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  • Egyptian evangelical leader issues clarification after TV report on Christian Zionism

    Egyptian evangelical leader issues clarification after TV report on Christian Zionism

    Egypt’s evangelical leadership has issued a public clarification distancing the country’s 1.5 million evangelicals from Christian Zionism, responding to a recent Egyptian television report that linked global evangelical support for Israel with churches in Egypt amid the war in Gaza, which entered a fragile ceasefire in October.
  • How candlelight, carols and chalk blessings shape Christmas across Eastern Europe

    How candlelight, carols and chalk blessings shape Christmas across Eastern Europe

    Receiving a chalk blessing at the doorway or decorating wooden boats instead of Christmas trees may seem unfamiliar to many outside the region. Yet across Eastern and Central Europe, Christmas is still marked by traditions shaped by faith, memory and shared life—customs that quietly anchor the season in meaning and community. 
  • Templar Media acquires Bible X to expand 'highly anticipated' Bible-based video game 'Gate Zero'

    Templar Media acquires Bible X to expand 'highly anticipated' Bible-based video game 'Gate Zero'

    Video game publisher Templar Media has acquired Norway-based development studio Bible X, securing the future of “Gate Zero,” a forthcoming Bible-based, time-travel video game aimed at a global audience of younger players. “Gate Zero is a historical, semi open-world action-adventure with sci-fi elements, set in a dystopian future where a ruthless global regime is the sole arbiter of truth,” according to Templar Media.
  • YWAM screens Nigeria-based film in Barbados to deter youth from joining gangs

    YWAM screens Nigeria-based film in Barbados to deter youth from joining gangs

    Youth With A Mission (YWAM) is using film as an outreach tool in Barbados, aiming to steer young people away from gang violence by drawing parallels with similar struggles faced by youths in Nigeria. YWAM screened “Go Africa: Skyboy and the Woman of Honor” on Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the Globe Drive-In Cinema at Adams Castle, Christ Church — the island’s only drive-in theater — targeting young Barbadians vulnerable to gang culture and crime.
  • Official report into deaths of pilot evangelist and daughter taking aid to Jamaica

    Official report into deaths of pilot evangelist and daughter taking aid to Jamaica

    An official U.S. aviation report into the fatal crash of a missionary flight bound for hurricane-hit Jamaica says the pilot’s final radio transmission included “heavy breathing” and “grunting,” followed by silence moments before the aircraft plunged into a residential area in Florida, killing an evangelist and his adult daughter.