Cara Bentley | PremierChristian.News | Tue 28 Apr 2020 Large churches in South Korea have started reopening after the Government relaxed restrictions for places of religious worship. However, it is not business as usual as members of one church are having their temperature checked before they come inside and will be sent home if it is above 37.5 degrees centigrade. The country has been effective at tracking down and isolating those who have the virus and ...
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Milton Quintanilla | Contributor for ChristianHeadlines.com | Monday, April 27, 2020 The latest findings from The American Worldview Inventory 2020 (AWVI 2020) show that some 44 percent of American believers think that Jesus sinned. The survey also revealed a dramatic decline in the number of Americans who hold to a biblical worldview. According to the survey, about 51 percent of American adults have a traditional view of God as opposed to 73 percent in 1991, a 22 percent ...
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Emily Jones | CBN.COM |04-28-2020 JERUSALEM, Israel – The United States said Monday it is ready to recognize Israel’s annexation of parts of the West Bank, according to a State Department source cited by AFP. The French news agency reported that the US will approve of Israel’s decision to “extend Israeli sovereignty and the application of Israeli law to areas of the West Bank,” referring to territories selected to become part of ...
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Scott Slayton | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Thursday, April 23, 2020 Pope Francis called for a worldwide effort to protect the environment during a speech to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. During the speech, which was broadcast from his library because of the COVID-19 lockdowns, he praised the environmental movement and warned of the consequences of not caring for the planet. The Pope painted a picture of the earth as being angry at people who do ...
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Milton Quintanilla | Contributor for ChristianHeadlines.com | Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Numerous crosses atop churches in China were recently removed by the Chinese Communist government which asserted that religious symbols cannot be raised “higher” than the Chinese national flag, The Christian Post reports. Religious liberty magazine Bitter Winter has reported on numerous cross removals across China over the years. In mid-March, the outlet pointed out that crosses were removed from multiple churches in the eastern provinces of Jiangsu ...
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To open the House of Lords' first virtual sitting, prayers have been led by Rt Rev Christine Hardman from her home in Newcastle. It's all change in the red chamber: the Lords' speaker, Lord Norman Fowler, presided over questions from his home in the Isle of Wight, peers submitted questions via video call programme Microsoft Teams and Rt Rev Christine Hardman, the Bishop of Newcastle, prayed in front of many former politicians ...
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Premier Journalist | PREMIERCHRISTIEAN.NEWS | Mon 20 Apr 2020 A distinguished Oxford professor has been accused of stealing ancient Bible fragments from a university library. Professor Dirk Obbink is suspected of removing 11 missing fragments of Biblical papyrus from the Sackler Library in Oxford - part of a collection owned by the Egypt Exploration Society (EES). The precious texts - which include extracts from parts of Genesis, Exodus and Romans - later appeared at the Museum ...
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Press Association | PREMIERCHRISTIEAN.NEWS | Sat 18 Apr 2020 Two police officers have marked what should have been their wedding day with a ceremony while on shift. Sergeant Marie McNulty and Pc Jay McGreavy, from Greater Manchester Police, should have tied the knot on Thursday but instead spent the day working to help keep communities safe. However, colleagues in the Bury police team did not let the day pass without some celebrations. Sgt McNulty ...
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Cara Bentley | PREMIERCHRISTIEAN.NEWS | Wed 15 Apr 2020 More people read and shared Bible verses this Easter from YouVersion's Bible app than ever before. YouVersion, which supplies the whole Bible in several translations on a simple app, reported their most popular day ever on Sunday, with 40.6 million people completing daily reading plans and another 14.1 million people sharing scripture with others over Holy Week.. As lockdowns affected several countries and ...
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Wed 15 Apr 2020 by Premier Journalist A number of Christians from a heavily persecuted protestant megachurch in China have been detained after being caught engaging in a worship service on Zoom. A number of key members from Early Rain Covenant Church were arrested in their homes as they attended a virtual service during which they listened to a sermon by their imprisoned leader, Pastor Wang Yi. Early Rain has not met in person since December ...
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