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The African Methodist Episcopal Church leadership has called on the United States government to cut funding for Israel, opposing Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, accusing Isreal of a "mass genocide." 

One Asbury Seminary professor recounted his brief visit to the university auditorium, citing a great sense of serenity. He could have stayed for hours, he said. But like the woman healed by the mere touch of Jesus’s garment, as he described it, he felt whole and left contentedly after 90 minutes.    

Catholic thinkers would provide the intellectual leadership for the more numerous evangelical spearcarriers. With evangelicals, Catholics could potentially create a political majority for social conservatism.

"Regionalization" is for now allowing African bishops to stay loyal to the United Methodist Church, but by April something will have to give.

Henderson County (Dec 28, 2023) -

1 in 4 UMC congregations have now disaffiliated in the largest US denominational schism since the Civil War. Will African Methodists leave next?

Respected American experts – including former federal legislators – in the field of religious freedom have lamented the dire state of religious freedom in Nigeria. On Tuesday, December 12, through Christopher Smith (Republican Party), a member of the U.S. House, representing New Jersey's 4th Congressional District, they called for the West African country to be designated as a Country of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.

Where the heavens kiss the peaks.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not only an example of tyrannical cruelty. It is also a threat to the national security of the United States.

Brevard (Oct 31, 2023) - HORSE SHOE — In all 365 days of North Carolina’s “Year of the Trail” it would be hard to imagine a more exemplary day of celebration than Saturday, when more than 500 people gathered in a farm field to mark the start of the Ecusta Trail, the 19-mile Hendersonville-to-Brevard greenway that a stubborn band of dreamers first envisioned 15 years ago.