Rapper Kodak Black, who was one of 73 individuals pardoned by former President Donald Trump before he left office earlier this year, has recently converted to Christianity

The rapper, whose full name is Bill Kahan Kapri, accepted Christ after praying with ministers Kevin Louidor and Annia Icart at a gas station last Tuesday.

A Samaritan's Purse team that included Edward Graham and Tim Tebow recently delivered several tons worth of relief items to the Afghanistan region in support of refugees and evacuees fleeing the Taliban.

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Three Afghan Christian families have escaped the danger of life under the Taliban thanks to the work of a faith-based organization and the Italian military.

The three families, which included seven minors, were rescued last week out of Kabul by the Italian military after being identified by Fondazione Meet Human, a faith-based organization based in Italy. Tragically, though, the father of one of the families was missing and didn't make it out. He disappeared "into thin air with the advance of the Taliban," the organization said.

A Christian nonprofit organization based in Haiti is urging people worldwide to pray for the nation’s recovery following a massive 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck last Saturday near Les Cayes.

JUBA, South Sudan, August 18, 2021

 Christian leaders in Sudan said government officials have detained a shipment of Bibles by demanding customs fees from which it is exempt.

he Rev. Saad Idris Komi, chairman of the Sudan Pentecostal Church, said customs officials refused to release the Bibles earlier this month after rejecting his denomination’s application for tax-exempt status for the shipment. Sudan’s Fundamental Rights and Freedoms Act, enacted in July 2020, eliminates customs duties for religious literature, Pastor Komi said.

A pastor from Missouri is encouraging Christians to "love like Jesus" after he donated one of his kidneys to a congregant earlier this year.

A church in the Canadian city of Surrey, British Columbia, was destroyed in a recent arson attack. This attack comes following a string of arson attacks on Canadian churches in recent months.

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Christian singer Kari Jobe says she was grateful to be part of the Los Angeles Freedom Concert Experience headlined by Justin Bieber.

Communication Director for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Jamaica, Raia Richards-Peart, said each care package included food items and hygiene products.

St. Bede's Episcopal Church in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in partnership with medical debt recovery group RIP Medical Debt, was able to pay off the medical debt of almost 800 New Mexicans and Arizonans.

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About 2,000 people volunteered to participate in a week of service in the greater Cincinnati area and Northern Kentucky in an event called "Heart the City."

More than 200 kids attending a vacation Bible school festival with locations in Kentucky and Ohio decided to dedicate their lives to Jesus last month.

According to a recent  AP-NORC poll, over 25 percent of people who attended religious services at least once a month prior to the COVID-19 pandemic have no immediate plans to return to their church, synagogue, or mosque.

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​Tribal animists forced more than 50 Christians from three villages to flee their homes and take shelter in the jungles of eastern India last month.

The Christians belong to 13 tribal families of Rayagada District, Odisha state who have been stranded in the jungle without proper shelter, food, water and electricity.

After spending nearly seven hours hanging from a sign above an Oklahoma highway, an unidentified man seeking to end his own life changed his mind after a good Samaritan told him, "God loves you."

​On Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law requiring public school classrooms to hold a one-minute moment of silence at the beginning of each day to give students an opportunity for "quiet reflection."

The bill, HB 529, requires teachers in first-period classes in all grades to reserve at least one minute (but not more than two minutes) "during which students may not interfere with other students' participation." The new law says teachers may not make suggestions for the moment of silence. It also encourages parents or guardians to discuss, with their children, the "best use of this time." The word "prayer" is not in the new law, although the text of the law allows prayer.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, a Georgia-based church donated over $10,000 and food exceeding 8,100 pounds to another church's food distribution ministry to serve the local community.

A 7-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero after he swam for an hour to get help after a current swept his dad and 4-year-old sister away.

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Heidi Baker is a resident in one of the world's poorest and most dangerous countries. Since 2017, ISIS-linked militants have killed over 2,600 people and displaced 700,000 more in their invasion to establish an Islamic caliphate in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado Province. Al Shabab, a militant terror group, is responsible for the dozens of terror attacks on churches in the region.

Amid reports saying that there are over 340 million Christians facing persecution for their faith, the Christian non-profit organization For The Martyrs has planned a second march for the oppressed in Washington, D.C. The march will be held this summer.

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​Pastors and Christian leaders are calling for prayer and reconciliation between Israel and Hamas as the Middle East begins to see the worst bloodshed in years between Israelis and Palestinians. The intensity of the fighting prompted the United Nations to warn that the rocketing could escalate into a "full-scale war." The conflict began as the Islamist terror group Hamas fired hundreds of missiles at Jerusalem on Monday after hundreds of rioters were injured in clashes with Israeli police and Jewish religious observers on the Temple Mount.

​Millions of Americans who typically don't read a Bible opened one in 2020 as the world was facing a historic pandemic, according to a new survey.

​(RNS) — The Rev. Cecil Richards is working with members of his Kingstown Baptist Church to help feed people in St. Vincent who have been evacuated due to the volcanic eruption on the island nation.

A Pennsylvania church is drawing rave reviews online after its pastor allowed members to gather for worship in kayaks and canoes in the reservoir at Bald Eagle State Park.

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Over the last few weeks, Barna has been taking stock of the information we’ve gathered on the next generation—first Millennials and now Gen Z. Concerning trends have been surfacing around this emerging group, including... read more