Police were called to St Paul’s Lutheran Church in Fort Dodge, a city in Iowa, at 5:45pm on Wednesday.

Allen Henderson, the senior pastor, 64, was unresponsive and medics began trying life-saving medical treatment before he was transported to Unity Point Trinity Regional Medical Centre.

He was later pronounced dead with injuries that seemed to have resulted from assault.

A 36 year old man from Fort Dodge was then taken into custody accused of murder and robbery.

Fort Dodge Police are investigating the death of Pastor Allen Henderson at St. Paul Lutheran’s Church. Police arrested a suspect Wednesday evening and have charged him with 1st Degree Murder and 1st Degree Robbery. Hear from Capt. Ryan Gruenberg with FDPD. pic.twitter.com/zK9shss1Mg

— We Are Iowa Local 5 (@weareiowa5news) October 3, 2019

The mayor of the city has asked residents to fly flags at half-mast, saying: “Pastor Henderson was a faithful servant of the Lord and to his community, including his congregation at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Fort Dodge, Iowa and in his capacity as the Chaplain for the Webster County Sheriff’s Office, the Fort Dodge Police Department, the Fort Dodge Fire Department and several other public safety and first responder agencies.

“Pastor Henderson’s creation of and dedication to Serving Our Servants, or S.O.S., a program providing emotional, spiritual and material…

The caser received international attention when Botham’s brother told the police officer that God would forgive her if she was truly sorry and gave her a hug. 

Prosecutors had asked jurors to sentence Amber Guyger to 28 years, which was how old her neighbour Botham Jean would have been if he was still alive.

Guyger said she mistook Mr Jean’s apartment for her own and fatally shot him in his living room in September 2018.

One of the two jurors – a white man who was not named by ABC News – said the jury was moved by testimony from Mr Jean’s family and friends, who described his deep faith and caring nature.

“We all agree that (the shooting) was a mistake, and I don’t think Bo would want to take harsh vengeance,” the juror said, referring to Jean by his nickname.

“I think he would want to forgive her.”

After convicting Guyger of murder, the jury could have sentenced her to anywhere from two years to life in prison.

When the jury’s 10-year sentence was handed down on Wednesday, a crowd outside the courtroom reacted angrily, believing it was too short.

A black woman on the jury told ABC News that her reaction when hearing prosecutors’ sentencing request was “I can’t give her 28 years”.

“I know a lot of people are not happy about the 10 years,” she said. “But I felt like… this case was not like any other case.”

She drew distinctions between the death of Mr Jean and those…

The former footballer, who became a Christian at 18, is now a pastor at Calvary Grace Church in Calgary in Canada, having been to seminary in Alberta after studying tehology at Ridley Hall in Cambridge.

He wrote a book in 2006 about complimentarian views on gender called The Grand Design and is now releasing guides to the three difficult topics for Christians.

They will be short books of about 100 pages, co-authored with Dr. Owen Strachan, who also co-authored Peacock’s previous book.

Mr Peacock told Premier he was just highlighting what the Bible says: “It’s giving clarity because you find clarity in the scriptures and the scriptures have to be our foundation.

“We root our understanding in our creation identity, created male and female, and if you go back to the book of Genesis in the first two chapters, it’s very clearly laid out that we were created male and female in the image of God and that marriage is between one man and one woman in covenant for a lifetime and that sexual union is to take place within the covenant of marriage alone.

“If you stick to that, then all kinds of lust, heterosexual or homosexual, is sin if it’s outside of marriage, of course it is sin. Heterosexual relationship in marriage is good, homosexual relationship is not good, it is sinful and transgenderism is another step further away from a departure from the binary sexes created in…

A silence will be held to mark the time of the accident at the crash memorial site high above the railway line at Ladbroke Grove in west London on Saturday.

It will be followed by a service at St Helen’s Church in North Kensington, where 31 candles – each bearing the name of one of the deceased – will be lit alongside a 32nd candle for all the survivors.

Just before 8.10am on October 5 1999, a rush-hour train collided almost head on with a London-bound high-speed train which was heading for Paddington station.

The Thames Trains driver, Michael Hodder, 31, and the First Great Western (FGW) driver, Brian Cooper, 52, were among those killed as the collision led to a fireball in which coach H was burnt out.

As well as the fatalities, more than 220 other people were injured, including Paddington Survivors Group chairman Jonathan Duckworth, now 61, from Stroud in Gloucestershire.

Travelling on the FGW train, Mr Duckworth said he was left “battered and bruised” after being thrown around the carriage during the crash, and later he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

The former shopping centre manager told the PA news agency that the crash had changed the lives of so many people caught up in the disaster and its aftermath.

He added: “It is a desperately sad day for the bereaved because it is such an unnecessary day – the crash should not have happened.

“There…

Produced by Premier Christian Radio’s faith discussion show Unbelievable? this is the second episode in the current season of The Big Conversation, which airs on Friday 4th October. The episode, titled “The Universe: How did it get here and why are we part of it?” sees Penrose and Craig discuss the complexity, order and origins of the universe, and whether the fact it produced us points beyond itself to a creator.

Penrose who has described himself as an atheist, says he doesn’t believe in any religious doctrines but says the nature of reality is more complex than many of his secular colleagues admit. He describes ‘three great mysteries’ in the realms of mathematics, consciousness and the physical world, that science has not yet explained. “Mystery number one is the fact that this world of physics is so extraordinarily precisely guided by mathematical equations. The precision is extraordinary… Mystery number two is how conscious experience can arise when these circumstances seem to be right. It’s not just a matter of complicated computations; there’s something much more subtle going on… Mystery number three is our ability to use our conscious understanding to comprehend mathematics and these very extraordinary selfconsistent but deep ideas, which are very far from my experiences.”

During the programme, the cosmologist engages in a lengthy…

Palmerston North Bishop Charles Drennan, 59, had offered to resign after an independent investigation into the woman’s complaint, according to a statement from Cardinal John Dew, head of the church in New Zealand.

The Vatican said on Friday that the Pope had accepted the resignation.

The removal is significant as the Catholic Church has long considered sexual relationships between clerics and adult women to be sinful and inappropriate, but not criminal or necessarily worthy of permanent sanction.

However, the MeToo movement and the scandal over ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, an American defrocked by Francis for sexual misconduct, have forced a reckoning about the imbalance of power in relationships between clerics and lay adults, nuns and seminarians, and whether such relationships can be consensual.

The bishop was a member of the New Zealand church team of priests and sisters selected to respond to the country’s royal commission inquiry into sexual abuse of children and vulnerable adults in state and faith-based care between 1950-1999.

At 59, Mr Drennan is well under the normal retirement age of 75 for bishops. Ordained as a priest in 1996, he worked for seven years in the Vatican’s secretariat of state before being made a bishop in 2011. He took over as the head of the Palmerston North diocese a year later.

More recently, he was elected secretary of the New…