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  Oskar Brüsewitz: Church in Germany marks 50 years since pastor burned himself in protest of communist rule

  Fifty years after a Lutheran pastor set himself ablaze in a public square to protest communist oppression of the church, German Christians remember a man whose act reverberated through East Germany and beyond.

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  Canadian evangelical body launches study on pastor shortage

  The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has announced a new research project to assess how many churches across the country lack pastoral leadership and what factors are driving that gap.

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  Most evangelicals give their spiritual lives a C+, new study finds

  A new survey of 1,000 evangelical Protestants in the United States found that believers rate their own spiritual lives at an average grade-point equivalent of 2.42 — roughly a C+ — with evangelism, financial giving and tithing ranking as the weakest areas, according to research released by Infinity Concepts and Grey Matter Research.

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  Details given of acquittal in killing of Christian couple in Pakistan

  Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday (Aug. 13) provided details on the July 9 acquittal of three Muslims sentenced to death for the 2014 burning alive of a Christian couple.

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  Michael W. Smith warns worship must not become ‘celebrity driven,' says he's seeing revival among Gen Z

  After more than four decades of standing on stages, with crowds singing his songs by heart, Michael W. Smith is convinced that one of the greatest dangers for a worship leader can be the very thing that signals success: attention and celebrity. 

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