Breaking Christian News on The Gospel Herald

Rodrigo Duterte, new president of the Philippines, is making good on his campaign pledge to implement a surge of extrajudicial killings of suspected drug dealers, users and criminals. Starting the day after he was elected on May 10, 2016, through Aug. 4, according to a local account, there have been 571 killings, mostly executions by police and vigilante groups.

People referred to a recent encounter of two strangers as a kiss that was 71 years in the making. An 83-year-old woman, who formerly was a child prisoner in a Japanese camp during the Second World War, flew half way around the world to thank the Chinese interpreter who helped rescue her 71 years ago. While a young girl, the woman had been living in China with her Christian missionary parents.

Russell Moore, president of Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said it's straight-forward for how local church pastors can address political or social issues with their flocks.

As one of only 20 people in American history to have served as a mayor, governor and U.S. senator, Tim Kaine now can add U.S vice president candidate to his list. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced Kaine as her 2016 running mate Friday evening.

Authorities are investigating an incident from Monday during which an African-American behavioral therapist was shot by a North Miami police officer while the therapist said he sat with hands that were empty and raised at the time beside an autistic man in a street, who had wandered away from a group home. Police were called into the scene because the autistic man was blocking traffic.

Republican vice presidential running mate of Donald Trump, Mike Pence, has had a "strange" religious conversion narrative, according to Indiana-based author Craig Fehrman, who is working on a book about presidents for Simon & Schuster. While Pence grew up in a big Irish Catholic family of Democrats in central Indiana, serving as an altar boy, attending parochial schools and idolizing John F. Kennedy, he converted to evangelical Christianity through the influence of a nondenominational fellowship group in 1978, while a freshman at Indiana's Hanover College.

Saturday's "Together 2016" prayer and music event in Washington, D.C., organized by evangelist Nick Hall, was aimed at attracting millennials, with the purpose of giving people an opportunity to "reset," or get a second chance. Although Hall, a college pastor and founder of PULSE, started planning the occasion several years ago, it ironically came at a time of violence across the world, a time during which Christians are seeking solace.

Ken Ham, president/founder of Answers in Genesis and head of the newly-opened Christian attraction The Ark Encounter in Kentucky, had his second public debate with celebrity scientist Bill Nye during a personal tour of the ark Friday. In 2014, Nye said the ark's plans represented an "extraordinary and outlandish, unscientific point of view."

Adolescents between the ages of 13 to 24 who are attending religious services tend to view less pornography, compared to others of the same age who are not going to church, finds a new paper published in the Journal of Adolescence.

A-list actor Matthew McConaughey has strong opinions on the state of religion and politics, which he generally keeps to himself. However, he recently shared in an interview what he referenced as the "bastardization of religion," calling it how it differentiates from its true origins.

Super athlete and player on God's team, football star and analyst Tim Tebow helped a family during a mid-air medical emergency on a Delta flight from Atlanta to Phoenix on Sunday. According to several passengers posting to social media, after a man fell unconscious due to heart problems, Tebow left his first-class seat to come to the back of the plane to offer any help he could.

God held an Oklahoma family together during a situation that many people do not survive, said a Tulsa man and his brother after one of them was struck by lightning on the Arkansas River while they were fishing over the weekend.

Father's Day is just around the corner - Sunday, June 21 - and is a special day set aside for us to celebrate and honor our fathers, grandfathers, and father figures.

Muhammad Ali converted to being a Muslim in 1964 after learning of militant Islamic freedom fighter Malcom X, however, he has born a Baptist in Louisville, Ky., and promoted world peace his whole life. "Religions have different names and they all contain God and the truth," he said during the 1970s.

Father's Day started in 1909 when Sonora Smart Dodd, who was at church on the newly recognized Mother's Day, listened to the sermon at a Central Methodist Episcopal Church and thought about how they were celebrating the life of her mother who had died in childbirth when Sonora was 16 years old. Her father, Henry Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran and farmer, was raising Sonora and her five siblings as a single parent in Washington. Sonora decided she wanted a way to also celebrate and thank her dad with a special day to honor his sacrifices for their family.

Former "Breaking Bad" star Aaron Paul plays a family man and cult member who is wrestling with a crisis of faith in the new Hulu TV drama series, "The Path," which debuts Wednesday, March 30.

Former NFL player, movie actor, model, reality celebrity and fitness buff Terry Crews recently shared in a series of videos posted to Facebook and YouTube how he recovered from his addiction to pornography, which he said "really, really messed up my life." Crews, a self-professed Christian, even publicly admitted he had to go to rehab for his addiction, which consumed him and threatened his marriage.

For some cowboys in Mexico, the closest time to get next to God is during an annual, three-day pilgrimage through the central highlands of Guanajuato, which includes making an 84-mile trip to the mountaintop statue of Jesus Christ the King, among the tallest and most sacred in Mexico. More than 3,000 people made this year's journey to a mountaintop statue of Jesus, keeping alive a tradition that began 60-plus years ago.

It seems that patients have to choose from two diseases. Men taking testosterone-blocking drugs to cure prostate cancer have nearly twice the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, researchers published on their study.

In the wake of NBA star Lamar Odom's tragic downward spiral, the Rev. Franklin Graham has encouraged young men to remember that fulfillment comes only through a relationship with Jesus Christ -- not earthly pleasure.

The father of one of the three American men whom French authorities credit with halting a potential terror attack on a Paris-bound high-speed train Friday has said the heroic act was part of God's "providential will."

The Rev. Owen Chadwick, a prominent British scholar of Christianity, died on July 17 at 99 years old. He leaves behind a legacy that made him an authority on the history of religion and the churches and defended their credibility against secular ideas.

Filipino boxing hero Manny Pacquiao returns to his home country Tuesday nearly four days after undergoing surgery on his injured rotator cuff in Los Angeles, various media reported.

Kirk Perry, president of brand solutions at Google, recently shared his inspiring testimony at the 21st annual Silicon Valley Prayer Breakfast.

While Albert Einstein was a professed agnostic, a letter he wrote that described God as the creator has fetched a hefty sum at a recent auction in Massachusetts. The 1925 letter was written to Italian electrical engineer Giovanni Giorgi to defend Einstein's theory of relativity from ten years earlier. The letter, uncharacteristically written in Italian, was penned after Einstein faced harsh criticism from American physicist Dayton Miller who aimed to disprove the now-famous theory.