Monthly Archives: March 2014

By Robin Sam (This article was first published in the March, 2005 edition of The Christian Messenger) KHUSHWANT Singh, the celebrated nonagenarian writer, recently released his...

EVANGELIST Franklin Graham is praising Russian President Vladimir Putin for his aggressive crackdown on homosexuality, saying his record on protecting children from gay “propaganda” is better than President Obama’s “shameful” embrace of gay rights.

ISLAMIC extremists from the rebel Al Shabaab militia last week publicly beheaded a mother of two girls and her cousin in southeastern Somalia after discovering they were Christians, Morning Star News reported from sources inside the country.

WHEN Americans reach for their Bibles, more than half of them pick up a King James Version (KJV), according to a new study advised by respected historian Mark Noll.

"WE are excited about what God has done through this new outreach to students," says Open Doors USA College & Youth Director Kate Yates. "There is such enthusiasm among the students I have met in the last few months. They have a passion to reach out to persecuted believers in prayer and in other tangible ways. It has been a joy to interact with them."

ASSEMBLIES of God minister and longtime evangelist Steve Hill, who became well known as the evangelist for the Brownsville Revival (1995-2000) in Pensacola, Fla., passed away Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 60 years old.

IN a shocking revelation, it has come to light that the number of Muslims and Christians languishing in jails on terror charges is more than double of the share of the two communities in the national population.

BAPTIST churches in the Kentucky town that was the site of a deadly high school shooting are giving away steaks and guns to attract more people to their congregations.

SIXTY percent of Russians surveyed by Levada Center believe that people in Russia became more religious in the past ten years, while 27% believe people have become less religious.

Tomas Halik, who worked underground to promote democracy and morality before communism fell in Czechoslovakia in 1989, has "continuously opened vistas that advance humankind," the U.S.-based John Templeton Foundation said.