Megachurch pastor John Gray announced that he has “submitted to a process of restoration” that will sometimes take him away from his church in the wake of new allegations of infidelity, some of which he admits are true.

“I’m sorry for the areas of my life that I left unattended, that I was apathetic about, the areas where I have treated the calling of God, the grace of God and the hand of God casually in my life. For every area of behavior that has dishonored the holiness of God, I want to tell you that I’m sorry. There have been a number of things, blogs, some of them accurate, some of it not. But all of it, my responsibility,” the embattled leader of Relentless Church in Greenville, South Carolina, said in an address to his church and family Sunday.

“I apologize for putting the name of God in harm’s way and I and I alone take the responsibility for the actions that harmed and injured God’s sheep. No matter how many pseudo-excuses one can hurl in a moment like this, for the purposes of self-preservation, all of them ring hollow when all that is truly needed is the truth,” he said.

Gray’s address comes after his…

As the 2020 Republican National Convention came to a close on Thursday, multiple attendees and prominent evangelicals were met by profanities, threats and violence from rioters as they were leaving the South Lawn of the White House.

According to Christian Today, Trump’s faith advisor, Paula White, condemned the incident on social media.

“150 faith leaders were invited to be with @realDonaldTrump last night as he addressed the country.  As we left the WH, Marxist, leftists, ‘Wanna be Che Guevara’s’ bullies threatened everyone – women, elderly, no limits! Vulgar! In our face, harassment! NO MORE! Stand up- ENOUGH” she wrote on Friday.

Prior to the incident, attendees heard President Trump accept the party’s nomination for a second term in a 70-minute speech.

In attendance were prominent faith leaders, Pastors Robert Jeffress, Ed Young, Jack Graham, Jentezen Franklin, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, Bishop Harry Jackson and radio host Eric Metaxas, among others.

“What happened last night outside the White House was not a protest. It was a vicious mob whose only purpose was to spew hatred and vitriol — even on the elderly and disabled,” Rodriguez said, according to CBN News.

Pastor Johnnie Moore, leader of the Kairos Company, a public relations firm, was reportedly among those who were assaulted Thursday night.

“Violent provocateurs waited for us (and others) outside the White House…

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has told allies that she will push Democratic lawmakers in 2021 to approve federal funding of abortion, thus ending a four-decades-long compromise between the two major parties on one of the most contentious issues in Congress.

At issue is the Hyde Amendment, a legislative provision dating to the 1970s that prohibits federal funds from being used for abortions. It originally passed a Democratic-controlled House and Senate just a few years after Roe v. Wade and has been backed publicly by Democratic presidents, including Presidents Carter, Clinton and Obama. Obama signed an executive order opposing taxpayer funding of abortion in his healthcare plan.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden opposes the Hyde Amendment.

Because the Hyde Amendment must be renewed by each Congress, its future has always been tenuous.

Prior to the amendment, roughly 300,000 abortion were performed each year in the 1970s using taxpayer funds.

Two of Pelosi’s legislative allies – Democratic Reps. Barbara Lee (Calif.) and Rep. Diana DeGette (Colo.) – say she told a small group of House Democrats last month the House will not add the Hyde Amendment to budget bills next year, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Democrats are framing the issue as one of justice for lower-income women.

“It’s an issue of racial justice and it’s an issue of discrimination…

JOS, Nigeria, August 28, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen attacked a predominantly Christian village in north-central Nigeria, killing one resident, burning a church building and kidnapping four children among others on Monday (Aug. 24), sources said.

More than 20 herdsmen rode into Damba Kasaya village, Kaduna state, on motorcycles at about 8 a.m. in an attack in which they kidnapped four students, including a 10-year-old girl, from a school.

“Our church, Aminchi Baptist Church, here in Damba Kasaya, was burned, and Mr. Benjamin Auta, aged 35, was killed during the attack,” village resident Nuhu Aruwa told Morning Star News by text message.

Local news reports said Auta was killed while pursuing the fleeing herdsmen, but Aruwa said they killed him in his house, which is close to the school where the students were kidnapped. The herdsmen abducted seven Christians from the village in Chikun County, he said.

“Among them were four students of Prince Academy and one of their teachers,” Aruwa said. “Two other Christian farmers, a woman and a man, were captured and taken away too by the herdsmen.”

Village resident Emmanuel Zakka said three girls were kidnapped among the students – 10-year-old Favour Danjuma, Miracle Saitu Danjuma, 15, and Happiness Odoji, 16 – along with Ezra Bako, 17. Zakka identified the kidnapped teacher as Christiana Madugu, 29.

In the same…

Hurricane Laura, a category 4 hurricane that was one of the strongest to ever hit the United States, has left hundreds of thousands in Louisiana without power, and at least 11 dead. The Associated Press reports that basic facilities like power and water could take weeks to be back up and running.

Laura made landfall between Texas and Louisiana Thursday at 1 a.m. It brought with it maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, only the 10^th such hurricane to make landfall in the continental US since record keeping began in 1851, reports NPR.org.

The storm’s aftermath has left 600,000 homes and business in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas without power, according to utility tracking website poweroutage.us. Additionally several hospitals in Louisiana were moving critical patients to other facilities due to the lack of water and electricity. 

However, despite the damage, and warnings of an “unsurvivable” storm surge, state officials are thankful that it wasn’t quite as bad as expected. 

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said “It is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute, catastrophic damage that we thought was likely. But,” he continued, “we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage.”

Edwards called Laura the most powerful hurricane to strike Louisiana. That would make it stronger even than Hurricane Katrina, which devastated parts of the state in 2005.

The Associated Press reports that a full assessment of…