Category: U.S.

The New York state Senate rejected a bill Wednesday that would have legalized same-sex marriage. In a 38-24 vote, lawmakers … Read More

A New Jersey State Prison inmate has won back the right to preach to his fellow prisoners. Howard Thompson Jr., … Read More

The Washington, D.C., City Council on Tuesday approved a first reading of a bill to legalize gay marriage in the … Read More

Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty was remembered as a compassionate leader with a passion for evangelism during a four-hour memorial service held Monday in Tulsa, Okla.

Daugherty, founder of 17,000-member Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, died Nov. 22 of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 57.

The memorial service drew 8,000 people to the Oral Roberts University (ORU) Mabee Center, and included remarks from such speakers as Bethany World Prayer Center pastor Larry Stockstill, ORU Board Chairman Mart Green and Nigerian Bishop David Oyedepo.

Megachurch pastor Billy Joe Daugherty died early Sunday morning after a brief battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 57. A … Read More

Evangelist Ray Comfort and actor Kirk Cameron joined 1,200 Christians Wednesday in distributing 170,000 copies of Charles Darwin’s evolution manifesto … Read More

A group advocating for gay marriage is leading a campaign seeking to revoke the tax-exempt status of churches that supported … Read More

A Florida-based ministry is racing to end human trafficking. Run for Freedom will host a 5K race in Cocoa Beach … Read More

Feed the Children President Larry Jones was fired Friday from the ministry he founded 30 years ago. He is expected … Read More

Ted Haggard, who in 2006 resigned from the Colorado megachurch he founded in the wake of a sex and drug … Read More

A toy helicopter powered by technology invented by residents at a Los Angeles homeless youth ministry is being sold in … Read More

Six months after announcing that Pat Robertson would be retiring as president of Regent University, the school’s Board of Trustees … Read More

Rifqa Bary was transferred to Ohio on Tuesday in a move that officially ended Florida’s jurisdiction in the teen convert’s … Read More

A controversial hate crimes bill that some Christians fear will penalize ministers who denounce homosexuality was signed into law Wednesday. … Read More

After 50 years of international ministry, German evangelist Reinhard Bonnke will host a large-scale evangelistic event in the U.S. this … Read More

A controversial hate crimes measure that many Christian leaders feared would criminalize preaching against homosexuality has passed. In a 68-29 … Read More

Joyce Meyer Ministries (JMM) has been named in a wrongful death lawsuit claiming the Missouri-based organization did not do enough … Read More

Juan “Enock” James, a founding member of the Christian rap group The Cross Movement, died Saturday morning of an apparent … Read More

A Nigeria-born Pentecostal minister who received his first pair of shoes at age 9 is on a mission to distribute … Read More