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  Pew study maps global stages of religious decline, beginning with drop in worship service attendance

  Religious identity is shrinking across much of the world, typically beginning when younger generations stop attending worship services,  according to new research that traces how disaffiliation with faith unfolds over time.

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  'March for Jesus' in Guatemala draws crowds, calls for unity and transformation

  For the third consecutive year, Guatemala’s capital hosted the “March for Jesus,” a large gathering that brought together hundreds of people from multiple churches and denominations in a public demonstration of faith and unity.

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  Church attendance rising after Charlie Kirk's murder, particularly among youth: Evangelism group leader

  Some pastors have reported seeing an increase in church attendance following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, particularly among young adults, some of whom haven’t attended a worship service in years.

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  Missionary pilots risk all for forgotten communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo: 'At the heart of every crisis are people'

  Dominic Villeneuve grips the controls as his small aircraft approaches a remote airstrip in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Below, armed militias control the roads. Villages have been cut off from medical care, food supplies, and hope. But Villeneuve flies in anyway.

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  Thousands attend Brussels evangelism event with Franklin Graham: 'A sign that God is on the move'

  More than 14,000 people gathered in Brussels, Belgium, to hear a message about the hope of the gospel from veteran evangelist Franklin Graham, in an event supported by 620 evangelical churches. Graham — son of the late evangelist Rev. Billy Graham and president and CEO of both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) and Samaritan’s Purse — delivered the keynote message at the “Festival of Hope” evangelistic outreach at Brussels’ ING Arena on Saturday night, Sept. 27.

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  French evangelical body condemns TV report portraying evangelicals as ultraconservative, homophobic

  The Conseil National des Évangéliques de France (CNEF), the leading evangelical alliance in France, denounced a national television program that it says portrayed evangelical Christians as ultraconservative, homophobic and manipulative.

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  Majority World leaders call to reimagine missions with indigenous frameworks and less Western dependence

  A post-conference reflection by African public theologian Israel Olofinjana urges Majority World Christian leaders to reclaim agency in global mission, proposing a missiology rooted in local contexts, the work of the Holy Spirit, and the lived reality of suffering rather than Western managerial models and imported theologies.

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