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Colombia: Murdered evangelist’s widow also killed after threats
Four months after guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) sent a murdered evangelist's wife their first demand to abandon her home in northeast Colombia's volatile Arauca department, the militants made good on their t...
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Harold Camping says May 21 prediction was ‘incorrect and sinful’
Radio evangelist Harold Camping has called his erroneous prediction that the world would end last May 21 an “incorrect and sinful statement” and said his ministry is out of the prediction business. “We have le...
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Franklin Graham apologizes for questioning Obama’s faith
Evangelist Franklin Graham apologized tonight to President Obama for questioning his Christian faith and said religion has “nothing to do” with Graham’s decision not to support Obama’s re-election. Graha...
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North Carolina hospital says Rev. Billy Graham released after 6 days recovering from pneumonia
The Rev. Billy Graham was released from hospital Tuesday after spending six days recovering from pneumonia, his second bout with the lung infection in the past seven months. Doctors decided to let the 93-year-old evangelist go ...
Islamic Extremist Group Kills Another Christian in Nigeria
Violence-weary Christians in Borno state have been further upset to learn of the murder of a Nigerian evangelist by Boko Haram less than three months after the Islamic extremist group killed a Maiduguri pastor. Already shell-sh...
Court rules that evangelist has the right to distribute Christian leaflets to Muslims in Michigan
A federal appeals court ruled recently that a Christian evangelist was denied his First Amendment rights when police in Dearborn, Mich., barred him from distributing leaflets on public streets at an Arab-American Festival. The ...
ICC calls for justice for murdered Ethiopian Evangelist, pregnant wife
A Christian human rights group is seeking justice on behalf of an Ethiopian Christian evangelist who was beaten to death and his pregnant wife who was injured and left unconscious by a group of Muslim attackers. International C...
Pakistan evangelist set on fire by Muslim extremists
An evangelical pastor in Pakistan is recovering slowly from wounds he received after Muslim extremists set him on fire in Punjab last month, because they were angry at him for preaching the gospel. Pastor Wilson Augustine, 26, ...
Evangelist peacefully passed out Bibles in gay festival
An evangelist peacefully passed out Bibles in the Twin Cities Pride Festival in Minneapolis without incident, the Associated Press said. Brian Johnson of Hayward, Wis., handed out Bibles in the weekend Twin Cities Pride Festiva...
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Obama visits ailing evangelist Billy Graham at home in North Carolina
President Barack Obama made a pilgrimage to pray with Billy Graham, the American preacher who harnessed the media and made Christian evangelism a global phenomenon, recently. Obama rode in his motorcade to Graham’s mounta...