“Holy” means separate or apart. Historically, there have been Christians who feel that in order to live as God’s holy people, they have to withdraw from the world (hence the emergence of the monastic movement). But in Jesus’s high priestly prayer in John 17: 15-18, we hear something different. As a result, most Christians strive [...]

“I placed a goat’s horn into the stomach of my elder sister to prevent her from having children,” Olivia, 19, and a self-proclaimed witch, now exorcised, told a large congregation at the Ebenezer Healing Church at Kasoa, in the Central Region last week. She had been sent to the church by her relatives after they [...]

KIRKUK, Iraq, Oct. 22 (UPI) — Members of the Christian religious minority in Iraq say instability and the north, particularly in Kirkuk, is forcing them to consider fleeing the country. The Christian population in Iraq is centered largely in the north of the country. Several community members describe their situation as quite dangerous, noting there [...]