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The Trump administration is posting memes about the suffering of Haitian immigrants who face deportation despite coming to the US legally. |
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Netflix’s hit show, The Polygamist, has resurrected a debate about multiple marriages as South African Christians hope to end the practice. |
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After escaping from scam centers in Southeast Asia, survivors are seeking to provide care and healing for other trafficking victims. |
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Worship correspondent Kelsey Kramer McGinnis takes a look at how Iowans led corporate worship for a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. |
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From CT contributor Erin Foley: While reporting on my first piece on cyberscam centers for CT in 2024, I accompanied a Christian anti-trafficking organization to the border of Thailand and Myanmar. We could see massive scam compounds just across a river. The scope of it struck me. Just a day earlier, I had interviewed Ugandans whom the group had recently rescued from the centers, where they were enslaved, tortured, and forced to scam unsuspecting targets online.
As we pulled back into the immigration center in Mae Sot, Thailand, where the Ugandans were processed, I watched as a young woman ran to one of her rescuers, threw her arms open, and wept. |
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All my professionalism crumbled, and I sobbed. The reality of the thousands of people—all bearing God’s image—suffering behind those walls washed over me. But what surprised me was that I not only wept for the victims; I also cried for their abusers. How ugly, heavy, and dark did a soul need to be to inflict such suffering? In that moment, God reminded me that it is his grace alone that keeps me from the depths of sin. It is his righteousness that makes me righteous. |
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- One in three Protestants supported Germany’s new far-right nationalist party in elections this month.
- The average Southern Baptist pastor’s pay and compensation has decreased since 2024 as churches face inflation and other financial pressures, a new study found.
- A historic North Carolina church has coexisted with bees in its walls for more than 50 years, but when honey began dripping down the walls, leaders decided it was time to remove them.
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Today in Christian History |
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September 10, 422: Celestine is elected pope. During his tenure, he convoked the Council of Ephesus to combat the Nestorian "heresy" (this belief, that Christ had two natures and two persons, was probably more semantic overstatement than heresy) and reportedly sent Patrick to Ireland as a missionary (see issue 60: How the Irish Were Saved). |
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On February 4, 2006, the night before Super Bowl XL, assistant coach Jim Zorn gathered his men after a chapel service. "Isn’t God so good?" he said, beaming. He was…
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"I wish to be Providence myself," proclaims the titular hero of Alexandre Dumas’s Count of Monte Cristo, "for I feel that the finest, noblest, most sublime thing in the world,…
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Fifty Hispanic Pentecostal bishops and denominational leaders, who represent more than 21,000 congregations across the United States and Latin America, gathered in Washington on Tuesday to press the Trump administration…
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Our world is profoundly distracted, disordered, and scattered. It would be tempting to attribute this to a non-Christian society—to multiplied desires and endless consumer options, to secularized pursuits of shallow…
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For our 70th anniversary issue, we’re studying the past. Excerpts from our archives show evangelicals in Billy Graham’s day and our own grappling with our place in public life. A new book offers a fascinating history of Christian womanhood—but makes a misleading argument, according to our reviewer. We’re also peering into the future. Artificial intelligence, GLP-1 drugs, anti-aging surgeries, next steps for the pro-life movement: These are some of the issues likely to occupy Christians for the next seven decades. But mostly, we’re spending time in the present: With a Honduran man who found himself pastoring in a Massachusetts jail while detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. With the evangelical owners of a traditional Korean spa engaged in a religious freedom showdown. With faithful believers doing good work—a chef, an architect, a ball boy, a teacher (who, at age 91, is older than CT!). And with the writers of our newly expanded testimony section, who found God’s faithfulness in the midst of alien conspiracies, after a bad accident, and via an envelope in a refrigerator. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Amid our own era’s change, conflict, and uncertainty, we hope this issue declares that reassuring truth. |
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