just three minutes into his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, in Washington, DC, on Thursday, February 2, when he asked a room full of lawmakers, foreign dignitaries and religious leaders, to pray for Arnold Schwarzenegger, so that ratings of his show -- NBC's "The Apprentice" -- would go up.
BELLE PLAINE, Minnesota, February 2, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) - Hundreds of Belle Plaine citizens are expected to crowd the city council chambers on Monday evening to back a motion allowing a contentious cross to be welded back onto the steel statue of a mourning soldier in the city's Veterans Memorial Park.
The veterans' club, which installed the metal sculpture last year, removed the cross (depicting an overseas U.S. military gravesite) early this month to save the city from a lawsuit threatened
January 30, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) - A conservative law professor's new book details the ways in which the left attacks children's minds and indoctrinates them to adopt secular, anti-family values.
Dr. Carol M. Swain, a Vanderbilt University law professor whose pro-family views have drawn the ire of liberal activists, gave an exclusive interview to LifeSiteNews about her new book, Abduction: How Liberalism Steals our Children's Hearts and Minds.
Abduction provides parents with a blueprint for
Weeks of speculation were confirmed on Thursday, when the White House verified that Vice President Mike Pence will speak at the national March for Life on Jan. 27, Christian Telegraph reports according to Catholic News Agency.
According to the New York Times, a senior White House official confirmed the news the day before the march, which is generally held close to the Jan. 22 anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that mandated legal abortion nationwide.
BELLE PLAINE, Minnesota, January 23, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) - Residents are pushing back after secular activists forced this small Minnesota town to sever a cross from the memorial of a U.S. soldier mourning a fallen comrade.
Citizens are ordering full-sized replicas for their lawns and putting wooden crosses up in the park to replace the metal one that was removed.
The memorial, a steel sculpture depicting a kneeling U.S. infantryman with helmet off beside a simple cross during the Second Wo
Pastor Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, who led a prayer at Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday, has admitted in an interview that Latino Christians face challenging questions surrounding America's new political reality.
With the inauguration of Donald Trump as our 45th president upon us, all the usual suspects from the militant atheist crowd have been trying to block the Bible from being used - a tradition that began with President Washington.
Every president mentioned God in their inaugural address, even if speaking of the Lord in their own way, fitting with the times. With thanks to Bill Federer in America's God and Country, consider this sample:
HOUSTON TX (ANS -- January 20, 2017) -- Apollo 17 Astronaut Eugene Cernan -- the last man to walk on the surface of the moon -- left the earth's gravitational pull once more as his soul jettisoned into eternity. He was 82.
Cernan died Monday in a Houston hospital surrounded by family members as a result of "ongoing health issues," according to a statement by his family posted on NASA's website.
