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Anglican Church in Australia Splits as Conservatives Reject Leaders’ Endorsement of Same-Sex Marriage

Australia’s Anglican church has split after conservatives who want to uphold the traditional marriage ethics formed a new diocese which it describes as a “lifeboat” for faithful Anglicans.  The Diocese of the Southern Cross was announced at the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) in Canberra on Sunday. GAFCON is an international coalition of conservative church leaders, which…


Survival on the Ballot in Nigeria’s High Stakes Election: Church Leader

Presidential elections next year in war-torn Nigeria amount to a “do or die situation” for embattled Christians, according to a spokesman for the northern church associations. “We either confront the evil in this country at the ballot box in February or we perish,” Rev. John Hayab, president of the Christian Association of Nigeria chapter in Kaduna state, told The…


Washington After Roe: Day Two

WASHINGTON—The Epoch Times is continuing its ongoing coverage of protests and other reactions to Roe v. Wade in Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital. This story will be updated throughout the day. Faithful Bear Witness to a New Dawn Two days after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, no protesters could be seen…


Washington After Roe Day 2: Faithful Bear Witness to a New Dawn

WASHINGTON—Two days after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, no protesters could be seen outside Washington’s Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Situated next to the campus of The Catholic University of America (CUA), the shrine is the largest Catholic church in North America. Yet, after the Department of Homeland…


Nigeria Battered by Rash of Blasphemy Murders

A growing wave of blasphemy attacks by Islamic extremists in Nigeria has stirred anger and threatened to divide Africa’s most populous nation. Two gruesome mob lynchings over alleged blasphemy on May 12 and June 4 have roiled the country and stirred calls for global action. Close to one dozen people have been killed for alleged…


Book Review: ‘Trace & Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan’

Patrick Boucheron, the French historian, has written a very insightful work on the life of St. Ambrose entitled “Trace & Aura.” But the subtitle, “The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan,” clarifies that the book is not so much about St. Ambrose’s life while he was alive, although those days are discussed, but rather…


Seeing Islam in a New Light?

Commentary To say that Christians and Muslims have enjoyed a love-hate relationship over the centuries would, sadly, be a gross misstatement. If it were true, it would be a reasonably wholesome thing, for at least it would imply openness to mutual understanding and acceptance, a willingness to try and admire each other in theory, even…


The One Thing You Can’t Live Without

by Lori Borgman Tribune News Service Don’t ever say things can’t get worse. At least not out loud. The cosmos will prove you wrong. It can and often does. When life does indeed “get worse,” you quickly discover the things you can live without. It’s like a giant loofah exfoliates your entire life. There’s sleep,…


Greek Prime Minister COVID-Positive Day After Istanbul Visit

ATHENS, Greece—Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Monday he had tested positive for COVID-19 and would be self-isolating at home, a day after a trip to Istanbul. Mitsotakis held talks Sunday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, who is considered the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians….


Believers Should Stand Up for Truth Amid Pressure on Religion: Preacher

When the government tries to restrict the exercise of religion Christians have to stand up, said Robert Jeffress, a preacher, bestselling author, and television host. “What distresses me is when Christians refuse to take a stand [on the left’s agenda that is being pushed] and are willing to just blow whichever way the wind blows,”…