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Atlanta Fire Chief Fired for Christian Beliefs Wins Victory in Court
(Worthy News) – Atlanta Fire Chief, Kelvin Cochran claims he was terminated due to his religious beliefs and that his First Amendment rights were violated. However, the City of Atlanta and Mayor Kasim Reed hold firm that Cochran “was fired because he did not comply with the City’s pre-clearance rules for outside employment and for…
Read MoreTexas Church Comes Together for Christmas, Remembers Victims
(Worthy News) – After facing tragedy less than two months ago, First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas remembered the victims of November’s mass shooting in a special Christmas ceremony. A gunman open fired on the church during Sunday morning worship on November 5th killing 26 people. Since then, the community has mourned and worked…
Read MoreChristmas High Alert: Churches Tightening Church Security in Pakistan, Egypt
(Worthy News) – This Christmas season Christians in Pakistan and Egypt are on high alert. They are asking their governments to help provide tightened security for worship services. Just last Sunday, two Islamic terrorists attacked the Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in Quetta, Pakistan killing nine Christians as they worshipped. A security officer shot and killed…
Read MoreCongress Fails to Repeal Johnson Amendment in Tax Bill
(Worthy News) – A measure within the federal tax overhaul bill that would end the IRS regulation barring churches from endorsing political candidates has been removed from the proposed legislation. The Senate’s parliamentarian struck out the language overturning the Johnson Amendment, with the Hill reporting last week that the reason was because it “did not…
Read MoreNeurosurgeon-Turned-Pastor Uses Name of Jesus to Stop Armed Robber Who Threatened to Kill Him at Bible Study
(Worthy News) – Dr. Julius Zant, a respected retired neurosurgeon-turned-pastor who was attacked by an armed man who threatened to kill him inside a Maryland church as he conducted a Bible study with his parishioners last Thursday, bravely fended off the robber by invoking the name of Jesus. “He has this black holster and it…
Read MorePakistan: mourners bury 11 killed in Quetta church suicide attack, as 50 injured
(Worthy News) – Pakistani Christian mourners today (Monday) are burying their dead only days before they should be celebrating Christ’s birth. Worshippers were lining up to take the Holy Communion when at least two men, armed and wearing suicide vests, attacked Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in western Pakistan’s restive city Quetta on Sunday morning. They…
Read MoreSuicide bombers attack Pakistan church, killing at least 9, officials say
(Worthy News) – Two suicide bombers attacked a church in Pakistan where hundreds of worshippers were attending service ahead of Christmas, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens of others, officials said. One of the suicide bombers was shot dead outside Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in Quetta, but the other assailant made it to…
Read MoreJerusalem church leaders in Jordan condemn ‘Judaization’ of city
(Worthy News) – A delegation of church leaders from Jerusalem who met with Jordanian King Abdullah II reiterated their opposition to US recognition of the city as the capital of Israel and censured “attempts to Judaize” it, Jordanian state media said Sunday. Abdullah convened with Christian clerics and dignitaries from Jordan and Jerusalem ahead of…
Read More'We are one': Palestinian Christians and Muslims unite against Trump's Jerusalem call
(Worthy News) – Less than an hour after U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Palestinians protested by turning off the lights on the Christmas tree outside Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, the traditional birthplace of Jesus. It was a timely reminder that while headlines focused on Islamist calls for uprisings and Trump’s…
Read MoreEvangelical Leaders Pray With Trump in Oval Office, Present Him 'Friends of Zion' Award
(Worthy News) – Top conservative evangelical leaders prayed with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office again on Monday afternoon and also presented him with a “Friends of Zion” award after his decision last week to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Evangelical leaders who have been involved in advising the Trump administration participated…
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