Hillsong founder Brian Houston steps down from church board ahead of court case
The founder of Hillsong Church, Brian Houston, has announced his decision to step down from the board ahead of a court case into what he knew about his father's abuse.
The founder of Hillsong Church, Brian Houston, has announced his decision to step down from the board ahead of a court case into what he knew about his father's abuse.
We cannot deliver on our mission to release children from poverty in Jesus' name unless we also accept and act on the biblical mandate to care for the integrity of God's creation.
The co-founder of the world's largest church has been remembered as a giant of the faith and "God's general" after his passing on Tuesday aged 85.
"I felt like at any moment there would be a knock at the door, I would open it, and the police would arrest me," recalls Kika. "I cried oceans."
Over a dozen Christians have been re-arrested in house raids in Eritrea.
"Sometimes I cry when I remember my father and sister. I cry secretly."
The international community is being urged to put pressure on Nigeria after another wave of violence this month left 11 people dead, including a pastor.
The Church should "take the lead in loving Israel and her neighbours and not thinking that it is a zero-sum game", a conference has heard.
Billy Graham's daughter said the Church must not allow itself to be intimidated by the prevailing 'cancel culture'.
Twenty years after the events of September 11, 2001, a Navy chaplain who ministered to hundreds of grieving families at Ground Zero has shared the incredible ways God showed up amid tragedy and provided comfort to those suffering.
Fears are growing for Christians in Afghanistan - most of whom are converts from Islam - after the Taliban launched a brutal crackdown on journalists and protesters calling for greater freedoms and the protection of women and girls.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is inviting people to pray for all those affected by violence and terror 20 years on from 9/11.
In the twentieth year since 9/11, the end of US involvement in Afghanistan is part of a step-back from confident, open-ended, interventions. US ambitions abroad have been narrowed by the cost of these years. This will have a profound effect on the US as a global player over the next decade.