The early results of the national elections in India may suggest a significant shift in the political landscape as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance appears set to form the government for a third consecutive term, though with a narrow victory.
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In advance of the Southern Baptist Convention's June 11-12 Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, SBC's Resolutions Committee has released a list of 10 resolutions that messengers will consider in their preliminary form. Topics include IVF, Israel and parental rights. One resolution indirectly touches on the hot-button issue of Christian nationalism.
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An elderly Pakistani Christian man has died about a week after a mob incited by a Muslim cleric burned down his shoemaking factor over allegations he desecrated the Quran. 
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An international ministry headed by two single mothers and a fatherless son seeks to pass on the healing touch of the Gospel to others suffering through single motherhood and fatherlessness. Hundreds of single mothers and sons without fathers have been exposed to Bible studies in South Africa and parts of the United States, Canada, Zimbabwe and Ukraine through the nonprofit faith-based organization's on-the-ground and virtual efforts.
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More than $130,000 has been raised through online campaigns for Davy and Natalie Lloyd, American missionaries who were murdered in Haiti by gangsters and whose remains were flown back to the United States on Saturday. The couple, along with the Haitian director of their mission, Jude Montis, 45, fell victim to an ambush at their mission compound on May 23.
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Freedom of Information Act documents purport to show that the U.S. Air Force has used taxpayer money to promote drag shows, drag queen story hours and other LGBT pride events for military personnel and their children.
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H. Edwin Young, the senior pastor of Second Baptist in Houston and one of the most prolific Southern Baptist pastors in the United States, announced his resignation Sunday morning, ending his 46-year tenure.
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European bishops have condemned the recent decision by Turkish authorities to convert the Church of Saint Savior in Chora, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Istanbul, into a mosque, calling it an effort to dilute the historical roots of Christianity in the country.
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Hundreds of hostages, primarily women and children, have been freed by the Nigerian army from the grip of Boko Haram militants who held them captive in northeastern Nigeria for months or even years. The rescue operation marks a significant victory in the country’s ongoing fight against the Islamic extremist group.
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The United Methodist General Conference has voted to remove a decades-old ban on ordaining pastors in romantic same-sex relationships after thousands of conservative congregations left the denomination in recent years. 
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The United Methodist Church General Conference voted to drop a ban on funding LGBT advocacy groups and removed a required punishment for pastors who officiate gay weddings after thousands of theologically conservative congregations left the mainline Protestant denomination in the last two years. 
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Days after one of his campus pastors was found dead by authorities from an apparent “self-inflicted gunshot wound” in Idaho, Jim Putman, founder and senior pastor of the multi-campus Real Life Ministries, comforted his grieving parishioners Sunday with a promise that though the campus pastor’s suicide is a sin, he believes he is in Heaven.
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Phil McGraw recently spoke at Pastor Ed Young’s Fellowship Church in Texas, where he weighed in on the importance of the church’s role in society.
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Former president and presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been found in contempt of court for violating a gag order related to his Stormy Daniels hush money case in New York and has been fined $9,000.
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Roman Catholic bishops in England and Wales released guidance last week urging against medical and social transitioning for trans-identified children.
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Society is seeing an attack on the family and biblical worldview, as demonstrated by the rise in deconstruction and biblical illiteracy — but there is a solution, according to Jack Graham.
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Tennessee has become the second state to require schools to show students a video documenting prenatal development as states continue to take widely divergent paths on abortion policy. 
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An appeals court has ruled that West Virginia and North Carolina cannot prohibit Medicaid coverage for so-called gender reassignment procedures for trans-identified individuals.
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Pouring rain didn't stop dozens from marching in the nation's capital on Saturday to stand in solidarity with persecuted Christians globally, with some asking why the American Church isn't doing more to spread awareness. 
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