Christian Today

Jerusalem Gay Parade Ban Reversed by Israeli Court

An Israeli court on Sunday ordered the Jerusalem municipality to allow a gay pride parade to take place, reversing a ban last week by the city's mayor. It was ordered that the city must place the rainbow flag, symbol of the homosexual movement...

Hidden Treasures

The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him.
Psalms 25:14 (KJV)
There are secrets of providence which God's dear children may learn. His dealing with them often seems, to the outward eye, dark and terrible.

Faith looks deeper and says: "This is God's secret. You look only on the outside; I can look deeper and see the hidden meaning."

Canada Anglican Leader Says Excluding Church Will Have No Practical Effect

The top Canadian Anglican leader has said the decision to exclude his Church from a leading body of the Anglican Communion is "regrettable but will have no practical effect." Last week, the Anglican Consultative Council...

Anglican Resolution Could Mean Withdrawl of Investment on Israel

The Anglican Consultative Council, meeting in Nottingham, England, unanimously passed a resolution on Friday urging its churches to put pressure firms that support the occupation of Palestinian territories by Israel...

Graham's New York Crusade Draws 60,000 the First Night

More than 60,000 people turned out Friday for the highly anticipated Billy Graham Greater New York Crusade. The opening night of Billy Graham’s self-admitted ’last [crusade] in America,’ attracted...

Evangelicals Are Few, but Growing in Iraq

There is a small but growing number of evangelicals in Iraq which is challenging the status quo of traditional Christian denominations, according to new reports ...

Christians Suspect Communal Forces Behind Brutal Murders in India

The brutal killings of Pastor K. Isaac Raju and Rev. K. Daniel have shaken the Christian community of Andhra Pradesh and have prompted several Christian leaders to believe that both the preachers were victims to communal violence...

Southern Baptists Flood Nashville with Evangelistic Events in America

Thousands of Southern Baptists across the US gathered Saturday at the Gaylord Entertainment Centre in Nashville for Crossover 2005 - one of the denomination’s largest evangelistic efforts in history...

Huge Evangelical Centre for Tourists Scheduled for Israel

Hoping to attract a million Christian evangelical tourists per year to northern Israel, the nation's finance minister spoke of plans for an Evangelical centre "mega project" to be built by the shores of the Sea of Galilee...

How to Get the Punters in the Pews

Can anything halt the numerical decline going on presently in most mainline Christian denominations? Whenever this question is asked, one obvious clue to an answer seems to get missed. It is a fact that in every part of the country, there are churches that are cheerfully bucking the trend ...

Engineering Disabled Embryos: the Race to be First

How should Christians react to this bioindustrial use of human embryos? Those who have read David Jones’ absorbing new book The Soul of the Embryo will be aware of the complex history of Christian thought on ensoulment. The earliest strand of Christian tradition made no distinction between early and late abortion ...