Samuel Smith

News list

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  Sharp drop in church membership among Americans - poll

  Samuel Smith Mon 22 Apr 2019 17:14 BST

  The percentage of Americans who say they belong to a church, synagogue or mosque has hit a historic low, a new Gallup report released Thursday shows.

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  Giant advert in Times Square blasts New York's 'abortion extremism'

  Samuel Smith Sat 13 Apr 2019 13:24 BST

  The pro-life student association Students for Life of America is sponsoring a giant video advertisement this week in Manhattan's Times Square, speaking out against New York's "abortion extremism."

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  How churches in Rwanda are bringing victims and perpetrators of the 1994 genocide together to rebuild communities

  Samuel Smith Sun 7 Apr 2019 7:05 BST

  Farmer Habarurema Bosco did not feel like a human anymore after losing all of his family in the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi minority that saw the loss of about 1 million lives.

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  Gap closing between number of evangelicals and religious 'nones' in the US

  Samuel Smith Fri 22 Mar 2019 15:43 GMT

  The number of religious "nones" in the United States are now statistically equal to the number of evangelicals, according to a political scientist who analyzed data from the recently released 2018 General Social Survey.

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  Prison service opening new unit solely for transgender women inmates after safety concerns

  Samuel Smith Wed 6 Mar 2019 16:20 GMT

  The new unit comes in light of reported sexual assaults in women's prisons at the hands of transgender women which has forced the government to review its policies allowing trans-identified inmates to serve in women's prisons.

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  WWE star Roman Reigns says cancer remission is down to prayer of fans

  Samuel Smith Wed 27 Feb 2019 20:59 GMT

  'God's voicemail was full,' said the 33-year-old while announcing that his leukemia has gone into remission

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  In the hometown of 21 Coptic Christians murdered by ISIS, miracles are being reported

  Samuel Smith Thu 14 Feb 2019 20:15 GMT

  People from the hometown of 21 Coptic Christian men beheaded on a Libyan beach by the Islamic State are reporting miracles

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  Over 700 people attend grand opening of Perry Noble's Second Chance Church

  Samuel Smith Mon 28 Jan 2019 20:13 GMT

  18 people were also saved at the inaugural service in South Carolina. Perry was ousted from his previous church NewSpring in 2016 over issues with alcohol

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  Elementary school principal who banned Christmas has resigned

  Samuel Smith Thu 17 Jan 2019 23:56 GMT

  A Nebraska elementary school principal who sent an internal memo to teachers warning them not to use any Christmas-related messaging and activities in the classroom in December has resigned.

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  Kids in YouTube video told abortion is God's plan and no different from a 'crappy dentist appointment'

  Samuel Smith Tue 1 Jan 2019 18:47 GMT

  'It was like a crappy dentist appointment or something. It was just like, blah — a body thing that was kind of uncomfortable but then it was over and I felt really just grateful that I wasn't pregnant anymore,' Amelia Bonow told the kids in a YouTube video