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Afghanistan (MNN) — August marks five years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. What has happened to the nation since the 2021 takeover, and how is God working in the midst of it? While the Taliban’s military rule appears entrenched, conditions are worse for the averag...
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International (MNN) — About 15 years ago, unfoldingWord released Open Bible Stories (OBS) as one of the first open-license ministry resources. OBS has been translated into roughly 214 languages worldwide since then. 98 are available in audio, and 118 in text, with numbers increas...
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Carey Moore is a fourth-generation Memphian. But she was in her 60s before she first visited the neighborhood of Orange Mound. Originally a family plantation, the land was purchased by developer E. E. Meacham and subdivided in 1890. He sold the plots to African American families,...
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The war against abortion did not begin with the now-overturned 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. From the church’s earliest days, church fathers taught “life for life” restitution for the death of an unborn child (Exodus 21:23–25) and cited David’s praise for God forming “my inward part...
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From the moment I was diagnosed with a glioblastoma, we began to hear stories. Stories of people who had lived 5, 10, even 14 years with the same kind of tumor. The intention was to encourage us that, even though the doctors warn that I have a short time left to live, people have...
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On September 11, 2012, Islamist fighters attacked a United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Four Americans were killed in that attack. Just a few months later, Ronnie and Anita Smith, a young American couple, moved to Benghazi with their infant son. Their goal was t...
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Why does the same gospel message offend some and delight others? Because the message of Christ crucified lands only on those whom God has called.Watch Now...
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Every August in the United States, nearly twenty million college students go back to campus. Go back. It’s an interesting phrase. Go back sounds like the language of retreat, regression, or returning to where you once were. Sadly, that’s exactly what many people expect the colleg...
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–92) wrote more words in English than any Christian to date. His published sermons alone span 70 thick volumes, containing more than 4,000 sermons. In less than 40 years, Spurgeon published approximately 150 books. His literary output was, in a word, ...
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A growing tribalism in evangelicalism has made a lot of Christian leaders and their followers skeptical of one another. When I was a younger pastor, just coming out of seminary, movements like The Gospel Coalition and Together for the Gospel were just getting started. While they ...
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The arrest and detention of Pastor Dedi Saputra in February 2026 have continued to spark prolonged public debate in Indonesia. Saputra is an Aceh native who converted to Christianity and resides in Bengkayang, West Kalimantan. The Aceh Regional Police arrested him on allegations ...
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Why didn’t you cover XYZ? This is a common question for journalists, including at CT. A buzzy news story goes around, perhaps with some connection to Christianity, and our readers wonder—fairly!—why we don’t have the story when other outlets do. In my experience, readers often gu...
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Crowds walked through metal detectors and into the navy pews of Greater St. John African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church on Wednesday evening to celebrate what would have been Nolan Wells’s 19th birthday in a service that included worship, prayer, and calls for truth about how t...
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Families Pack School Supplies in Shoebox Gifts for Children in Need BOONE, N.C.—As the summer season comes to an end, local families are preparing for the school year with back-to-school sales, but many families are not just shopping for their own children. Families are col...
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Do you delight to fear God? The servants of the Lord on earth do. The saints before the throne of God do. Even Jesus does. Scripture makes it clear that, for those in right relationship with God, the fear of God is a particular kind of delight in God, a full-proof pleasure that r...
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From our member-exclusive livestream on August 6, hosted by CT deputy editor Bonnie Kristian and featuring Justin Giboney. They discuss Justin’s recent article, “Working Out the Grand Experiment,” and explore how the American church can move beyond culture-war gridlock to model g...
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Can the devil act outside Christ’s rule? John Piper opens Mark 1:27 to show that evil spirits obey Jesus’s command.Watch Now
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This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Charlotte and Andrew Ollerton, God’s Story, Our Story: A Family Journey Through the Bible (The Good Book Company, 2026) God’s Story, Our Story is a fun and energetic journey through the Bible, designed for parents...
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Andrew Hartley bikes to work, eats a plant-based diet, and involves himself in multiple organizations that help him do what he thinks the Bible tells him to do: care for the Earth. His employer, Hartley argues in a new lawsuit filed last week, does not share his mission. Now he i...
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Discipleship begins in the home, and one of the best ways to do this is to study the Bible as a family. Creating a regular habit of spending time together in God’s Word invites children to learn through both their parents’ instruction and their personal experience how to read, in...
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India (MNN) – India’s monsoon season may be lighter than usual this year, but the rains have still left a mark. Since July, flooding and landslides have killed at least 100 people and left families facing the difficult task of rebuilding what they’ve lost. Raina Miller with Missi...
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Syria (MNN) — Israel and Türkiye face off over Syria as the United States plays peacemaker. Meanwhile, Gospel workers eye a potential storm and offer hope to the downtrodden. Earlier this week, Israel bombed a Syrian airbase where it said Turkish troops were about to deploy. The...
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Japan (MNN) — As the latest disaster in southern Japan triggers difficult memories, local Christians step in to help survivors. Trauma resurfaces A series of strong earthquakes shook Kumamoto, Japan, in April 2016. On July 28, 2026, a pair of earthquakes struck the same area – on...
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Grief is like a room in a house. Everyone has this room, because everyone experiences loss. But its size and place differ. For some, it’s on the main floor, and every day they must walk through it. For others, it’s upstairs, where they visit once in a while, but not for long. And...
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Nigerian police arrested a 22-year-old woman for converting to Christianity from Islam. Though the Federal High Court ruled in her favor, the Christian family that helped her is facing false charges of kidnapping. In 2025, “Sarah” fled from her home in Kano state after her elder ...
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A mob of hundreds gathered outside a Christian family’s home in Karachi last month after blasphemy allegations began to spread, but the crowd dispersed after police intervened. An initial inquiry has since found the underlying allegation to be false. According to Reuters, the fou...
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A day after President Donald Trump took office, the Department of Homeland Security released a memo reversing a policy that had discouraged immigration officials from making arrests “in or near so-called ‘sensitive’ areas”—places that include churches, schools, and hospitals. Con...
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Why does evangelism matter when God has chosen whom he will save? Pastor John unpacks and rejoices in our role as God’s instruments.Listen Now
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As baptisms in Southern Baptist congregations increase, a growing percentage of those entering the baptismal pools are adults. In the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Church Profile (ACP), baptisms grew for the fifth straight year to reach 263,075, the highest total since ...
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On June 9, 45-year-old Emanuel Kemboi, a long-distance truck driver in Nairobi, Kenya, woke up to see social media exploding about protests in in Nanyuki town. Local media outlets had reported that Kenya and the United States had partnered in building a 50-bed quarantine facility...
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In early 2026, local Yemeni authorities arrested more than 50 Christians, including pastors and church leaders, who remain in jail without charges. Family members were able to contact one of the imprisoned Christians, a pastor named Jon who was featured in VOM’s August 2023...
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Two women have been abandoned by their families for their faith in Christ. Aziza is 17 years old and was kicked out of her home for placing her trust in Christ. A church allowed her to stay in their building for six months while she finished high school and helped her receive cou...
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A Burmese teen asks for prayer as she faces opposition from her Buddhist family members. Khin Myaut Noe, 16, became a Christian during childhood through the witness of her Christian mother despite her father’s strong Buddhist family connections. She lives with her father an...
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Courtney and Melissa talk to Tara-Leigh Cobble about how she got over her lack of desire to read the Bible and how, over time, reading the Bible made her fall in love with its Author. They discuss the transformative effects that can come from giving just 20 minutes to Bible readi...
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A few weeks after a difficult miscarriage, I wrote in my journal, “I don’t see any reason for this. I thought I was trusting the Lord fully. It seems like an irredeemable loss, a waste of something that could have been so good, and it just doesn’t make sense to me.” Suffering is ...
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Indonesia (MNN) – From celebration to devastation, Indonesia’s Independence Day was overshadowed as a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked the eastern part of the country. The quake struck off the coast of Flores Island on Saturday, killing at least 68 people and injuring more than 20...
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Armenia (MNN) — This month, educators from several Slavic Gospel Association (SGA)-supported Bible institutes and seminaries will gather in Armenia to share their common bond in Christ and their role as ambassadors for Him. Eric Mock with SGA says SGA’s training ministry is the m...
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South Asia (MNN) — Imagine sitting in a church every week, watching the preacher explain the Gospel, and never learning about Jesus Christ. This is not an uncommon story among one of the most silently marginalized, unreached people groups in the world: the Deaf. But DOOR Internat...
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Last November, my husband and I moved into a new apartment. Eager to settle in, we quickly got everything set up the way we wanted. We hung curtains, put pictures on the walls, and told all our friends we couldn’t wait to have them over. Then, halfway through January, after the h...
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Around 11 a.m. on Feb. 26, a mob of nearly 200 Hindus surrounded Faizal’s house in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. They threatened him, demanding that he renounce Jesus and reconvert to Hinduism. When Faizal refused to abandon his faith, the mob beat him and his family ...
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ChinaAid, an international organization supporting persecuted Christians inside China, has launched a petition and advocacy campaign to bring Pastor John Cao back to his home in the U.S. Pastor John has been imprisoned in China for seven years for his missionary work on the China...
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Where is Christ when calamity strikes? John Piper shows from Colossians 1:9–20 how Christ rules over all things for his glory.Watch Now
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The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. (Revelation 12:4) [Let us] not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs. (2 Corinthians 2:11) The devil grinned from ear to ear in July of 2024....
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In the last few years, higher education has suffered a severe loss of trust. Public confidence is at 42 percent, down from 57 percent in 2015. Rising costs, perceived politicization of the curriculum, charges of antisemitism, and top-heavy administrations at public and private in...
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Nigeria (MNN) — More than 50 Christian and Muslim leaders have signed a peace accord in Nigeria. Leaders met at a conference in Abuja organized by the Muslim World League, an Islamic NGO based in Saudi Arabia. Unknown Nations’ Greg Kelley says the pact sends a message: “People ha...
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At least 24 Christians were killed in an overnight attack on Bin Mper community in Kombun District of Mangu County, Plateau state, the county of Governor Caleb Mutfwang, according to local community leaders, as families gathered Tuesday to bury victims of the assault. The attack,...
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On Aug. 13, the Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) said it opposed directives requiring the singing or playing of the Hindu-nationalist song “Vande Mataram” at official events in India. The NBCC, from the majority Christian state of Nagaland, joins a chorus of leaders from ot...
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The quest for sustainable peace in Mindanao has reached a pivotal point as the region moves toward full parliamentary governance. Entering this political sphere ahead of the historic first parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) on S...
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The new summer 2026 issue of Themelios has 231 pages of editorials, articles, and book reviews. It is freely available in three formats: (1) PDF, (2) web version, and (3) Logos Bible Software. 1. J. V. Fesko | Editorial: The Council of Nicaea and Christian Character Fesko argues ...
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Years ago, I asked my pastor what he felt was the most challenging aspect of ministry. His response: “Persuading unhappy people that what they think will fix them actually won’t.” Finding a more fulfilling career, richer friendships, or even a spouse doesn’t magically turn a mise...
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Most of us deal with death by choosing to ignore it. “Being unable to cure death,” Blaise Pascal once wrote, “we’ve decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.” In Pascal’s 17th-century Parisian context, death-avoidance was a rich man’s game. Gamble more, hunt ...
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The trial of Korean missionary Park Tae-Yeon, 69, resumed recently in Russia. Missionary Park was arrested in January 2026, one week before she was due to return to South Korea to retire after 33 years of ministry in Russia. She was arrested for immigration violations, but there ...
