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A comedian who looks strikingly similar to megachurch pastor Joel Osteen wanted to see what happened if he crashed one of Osteen’s events.
Michael Klimkowski of the secular comedy group Dabs Den dressed to the nines and told people he was Osteen himself.
Klimkowski got free parking, a special entrance, selfies and even…
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US and Chinese companies have signed business deals valued at nine billion US dollars (£6.84 billion) during a visit by President Donald Trump in a traditional move aimed at blunting criticism of Beijing’s trade practices.
However, religious freedom campaigners hope he will put pressure on President Xi Jinping to ease restrictions on churches.
Spokesman for Release International, Andrew Boyd told Premier’s News Hour he hopes Mr Trump won’t stay silent during a time where cases of things like officials removing crosses from churches are rising.
He said: “He’s the kind of character who might just speak out, given that he has a lot of advisers behind him who will be lobbying for Christianity and lobbying for human rights and we’re really hoping he makes the best of the opportunity.”
China’s biggest online retailer said it pledged to buy American beef and pork worth $1.2 billion (£912 million), but no other details were released of the 19 agreements signed at a ceremony attended by US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross.
Such contract signings are a fixture of visits by foreign leaders to China and often involve agreements negotiated weeks or even months in advance which Beijing have saved to showcase its importance as a market.
Mr Trump has made narrowing the multibillion-dollar US trade deficit with China a priority for his administration.
He is due to hold talks with Chinese president Xi Jinping.
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The mass shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, hit close to home for Russell Moore, head of the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention.
First Baptist is part of the SBC.
After the gunman Sunday (Nov. 5) took the lives of 26 churchgoers between the ages of 18 months and 77 years old, Moore was called upon to react as the president of the convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. But he also felt the horror of it as a fellow Baptist.
“There’s a kind of personalization of this shooting in an extraordinary way with people who are Baptist churchgoers because we can imagine being in the very same situation as those who were so wickedly killed,” he said.
“I think there’s a great familiarity with the rhythm of a worship service which makes, for churchgoers, the horror of this even more viscerally felt.”
Another church shooting. Lord have mercy.
— Russell Moore (@drmoore) November 5, 2017
Moore talked to RNS about Southern Baptists’ responses to the killings, believers’ varying opinions about gun control and how churches remain resilient in the face of such tragedy. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
How are you seeing Southern Baptists respond to this tragedy? There are two SBC groups in Texas — are they coming together to rally around…
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From the No. 1 New York Times best-selling author of Eat to Live and The End of Diabetes, comes an unflinching, provocative exploration of how our food is killing us and the ways in which…
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Ian Squire, 57, from Shepperton and three British colleagues were kidnapped last month in Delta State.
On Monday, the Foreign Office confirmed that Alanna Carson, David Donovan and Shirley Donovan had returned home safely to the UK but that Mr Squire had died while still a hostage.
While the Foreign Office did not disclose how Mr Squire died, they released a statement confirming he had been “killed”.
A Foreign Office spokesperson told Premier in a statement: “We are supporting the families of four British people who were abducted on 13 October in Nigeria, one of whom was tragically killed.
“This has clearly been a traumatic time for all concerned, and our staff will continue to do all we can to support the families.
“We are grateful to the Nigerian authorities, and are unable to comment given the ongoing nature of their investigations.”
However security sources told Punch, which is a Nigerian newspaper that Mr Squire died of an asthma attack and was not killed by his abductors.
The sources added that he died even before his colleagues were freed.
One of the sources, which wished to remain anonymous, told the paper: “Unfortunately, one of the male victims who is asthmatic and diabetic at the same time, died while in captivity as a result of complications from his ailments.
“Squire was not killed by the militants. He died while in captivity around a bush within Bayelsa and Delta states. It’s an unfortunate situation. We’re not aware if any ransom was paid.”
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Ghana’s AIDS Commission has met with the country’s traditional healers in order to shed light on the claims that some of them have a cure for HIV/AIDS.
According to reports, the meeting was meant to clarify the claims of some traditional healers that they can cure HIV/AIDS as some of HIV patients have been abandoning their antiretroviral drugs in favor of traditional medications.
“We are going to monitor the situation because we realized that we have lost to follow-ups in our clinics. We will see how it is going and we may have to meet them again and do further dialoguing so that we all come to a conclusion on this matter,” Olivia Graham Acheampong, Technical Coordinator for the Commission, said.
Stephen Osei Agyepong Nyedua, Ashanti Regional Director for Traditional Medicine Practice at the Health Ministry, said that he wants the authorities to support the traditional healers as they claim that some of the herbs can manage HIV/AIDS. According to Nyedua, there is no mutual trust between traditional healers and the orthodox medicine practitioners as the latter think that the former has nothing to offer due to their lack of knowledge.
“We want proper collaboration between the two, to ensure that what our people are saying, they will take into consideration. They should invite them and if it even requires support to research further into the claims and ensure that those drugs go through…
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Republican candidate for governor of Virginia Ed Gillespie was defeated last night by Democratic candidate Ralph Northam. Despite his election loss, Gillespie delivered a gracious concession speech, even quoting Scripture.
In what many political analysts were calling a race that would be a test run for Democrats in the 2018 midterms, Republicans were widely defeated. Gillespie received 45 percent of the vote, according to the Virginia Department of Elections, while Northam received 53.9 percent.
Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor Jill Vogel, as well as Republican candidate for Attorney General John Adams also were defeated in Tuesday’s election.
In his concession speech, however, Gillespie chose to remain optimistic and grateful to those who supported him, including his family, those who volunteered, and those who gave him their vote.
Gillespie also wished Northam the best success as he takes on the leadership of the Commonwealth from current Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
“As I said throughout the course of this campaign, Gov.-elect Northam is a good man and I appreciate his service to our country and our Commonwealth, and I wish him nothing but the best success as our 73rd governor,” said Gillespie.
At the end of his speech, Gillespie said a special thanks to his wife and expressed his belief in what he called his favorite…
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This is another perversion of God’s Word.
“We had a long night with our children and grandbabies we have left.”
With 68% of Christian men viewing pornography on a regular basis, the church is in desperate need for something to help men understand what they are up against.
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WITTENBERG — American Christians were among the tens of thousands who marked the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in the city where it all began.
Last Tuesday, evangelical Protestants around the world marked the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation. On that day, it is widely believed that an Augustinian monk named Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg. Luther’s theses objected to, among other things, the Roman Church practice of selling papal indulgences.
Church services and speakers commemorated the day in various ways on Oct. 31 and the streets and town square were set up with craftsmen and sellers of all kinds of German foods, beer, and several places where visitors could purchase mulled wine in clay cups.
Paige Brinks and Rachel Dieleman, two friends who are recent graduates of Calvin College in Michigan and are both living in Europe for graduate and teaching fellowships, said the journey was spiritually significant for them.
“It’s a very interesting feeling knowing Luther was here. I’ve been hearing these stories my whole life but to actually see where he lived and the church where he nailed the 95 theses on, it makes it feel a lot more real,” Brinks told The Christian Post in an interview off the main street in downtown Wittenberg.
The two attended the morning worship service at 10 a.m inside All Saints Church (Castle Church), which was mostly in German with certain greetings…
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This is another perversion of God’s Word.
“We had a long night with our children and grandbabies we have left.”
With 68% of Christian men viewing pornography on a regular basis, the church is in desperate need for something to help men understand what they are up against.
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