Stories: Church
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In Nigeria, Miracles Compete With Modern Medicine
Marcus Chukwu was having a hard time coming to terms with the idea that he should refrain from evangelizing to a patient on his deathbed. “Religion is always effective, when the patient gets to the end of the road,” said Chukwu, who works as a nurse at an Anglican hospital in the southwestern Nigerian city of Ibadan. &ldquo...;
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Evangelical Christianity Is Big in Nigeria — 87 Football Fields Big
Photo above: Under an open-air pavilion built to seat a million people, children sleep on mats spread out on the cobblestones while their parents enter their 6th consecutive hour of worship. All-night prayer vigils are at the core of the country's booming Pentecostal movement. Some churches draw worshippers in the hundreds of thousands. At one church, the Redeemed Christian...
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Dozens Slain in Bombing at Pakistan Church
Pakistan’s beleaguered Christian community suffered its worst ever attack on Sunday after two suicide bombers attacked a landmark 19th century church in Peshawar, killing 75 people and wounding dozens more. The attack, which has been condemned across Pakistan’s political spectrum and sparked protests by Christians around the country, represents a major challenge to the government of...
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Photos: Safe Love in Zambia
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Pastor transforma loja de bebidas em café ‘livre de álcool’
Enquanto a nova sede não fica pronta, os fiéis da New Life Covenant se encontram provisoriamente na escolar Roberto Clemente High School. Em poucos minutos, mais de 600 pessoas lotam o auditório alugado. Como não havia lugar maior, o pastor Wilfredo “Choco” de Jesus emenda quatro cultos consecutivos às 8h, ...