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  Episcopal Church omits membership total in annual report; baptisms fell considerably in the past decade

  The Episcopal Church continued to see declines in baptisms and the number of parishes in 2024, but did not release an overall membership tally when unveiling its annual figures this month.  

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  Nigeria responds to Trump’s call to end Christian persecution as the US threatens to 'strike at the heart of Islamic militants'

  Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinibu, has responded to Trump’s call to end Christian’s killing in the North of the country, stating the country is taking steps to safeguard religious freedoms.

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  Samaritan’s Purse mobilizes field hospital and disaster response team after Jamaica suffers worst ever hurricane

  Samaritan’s Purse, the international aid agency headed by veteran evangelist Rev. Franklin Graham, has mobilized its Disaster Assistance Response Team to help Jamaicans suffering after Hurricane Melissa devastated the Caribbean island —the most powerful in the nation’s history since records began in 1851. 

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  Trump says Christians facing an 'existential' threat in Nigeria, vows CPC designation

  President Donald Trump said Friday that Christians are facing an "existential" threat in Nigeria and vowed to have the U.S. State Department place the country on its list of Countries of Particular Concern, something Christian advocates have been urging for years. 

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  WEA advocacy team urges ‘faithful presence’ as ‘ambassadors of hope’ at the United Nations

  The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) advocacy team serving at the United Nations urged national alliances to represent Christ with courage, humility, and hope in global policymaking spaces during a panel discussion Wednesday morning at the WEA General Assembly in Seoul.

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  ‘Every person has a place at the table of God’: Walter Kim urges global Church toward reconciliation

  On the third morning of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) General Assembly in Seoul, Rev. Dr. Walter Kim, President of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) in the United States, delivered a deeply personal devotional message about the reconciling power of the gospel amid the turmoil of the modern world.

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  Half of Americans no longer view most traditional sins as wrong, Barna study finds

  Americans are changing their understanding and definition of “sin,” according to the latest Barna research.  A press release (Oct. 21) by the Cultural Research Center reported that most Americans now say that only half of 12 specific behaviors presented to them and traditionally considered sinful, are actually sinful.  The new data from the second part of the American Worldview Inventory national survey of 2,000 adults arranged by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University sig

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