U.S. churches are speaking out against President Donald Trump’s decision to move 5,200 U.S. troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to stop a migrant caravan headed for the U.S. The caravan, which started in Honduras, is estimated to be around 4,000 strong.

According to The Christian Post, church’s and Christian organizations around the nation are defending the asylum seekers and voicing opposition toward the threats of military action at the border.

Catholic Relief Services and Catholic Charities USA, released official statement through the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops asking the government to “treat all people humanely.”  

The statement reads, “We are deeply saddened by the violence, injustice, and deteriorating economic conditions forcing many people to flee their homes in Central America. While nations have the right to protect their borders, this right comes with responsibilities: governments must enforce laws proportionately, treat all people humanely, and provide due process.”

The statement goes on to read, “We affirm that seeking asylum is not a crime. We urge all governments to abide by international law and existing domestic laws that protect those seeking safe haven and ensure that all those who are returned to their home country are protected and repatriated safely.”

The charities then urged the U.S….

Shelia Walsh, a renowned author and singer, knows firsthand how difficult coping with depression and mental illness can be.

In her new book It’s Okay Not to Be Okay: Moving Forward One Day at a Time, Walsh uses her experience with mental health issues to share eight steps to help women move forward, taking things day by day. 

Twenty-six years ago, the well-known speaker and Bible teacher made the decision to check herself into a psychiatric ward. When she received her diagnosis, she learned that she was suffering from clinical depression—a condition that affects more than 16.1 million American adults. No group or profession is exempt from being affected—even pastors and church leaders. 

Walsh opens up to The Christian Post about her struggle coming to terms with her diagnosis. She told the outlet, “At the time, I was serving as the co-host of The 700 Club on Christian Broadcasting Network. I knew how to put on a good face and isolate myself from people. I was surrounded by people, a ministry leader, but so desperately lonely and depressed. Up until that point, I’d based so much of God’s love on me getting everything right. When you end up in a psych hospital, that platform has been pulled from beneath you.” 

Walsh also grappled with the misconception that those who are churchgoers should not battle mental…

NEW DELHI, October 30, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A policeman in Nepal was reprimanded and punished for talking about his faith in Christ at a public, multi-faith religious gathering earlier this month, sources said.

Dilip Bhadur Gurung, a constable with the Nepal Armed Force Police (NAFP), was on three-month leave when on Oct. 2 from he spoke at the public gathering in Gulmi. A local news reporter published an article critical of his talk and informed Gurung’s superiors.

Gurung was arrested in Palpa the following day and sent back to his department in Tanau. A source who requested anonymity told Morning Star News his superiors there have decided to withhold his departmental promotion for five years as punishment.

Another source said authorities are employing a double standard.

“It is a kind of injustice – if he was talking about Hinduism or Buddhism, he would not have faced any problem,” pastor B.P. Khanal, head of The Lord’s Assembly and a social activist in Nepal said, told Morning Star News. “Taking the name of Jesus is risky in public-speaking; it is an offense against the law. People are biased and are looking for an opportunity to arrest Christians.”

At the meeting in Gulmi, Gurung spoke about how his faith in Jesus had helped him secure a good job and blessed his family life. The reporter wrote that Gurung was preaching and trying…

A congregation in South Carolina that had a church building constructed in a single day held their first worship service at the new facility.

The Christ Family Center, located in the small town of Denmark, had about 300 volunteers build a new worship space last week over the course of a day. They held their first service on Sunday.

The project was overseen by the “Church in a Day” ministry of the United Pentecostal Church International’s North American Missions Division.

Pastor Terry Long, director of the ministry, told The Christian Post in an interview on Tuesday that the Christ Family Center was the 138^th such project since the ministry began in the 1980s. According to Long, at least five projects are planned for next year.

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Long told CP that each CIAD project is “an incredibly structured and well-coordinated effort” that admittedly usually takes between 26 and 30 hours rather than an exact 24-hour day.

“The pastor and local congregation are responsible to purchase the property,” Long…

Pastor and author Francis Chan recently posted a new documentary to his YouTube channel warning people about the church’s culture of consumerism in America. 

In his “Letters to the Church” series, which coincides with his book by the same title, Chan challenges Christian’s idea of what the church is supposed to look like by asking them to think about what God intends the church to look like. 

Chan asks his audience if they want more from their church experience, if the pure gospel puts them in awe and if they are ready to rethink the church.

According to CBN News, the former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, California, and  founder and chancellor of Eternity Bible College told viewers in the latest documentary piece that “In America, Christianity has become this consumer thing.” 

“One of our elders,” he continued, “calls it pastoral malpractice. You are actually ruining people by making them consumers.”

“You are supposed to be turning them into servants,” he urged.

Chan, 51, reminded people that church should not be a consumer transaction noting that we are meant to serve not be served. 

He said, “we don’t come to be served, we serve and give our lives as a ransom for many.”

Chan tackles the questions of do you want more from your church experience and is this version of church…

Bishop Victor Couzens, leader of the 5,000-member Inspirational Bible Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, denied posting a suicidal note on Facebook Sunday just a day after he publicly asked God to help him fight for his job after confessing to having “multiple” extramarital relationships.

“It’s about 6:30 in the morning in Ohio. My Facebook page was hacked. It’s caused a lot of concern with whatever was said. The page has since been deactivated but I wanted ya’ll to see my face and hear my voice. Thank you for your prayers and your concern,” Couzens said in a video addressing the suicide note that was posted on Instagram and shared with The Christian Post. Couzens has made most of his personal social media accounts private since his rampant fornication was made public.

In the since deleted Facebook post, Couzens claims hackers suggested he would commit suicide because he was being unfairly treated by critics who want him to step down from the church he loves.

“The ungrateful people I have served and helped who look at me now with contempt in their eyes and will not stand up for or with me. But are sure to tell me how I’ve disappointed them….

Signs claiming to be from the New York City sanitation department are calling Trump supporters and socially-conservative Christians “trash.”

Last week, posters appeared all over the Big Apple sporting the message, “Keep NYC Trash Free” with portraits of men and women wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, and holding Chick-Fil-A cups and Bibles. The posters have been placed on trashcans across the city and have the New York City Sanitation Department logo on them, The Blaze reports.

One specific poster shows a bearded man with a confederate flag heart tattoo on his arm who is wearing a MAGA hat and holding a Chick-Fil-A drinking cup. The man’s face is x-ed out and above his crossed out face reads the words, “Keep NYC Trash Free.” 

This NYC trash can is telling #MAGA types where they can go: https://t.co/T5E9yg9CRF #KeepNYCTrashFree pic.twitter.com/eGrhPyKXJ6

— Bedford + Bowery (@bedbow) October 23, 2018

Another poster shows a woman who, like the bearded man in the first poster, is wearing a MAGA hat but this time instead of carrying a Chick-Fil-A cup, she is carrying a bible in her arm. The woman’s face is also crossed through and the. Poster is adorned with the same phrase calling for NYC to stay ‘trash’ free.

I’m a Christian woman who voted 4 @realDonaldTrump. According to the people of Manhattan,…

Pastor Francis Chan has warned that, in efforts to stop the Gospel from spreading, Satan is “going to do everything he can” to keep Christians isolated and absorbed in their phones, preventing them from becoming united and realizing the power of the Holy Spirit within them.

Chan, author of Crazy Love and founder of We Are Church, told the tens of thousands gathered at Texas Motor Speedway for Together 2018 that Satan “loves” the fact that over the years, Christianity has become so “dumbed down” that many professing believers rely on external “life jackets” to keep them afloat instead of resting in the power of the Holy Spirit.

“Satan knows if you actually believed in the power within you — that you’ll have the power to look another human being in the eyes, your friends, your family, and tell them the greatest thing that’s happened to you and of the forgiveness that is found in Jesus Christ,” he said.

It’s impossible to be witnesses to a watching world, Chan contended, when we’re constantly relying on others to do the work for us.

“You keep believing, ‘no, I need someone else. I need a life jacket. Give me my John Piper life jacket, give…