• Bombing Survivor Now in Medical Crisis​

  [8] prayers in [2] nations have been posted for Sister M.
  
  The survivor of a 2013 church bombing has been hospitalized after medical complications. On Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013, two suicide bombers entered the All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, and detonated their devices, killing 127 people and injuring more than 250. One survivor was a 3-year-old girl known as Sister M. Her father was killed in the explosions, and she suffered serious burns. After the bombing, the global body of Christ helped her family with housing and other needs, including multiple surgeries and skin grafts for Sister M. Read More.

• Feb. 19, 2026 | Ethiopia​

  Evangelists Attacked in Market​

  [7] prayers in [1] nation have been posted for Christian evangelists.
  
  On Feb. 9, 2026, two Christian evangelists were attacked by Muslim extremists while preaching in an open-air market in central Ethiopia. The men suffered severe head injuries in the attack and were immediately transported to a local hospital. While Ethiopia is a majority-Christian nation, Christians face violence and even death threats in Muslim-majority areas. Read More.

• Feb. 19, 2026 | China​

  Early Rain Church Targeted in New Crackdown​

  [7] prayers in [1] nation have been posted for church members.
  
  On Jan. 6, 2026, members of the Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China, were subjected to a large-scale crackdown that involved searches of multiple church sites and homes. According to information released by the church and verified by multiple sources, several church elders, preachers, deacons and their family members were detained. The whereabouts of some individuals has been preliminarily confirmed while others remained unreachable. Among those arrested or detained are elder Li Yingqiang and his wife, Zhang Xinyue; preacher Dai Zhichao; the family of Brother Ye Fenghua; elder Yan Hong; preacher Wu Wuqing; and deacon Zeng Qingtao. Local police officers also appeared at a school operated by the church and ordered the landlord to clear the facility. Read More.

Valletta said:

1) As much as prosecutors and judges love to go after Trump, such as making up ridiculous valuations of Mar-a-lago and faking photos of classified document covers on the floor, no one brought up charges for Trump asking about finding votes. That's because Trump clearly believed vote counts had been altered and he, like other candidates, was perfectly within his rights to ask to look for uncounted votes.
2) Democrats have been gerrymandering for decades and Republicans are finally fighting fire with fire by using Democrat tactics. Hopefully such efforts will cancel each other out.
3) Election "fraud" is a tiny subset of the election wrongdoing that takes place, and basing fraud on the number of convictions is not an accurate method to determine the amount of fraud nor does it represent other election wrongdoing. An analogy to show how fraud convictions can be underestimated would be realizing that the number of reported burglaries far outnumbers actual burglary convictions and basing the number of burglaries on convictions is folly.
4,5) What Democrats have done is flood our nation with more than 10 million "immigrants" in one presidential term in an attempt to bump up the future census numbers for more Democrat Congressional seats with hopes of making those immigrants citizens in an effort to make sure Democrats grab power and control. Leaders lied to the American public claiming the border was safe, secure, and closed all the while bringing in massive numbers of people. Human trafficking rose to a level not seen since the Civil War, many women were sexually attacked on their way here, and criminals were let in the country to prey upon innocent victims. So many people suffered, used as pawns in that quest for political power. Our country's social networks have been strained to the max, and too many Democrat leaders looked the other way from immigrant fraud.

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rebornfree said:

That is so sad. I think, though, that it is probably better to concentrate on preaching about Jesus, and what He did for us, without comparing Christianity to other beliefs. If someone asks, the preacher could point out that only Jesus died for us and suggest that the questionner make a comparison on how each belief deals with the issue of sin.

Even nice, peaceful Muslims can be very sensitive to remarks on their religion so it might be better to stick to Christianity.

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NewLifeInChristJesus said:

Those are all good points. But I don't think they answer my call for Scriptures that support what has been postulated for us.

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NewLifeInChristJesus said:

And it doesn't answer the obvious observation that the disciples did not see Him in all His glory as we will when we see Him as He is.

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JacquelineDeane55 said:

Yup, more evil. Why is the world so evil?

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Always in His Presence said:

Except it is NOT a private news organization

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weary2025 said:

Im having trouble agreeing. The scriptures says trembling. I think the question is what you're in awe over. Is it the fear of going to hell or the fear you feel after seeing your own wretchedness? I live by faith not fear. But I might have that trembling part down

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Michie said:

President Trump said he wants to go to heaven. Trump cited his supernatural desire as his motivation for attempting to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, “I wanna end it . . . I wanna try and get to heaven if possible. I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.”

His comment garnered the mockery of Shawn McCreesh at the New York Times: “Holy mother of God! What a thing to say at 8 o’clock in the morning.” Father James Martin, SJ, editor of America Magazine, praised Trump for his laudable sentiment and gently guided him toward service of the poor. He even sympathized with him, “I’m trying to do the same thing, imperfectly.” Russell Moore, editor in chief of Christianity Today, also wrote an open letter to the president in which he admitted, “I would kind of grumble if I saw you next to me in worship in glory,” although he also added, “That part of me is of the Devil.” At Crisis Magazine, Mark Haas lectured Trump on soteriology and the finer points of the faith-works debate.

Of all these approaches, the liberal Jesuit took the best tack. Instead of throwing Pauline epistles at the President, he considered the tone of the President’s rhetoric: honest, humble, hopeful. The idea of doing good works to get to heaven is very offensive to modern Christians despite Jesus’ explicit injunction to “store up for yourselves treasure in heaven” (Matthew 6:20). In attempting to do the right thing for the right reason (rare among politicians), the president is to be commended and encouraged.

Perhaps Trump envisions himself at the pearly gates guarded by Saint Peter asking why he should let him in. Trump’s approach reminds me of Abraham’s bargain with God in Genesis 18. God wants to destroy the city of Sodom, and Abraham is haggling Him down. After starting with “Wilt thou spare the city for fifty righteous men?”, Abraham finally gets God to consent to spare the city for the sake of ten righteous people. This is the mercy of God: He will spare an entire city of Sodomites for 10 godly people living among them. Donald Trump, like Abraham, is trying to avenge God’s wrath with ten good deeds.

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