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By | Been Written Contributing Writer | Telegraph Local Following a succession of bizarre events and recent personal scandals, Jerry Falwell Jr. says that he’s resigning as president of Liberty University. The decision comes as Falwell Jr. was increasingly being perceived as waffling in his decision to leave the Christian University. Fox News says that […]
By | Rachel Brooks Staff | Telegraph Local See | The New African Living Standard Above, the church delivers the news of their pastor’s death, as seen on CBS. A pastor in Virginia who continued to hold church services after the coronavirus crisis peaked, has himself died of the virus, the New York Post reports. […]
By | Rachel Brooks Staff | Telegraph Local See | The New African Living Standard Above. A Fox broadcast captures footage inside the church that came under scrutiny for violating public health ordinances. A Florida megachurch pastor has been arrested for holding crowded services on Sunday. Rodney Howard-Browne has been outspokenly opposed to the coronavirus […]
By Fabrice Pierre-Toussaint Contributing Writer for Telegraph Local | See my LinkedIn Sources from USA Today, Pope Francis on Wednesday declined to approve the installation of married men to address the shortages of priests in the Amazon, to evade a rife topic that has commanded discourse in the Catholic Church and even involved […]
by Cathy Drummond Contributing Writer for Telegraph Local / see Refreshments According to ABC News, President Donald Trump issued new guidance on students right to pray in Public School. The Presidents asserts that the First Amendment Rights of Public-School students must be upheld. Saying in part, “We will not let anyone push God from the […]
by Cathy Drummond Contributing Writer for Telegraph Local / see Refreshments Security was tight as Jews gathered at a Stadium in New Jersey for the Religious event called Siyum HaShas. Citing NBC News, more than 92,000 Jews were expected to gather for the religious event. The religious event was held at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium. […]
By Fabrice Pierre-Toussaint Contributing Writer for Telegraph Local | See my LinkedIn According to CBS News, Pope Francis apologized Wednesday for his widely viewed slap of a woman who had grabbed his hand as he greeted Catholic faithful on New Year’s Eve. A personal apology followed with the pope stating “Love makes […]
by Cathy Drummond Contributing Writer for Telegraph Local / see Refreshments NBC New York has reported that five people were stabbed near a Synagogue in NY. The five were reportedly stabbed by a lone individual wielding a machete. Although details are yet sketchy, this is sure. On Saturday night, during a celebration of the seventh […]
by Cathy Drummond Contributing Writer for Telegraph Local /see justsaying.live The Notre Dame Cathedral to miss first Christmas Day Mass in two centuries. The historical place of worship for the first time in recorded history will not be ringing its bells on Christmas Day. The storied place of so many centuries of pomp and circumstances […]
By Madeleine Grisanzio Contributing Writer for Telegraph Local Christianity Today, a Christian magazine founded by evangelist Billy Graham called for the removal of Donald Trump following the impeachment. On Wednesday, President Trump became the third president in United States history to be impeached. House Votes to Impeach Trump In 2016, Trump gathered strong support from […]
By Daniel Lehewych Contributer| Telegraph Local See my Medium Page Since the expose done by The Boston Globe in 2002 illuminating the extent of the Catholic Churches’ active participation in child sexual abuse, the Catholic Church has been under constant scrutiny. It is well known –in part due to The Boston Globe expose– that part of […]
Former Alabama youth evangelist Paul Acton Bowen pleaded guilty to sexually abusing minors yesterday, according to Alabama media reports. The Alabama news site AL.com reported that Bowen made the plea on 28 counts of sexual abuse involving six boys. Media reports say he was facing charges of abuse of boys between 13-years-old and 16 years-old. The charges included […]
CBS NEWS Former President Jimmy Carter said he was “at ease with death” while speaking in front of a crowd during a Sunday school service this weekend. The lifelong Baptist appeared in church less than two weeks after being hospitalized for fracturing his pelvis in a fall. The 95-year-old was teaching Sunday school at the Maranatha Baptist […]
(ThyBlackMan.com) Kanye West may be a lot of things, but dull is not one of them. His latest foray into gospel music inspired “Sunday Services” has some wondering if he has really lost his mind, or has found peace and salvation through these spiritual based gatherings. The jury is still out, however. Whether you are […]
Christian rapper TobyMac’s oldest child has died, a representative confirmed, but few details were released immediately. Truett Foster McKeehan, 21, was an aspiring rapper who released songs and videos online as Truett Foster, truDog, TRU and Shiloh. “Truett did pass away at home in the Nashville area sometime Tuesday night or Wednesday morning,” the rep said in […]
Kayla Koslosky | ChristianHeadlines.com Editor | Monday, October 21, 2019 When Influential pastor John MacArthur thinks of preacher and author Beth Moore, he thinks she should “go home.” Speaking at the “Truth Matters Conference” meant to honor his 50 years in ministry, MacArthur, fellow pastor Phil Johnson and a small panel of other men were asked to play […]
A judge in Texas has struck down an Obama-era federal regulation that would have required healthcare providers and insurers to perform gender-transition procedures and abortions even if they go against their medical judgment or violate religious convictions. U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor, an appointee of President George W. Bush, vacated a 2016 Obamacare mandate […]
By Associated Press EL CENTRO, Calif. — A dozen leaders of a California-based ministry were arrested Tuesday on charges that they used homeless people as forced labor, holding them in locked group homes and forcing them to panhandle up to nine hours a day, six days a week, U.S. prosecutors said. The former pastor of Imperial […]