Will 2018 Be the Year Target Reverses Its Misguided Policy? .

Customers push their shopping carts after making their purchases at Target in Chicago.
Customers push their shopping carts after making their purchases at Target in Chicago. (REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski/File Photo)

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For all of 2017—and some of 2016, too—the American Family Association (AFA, www.afa.nethas worked toward the goal of urging Target to reverse its dangerous and misguided policy to allow men in women’s restrooms and fitting rooms, thereby…

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New Year’s Church Shootings Kill At Least 14 Christians .

At least 14 Christians were killed returning from midnight church services in Nigeria.
At least 14 Christians were killed returning from midnight church services in Nigeria. (Unsplash/Oshomah Abubakar)

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Gunmen killed at least 14 churchgoers returning from midnight New Year’s services in Nigeria’s Rivers state. One relative told The Guardian the attacks happened around 12:30 a.m. in a coordinated attack in two different locations. Reports indicate that the…

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Cancer-Stricken Bride Dies 18 Hours After Wedding; Photos Go Viral

(Screenshot: GlobalNews.ca)Heather Mosher celebrates her marriage to husband Dave, eighteen hours before passing away on Dec. 22, 2017.

A Connecticut woman who was stricken with an aggressive form of breast cancer died just hours after she got married while attached to a hospital bed. The wedding photos have since gone viral.

A love story that is touching many people around the world, Heather Mosher took her vows to husband Dave on Dec. 22, exactly one year to the day that he proposed, which was also the day she was diagnosed with cancer. She passed away 18 hours after her wedding on Dec. 23.

“I had planned to ask her on Dec. 23, 2016,” Dave Mosher told ABC News Sunday of the proposal. “That morning we had gone to the doctor after she had found a lump on her breast.”

“Now more than ever, I needed for her to know that she’s not going to do this alone,” he said. “When you’re with your great love … it’s like trying to separate your arm from your body, you can’t do it. You’re connected. She was my girl.”

Heather Mosher’s condition worsened in the months after her cancer diagnosis with the disease ultimately spreading to her brain. By late October, she was on life support, Canandian outlet Global News reported.

The couple had planned to wed on Saturday but doctors urged them to do so sooner due to her rapid decline.

Dave and Heather Mosher were married in a chapel at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, surrounded by friends and family.

Pictures of the wedding — including one taken at the conclusion of the ceremony where Heather is seen with both hands raised as she sits in a hospital bed…

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Bethel Worship Leader Reports His Children Now Hospitalized with E. Coli .

Joel Taylor's two children have been hospitalized.
Joel Taylor’s two children have been hospitalized. (Joel Taylor/Instagram)

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The leader of the Bethel worship ministry whose little boy has been fighting for his life in a hospital is reporting now that his little girl has also been diagnosed with the same dangerous E. coli infection.

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Backslider’s Graphic Testimony on Prostitution Cut Short as Church Members Shocked by Details

(Screenshot: Facebook)Backslider and ex-prostitute Sonia (Sonya) Menzie is left stunned after her graphic testimony is cut short during a testimony service at an unidentified church.

A backslider’s church testimony, which was cut short after she began sharing graphic details about how God saved her from the grip of prostitution, has become one of 2018’s first viral videos and has sparked a debate about the appropriate way to conduct a testimony service.

The woman shown in the video that appears to have been first shared on social media by @TrevonPowell, gives her name as Sonia Menzie (phonetic spelling). It is unclear which church the testimony was shared at.

“I’m a backslider y’all pray for me,” Menzie told the congregation after introducing herself in the clip. She then went on to explain how only a fool makes a mockery out of God.

“He’s nothing to be played with. A fool in his heart says there is no God but God is real,” she said before launching into details of her past that appeared to shock the church’s leaders, including a male parishioner who held a microphone for her as she spoke.

“I used to come home drunk from school. Laying up with mens. Out there prostituting. Having oral sex …,” she said. As she went into more detail the male parishioner pulled the…

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Over 32,000 Students Unite in Worship at Passion Conference

Over 32,000 Students Unite in Worship at Passion Conference



More than 32,000 young adults from across the globe will fill arenas in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., for an event that has been sold out for months. Jan. 1-3, attendees will gather in Atlanta’s Philips Arena and Infinite Energy Center, and The Anthem in Washington, D.C., for Passion 2018—a gathering of 18-to-25-year-olds, and their church and campus leaders.


Passion 2018 will be live and live-streamed simultaneously in the three locations to students from more than 700 universities and 35 countries. Each venue will have live worship music in every session—with all bands traveling between locations—and attendees will experience teaching from two speakers live while seeing the others via live-stream.


Leading the way at Passion 2018 will be Passion founders Louie and Shelley Giglio, joined by guests Christine Caine, Levi Lusko, John Piper and Priscilla Shirer. Worship leaders and bands will include Passion Band, Crowder, Matt Redman, Jimi Cravity, KB, Brooke Ligertwood and Andy Mineo. 


Passion believes that worship and justice go hand in hand, so students will arrive to serve as well as worship. In the past few years, attendees have given some $8 million to fight modern-day slavery through The END IT Movement, assisting in awareness, prevention, rescue and restoration. While ending modern-day slavery is still a focus of Passion 2018, students will also have other…

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Canadian Church Denies Claim That Hearing to Decide Fate of Atheist Minister Was Postponed

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(Photo: Scott Kearns)United Church of Canada minister Gretta Vosper. In 2013, Vosper officially came out to her congregation as an atheist.

The United Church of Canada is denying reports that a hearing scheduled to determine whether an atheist minister should be defrocked has been postponed.

The Rev. Gretta Vosper, head of West Hill United Church of Toronto, Ontario, is undergoing an investigation into the effectiveness of her ministry, as she is a professed atheist.

The Star, a Toronto-based newspaper, reported in November that the hearing that could lead to Vosper being put on the Church’s Discontinued Service List (Disciplinary) had been “postponed indefinitely.”

“The hearing on whether Gretta Vosper is suitable for the ministry — scheduled months ago — was to have taken place [in November 2017],” reported the Star.

“However, Vosper, who is the minister at West Hill United Church in Toronto’s east end, recently received a letter informing her of the delay … [Vosper] said the Church offered no reason in its letter for the delay, nor did it indicate when the hearing before a judicial committee might now take place.”

The Rev. Alan Hall, spokesperson for the UCC, told The Christian Post in an interview Tuesday that the formal hearing had not been…

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forget life’s useless baggage and empty chatter

Francis offered his reflections on how to savour the real meaning of life as he celebrated New Year’s Day Mass in St Peter’s Basilica.

His recipe for getting down to the essentials includes setting aside a moment of silence every day to be with God.

 

He said doing so would help “keep our freedom from being corroded by the banality of consumerism, the blare of commercials, the stream of empty words and the overpowering waves of empty chatter and loud shouting”.

Francis recommended leaving behind “all sorts of useless baggage” to “rediscover what really matters”.

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