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Yesterday, October 31, was Reformation Day, and Lutherans around the world held various events in commemoration. In Singapore, the Lutheran Church advocated for Christian communion, while the German Lutheran Church encouraged believers to face the challenge of “trusting in the power of grace in a merciless time.”

At the 70th Anniversary celebration of the Bread of Life Christian Church in Taipei (台北灵粮堂, BOLCC Taipei), Pastor Nathaniel Chow (周神助) shared how history is related with God. He emphasized that the true sovereignty of history lies within God. With the theme of “Seventy Years Full”, he pointed out that history is not only a passage of time, but God's action in its midst.

Today’s society promotes diversity and criticizes the thinking in the past. Pluralism also impacts the church greatly. It challenges the sole truth of the church. A scholar points out that we should still discern the truth while being multicultural.

Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship in California has shared why every Christian should be baptized and invited all believers to join him for a church-wide baptism this Saturday - at the very same location where he was baptized years ago.

29 June 2017: The Hallelujah Challenge is about to come to an end, so what comes after that? Mass worship and praise sessions might be just the thing needed to spark a revival in this great nation.

22 June 2017: The world is getting crazier by the day, and Christians continue to be persecuted around the world on a daily basis. Even the Internet is not spared, as the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) has received potential threats over the Internet, prompting police intervention and help.

15 June 2017: A couple in Oregon from the Followers of Christ Church were slapped with a murder charge of their prematurely born daughter. The couple decided to lean on faith healing when health complications arose as opposed to receiving proper medical treatment, leading to Gennifer Mitchell’s untimely demise.

The Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church ordained an openly non-binary transgender as a provisional deacon.

June 9 , 2017: The disappearance of three Christian leaders in Malaysia has raised fears that they may have been victims of a targeted attack against the country’s religious minorities.

6 June 2017: Muslims in Malaysia once again dictate the way other religions should worship, using the “veto” card of “insulting Islam” yet again in latest debacle concerning a closed door ‘Jerusalem Jubilee’ prayer meeting by Christians for the healing of the country. This has led to the event being canceled, but the threats and insults against the minority Christians continue in the month of Ramadan where self-control is supposed to be an objective of fasting.

5 June 2017: It is that time of the year again, where more than 1.6 billion Muslims observe fasting during the month of Ramadan. However, there are some Muslims who take advantage of Ramadan by thinking that they can earn a ticket to heaven as a martyr, resulting in a rise of Muslim-backed terrorist attacks on the free world in the first 10 days of Ramadan. With three more weeks left to go, the world shudders at the final kill count this Ramadan by Muslims.

A church with predominantly African American members received a large donation from an anonymous donor who confessed to being a "terrible racist" in the past, but had been "cleansed" of their sin by Jesus Christ.

ISIS has proven itself to be a bane to many worldwide over the past few years, where the idea of establishing an Islamic Caliphate continues, with one of the many battles raging in the city of Marawi in the Philippines.

The Church of Scotland is now moving toward allowing same-sex marriage, dismissing arguments about the Bible’s reference to homosexual acts as sin as being “framed in cultural contexts.”

With a rapidly growing Muslim population, Islam is projected to overtake Christianity as the world’s largest religion in a few decades, a study said.

Christian author and apologist Nabeel Qureshi invited his wife Michelle to speak on his video blog to share her thoughts about what her husband and family have been going through.

"Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on all of God’s armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil. For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places." Ephesians 6:10-12

Nations, leaders and countrymen need the Church's prayer. Believers need to unite in prayer to stand in the gap and fight the real enemy through warfare.

What has happened to the missing pastor in Malaysia? The Inspector General of the Police (IGP) has continued to remain mum on the situation, and it does not look as though any new developments have happened. Is there something more sinister at work here?

City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee and the other five former leaders of the church have been permanently restricted from managing or holding positions of leadership in any charity.

The noose around the Christian continues to tighten in America as a boy's graduation speech is pulled due to having too many Christian references.

Christians have a duty and they are responsible. Yes, we can make this world a better place---not by putting our trust in political action, but by acting politically from our trust in our God.

Can we as a society really, completely co-exist when truth is, by nature, exclusive?

Authorities in Chhattisgarh, India are forcing Christians to go back to Hinduism by imposing fines upon them and subjecting them to public humiliation, but believers say they are ready to face the consequences.

A university lecturer in Malaysia claimed that it was possible to have the faith of Muslims shaken after reading a politician’s autobiography, admiring the greatness of her God.