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  US & Canada Society & Culture

  The Chosen’s Season 4 launched despite ties broken with Angel Studios

  By Carolina Luciano Burgos

  Despite a legal dispute with Angel Studios, The Chosen prepares for season four and plans on releasing two weekly episodes on The Chosen app. The first episode launched on June 2 at 7:00 pm (UTC -4) and the following episode on June 6 at 8:30 pm (UTC -4). The following episodes will be released on Sundays and Thursdays at the same times for the next month.

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  Caribbean Society & Culture

  Christians in Antigua approach prime minister to voice deep unease at cannabis smoking in churches

  By Chris Eyte

  At a meeting with Prime Minister Gaston Browne, The Antigua Barbuda Evangelical Alliance (ABEA) has voiced deep unease about cannabis drug users disrespecting sacred spaces on the sovereign island nation. Representatives of ABEA met with Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Friday (June 7) to express frustrations about people smoking the powerful herb in public on the islands, including at sites and during events considered sacred to the Christian faith.

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  Africa Society & Culture

  East Africa among four regions severely impacted by climate disasters in 2024 - Christian Aid Report

  By Ken Kagicha

  Adverse weather conditions over the last six months to June 2024 has led to thousands of deaths and an economic loss of $41 billion, at the very least. This is according to a report by Christian Aid that mapped the impact of extreme weather in four of the most affected regions in the world. 

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  Europe Society & Culture

  Majority Christian town offer safe haven to Jews as terrorism threat increases in the Netherlands

  By Chris Eyte

  A town in the Netherlands inhabited by a majority of Christian residents is offering a refuge to Jewish people who feel unsafe in the country as the terrorism threat has increased. The local council in Urk, formerly an island within the province of Flevoland, made the publicly open invitation to allow Jews to settle in the town, set in the heart of the so-called Dutch Bibleland.

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  US & Canada Europe Society & Culture

  Christian athletes ministry criticizes Olympic LGBT-affirming guidelines for media that dictate to "not assume a person’s gender identity"

  By Chris Eyte

  Latest guidelines by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer push LGBT propaganda onto media and other stakeholders, according to 4 WINDS USA, a worldwide sports ministry, helping athletes in track and field. The ministry has issued a damning response to the “Portrayal Guidelines” issued by the IOC for the Olympics, highlighting that GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, helped to write the third edition of the guidelines that were crea

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  Europe Society & Culture

  Oldest Christian liturgical book with 1 Peter and Jonah sold for close to US$4m

  By Chris Eyte

  The earliest known Christian liturgical book with the earliest complete texts of 1 Peter and Jonah went under the hammer yesterday, June 11, at Christie’s auction house in London. An unnamed bidder bought it for £3,065,000 (approximately US$3.94 million), according to reports. Called the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, the Coptic manuscript on papyrus paper dates from the mid-third century to fourth century. “The earliest known book in private hands and one of the earliest books in existence,” according t