The Christian and Missionary Alliance has reportedly opened a second investigation into famed Christian Apologist Ravi Zacharias.

As Christian Headlines previously reported, Zacharias International Ministries first launched and investigation into the late preacher after multiple employees at two Atlanta-area day spas that Zacharias co-owned and frequented, accused him of sexual assault and misconduct. The claims allege Zacharias would ask massage therapists for “more than massages” and masturbate or touch the female massage therapists inappropriately.

According to Christianity Today, the Christian and Missionary Alliance’s Vice President Terry Smith stated that while it is unusual to investigate a suspected perpetrator who has since died, it is also necessary since he was an employee at the company and everyone must remain “fully accountable.” The Christian and Missionary Alliance is investigating the claims due to a contractual and theological obligation to their mission and moral standards.

According to their disciplinary procedure on page 173, an inquiry of every allegation must be made, along with interviews of the victims and the perpetrator of the act. After this step, if warranted, there must be an investigation into the occasion. Finally, action must be taken if the charge is substantiated.

According to Smith, it will be more difficult to complete this…

John Hagee, the 80-year-old author and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, was diagnosed with COVID-19 last Friday.

CBN News reports that his son, Pastor Matt Hagee, made the announcement concerning his father’s diagnosis during a livestreamed service on Sunday.

Hagee explained that the doctors identified the virus early and that his father is “feeling well enough to be frustrated with everybody in a white coat and a stethoscope.”

“He wanted me to tell you that he covets your prayers and that he asks you to pray for him daily, not only that he make a speedy recovery but that he looks forward to seeing you again at Cornerstone very soon,” Hagee added.

He proceeded to ask the congregation to pray for anyone else who had contracted the virus.

“As it is a reality in our lives, we also have a promise that we serve a God who is a Healer,” Hagee asserted.

According to The Christian Post, John and Matt, alongside Cornerstone Christian Schools, successfully filed a lawsuitin July against the local government’s restriction on in-person classes, in which the Hagees wanted to resume in August.

“Plaintiffs hold a sincere religious belief and seek to educate, and have their children educated, through the in-person instruction of Plaintiffs’ religious, educational institution to further those sincere beliefs,” the lawsuit contended.

John Hagee has been an avid proponent of…

A prominent faith-based film from 2020 has received two nominations in a major mainstream awards ceremony.

I Still Believe, which released in theaters in March, was nominated Oct. 1 in two categories for the People’s Choice Awards: top Drama Movie of 2020 and top Drama Movie Star of 2020 (K.J. Apa).

Winners will be announced Sunday, Nov. 15 on E! (Entertainment television), and fans of the movie can vote for it online.

I Still Believe tells the true love story of Christian singer Jeremy Camp and his first wife, Melissa, who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Camp eventually wrote a song, I Still Believe, about the trial.

The People’s Choice Awards, first held in 1975, honors the best in entertainment as determined by the general public. Although winners were originally determined by a Gallup survey, today they are chosen by online voting.

The film was directed by Jon and Andrew Erwin, who also made I Can Only Imagine, Woodlawn and Mom’s Night Out. It is a record number of nominations for the Erwins, who received one People’s Choice nod for I Can Only Imagine (Best Family Movie of 2018).

“We’re so excited to be nominated,” Jon Erwin told Christian Headlines. “We’re proud of the movie and proud of K.J. and his performance. It’s so great to see a faith film recognized in such a mainstream way.”

Camp, too, celebrated the…

Less than 30 days away from the election, President Donald Trump was released from Walter Reed Medical Center on Monday evening following a positive COVID-19 test on Thursday, according to Fox News.

The President stayed for three days at the military hospital. His doctors grew concerned over his health after he registered a fever and needed supplemental oxygen on Friday, as reported by CBN News.

But now, Walter Reed hospital staff believe Trump is fit enough to return to the White House where he will receive around the clock medical care. His doctor, Navy Cmdr. Sean Conley, however, told reporters on Monday that he remains contagious.

Trump announced his return on Twitter, praising the medical staff at “the great Walter Reed Medical Center.”

He left the hospital in high spirits, stating that he “felt better than [he] did 20 years ago!” He continued with the advice that Americans should “not be afraid of COVID. Don’t let it dominate your life.” He also commended his own administration for developing “some really great drugs & knowledge.”

I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October…

By Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter Follow | Monday, October 05, 2020

California megachurch pastor Greg Laurie, who attended the Sept. 26 White House nomination ceremony for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, has announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19.

Other prominent evangelical pastors who attended the event in which several other attendees have since tested positive for coronavirus say they have tested negative. 

Laurie, the 67-year-old author and senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship, told the Christian Broadcasting Network Monday that he has the coronavirus. At first, he said, the symptoms started with fatigue, aches, pains and fever. He added that his sense of taste has been affected. 

“Then I found out the news that I didn’t want to find out that I have the coronavirus,” Laurie explained. 

He assured he is OK and now in quarantine. 

“I just wish that at a time like this we could not politicize this and show compassion to people that are struggling with this. It’s real,” Laurie stressed as much has been made in the media about attendees of the White House event contracting the virus. “It really is a pandemic that’s swept our…

The Trump Department of Justice is siding in court with a Washington, D.C. church that sued the city over a restriction prohibiting it from meeting not only indoors but also outdoors.

Capitol Hill Baptist Church, which had around 1,000 attendees on a typical Sunday prior to the pandemic, is prohibited from gathering either indoors or outdoors under restrictions by Mayor Muriel Bowser that ban in-person church gatherings of more than 100 people.

The city has refused to grant the church a waiver, even though the congregation has committed to requiring masks and to enforce social distancing of six feet between families. The church filed suit against the city in September, alleging violations of its rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution’s First and Fifth Amendments, including its rights to assemble and worship without government interference. The church’s pastor, Mark Dever, is a well-known author and speaker.

“Although the precise legal tests may change based on the specific restriction at issue, the bottom line remains the same: there is no pandemic exception to the Constitution and our fundamental rights,” the DOJ brief, a Statement of Interest, says. It was filed Friday.

“Individual rights set forth in the Constitution are always operative and restrain government action,” the brief ads.

The restriction likely “targets religious believers”…

Amazon Prime’s upcoming Lord of the Rings series has been eagerly anticipated by fans, but a new report claiming that the show may include Game of Thrones-type nudity has some of those same fans promising not to watch.

Amazon agreed in 2018 to a $250 million rights deal for a five-year series based on the Lord of the Rings books, which were written by the late Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien and include Christian themes.

Although the Peter Jackson-directed theatrical films from 2001 to 2003 contained no nudity or sexuality, such may not be the case for the Amazon series. The fansite TheOneRing.net reported it is “starting to see casting calls for actors ‘comfortable with nudity’” for the series. The entertainment news website Knight Edge Media linked to a casting call from BGT Actors Model & Talent it said was for the Amazon series.

The casting call sheet says the filmmakers in New Zealand “need Nude people based in Auckland — age 18 plus, all shapes and sizes.”

Knight Edge Media also reported it has “discovered that the series may indeed feature sexual scenes between characters.” That’s because Jennifer Ward-Lealand, an intimacy coordinator, apparently has been hired to work on the new Amazon series, Knight Edge Media reported. An intimacy coordinator ensures the safety and wellbeing of actors and actresses during sex scenes. Ward-Lealand…